Biography of Wang Xiangzhai

The current Wikipedia bio:
Wang Xiangzhai 王薌齋 (1885-1963), also known as Nibao, Zhenghe, Yuseng, was a Chinese xingyiquan master, responsible for founding the martial art of Yiquan.

Biography
He was born in 1885, the 24th of November in the Hebei province. As he was a very weak child, his parents decided to send him to the famous Xingyiquan [...]

Clues to Wang Xiangzhai’s art by looking back at Guo Yunshen?

I assume there is some aspect and explanation of Wang Xiangzhai’s teachings and answers that must hark back to the nature of his lessons with the legendary Guo Yunshen and the age of Wang at the time. From a karate site, http://www.shimakarate.com/sensei_kim.shtml:
“One story says that once, when Guo got cold, and despite of this went [...]

Core or dantian?

Last night I did a few taijiquan movements and I noticed if I concentrated on movements initiating from the dantian, the qigong aspect was much stronger. Which leads to some confusion about whether I’m really doing “core” movement, whether it is “internal” qigong induced movement from the dantian, or both. I think it’s both, but [...]