Singapore Sun Style Martial Arts Research Institute 新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会

Malaysian Sun Style Internal Martial Arts Research Group In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will organize Sun Style Taijiquan 35 Steps workshop for the public. Interested folks please contact Mr Ryan Leong or Sensei TS Low for registration and fees enquiries.

See you folks in KL Malaysia next month!

Sun Style Taijiquan is one of the five original schools of Taijiquan. The form is characterised by it high stances and quick steps. Making it suitable for people of all ages. To reap the best benefits and delve into the details of the art, classes are often opened one a year or two years. So come explore the art with Singapore Sun Style Internal Martial Arts Research Institute 新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会 coming this April.
Thursday mass class willl be conducted in Admirlalty, Friday small group will be in our clubhouse in Proxima@Gambas.

Thank you to Master Jimmy Wong Wu Hao Tai Chi, Chair of Chinwoo USA and Wu Hao Taijiquan Grandmaster for visiting Singapore Sun Style Martial Arts Research Institute 新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会.

感谢美国精武体育会会长，武郝太极拳大师，王国强老师莅临新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会。 #孙武一家亲

Martial aunt GM Sun Shu Rong's closed door disciple martial sister Gong Jie visiting Singapore Sun Style Martial Arts Research Institute .

孙叔容师姑的关门弟子龚捷师姐到访新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会。

A big thank you to my old friend Master Huang Jian Cheng of Persatuan Yongnian Taijiquan, JB Malaysia for the calligraphy to Singapore Sun Style Martial Arts Research Institute 新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会 .

非常感谢老友，马来西亚永年太极拳学会黄建成老师为新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会赠送的墨宝。

Sun Style Xingyiquan is the basis of all forms within the Sun Style Martial Arts system. We are happy to offer this basic class again for all beginners to the art in 2024. Classes will start soon and are limited due to the space. Sign up soon!
Singapore Sun Style Martial Arts Research Institute 新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会

Got the professionals to hang up the board. 🙂

Taking a walk. 🙂

At the Singapore Sun Style Martial Arts Research Institute 新加坡孙氏内家拳研究会, we tend to teach in details as we pass the arts of Sun Lu Tang to the next generation of practitioners. Hence we don't open new classes often enough. The last time we did was almost 2 years ago. With a new exclusive place to practice, we are now ready to start new classes come June 2024. The classes will remain small at max of 10 people but there will be two slots to choose. So come join us to understand the wealth of health, martial and cultural legacy of Sun Lu Tang. 🙂

Practicing the hooks after online class.
Sun style Xingyi Double Hooks - The Wind moves the Lotus leaf.

网课后练钩。
孙氏形意护手钩 - 风摆荷叶

之前写过英文版，现翻成中文版。

《孙门第三代的巾帼：孙禄堂的孙女们》

孙禄堂有五个孙女。按照中国的家族层次习俗，他为她们取名为孟、仲、叔、季和婉，均以“容”名之，寓意包容与宽容。所有的名字都是由孙禄堂亲自取的。孙孟容是孙禄堂的长子孙星一的女儿，其余四位是次子孙存周的女儿。

孙孟容
孙孟容是由孙禄堂亲自培养的。我对她的了解有限，但据说她曾作为助教陪同孙禄堂上课，亦展现出高超的武艺。这是她与家人的唯一一张清晰的照片。还有一张照片是在致柔拳社（由陈微明创建）庆典之一中拍摄的，照片上她的姑姑孙剑云坐在她腿上。她至少比她的姑姑大10多岁。

孙仲容
我对孙仲容的信息有限。除了知道她是孙存周的长女，并在1960年代或1970年代逝世外，我对她一无所知。她至少比姑姑孙剑云大几岁，但不确定她是否继承了家族的武学。

