Chen Tai Ji Chuan developed to17th century, and it is generally believed that Chen Fake (1887-1957) is the representative of the old boxing handed down by Chen Changxing. Before Chen Fake left Chenjiagou for Beijing to preach boxing in 1928, his nephew Zhao Chen Pi (Ji Fu), son Chen Zhaoxu and others were all following the scientific boxing. "Zhao Chen Pi studied Tai Ji Chuan with his uncle since childhood" (Chen's Old Frame Tai Ji Chuan). Zhao Chen Pi himself said, "He was under the guidance of (fake) Ji" (see Preface to Chen Tai Ji Chuan), that is, Zhao Chen Pi, Chen Zhaoxu and later. From 1928 to 1957, Fa Gong Ke lived in Beijing to preach. In his later years, in the spirit of striving for perfection, he modified and enriched some boxing methods and movements of the No.1 and No.2 boxing stands, making the two sets of family boxing stands more perfect. Chen, the youngest son of Fa,
Mr. Zhao Chen Pi (1893- 1972) went to Beijing with his uncle Chen Fake on 1928, and soon went to Nanjing to preach boxing, and then to Luoyang and Kaifeng. On 1958, he retired to his hometown of Chenjiagou, trained a number of descendants such as Chen Xiaowang, and was known as the "Four donkey kong".
However, Zhao Chen Pi and his uncle Chen Fake have lived in Beijing, Nanjing and other places for nearly 30 years, with little contact with each other, so there are some differences in boxing. In addition, the routines taught by Chen Changxing did not have a written boxing score for a long time before Chen Fake, unlike the new boxing handed down by Chen Youben in that year, because Chen Xin, a descendant of the 16th generation, has published the Illustration of Chen Tai Ji Chuan and has a written boxing score. Therefore, after the death of Mr. Chen Zhaokui in 1972, when Mr. Chen Zhaokui was invited home to teach boxing during the Spring Festival in 1973, people in the ditch thought that Mr. Zhao Kui and Mr. Zhao Pi had different boxing frames. In order to show this difference, because some people want to flaunt that the boxing frame practiced in the village and practiced by themselves is more authentic, they call the boxing frame handed down by Mr. Zhao Pi in the ditch in his later years the "old frame" and the boxing frame handed down by Chen Fake and Chen Zhaokui the "new frame". Mr. Chen Zhaokui disapproves of this division. Ceng Yun said during his lifetime, "This statement is wrong. My fifth brother Zhao Chen Pi also learned boxing from my father. The boxing frame circulated by Mr. Zhao Pi in Chenjiagou is basically the same as that circulated by Mr. Fa and Mr. Zhao Kui in Beijing, but slightly simplified and refined. Zhu Tiancai, one of the "Four donkey kong", said it more objectively. He said: "The boxing frame passed by Mr. Chen Zhaokui has more delicate movements, more techniques, greater strength, more obvious attack and more comprehensive techniques." (Wu Soul 1990 No.5) It is for this reason that People's Sports Publishing House entrusted Tang Hao, Gu, Li Jianhua and Chen Zhaokui to write Chen. 1963, edited by Gu and Shen, Chen Zhaokui rehearsed and revised the book "Biography of Chen Taiji", and Chen Changxing Routines (I and II) were published, obtaining the first written boxing score. Chen Zhaokui's correspondence lecture "Chen Taiji's Biography and Application" can be described as the second boxing score of Chen Changxing's old frame.
On this basis, we can only say that the boxing rings handed down by Chen Fake and Chen Zhaokui in Beijing and Chen Zhaopi in our village are the same as those handed down by Chen Changxing. There are only some differences in the complexity of boxing movements, but there is no difference between the old and the new. If we want to distinguish the differences, we can only say that the boxing rings handed down by Zhao Chen Pi and Chen Zhaokui are slightly different in complexity and accuracy. For some of them,