White Goose/Crane Spread Wings
11 September 2005
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Was it the goose or was it the crane? Chen village named this stroke as White Goose Spread Wings (as in Chen Shi TaijiQuan Tu Shuo while In Beijing they named it as White Crane Spread Wings (see Chen Shi TaijiQuan)
If you ever see how a goose spreads its wings, you will agree with me that the stroke is better described by White Goose Spread Wings. In this stroke, both hands are not far stretched but the right palm is just above the right temple while the left is near your left hip.
However White Crane Spread Wings is a more commonly termed used in other style of Taiji including Yang. The crane is also a symbol of longeity and certainly protrays a more graceful picture than a goose. 
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interesting. we were taught that all postures in chen taiji should be stretched but not over stretched. like the effect of a trampoline. too loose no tension can’t bounce, too tight becomes rigid.
but i guess it is just different training methods
thank you for writing..now i know at least there is at least on person reading what i wrote.
maybe stretched is not the best word to do…let me try to draw here
\o __o__
||\ (chen) and not ||
/\ /\
make sense?
the pix shows one with diagonal stretched arms and the other with horizontal stretched arms and the first one looks more like the chen taiji….
have you tried to tell people about your site? seems i am the only customer.
anyway will try to blog in chinese when i find the time(if ever becos i just got a baby boy a week ago!). That’s the only way i can improve on my chinese!
anyway back to this posture – even in yang style there are different ways to do it – all depends on what you’re training. e.g. yang chengfu style is more outstretched but CMC and yang shou zhong style is not stretched at all.
congras on your new born child! tat will really keep u busy.
white crane and goose sound almost the same in mandarin.
Just a quick note that I’m happy to have discovered a new Chen Style resource on the WWW. I’m an amateur but have been “trying” for several years now. Matagal, as they say in the Philippines. (Longsuffering patience will someday yield results.) Thanks
welcome then. if you have not, pls visit the main site at http://chansigong.quizk.com for more information
ah! a fellow filipino! (i’m guessing, of course)
chen style is relatively rare here in the philippines, as yang style is the most commonly encountered form of taiji. our circle got lucky, as we were introduced by a friend to a martial arts instructor. as luck would have it, he hailed from chenjiagou, and proceeded to teach us lao jia, along with proper zhan zhuang and chan si jin.
and yes, there is no substitute for a good teacher.
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