Master Huang Sheng Hsien

One day in Taiwan the famous White Crane Kung Fu champion and teacher, Huang Sheng Hsien, went to meet Professor Cheng Man Ching. T.T. Liang who was present during their meeting, engaged Huang in a Pushing-Hands and knocked him down almost immediately. Huang was both stunned and amazed. Liang said he was like a small baby, and couldn’t figure out why he was considered such a highly skilled kung fu master.

Huang in typical Chinese fashion, quit his White Crane Kung Fu immediately and took up learning T’ai Chi. Liang remembers not only Huang’s true expression of humility, but his perseverance in learning the T’ai Chi. According to Liang, Huang spent 7 years just learning solo form in order to gain root and develop his ch’i. Then for an additional seven years he just had people push on him, so he could develop his yielding and neutralizing skills. Lastly, he spent another seven years psuhing on people in order to learn how to issue. Huangs’s twenty-one-year learning program really impressed Mr. Liang.

Many times I heard Liang comment on how he considered Huang to be the best living T’ai Chi master in the world, equaled only by one of Liang’s other teachers, Wang Yen Nien. Liang showed me a film that was taken in Malaysia of Huang’s famous match against a champion wrestler named Mr. Liao. In a decision of twenty-eight knockdowns to none, Huang soundly proved his T’ai Chi skills before thousands of people.

Master Huang continued to reside in Malaysia until his death in 1995. He had thousands of students and was bestowed the nickname “The Grandfather of T’ai Chi”. Over the years Liang periodically received letters from Huang, wherein Huang would always humbly refer to Liang as his savior. What really impressed Liang the most about Huang was his unfailing trait of never speaking bad of others – no matter the rumor or situation. It was from Huang that Liang claims he learned the idea of “internally imagine your self as already being a master of T’ai Chi, but externally never express it to others.”

Reference: Steal My Art – The Life and Times of T’ai Chi Master T.T. Liang by Stuart Alve Olson
ISBN: 1556434162

Pages: 76-77

Huangs wrestling match with Liao on youtube.com

Huang Xingxian Vs. Liao Kuang Cheng I

Huang Xingxian Vs. Liao Kuang Cheng II


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