目前，全世界練習太極拳的人口超過一億人，而華人居多數。也許是受電視、傳媒的影響，一致將張三丰與太極拳畫上等號，未加以深究。 筆者從事太極拳教學工作廿餘年，為導正這種積非成是的觀念，茲引用各家史料，歷代考證資料，加上近年來中、西學者實地赴河南溫縣採風的資料，去蕪存菁，詳加比對、分析，是成此篇。

There are more than 100 million people who practice Tai chi Chuan all over the world. Most of the practitioners are Chinese who tend to believe that Chang Sanfeng has something to with Tai Chi Chuan. The author of this article has taught Tai Chi Chuan for more than twenty years. He however argues that there are no reasons to take this taken-for-granted assumption as true. He enhances his argument by referring to historical documents as well as field studies on Tai Chi Chuan, and furthermore analyzing these documents in detail.