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Brief Introduction of Li Bingci, a famous Master of Wu's Style Taijiquan
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Li Bingci, Male,
Han nationality, was born in Beijing in November 1929. He had learnt
Taijiquan, Zha Style Boxing, Dabei Boxing, Xingyi Boxing, Six Conformities
Mantis Boxing and Cheng's Style Eight Trigram Palm from Yang Yuting,
Chang Zhenfang, Shi Zhenggang, Luo Xingwu, Shan Xiangling, Liu Tanfeng,
who are famous masters, from 1949 to 1982.
Now he is a mentor of social sports in state level, first degree Wushu
drillmaster, honored committeeman of Chinese Wushu Association, judge
in state level, the committeeman of Beijing Wushu Association, honored
director of Wushu Institute of Dongcheng District, deputy president
of Wushu Association of Dongcheng District, and the director of Wu's
Style Taijiquan Institure of Beijing. He had been the standing committee
member of Dongcheng District, Beijing, Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference. He had been the drillmaster of Taijiquan training courses
in the International Club in Beijing, for 8 years, from 1975; many wives
of ambassadors had learnt Taijiquan from him including W. Bush's. He
had been the drillmaster of Chinese Taijiquan Delegation in 1993. In
1995, he was commented to be "one of the one hundred Wushu master
in China" by the Chinese Wushu Association and Wushu Sports management
Center of the State Physical Culture and Sports Commission. In 1997,
he was chosen to be 7th Rank Whushu master of the first batch through
public appraisal.
As a child, he began to learn Wushu to remove diseases and strengthen
his body, and then followed his master Yang Yuting for 36 years. Thus,
he learnt a lot and both his virtue and skills are excellent. He decided
to pay back his master's grace by spreading what he had learnt from
him. From 1956 to 1963, he had entered many competitions in municipal
or national levels, and gained awards. He had won the fourth of Taijiquan
in the First National Sports Games and the honored the title of "Good
Athlete". For more than 30 years, he engaged in teaching, training,
examining and appraising, judging, investigation in Wushu circle, and
cultivated a great deal of excellence personnel domestically and internationally,
including: Liu Wei, who had won the national men's championship of Taijiquan
for nine years running, Zong Weijie, who had won the national women's
championship of Taijiquan for six years running, Wang Wen, Wang Ge,
Wang Xiaoyan, Jing Demin, Wen Jing, Tong Hongyun, Feng Hongkun, who
continued to keep the men's and women's championship and running-up.
Many of his students went to colleges of sports, Han Yiqiang is one
of them, who had set and broken new world records of men's team parachuting
four times. He had taken part in the reading and editing of the course
of the "Four forms Taijiqung" competition routine, 42 forms
Taiji sword and push hand. He had written the books: A Collection of
Selected Specimens of Series Secrets of Yang Yuting's Taijiquan, and
The Essential of the Boxing and Weapons of Wu's Style Taijiquan with
Wong Fuqi, one of junior fellow apprentice. He had answered questions
as one of the six very famous Taijquan master in a special column in
The Journal of Chinese Wushu, last January. Now his is busy in writing
a book on the traditional routines of Wu's Style Taijiquan for examination
of primary ranks.
For more than 30 years, he has received many foreign visitors and teams
of Taijiquan, and has gone to Japan and Singapore to give lectures on
Taijiquan, having trained a lot of excellent international Taijiquan
lettermen. He established Dongcheng Wushu gymnasium that is the first
base opened to the public, in 1980, and he was the dean and deputy director
of the gymnasium. He had transcribed boxing, sword, broadsword, pole
and push hand of Wu's Style Taijiquan, invited by Beijing Film Studio,
People's Publishing Company and Beijing Sports University in 1995.
