Today’s Tai Chi began with Yang Luchan and Wu Yuxiang. There was no such thing as Tai Chi before.

Yang Luchan said, "Chen Changxing is a disciple of Jiang Fa" and he practices "Mianquan"; Jiang Fa only has Chen Changxing's lineage in Chenjiagou, and other people in Chenjiagou don't know Tai Chi. Therefore, before Chen Changxing, the Chen family used back-wrapping boxing.

However, Chen Youben (1780-1858) also learned Tongbei Guangquan, which was called "Pao Chui Chen Family" at that time.

Chen Changxing created the first and second routes of boxing, and then Tongbeihuangquan was lost. And it also coincides with the name of the move Tongbei Fist. This is no coincidence.

In 1928, Chen Fake went to Beijing to teach boxing and published the book "Cannon Hammer". In 1933, "Illustrated Description of Chen Style Tai Chi" was published, which became the theoretical support of Chen Style Tai Chi.

Chen Xin wrote in the of "The Thirty-Fourth Year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1908)" of "Tai Chi Picture Handouts": "Youben started practicing boxing at the age of thirty-six. His studies in his later years were profound." "Yequan" should refer to learning boxing. In other words, Chen Youben began to learn boxing specifically at the age of thirty-six, and it was only in his later years that his kung fu reached a level of perfection. According to "Chen Family Tai Chi Chronicles" Volume 1, page 32: "Chen Youheng (1773-1819)... drowned in Dongting in his prime." It is also said that Chen Youben practiced boxing behind closed doors "after the death of his brother, and became more and more interested in Tai Chi." "Refined research...is not limited by it, is innovative, and becomes its own line". What conditions and time does it take for this innovation to become a thing of its own?

There is also a record in the "Preface" that Chen Youben "taught this art to my late master Zhong Zhong and my late uncle Ji Zong." However, Chen Youben did not have Chen Qingping among his disciples. Only belongs to those who "have something to gain". The so-called "disciples" are ordinary students, not apprentices.

Chen Qingping (1795-1868) learned Tai Chi when he was young and became a famous practitioner when he was young. When does "youth" refer to? "Chen Style Tai Chi Chronicles" Volume 2, page 313 states: "Nineteen years old." That is, Chen Qingping "has become a famous hand" in 1813. At this time, Chen Youben had not yet practiced boxing behind closed doors, and his kung fu was still shallow and he was not qualified to be a teacher.

Du Yuanhua said, "Chen Qingping learned boxing from Zhang Yan when he was young." After he reached the age of 32, he learned how to hammer cannon from Chen Youben. Chen Gengyun was also learning there at that time. It’s normal to learn boxing from many sources.

When Chen Youben teaches boxing, he will first see what the students know. Therefore, the Tai Chi techniques of Chen Gengyun and Chen Qingping aroused his interest. A relationship was formed between teachers and friends, and they studied and studied together, and finally adapted the "Xiao Jia".