History and Current Development of Taijiquan in Europe
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作者：
刘高升
刘飞
张小敏
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出版时间：2022年02月
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Report on World Taijiquan Development (No.1)
简 介：Gerda Geddes was a pioneer who brought Taijiquan into Britain and spread it to other European countries and the United States. As a modern dancer born in Norway, she later specialized in psychology, hoping that dancing and psychotherapy could be integrated into a new healing system. She became attached to Taijiquan ever since she and her husband came to Shanghai, China in 1949. When she ran into an old man practicing Taijiquan at dawn, the dancer found that she no longer need create a new system because the Chinese realized her ideal hundreds of years ago. She said frankly that she felt like lightening coming down into her spine and immediately realized that this was what she had been looking for all her life. According to Geddes, she learned the traditional frame of Yang Chengfu from Choy Hok Peng and his son, disciples of Yang Chengfu as the descendant of Yang Style Taijiquan, in Hong Kong for three years starting in 1955. After completing her training in 1958, she returned to Britain. At that time, no one knew what Taijiquan was, so she had to go to every art performance school in London to demonstrate the art. Her first Taijiquan training class did not kick off until the year 1959 when she appeared on the British television screen to demonstrate the art to publicize its benefits to fitness. Her efforts finally put her course of Taijiquan onto the freshman course list of London Contemporary Dance School, which laid a solid foundation for its development in Britain.
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