Quote Originally Posted by Tainan Mantis View Post
Since Robert's post more information has been made available.
For example you find that Liang Xuexiang called his form Bing Bu. Maybe in a local dialect Bing was pronounced Beng, there are certainly many instances of Yantai dialect differing greatly from the standardized chinese language, but the character he uses, 掤 is not found in modern dictionaries. It can mean a 'quiver' where one would store arrows.
I don't think that was his intended meaning though, instead I think he followed a custom of that era to use the characters in a phonetic context and in fact you can find many instances of this in his, as well as a lot of other non-scholarly work from the Qing Dynasty era.

This type of phonetic application of Chinese characters is now rare owing to the modified and improved education system since those days.
Interesting information, thank you!


Quote Originally Posted by Tainan Mantis View Post
I someone is performing Huang Hanxun's Beng Bu I think they should call it that, and not call it Yantai Beng Bu. At least in general terms when relating one Beng Bu to another.
Though the author uses the quanpu of Huang Hanxun, it is not Huang Hanxun's Beng Bu. It pre-dated Luo Guang Yu, Huang Hanxun's instructor. I don't think anyone really knows who created the form.


Quote Originally Posted by Tainan Mantis View Post
What has always bothered my about that book, and in turn this book, is that Su Yuzhang lists several of his teachers, but never says which one of them taught him this Beng Bu form. So, the reader of the book is left wondering where the Beng Bu form came from.

Later I tried to find which of those teachers taught that Beng Bu form and found that none of them did, nor did they teach any Beng Bu and the only versions of Beng Bu that I could track down to a specific teacher don't look anything at all like the Beng Bu listed in the book that you reviewed.
LOL! It bothered me more that it was connected to Mimen Tanglangquan. Did Zhang Dekui even teach this version of Beng Bu? Wouldn't his version of Beng Bu be closer to that practiced by Zhou Zhendong?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVlLHCYVo9k Niki and Master Zhou