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• Archive: Like most of rural China, Chen village suffered badly during the cultural revolution and today, it is still a poor village populated mostly by farmworkers.
• Yet as the birthplace of Tai Chi Chuan it is one of the most significant locations in Martial Arts.
• Although only 3,000 villagers live here, 2,500 practice Tai Chi Chuan.
• “I’ve been here a long time now and I’ve met people from all over the world in this little village in the middle of Hunan, China” says Joseph, a student from the UK…”and they’ve all got something in common, they’re all interested in Tai Chi.”
• The Chen family, standard bearers of Chen style for 400 years, continue to teach Tai Chi Chuan at the school in the center of the village.