According to inheritance, Zhaobao Tai Chi originated from Jiang Fa and Xing Xihuai.

According to boxing principles, Chen Qingping inherited Zhaobao Tai Chi, not Chenjiagou. Because the principles of Zhaobao Tai Chi are not those of Chenjiagou. At that time, it was normal to learn skills from many sources. Some got real skills, and some just learned a boxing gymnastics.

Chen Qingping (1795-1868) and Chen Youben (1780-1858):

Chen Xin’s "Thirty-Fourth Year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty" in "Tai Chi Picture Lectures" "1908)" records: "Youben started practicing boxing when he was thirty-six years old, and he became very advanced in his studies in his later years." "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 its own thing?

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." It can be seen that Chen Youben did not have Chen Qingping among his disciples, only Chen Qingping. Those who are "gained" have the same relationship as ordinary students.

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 was not yet 36 years old, and he had not yet practiced boxing behind closed doors. 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." At least after Chen Youben practiced boxing behind closed doors for 6 years, that is, after he was 27 years old, he could learn the artillery hammer from Chen Youben. Chen Gengyun was also learning there at that time. It’s normal to learn boxing from many sources.

According to Chen Xin’s impression of boxing when he was a child, “Tai Chi practitioners also use the wrapping method.” This sentence shows that what Chen Youben was teaching at that time was the cannon hammer routine in "Tongbei Binquan". Chen Youben often mentioned the word "tang". Therefore, it is not Tai Chi that Yang Luchan learned.

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. Moreover, Chen Qingping was already well-known at that time, and the three of them formed a mutual relationship as teachers and friends. They communicated with each other and left a set of Tai Chi to Chenjiagou.

When Chen Xin wrote his book, he used this set of boxing as a blueprint to compile the boxing theory and formed the "small frame" of Chen style Tai Chi.

Through boxing exchanges with Chen Youben and Chen Gengyun, Chen Qingping further broadened his martial arts horizons, further understood the beauty of Zhaobao Tai Chi principles, and understood how to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. As a result, he guided different A master of Tai Chi style.

Therefore, without the principles of Zhaobao Tai Chi, there would be no great master Chen Qingping.

And, was Zhaobao Tai Chi created by Zhang Sanfeng? It's possible. After all, in both the factory version and the Yandian version of "Wang Zongyue Tai Chi Lun", there is an inscription "Zhang Sanfeng, Wang Zongyue's legacy", and "Yang Family Old Genealogy" also has "Zhang Sanfeng's legacy". You can't think that ------Chenjiagou Chen Sen's annotation as "the founder of boxing" is true, and the inscriptions of other boxing schools are fake, right?

As a Taoist, Zhang Sanfeng has to travel all over the world, "sometimes living in a poor mountain" (living alone in a cave to practice), and he has to guard against animals and bandits; this requires strengthening his physical fitness, strengthening his immunity against diseases, and also Only by knowing how to punch and kick can you "wear a robe and be free from cold and heat." "For sixteen years, I have been guarding the Hengshan Mountain, and the exchanges between Yan and Zhao have become waves. Why not? Carrying the harp and sword, straightening the raincoat, walking eastward to Penglai and singing Taoist songs."

Before Zhang Sanfeng in the Ming Dynasty, Wudang Mountain Taoist Temple spread martial arts. According to Taoist martial arts history records, Zhang Sanfeng had exchanges with Emei martial artists. If Zhang Sanfeng wants to strengthen his body, practice the "Qi Gathering and External Alchemy Technique" and dredge the eight extraordinary meridians, he will learn from martial arts movements, guide the movement of qi, and form a natural and slow technique, which will form the prototype of Tai Chi.

During the Jiajing period, Qi Jiguang’s military martial arts was introduced to the people, and the people had exchanges with Taoism, so they merged with Taoist martial arts culture again. Dong Bingqian, the Taoist priest of the Tai Chi Palace of Boai Qianzai Temple in Henan Province, is good at the "Thirteen Movements of Soft Hands". This boxing technique has spread to Wangbao, Zhaobao and Chengou.

In addition to the possibility of Zhang Sanfeng's creation of boxing, it can also be seen from Zhao Bao's Tai Chi spectrum that he was greatly influenced by Taoist ideas. Even in terms of belief, it is normal to respect Zhang Sanfeng as the ancestor.