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Four people in black jackets and yellow ceremonial sashes smile in front of a temple gate in Chen Village, beside a board showing an aerial view of the planned museum

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1 October 2018: Groundbreaking Ceremony in Chenjiagou

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In October 2018 a small Tai Ji Circle party travelled to Chenjiagou, the Chen Village in China and the birthplace of Chen-style Taijiquan, to see work begin on a museum dedicated to Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang.

Shifu Liu, with Chris, Michael and Darrell from Tai Ji Circle, felt fortunate and honoured to witness the spectacular groundbreaking ceremony on 1 October 2018 for the new Chen Xiaowang Taijiquan Art Museum in Chen Village.

The photographs below, from the school's archive, were taken on the same 2018 trip to China.

Five people in red and black Chinese-collar jackets stand in front of a building in Chenjiagou, under a long red banner with Chinese writingShifu Liu in a red jacket holds a low Xinjia stance on a paved square in front of the same building and red bannerA practitioner wearing a yellow ceremonial sash drops into a deep low stance on a red stage in front of a giant screen

From the Taiji Circle archive.