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The Lee style of t'ai chi ch'uan (李氏太極拳) is closely related to a range of disciplines of Taoist Arts taught within the Lee style including Qigong, Tao Yin, Chinese Macrobiotics, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Taoist alchemy, Feng Shou Kung Fu, and weapons practice. According to practitioners, it was first brought to the West in the 1930s by Chan Kam Lee and was subsequently popularized by Chee Soo who was the President of the International Taoist Society from 1958 until his death in 1994.〔Taoist Ways of Healing by Chee Soo pages 139-140 (published by HarperCollins 1986)〕 The Lee style of t'ai chi ch'uan comprises two forms known as 'the dance' (also known as 'Flying Hands') and 'the form', I Fou Shou or 'sticky hands' technique, Whirling Hands, Whirling Arms, and various qi and Li development exercises.〔The Chinese Art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan by Chee Soo, Seahorse Books 2003〕 Lee style t'ai chi is related to Martial Arts training, and there are five distinct areas of development that comprise the whole Art: 〔The Chinese Art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan by Chee Soo, Seahorse Books 2003 chapter 2 - The principles of the Supreme Ultimate〕 #Physical #Mental #Breathing #Sheng Qi 生气 (Internal energy) #Ching Sheng Li 精生力 (External energy). == History == According to Chee Soo in a book published by HarperCollins,〔The Chinese Art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan by Chee Soo, Seahorse Books 2003 pages 14-15〕 the style is derived from an original set of eight movements created by Ho-Hsieh Lee from Beijing around 1000 BC, this was a time before there were any written records so we only have the oral tradition passed down from father to son to rely on. His family moved to a fishing village called Wei Hei Wei (modern Weihai) on the East coast of China in Shandong Province and settled there and practiced a range of Taoist Arts. The techniques were passed on from one generation to the next and kept within the family until the last in their line, Chan Kam Lee, traveled to London in the 1930s on business. Here, the account continues, he met and adopted a young orphan named Clifford Soo, later to be known as Chee Soo, and he passed the techniques on to him as he had no children of his own. Chee Soo writes:〔The Taoist Ways of Healing by Chee Soo, Aquarian Press (Thorsons/HarperCollins) 1986〕
According to a British Movietone News documentary filmed on 21 May 1970 at Guildford in Surrey - UK, Chee Soo had over 2000 students studying Wu Shu in Britain as part of the British Wu Shu Association. In 1976 a book about Lee style T'ai Chi Ch'uan written by Chee Soo was published entitled "The Chinese Art of T'ai Chi Ch'uan" which describes the history and philosophy of the style in detail including descriptions of each aspect of the Art with photographs and descriptions of the Lee style T'ai Chi form. Chee Soo wrote several books about the various aspects of the Lee style Taoist Arts published by HarperCollins which became best-sellers and were subsequently translated into several languages including French (distributed in Canada, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal), German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Polish, and Indonesian. According to an interview with Marilyn Soo - Chee Soo's widow and the President of the International Taoist Society - Chee Soo moved to Coventry in the 1980s and trained a group of teachers to continue his work teaching the Lee style Taoist Arts.〔The Tao of My Thoughts, Seahorse Books p127-150,〕 Since his death in August 1994 there are now several schools teaching the Lee style T'ai Chi based in the British Isles each of which emphasize different aspects of the Lee style Taoist Arts.〔(The Taoist Cultural Arts Association - responsible for publishing Chee Soo's Lee style training manuals )〕〔(Lishi - based in Leeds )〕〔(East West Taoist Association - based in Scarborough )〕〔(Taoist Arts Organization - based in London )〕〔(Lee Family Internal Arts - based in South Wales )〕〔(Lee Family Arts - based in Hull )〕 The emblem of the Lee family is the Seahorse which represents Yin within Yang as it is the only creature where the male incubates and gives birth to the offspring.〔The Taoist Art of Feng Shou by Chee Soo, Aquarian press (Thorsons/HarperCollins) 1983〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lee-style t'ai chi ch'uan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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