Cheng Style Baguazhang

Cheng Style Baguazhang is the style of Baguazhang descended from Cheng Tinghua, the fourth disciple of Baguazhang's founder, Dong Haichuan (Yin Fu was the first, followed by Ma Weiqi and Shi Jidong). Cheng style has many substyles, some of the lineages for which are given below:

• Dong Haichuan
  • Cheng Tinghua
    • Cheng Youlong
      • Sun Xikun
    • Liu Ziyang
    • Cheng Youxin
    • Cheng Yousheng
      • Sun Zhijun
    • Yang Mingsheng
      • Wang Rongtang
    • Liu Bin
      • Wang Wenkui
      • Liu Xinghan
    • Sun Lutang
      • Sun Cunzhou
      • Sun Jianyun
    • Li Wenbiao
      • Luo Xingwu

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In general, Cheng style appears more overtly circular and coiling than Yin style.

Due to Cheng Tinghua's extensive background in shuaijiao throwing techniques before learning baguazhang, Cheng style tends to emphasize throwing techniques, while Yin style tends to emphasize striking techniques.

Each Cheng substyle uses as its technical basis eight basic palms (Badamuzhang 八大母掌), from which more complicated linking forms are derived.

Of the eight basic palms, only the first three (Laosanzhang 老三掌) are considered to be the oldest and passed down by Cheng Tinghua himself before his death in 1900.^[1]

These three palms are:

• Single Change Palm (單換掌)
• Double Change Palm (雙換掌)
• Smooth Posture Palm (順勢掌)