孙叔容
孙叔容于1918年出生，比她的姑姑年轻四岁。因此有机会在祖父的指导下和姑姑接受训练。孙禄堂去世时，她当时15岁。而后她继续在父亲那儿接受训练，直至孙存周1963年逝世。在父亲的指导下，孙叔容和她的弟弟孙宝亨开始协助姑姑进行教学。自70年代末80年代初以来，她主要居住在河南，成为华太太。她的丈夫华钟彦是河南大学的语言学教授。他们的儿子华峰，也是一位语言学教授，于2023年初离世。孙叔容在河南创建了一个孙氏武学的一朵奇葩。尽管大多数人都练习陈式太极拳，她却能成为河南唯一的孙门武学基地，。她的弟子洪浩目前是河南大学武术系主任。许多武术系的学生和讲师也成为了她的弟子。尽管她主要受父亲的教导，但在教学时她必须也需要调整她的拳术，以与姑姑的标准相一致。这也是为什么她的拳术风格略有不同的原因。网上有她的视频，可以详细观察。我相信（这是个人观点），她的弟弟在拳术上更受到了姑姑的影响。事实上，在80年代，当孙叔容和孙宝衡开始协助姑姑传播家族武学时，人们开始打电话询问为什么这三个姐弟的拳术形式不同。孙家早期的弟子，如雷世泰和刘树春，特别是雷世泰亲眼见过孙存周，都能够证实这一点。他们在60年代和70年代，年轻时就开始在孙家学习。雷世泰的祖父雷世墨是孙禄堂的弟子，同时也是他资产的保管人。主要因为他是一家银行的总经理。因此，雷世泰在孙家的时间比许多其他弟子都要长。刘树春成为80年代初期孙剑云的第一批弟子（孙剑云最早的弟子是在孙禄堂时期成为弟子的孙雨人），目前是唯一精通所有已知器械，包括枪、双钩、棍等的孙剑云弟子。他的堂哥刘树林是孙存周的弟子，通过他认识了孙剑云。孙叔容晚年主要在北京，于2005年去世。她在推动家族武学方面发挥了重要作用。由于姐弟的紧密关系，他们经常共同撰写作品，家师的大女儿时雪（小雪）是脚本的撰写和校对者。他们出版了诸如《孙氏武学注释》（后来，我的老师重新出版并增加了注释）、《孙氏太极剑》、《孙氏太极拳竞赛套路》、《雪片刀》等作品。她的弟子主要在河南和北京，还有两位海外弟子，Jacques MoraMarco (杰克) 和Thomas Duteme (托马斯) 在美国。

孙季容
孙季容并未练习家族武学，她更专注于中国画，并且是一位技艺高超的画家。她擅长绘制宫廷女子（侍女图），拥有相当数量的作品。这些作品被家师收录在她的一本书中。她嫁给了一位化学家，李博士，而他们的子女都在美国。其中一两位从事研究工作。孙季容因疾病于80年代去世。我于2019年曾自到她坟前祭拜。她安葬在北京八宝山陵园，与她的父亲一样。

孙婉容
家师是孙禄堂的最小的孙女，也是在其祖父临终时床前最年轻的家族成员。她在其祖父去世时坐在他身边。家师于1927年出生，在10岁时开始学习家传拳术。因为二战，因祸得福。她的父亲之前一直逗留在上海。在侵略时期，他逃离上海前往北京，并一直留在那里，直到他去世的前一个月，他又前往上海。家师的成长时期主要在父亲的训练下度过，早上练太极，晚上练形意、八卦，或者倒过来。这一直持续到她的父亲在1963年去世。在1957年从北京师范大学体育管理专业毕业后，她开始在北京体育学院工作。家师在她工作的大学（先前称为北京体育学院，现在是北京体育大学）中算是一个颇有成就的人物。在60年代初，她已经担任了一个相当高的职务，并且忙于行政工作。文化大革命后，大学的恢复将她再次置于主管大学竞赛部门的主任职务上。这就是为什么她无法协助姑姑传授武学的原因。有一位来自悉尼的孙氏同门声称家师是从她的姑姑那里学拳的，我上打电话进行了核实。她的直接回答是：“即使我想，我也没办法。我没有时间。”尽管如此，她从小就与她的姑姑保持着亲密的关系，孙剑云精心的打扮她，然后带她去看昆曲。这是孙剑云最喜欢的曲目。在繁忙的行政工作中，她在70年代被安排在大学里教授家族武学，面向国内外代表和本地学员。如果你猜我是否是她教的第一个外国人——答案是否定。她曾有一位日本学生，一些西方学生，并曾赴韩国授课。那个大学里的课程如今已经发展成为每周日的班级，由志愿教练进行教学，她则会前来大学给予指导和监督。在疫情前，大约有30多人参加训练班。家师的心态非常年轻，能与许多人迅速建立默契，但她对家族武学也非常传统，只传授父亲所教的。有很多次，我的师兄弟们可以证明。每当她表演拳术时，她会下意识地按照孙禄堂书中的招式演练。那是她从小在父亲的指导下学到的第一套太极拳，也是她始终强调我们如果在疑惑时要查阅书本的原因。现在虽然如此高龄，她仍然积极参与传授家族的武学。除了写有关家族武学的文章外，我们还将在未来看到更多她的著作问世。

