Cheng Man Ch'ing published T'ai Chi, the Supreme Ultimate Exercise for Health, Sport and Self-Defence in 1967. He wrote over a dozen other books on many subjects, including the I Ching, the Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius, as well as poetry, essays, and medicine. He died in 1975 at age 73.
"T'ai Chi Ch'uan as an art form of self-defense must completely
spurn both physical bravery and muscular force. One is told that
'in any action, the whole body must be made as light and
free-moving as possible;' so light that 'the addition of a feather
will be felt for its weight, and so free-moving that a fly cannot
alight on it without setting it in motion.'"
-Cheng Man-Ch'ing
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