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Mr. Cui Zhongshan is
a 5th generation descendant of Chinese Yang style Taijiquan. He was born in a
well-known Taijiquan family in 1948, and begun to learn the traditional Yang style
Taijiquan from his grandfather, Mr. Cui Yishi, when he was four years old. Mr. Cui Yishi
was a disciple of Mr. Yang Chengpu who was the great master of Chinese Yang style
Taijiquan. Because of his consummate skill and noble character, Mr. Cui Yishi became one
of the important Yang style Taijiquan masters in Beijing. In that year, "North Cui,
South Fu" was very famous, the " North Cui" just referred to Mr. Cui Yishi.
As Taijiquan was handed down in the family, Mr. Cui Zhongshan learned all of Taijiquan,
various Wushu weapons and hand-pushing from his grandfather, who gave him a strict and
systemic training. Now, Mr. Cui Zhongshan, as a generation descendant of Yang style
Taijiquan, has mastered Taijiquan perfectly, his forms are unfolding, slow and soft;
movements are flexible and firm, firm but gentle; consciousness and movements are closely
integrated.
Mr. Cui Zhongshan went in Taijiquan matches when he
was very young, and won his first Taijiquan championship in 1957. For his excellence in
Taijiquan, he was selected by Beijing amateur Wushu school in 1960. Since then, he had
done well in a lot of matches. He was the Taijiquan champion of Beijing Wushu Matches in
1960 and 1961, the Taijiquan runner-up of the 6th Beijing Games in 1982, the Taijiquan
champion of Beijing Wushu Matches in 1985 and 1986, the Taiji sword runner-up of the
National Taijiquan and Taiji sword Matches in 1986, and so on . Mr. Cui Zhongshan was not
only a good practitioner, but also a good Taijiquan teacher. He had been the general
director for the Taijiquan and Taiji sword performance in the opening ceremony of the
National Workers' Games in 1985 ; the coach of the Beijing team in the National Taijiquan
and Taiji sword Matches in 1986; the general executive coach of the DongCheng District for
the Chinese-Japan Taijiquan performance in the opening ceremony of the 11th Asian Games in
1990; the vice-general coach and the Yang Taijiquan teacher in the 1995,1996 and 1997
World Taiji Practicing Meeting. In addition, Mr. Cui Zhongshan also took part in
discussing and writing the competition rules for Taijiquan and hand-pushing, and worked as
a Wushu referee in the 7th and 8th National Games.
Mr. Cui Zhongshan has worked at promoting and popularizing Taijiquan
for many years, and awarded the honorable title of model teacher several times. His
student Yuan Jian won the Taijiquan championship of the National Students' Games; Li Muze
won the Taijiquan and Taiji sword championship many times in Beijing and was the fifth
place of the National Taijiquan and Taiji sword Matches. Some students, such as Zhang
Jinbo, Wang Zhonghua, Miriam(American), won 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the World
Taiji Practicing Meeting (1996); and 6 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronzes in Beijing Wushu
Matches in 1996. Some of the students have been selected by Qinghua university, Beijing
university and other colleges. At the invitation of Tokyo Taijiquan Society, Mr.Cui
Zhongshan has been to Japan twice as the Taijiquan teacher appointed by Beijing Foreign
Amity Association. For the last twenty years, a lot of foreigners have learnt Taijiquan
from him, they came from more than ten countries and districts. Mr. CuiZhongshan not only
teaches Taijiquan, but also writes Taijiquan books to help practitioners learning.
Following is some of the books: "Learning and Practicing 24 movements of Taijiquan,
32 movements of Taiji sword", "The Courses of traditional Yong style Taijiquan
", "Yong style Taiji broadsword". According to the traditions, he
reestablished the YongNian Taiji Society in Beijing. Mr. Cui Zhongshan has made his
contributions to popularize Taijiquan and introduce the Chinese Wushu and Taijiquan to the
world.
At the present, Mr. Cui Zhongshan is the commission of Beijing Wushu
Association, the secretary-general of Dongcheng District Wushu Association, the honorary
president of Yong style Taijiquan society in Langfang, Changzhou, bangbu, the
secretary-general of the Taijiquan Agency in the World Taiji Health Science Union. |
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