Cheng Man-Ching: The Master Tapes

Cheng Man Ching (Zheng Manqing) was one of the great Tai Chi masters of the 20th Century. His students include William C.C Chen, Robert W. Smith, T.T. Liang, Stanley Israel, Huang Shyeng Shen, Ken Van Sickle, Benjamin Lo, Ed Young, Abraham Liu, Maggie Newman and many others.

A “master of five excellences”, he was also a renowned poet, calligrapher, brush painter, and Chinese medical doctor.

In this rare collection of previously-unreleased tapes, Professor Cheng is seen teaching, pushing hands, fencing, laughing, telling stories, demonstrating mastery in every gesture. This original footage was shot at the “Hall of Happiness”, Cheng’s Shr Jung School in New York City between 1969 and 1971.

“May the Joy that is everlasting gather in this hall..the joy of continuous growth....let us here correct our past mistakes and lose preoccupation with self. With the constancy of the planets in their courses or the dragon in his cloud-wrapped path, let us enter the land of health and ever after walk within its bounds”

-Cheng Man Ching