Tung Ying-chieh

Tung Ying Chieh (董英杰, 1898-1961) is a character influencing of the Tai-chi-chuan, known to be initiating school of the family tung (or Dong) and to have been a pupil distinguished from Yang Chengfu (first has to have taught Tai-chi-chuan out of the family circles).

Biography

Born in China in the province from Hebei, he will learn initially the tai-chi-chuan for health reasons with Lau Ying Chow, an old Master of the martial arts, who because of his age cannot show him the Mouvement S. It is his pupil Li Zeng Kui who will do it and will teach him the 13 positions from bases. He was then presented has Li Xiang Yuan, Master of the Tai-chi style Wu, of which he tightened pupil during a few years before being returned at his place to only continue (its health condition had sufficiently improved).

Later, after having refused proposals for a teaching of another disciplines, it met Yang Chengfu, and left its birthplace to learn from this last which taught yet only in its family, and which had to convince it by asking him how Yang Luchan, its grandfather, had learned the Chen style.

It contributed with Yang Chenfu to the rise of Tai-Chi-Chuan by teaching to HongKong the style yang from 1939, and teaching through the whole world of the style yang of the family tung was continued inter alia by these descendants: his/her son Dong Hu Ling (董虎岭), his daughter M.L. Jasmine Tung (董茉莉), his/her daughter-in-law Tung Chen Siu Fan (鄭少芬), his grandsons Tung Kai Ying (董繼英) and Dong Chen Zhen (董增辰) and its backs grandsons Alex Dong (董大德) and Tung Chen Wai.

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