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eight section brocade posture names

In something as old as eight section brocade a lot of variation has crept in - both in the names of the form itself and the names of the postures in the form.

We've used the names that we found most often and put the most common alternative in brackets ().

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For an even older version reputedly taken from the Dao Shu compiled in the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 - 1279)

 

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And our favorite ones we found on eight silken movements

As we said many variations ....

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