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{{Short description|Chinese tai chi martial artist}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Yang (surname)|Yang]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox martial artist
| name            = Yang Banhou<br>{{no bold|楊班侯}}
| image           =
| caption         = Eldest son of Grandmaster [[Yang Luchan]]
| birth_name      = 
| birth_date      = {{BirthDeathAge|B|1837| | |1890| | |yes}}
| birth_place     = Guangfu, [[Yongnian]], [[Hebei]], [[China]]
| death_date      = {{BirthDeathAge| |1837| | |1890| | |yes}}
| style           = [[Yang-style tai chi]]
| students        = [[Yang Shaohou]]<br>[[Wu Quanyou]]<br>[[Wang Jiaoyu]] (王矯宇)
}}
{{Chinese
|title=Yang Banhou
|s=[[wikt:杨|杨]][[wikt:班|班]][[wikt:侯|侯]]
|t=[[wikt:楊|楊]][[wikt:班|班]][[wikt:侯|侯]]
|p=Yáng Bānhóu
|w=Yang Pan-hou
}}
{{Chinese martial arts}}

'''Yang Banhou''' ('''Yang Pan-hou'''; 1837–1890) was an influential teacher of [[tai chi]] in [[Qing dynasty]] [[China]], known for his bellicose temperament.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wile|first=Douglas|title=Tai Chi Touchstones: Yang Family Secret Transmissions|publisher=Sweet Ch'i Press|year=1983|isbn=978-0-912059-01-3}}</ref><ref name=Wile1995>{{cite book|last=Wile|first=Douglas|title=Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty (Chinese Philosophy and Culture)|publisher=State University of New York Press|year=1995|isbn=978-0-7914-2654-8}}</ref>

==Biography==
He was the eldest son of [[Yang Luchan]] to survive to adulthood. Like his father, he was retained as a martial arts instructor by the [[Aisin Gioro|Manchu imperial family]].<ref name="Wile1995" /><ref name="Yip1998">{{cite journal|last=Yip|first=Y. L.|title=A Perspective on the Development of Taijiquan – Qi: The Journal of Traditional Eastern Health and Fitness Vol. 8 No. 3|journal=Qi: The Journal of Traditional Eastern Health & Fitness|publisher= Insight Graphics Publishers |date=Autumn 1998|issn=1056-4004}}</ref> His disciple [[Wu Quanyou]], a Manchu [[Eight Banners|banner]] cavalry officer of the Palace Battalion,<ref name="Wile1995" /> and Wu Quanyou's son [[Wu Jianquan]], also a banner officer, became co-founders of [[Wu-style tai chi]].<ref name="Yip1998" /> 

Yang Banhou's younger brother [[Yang Jianhou]] was a well known teacher of [[Yang-style tai chi]] as well.<ref name="Wile1995" /> Banhou adopted Jianhou's eldest son, [[Yang Shaohou]], and put him through rigorous training.<ref name="YSH">{{cite magazine |last1=Chu |first1=Vincent |last2=Liu |first2=Xiwen |date=December 2008 |title=The Story of Yang Shaohou |magazine=T'ai Chi |volume=32 |issue=6 |publisher=Wayfarer Publications |issn=0730-1049}}</ref> Yang Banhou's son Yang Shaopeng (1875–1938) was also a tai chi teacher.<ref name="Yip1998" />

Yang Banhou taught [[Wang Jiaoyu]] his father's [[Guang Ping Yang tai chi]] form, and Wang taught [[Kuo Lien-ying]] this original Yang style form.{{Citation needed|date=August 2014}}

==Tai chi lineage tree with Yang-style focus==
{{Yang-style tai chi lineage}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
Video: {{YouTube|EJQlVWP6GNQ|5th Generation Master Jia Anshu (贾安树 1954– ) performing the Yang Yang Banhou Middle Frame, Large Frame, Fast Frame, 30 Cannon Fist, + 4 Cannon Fist + Liaokua Eight Trigrams Palm, and 30 Dao (saber) forms}}
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