I've written this article in my previous FB. Made some revisions and share it again. Chinese version in the next post.

*The Ladies of the 3rd Generation Sun Family: Sun Lu Tang's Granddaughters*

Sun Lu Tang has five granddaughters. By Chinese custom of hierarchy, he names them Meng (孟), Zhong (仲), Shu (叔), Ji (季), and Wan (婉). All with the last character as Rong (容), which means inclusiveness and tolerance. All names were given by Sun Lu Tang himself. Sun Meng Rong was the daughter of Sun Lu Tang's eldest son, Sun Xing Yi; the rest were daughters of the second son, Sun Cun Zhou.

Sun Meng Rong (孙孟容)
Sun Meng Rong was trained by Sun Lu Tang himself. I have little information about her but was told she accompanied Sun Lu Tang in his classes as his assistant. She was also highly skilled. This is the only clear photo of her with her family. There was another photo taken in one of the celebrations of Zhi Rou Pugilistic Association (set up by Chen Weiming) anniversary where her aunt, Sun Jian Yun, sat on her lap. She is at least over 10 years older than her aunt.

Sun Zhong Rong (孙仲容)
Unfortunately, I know nothing about her other than being Sun Cun Zhou's eldest daughter and surviving until the 1960s or 1970s. She is also at least a few years older than GM Sun Jian Yun. Not sure if she practices the family art.

Sun Shu Rong (孙叔容)
Sun Shu Rong was born in 1918, four years younger than her aunt. Thus having the opportunity to train under the grandfather with her aunt. When Sun Lu Tang passed on, she was 15. She continued to train under the father until 1963 when he also passed on. Under the instructions of her father, both Sun Shu Rong and her younger brother Sun Bao Heng began assisting their aunt in teaching. Since the late 70s and early 80s, she was based mainly in Henan as Mrs. Hua, where her husband Hua Zhong Yan is the linguistics professor at Henan University. Their son Hua Feng, who also retired as a linguistics professor passed on in early 2023. Sun Shu Rong has created a Sun Style phenomenon in Henan becoming the only Sun Style group at Henan, where the majority practises Chen style taijiquan. Her disciple, Hong Hao, currently heads the Faculty of Wushu in Henan University. Many of the Wushu faculty students and lecturers also became her disciples. While she trains mainly under her father, she has (and will need) to modify her forms to standardized with her aunt when teaching. This is also why her forms are slightly different. Her videos, which are available online, can be observed in detail. I believe (and it's a personal opinion), her younger brother has been influenced greater towards the aunt's teaching. In fact, in the 80s when both Sun Shu Rong and Sun Bao Heng started to assist their aunt in propagating the family art, people started calling the family to ask why the 3 siblings' forms were different. Early disciples of the Sun family such as Lei Shi Tai and Liu Shu Chun will be able to attest to this especially Lei Shi Tai who has seen Sun Cun Zhou personally. Both Lei and Liu have been training in the Sun family since young in the 60s and 70s. Lei Shi Tai's grandfather Lei Shi Mo is Sun Lu Tang's disciple as well as the caretaker of his assets as he was the general manager of a bank. So Lei Shi Tai has been in the Sun family much longer than many other disciples. Liu Shu Chun became the first batch of disciples in the early 80s under Sun Jian Yun (Sun Jian Yun's earliest disciple is Sun Yu Ren where he became a disciple during Sun Lu Tang's time) and is currently the only disciple of Sun Jian Yun that has mastery of all known weaponry, including Spear, Double Hooks, Staff, and etc. His cousin, Liu Shu Lin is Sun Cun Zhou's disciple, through him, got introduced to GM Sun Jian Yun. Towards the end of her life, Sun Shu Rong was primarily based in Beijing before she passed on in 2005. She was instrumental in promoting the family art. Because of the closeness of the siblings, they often co-authored works together. With my laoshi's eldest daughter Shi Xue (Xiao Xue) as the writer and checker of the script. They have published works such as "The Annotated Works of Sun Style Martial Arts" (Later, my laoshi has republished and made more annotations), "Sun Style Taiji Sword," "Sun Style Taiji Competition Form," "Snow Flake Broadsword," etc. Her disciples are primarily based in Henan and Beijing, with two overseas disciples, Jacques MoraMarco and Thomas Duteme in the United States.

