Yang Shou-chung
Yang Shou-chung or Yang Shouzhong, birth name Yang Zhenming, was the eldest son of Yang Chengfu.Biography
Yang Shou-chung began training in his family's style of t'ai chi ch'uan at age 8. By age 14 he had begun to work with his father as a teaching assistant and at age 19 he was already teaching government officials around China. In 1949 he fled to Hong Kong where he stayed for the remainder of his life teaching privately mostly out of his home on Lockhart Road on Hong Kong Island. He appointed three disciples: Ip Tai Tak, Gin Soon Chu, Chu King Hung. Yang Shou-chung is survived by his three daughters: Tai Yee, Ma Lee and Yee Li who currently also reside in Hong Kong.T'ai chi ch'uan lineage tree with Yang-style focus, click the "show" button below:
