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The Red Book PhotosDong (Tung) Family Taijiquan Long Form

Photographs of Tung Ying ChiehAssembled by David Parker

Notes:

These photographs of Tung Ying Chieh were taken from the Dong family Taijiquan book, commonly known as the “Red Book”. Written by Tung Ying Chieh, it ex-plains the principles and practice of Dong family Taijiquan, and includes these photos of the slow set, with commentary, plus a series of his son, Tung Fu Ling, performing the Dong family set. The Red Book is available in Chinese, and trans-lated into English by Alex Dong. Please see the last page for information.

I have placed the photographs in order for western readers, i.e.- left to right, top to bottom, and added the names that I learned for the postures, plus a couple names that I or other teachers invented. Any errors in naming are my fault.

The figure numbers are derived from the numbering in the Red Book, the main number is on the upper right of each photograph, in Arabic, and the series num-ber is in parenthesis above the photo, in Chinese. There are a couple places where I deviated slightly from this convention.

Romanization of Chinese words is rendered in Pinyin, as it is current system, hence, “Dong” and “Taijiquan”. Tung Ying Chieh is left in the older Wade-Giles style as more people will recognize it with this spelling.

ContentsFirst Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Second Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Third Section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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First SectionWuji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Beginning of Taiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Ward-off left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Ward-off right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Grasp Bird’s Tail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Close Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3White Stork Spreads Wings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Brush Knee left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Lift Hands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Brush Knee left and Twist Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Brush Knee right and Twist Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Brush Knee left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Lift Hands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Brush Knee left and Twist Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Step Up, Strike, Parry, Punch (Dump the Bucket) 5Retreat and Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Apparant Closure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

WujiFig 1.1

Beginning of TaijiFig 2.1-2.2

Ward-off leftFig 3.1-3.2

Ward-off rightFig 3.3-3.4

Roll BackFig 3.5

PressFig 3.6

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PushFig 3.7Grasp Bird’s TailFig 3.4-3.7

Single WhipFig 4.1-4.3

Close HandsFig 5.1

White Stork Spreads WingsFig 6.1-6.2

Brush Knee leftFig 7.1-7.3

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Lift HandsFig 8.1

Brush Knee left and Twist StepFig 9.1-9.2

Brush Knee right and Twist StepFig 9.3-9.4

Brush Knee leftFig 9.5-9.6

Lift HandsFig 10.1

Brush Knee left and Twist StepFig 11.1-11.2

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Step Up, Strike, Parry and Punch (Dump the Bucket)Fig 12.1-12.3

Retreat and SealFig 13.1-13.2

Apparant ClosureFig 14.1-14.2

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Second SectionCarry Tiger to Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Flat Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Turn left, Push right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Fist Under Elbow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Repulse Monkey right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Repulse Monkey left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Repulse Monkey right. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Slant Flying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Close Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9White Stork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Brush Knee left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Needle at Sea Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Push Through Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Fist by Waist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Fan Through Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Big Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Step Up, Strike, Parry and Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Two Birds Flying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Ward-off right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Cloud Hands x3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12High Pat Horse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Separate Right Foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Separate Left Foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Turn 180 Degrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Heel Kick left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Brush Knee left and Twist Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Brush Knee right and Twist Step (make fist) . . . . 13Punch to Groin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Fist by Waist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Fan Through Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Step up, Strike, Parry and Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Heel Kick right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Strike Tiger left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Strike Tiger right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Heel Kick right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Strike Opponent’s Ears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Heel Kick left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Turn 360 Degrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Heel Kick right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Strike, Parry and Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Retreat and Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Apparant Closure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Carry Tiger to MountainFig 15.1- 15.2

Roll BackFig 15.3-15.4

PressFig 15.5

PushFig 15.6-15.7

Flat Single WhipFig16.1- 16.2

Turn left, Push rightFig 16.3

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Fist Under ElbowFig 16.4- 16.5

Repulse Monkey rightFig 17.1- 17.2

Repulse Monkey rightFig 17.5- 17.6

Repulse Monkey leftFig 17.3- 17.4

Slant Flying18.1- 18.2

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Close HandsFig 19.1

White StorkFig 20.1- 20.2

Brush Knee leftFig 21.1- 21.3

Needle at Sea BottomFig 22.1- 22.2

Push Through MountainFig 23.1 23.2

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Fist by WaistFig 24.1

Fan Through BackFig 24.2

Big Roll BackFig 25.1

Step Up, Strike, Parry and PunchFig 25.2- 25.4

Two Birds FlyingFig 26.1

Ward-off rightFig 26.2- 26.3

Roll BackFig 26.4

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PressFig 26.5

PushFig 26.6- 26.7

Single WhipFig 27.1- 27.3

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Cloud Hands x3Fig 28.1- 28.5