Sun Ji Rong (孙季容)
Sun Ji Rong doesn't practice the family arts. She is more involved in Chinese painting and is an accomplished painter. She specializes in painting Court Ladies (侍女图) and has quite a few works. The works are published by my laoshi in one of her books. She is married to a chemist, Dr. Li, and her children are all in US. One or two of them are in the research field. Sun Ji Rong passed away in the 80s due to illness. I went to pay my respects to her in 2019; she is buried in Ba Bao Shan Cemetery in Beijing. In the same cemetery as her father.

Sun Wan Rong (孙婉容)
My laoshi is the youngest granddaughter of Sun Lu Tang as well as the youngest member of the family beside her grandfather's deathbed. She was sitting beside him when he passed on. My laoshi was born in 1927 and had started learning the art when she was 10. She had to thank the war for that. Her father was based in Shanghai before that. During the invasion, he fled Shanghai for Beijing and remained in Beijing until a month before his death where he would travel to Shanghai again. The formative years of my laoshi would be spent under the training of her father. It would be morning Taiji, evening Xingyi, Bagua, or the reverse. This would go on till her father passed on in 1963. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Sports Management from Beijing Normal University in 1957, she started working for the Beijing Sports Institute. Laoshi was somewhat of a high flyer in the university that she worked in (previously known as Beijing Sports Institute, now Beijing Sports University). By the early 60s, she would have held a rather high post and was busy with administrative work. After the cultural revolution, the restoration of universities would see her again in a director's position where she was placed in charge of the university's competition department. This was the reason why she wasn't able to assist her aunt in teaching the art. After a claim by a Sun style practitioner from Sydney that my laoshi had learned from her aunt, I've actually called to verify this. Her direct reply was, "Even if I wanted, I couldn't. I don't have the time." Despite this, she maintained a close relationship with her aunt since young where GM Sun Jian Yun will doll her up and bring her for Kun Opera, a favorite of GM Sun. In juggling the time with administrative work, she was allocated a slot at the university to teach the family arts in the 70s, both to foreign delegates and locals. In case you're wondering if I'm the first foreigner she taught—nope, she had a Japanese student, some Western students, and has travelled to teach in Korea. That slot in the university has evolved into the Sunday class today, conducted by volunteer coaches, where she comes over to the university to give pointers and supervision. There were about 30 odd people training in the pre-pandemic period. Laoshi has a very young heart and clicks with many people instantly, but she is also very traditional about the family art and teaches only what is taught by the father. There are many times, and my fellow martial brothers can attest to that, when she performs the routine, she will subconsciously do the routine from Sun Lu Tang's book. That was the first Taiji routine she had learned and practiced continually under the father, and the reason why she always reminds us to refer to the book when in doubt. At her age, she is still active in practice and teaching the family art. As well as writing about the family arts, we will see more of her publications in the future to come.