What is the origin of Tai Chi?
Chinese tradition, an alternate but not-accepted-in-the-academic-world, holds that the inventor of Tai Chi Chuan, was a Daoist saint by the name of Shang Sang Feng. Shang Sang Feng had a total of 3 disciples, and each of the three, became the patriarch of a separate branch of the Chinese internal martial arts schools. One disciple became patriarch of all styles of Tai Chi, Chen style included, the other, of schools such as Baguazhang and Xing Yi, and the other, the patriarch of many unknown-in-the-west southern Chinese internal styles. The internal schools of Kung Fu, all hold that Shang Sang Feng is the patriarch of their systems, sorry all of them, with the exception of the Chens.
