Qualcuno sa dirmi come mai lo XYQ e' tanto accostato allo BGZ ? ... omissis
Ti riporto un testo che da una visione complessiva 'plausibile'. Il lato leggendario:
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Legend says that the brotherhood between Xing Yi and Ba Gua practitioners began after a fight occurred between Ba Gua's originator Dong Hai quan ( ) and the famed Xing Yi boxer Guo Yun Shen ( ). This famous story says that Dong Hai quan of the Ba Gua school and Guo Yun Shen of the Xing Yi school had a three day battle whereby Dong finally got the upper hand on Guo during the third day. Afterward the two thought so highly of each other's skill they both proclaimed that from that time forward "students of one school should train in the other."
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una seconda versione leggendaria più 'realistica'
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A good story, but it is not true. Although the three day fight between Dong and Guo makes for a good story, almost all of the elder generation Xing Yi and Ba Gua practitioners that I have interviewed in both Hebei and Shanxi Provinces say that it is only a story, such a fight never actually occurred. Some say that Guo did go to Beijing intending to challenge Dong, but his friend Cheng Ting Hua persuaded him not to do it after Guo and Cheng had a small confrontation whereby Guo attacked Cheng and Cheng successfully evaded the attack. Recognizing Cheng's skill and knowing that Dong was even more skilled, Guo gave up the notion of challenging Dong.
This incident may have occurred and it may have been the catalyst for the Xing Yi and Ba Gua practitioners coming together.
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Infine una ulteriore riflessione semi storica.
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However, I believe that the primary source of the connection was the relationship between Cheng Ting Hua, Li Cun Yi, and the other boxers from Shen County, Hebei Province.
Cheng Ting Hua was probably the first Ba Gua man to also study Xing Yi and Li Cun Yi was probably the first Xing Yi man to study Ba Gua, followed by Zhang Zhao Dong, Liu De Kuan, Geng Ji Shan, and Sun Lu Tang. Cheng Ting Hua and Guo Yun Shen were both from Shen County and it is said that Cheng Ting Hua studied some Xing Yi from Guo Yun Shen after he had studied Ba Gua from Dong. Li Cun Yi, Zhang Zhao Dong, and Geng Ji Shan were also all natives of Shen County, Hebei Province, had been friends since they were young and had begun studying Xing Yi from Liu Qi Lan in Shen County at the same time (in the mid 1870's).
Liu De Kuan also studied Xing Yi Quan from Liu Qi Lan in Shen County, although he was a native of Cang Zhou City in Hebei.
Around the same time Li, Zhang, and Geng began studying Xing Yi with Liu Qi Lan, Cheng Ting Hua began studying Ba Gua Zhang with Dong Hai quan in Xing Yi and Ba Gua expert Li Cun Yi (1847-1921) Li Cun Yi and the Xing Yi - Ba Gua Connection Beijing. Li Cun Yi and Cheng Ting Hua were only one year apart in age (Li being the senior) and had been friends since they were young. It was natural that when the two friends got together they each showed the other what they had been studying. Although Li Cun Yi, Zhang Zhao Dong, Geng Ji Shan, and Liu De Kuan are all commonly listed as Ba Gua students of Dong Hai quan, they were students of Dong in name only. All of these men actually learned the majority of their Ba Gua from Cheng Ting Hua and all started studying Ba Gua around 1880.