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= He Bin-Quan

== Lineage
* Teachers: [[Chen Zhao-Kui]], [[Gu Liu-Xin]]
* [[Hu Ze-Hua]]

== About
The late Master He Bin-Quan of Shanghai studied under the famous Chen-style taijiquan master, [[Chen Zhao-Kui]] (son of [[Chen Fa-Ke]]). Master He (pronounced Hur), highly skilled in Chen-style taiji, was well known for his ability to issue internal power in fighting situations.

Master He was very well known in China's wushu circles. For many years Master He was a member of the Shanghai Jing-Wu Association, the secretary of the Shanghai Wushu Association, the head coach of the famous Shanghai wushu team and sparring team at the Shanghai Sports Stadium. Master He is featured in the video "China's Living Treasures Volume 2" and demonstrates part of the Chen-style form.

Master He shared the same room accommodations with Chen [[Zhao-Kui]] when he was living and teaching in Shanghai. Master He, who already had an excellent wushu background and was very well known for his wushu ability, learned a great deal of Chen-style secret techniques from [[Chen Zhao-Kui]]. The two became great friends and shared their vast wushu experience.

== Hit Piece by Qu Shi-Jing
For more information check out the quotes in [[Gu Liu-Xin]]'s page and [[Fu Zhong-Wen]]'s page.

Qu Shi-Jing was of the CMC crowd and wrote a notorious hit piece on the Shanghai crowd, possibly to garner support for the CMC crowd and to turn them against the Shanghai crowd who knew them.

His work is somewhat obtuse and self-refuting; for example in one section he writes,

<blockquote>I have watched the push hands of several famous Taiji boxers, such as Zhang Daquan (張達泉), Ma Yueliang (馬岳梁), Hao Shaoru (郝少如) and He Bingquan (何炳泉). They each had their own strong points, but Tian really was different from those boxers mentioned above. Tian totally represented and embodied the unique style of Yang Taiji. Some of Tian’s disciples were also good at push hands, such as Ye Dami (葉大密), Chen Zhijin (陳志進), Yang Kairu (楊開儒) and Shen Yongpei (沈永培). The book entitled “The Form, Sword, Saber, Spear and Free Boxing of Taiji” was dictated by Tian and recorded by Chen Yanlin. That book was published by the Guo Guang Publishing House of Shanghai in 1943. It thoroughly presented the so-called large frame form, the weapons, and the Neigong taught by Jianhou. However, it didn’t include Jianhou’s middle frame form and Shaohou’s small frame form. Unfortunately now, the middle and small frame forms of Yang Taiji lack successors to pass them down to future practitioners.</blockquote>

and yet in another he writes,

<blockquote>
The second phenomenon is mixing the spurious with the genuine. Unlike external boxers, who can finish their training in their art rather quickly, it takes many years to train a high-level Taiji boxer. However, some instructors recruited wrestlers or other external boxers and trained them in a Taiji form for a few months. After that, they would enter their “Taiji” students in a Push Hands Tournament. Once they meet their opponent in the ring, immediately they use their original external boxing skills, rather than Taiji skills. Years ago, the martial arts community in Japan invited Yang Style Taiji boxers in Shanghai to exchange skills and teach push hands. At that time, the Chairman of the martial arts community in Shanghai asked Mr. He Bingquan, (何炳泉) who was a senior external boxer, to practice push hands with fixed steps. Then, as a so-called “Taiji expert”, Mr. He visited Japan. Mr. He actually was a very good external boxer, but the Japanese boxers had no idea how to tell the real Yang Taiji from the false. Mr. He unexpectedly conducted Push Hands seminars seven times in Japan. When Brother Zhang Yu heard about this he just sighed and said, “The Yang family never taught the form without push hands. If the Yangs had never exchanged skills with others, how did they gain their reputation as being unbeatable? The Japanese honestly invited Yang Taiji boxers to exchange skills, but an external boxer appeared as a substitute instead. This is one of the strangest stories of the ages! ”</blockquote>

What is it then Mr. Qu, was He Binquan a Taiji player or not?