High Pat HorseFig 30.1- 30.2

Separate Right FootFig 31.1- 31.3

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Separate Left FootFig 31.4- 31.6

Turn 180 DegreesFig 32.1

Heel Kick leftFig 32.2

Brush Knee left and Twist StepFig33.1- 33.2

Brush Knee right and Twist Step (make fist)Fig 33.3

Punch to GroinFig 34.1

Fist by WaistFig 35.1

Fan Through BackFig 35.2

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Step up, Strike, Parry and PunchFig 36.1- 36.3

Heel Kick rightFig 37.1- 37.3

Strike Tiger leftFig 38.1- 38.2

Strike Tiger rightFig 38.3

Heel Kick rightFig 39.1- 39.2

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Strike Opponent’s EarsFig 40.1- 40.3

Heel Kick leftFig 41.1- 41.2

Turn 360 DegreesFig 42.1

Heel Kick rightFig 42.2

Strike, Parry and PunchFig 43.1- 43.2

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Retreat and SealFig 44.1- 44.2

Apparant ClosureFig 45.1- 45.2

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Third SectionPush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Carry Tiger to Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Part Wild Horses Main x3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Ward Off left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Ward Off right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Four Corners (Fair Ladies) #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Four Corners #2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Four Corners #3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Four Corners #4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Ward Off left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Cloud Hands x3 (#2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Snake Creeps Down, Lower Posture . . . . . . . . . . . 23Golden Cock left. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Golden Cock right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Repulse Monkey x3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Slant Flying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Close Hands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Brush Knee Left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24White Stork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Needle at Sea Bottom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Push Through Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Strike, Parry and Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Fist by Waist- Open Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Two Birds Flying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Turn and Strike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Ward Off right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Cloud Hands x3 (#3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Turn 180 Degrees and Heel Kick right. . . . . . . . . . 27Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27High Pat Horse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Brush Knee left, Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Thrust Out Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Two Birds Flying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Ward Off right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Roll Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Single Whip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Snake Creeps Down, Lower Posture . . . . . . . . . . . 28Push . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Seven Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Turn 360 Degrees and Lotus Kick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Fat White Stork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Shoot the Bow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Step Up, Strike, Parry and Punch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Close Taiji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Wuji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Retreat and Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Carry Tiger to MountainFig 46.1-46.2

RollbackFig 46.3-46.4

PressFig 46.5

PushFig 46.6- 46.7


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Part Wild Horses Main x3Fig 48.1-48.6

Ward Off leftFig 49.1

Ward Off rightFig 49.2

Roll BackFig 49.3

PressFig 49.4

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PushFig 49.5-49.6


Four Corners (Fair Ladies) #1Fig 51.1- 51.3

Four Corners #2Fig 51.4- 51.5

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Ward Off leftFig 52.1

Roll BackFig 52.2- 52.3

PressFig 52.4

PushFig 52.5- 52.6

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Cloud Hands x3 (#2)Fig 54.1-54.5


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Snake Creeps Down, Lower PostureFig 55.3

Golden Cock leftFig 56.1

Golden Cock rightFig 56.2-56.3

Repulse Monkey x3Fig 57.1- 57.6

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Slant FlyingFig 58.1- 58.2

Close HandsFig 59.1

White StorkFig 60.1- 60.2

Brush Knee LeftFig 61.1- 61.3

Needle at Sea BottomFig 62.1- 62.2

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Push Through MountainFig 63.1- 63.2

Fist by Waist- Open HandFig 64.1

Turn and StrikeFig 64.2

Roll BackFig 64.3

Strike, Parry and PunchFig 65.2- 65.3


Two Birds FlyingFig 66.1- 66.2

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Roll BackFig 66.4

PressFig 66.5

PushFig 66.7


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Cloud Hands x3 (#3)Fig 68.1- 68.5


High Pat HorseFig 70.1

Thrust Out PalmFig 70.2

Turn 180 Degrees and Heel Kick rightFig 71.1- 71.2

Brush Knee left, PunchFig 72.1- 72.2

Two Birds FlyingFig 73.1

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Roll BackFig 73.3

PressFig 73.4

PushFig 73.5- 73.6


Snake Creeps Down, Lower PostureFig 74.5

Seven StarsFig 75.1

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Fat White StorkFig 76.1- 76.2

Turn 360 Degrees and Lotus KickFig 77.1- 77.4

Shoot the BowFig 78.1- 78.3

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Step Up, Strike, Parry and PunchFig 79.1- 79.3

Retreat and SealFig 80.1- 80.2

Close TaijiFig 81.1- 81.2

Wuji

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