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  2. The ancient practice of tai chi is more popular than ... - AOL

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    Tai chi began more recently than that, but is still considered to be an ancient practice because it was started by a Taoist monk who lived around 1300 AD. It's also something still many practice ...

  3. Zhang Sanfeng - Wikipedia

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    This incident inspired him to create a set of 75 tai chi movements. [7] He is also associated with the Taoist monasteries in the Wudang Mountains . Huang Zongxi 's Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan (1669) gave Zhang Sanfeng credit for the development of a Taoist "internal martial arts" style, as opposed to the "external" style of the Shaolin martial ...

  4. Hoàng Lê nhất thống chí - Wikipedia

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    Hoàng Lê nhất thống chí (皇 黎 一 統 志, Records of the Unification of Imperial Lê), also known as An Nam nhất thống chí (安 南 一 統 志, Records of the Unification of Annam), written by the Writers of Ngô family (吳 家 文 派, Ngô gia văn phái), is a Vietnamese historical novel written in Classical Chinese which consists of 17 chapter based upon the events in the ...

  5. List of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer characters - Wikipedia

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    Zuo Lengchan (左冷禪; Zuó Lěngchán) is the ambitious and ruthless leader of the Mount Song School and chief of the Five Mountain Sword Schools Alliance. He practises a skill, Freezing Inner Energy, which allows him to freeze his inner energy to sub-zero temperature and increase its power tremendously.

  6. Pushing Hands (film) - Wikipedia

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    The title of the film refers to the pushing hands training that is part of the grandfather's tai chi routine. Pushing hands is a two-person training which teaches tai chi students to yield in the face of brute force. Tai chi teachers were persecuted in China during the Cultural Revolution, and the grandfather's family was broken up as a result ...

  7. Book Review: Novelist Amy Tan shares love of the natural ...

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    Tan eventually becomes controlled by birds, feeding them 700-800 squirmy beetle larvae a day at a cost of some $250 a month. She leaves alpaca yarn outside so an Oak Titmouse can line her nest ...

  8. Love and Destiny - Wikipedia

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    Love and Destiny (Chinese: 宸汐缘; pinyin: Chen Xi Yuan) is a 2019 Chinese television series starring Chang Chen and Ni Ni. [1] The series premiered on iQiyi on July 15, 2019. [ 2 ] It later went on national broadcast and aired on Hubei Television and Shenzhen Satellite TV on January 26, 2020.

  9. Taipei (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Taipei is a love story, and although it's Lin's third novel it's also, in a sense, a classic first novel: it's semi-autobiographical (Lin has described it as the distillation of 25,000 pages of memory) and it's a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story about a young man who learns, through love, that life is larger than he thought it was.