Wieder habe ich eine für mich sehr interssante Seite von Peter Lim Tian Tek aufgestöbert, die ich mir hier mittels Blogeintrag merken möchte:
Taijiquan History And Development
Hier findet man Informationen zu den Ursprüngen der verschiedenen Styles und liest unter anderem:

The Earliest Reference To The Origin
The written works on Taijiquan were not from the Chen village or its members. The earliest being the Taijiquan Classic by Wang Tsung Yueh. The earliest verifiable manual on Taijiquan that we have is from Li I-Yu (1832-1892) who compiled the 3 manuals which are known as the `3 old manuals‘ in Yung Nien today. Li learnt the art from his uncle Wu Yu Xiang who in turn learnt the major part of his art from Yang Lu Chan, the founder of the most popular Yang style of Taijiquan, and spent a month learning the `Xiao Jia‘ or ‚Small Frame‘ from Chen Ching Ping. In these old manuals he recorded the Taijiquan Classics, works of his uncle, those of Wang Tsung Yueh and his own writings on the art. In his `Brief Preface To Taijiquan‘ he wrote that the creator of the art was Chang San Feng and that Wang Tsung Yueh was skilled in it and that it was later transmitted to the Chen village. Later, Li I Yu rewrote the first sentence of his Introduction to say that the founder was unknown. This could very well be due to a a differring origin theories in the post-Chen Ching Ping period. This is the earliest record we have on the origins of Taijiquan. …

Eine wirlklich umfangreiche und doch sehr übersichtliche Quelle, die neben den Styles auch Artikel zum Training und zur Form bietet.