Author: Slanted Flying

Master Wei Lun Huang passed away at 11:25am on July 24, 2016. He was admitted to hospital on July 4th for a perforated colon. Unfortunately, it is reported that infection from the perforated colon spread leading to a kidney failure. Wei Lun Huang fell into a coma and never recovered.

Master Wei Lun Huang was well known and respected in the Tai Chi world. He started learning Chinese Internal Martial Arts when he was a child. Master Huang taught Yang style Tai Chi, Hsing Yi, Ba Gua, Liu He Ba Fa, and Chi Kung for over 35 years.

Below is a video of Wei Lun Huang performing the Yang style of Tai Chi Chuan at the “Taste of China” in 1988.

A website has been created as a tribute for Master Wei Lung Huang. You can visit it by clicking on the following link: https://masterhuangweilun.shutterfly.com/

Our condolences go out to Master Wei Lun Huang’s family, as well as his many students.

“Hsing Yi strikes like lightning, Ba Gua twists like a tornado, Tai Chi is like a great ocean – deep and calm but reserves immeasurable power”

 

– Master Wei Lun …

Grandmaster Yun Chung Chiang (1922 – 2016) passed away this last week. Y.C. Chiang was well known as a grandmaster of the Guang Ping style of Tai Chi Chuan. At the age of 28 he started training with the famous Guang Ping master Kuo Lien-Ying, where he learned the Gauang Ping style of Tai Chi Chuan, Hsingi, Bagua, and Shaolin Kung Fu.

Please enjoy watching Grandmaster Y.C. Chiang performing in this preview of his training DVD, which he made when he was 83-years-old.

Y.C. Chiang founded the Wen Wu School in Berkley, California in 1973. It was at this school that Chiang taught Chinese Martial Arts, Qigong, philosophy, and art. Y.C. Chiang was also a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, and operated a clinic out of the school.

Our condolences go out to Grandmaster Yun Chung Chiang’s family, as well as his many students.

All across the globe at 10:00 am local time on April 30th, of people from more than 80 countries will celebrate the practice Tai Chi and Qigong.

They will gather in small and large groups, and from large cities to small towns. The celebrations will first begin in Fiji, at 10:00 am their local time. From there, the event will move west through countries such as Australia, Japan, China, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, North and South America, and will finally end at 10:00 am local time in the Hawaiian Islands 22 hours later.

The World Tai Chi and Qigong Day event first started in 1999, when Bill Douglas organized an event to celebrate the healing benefits of Tai Chi and Qigong. He organized a group of about 200 participants to demonstrate the arts on the lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, in the United States.

Events celebrating the World Tai Chi and Qiqong Day are usually organized by local groups and schools of Tai Chi or Qiqong. To join an existing World Tai Chi and Qiqong Day event, you can visit the official World Tai Chi and Qigong Day website to find more information on where the local events may be held.

50,000 students of Tai Chi Chuan gathered in Jiaozuo, a city in the Henan province of China to set a world record. On the morning of Sunday October 18, 2015, students lined up in long rows upon rows and began their synchronized movements of slow gentle movements at 15 different locations throughout the city.

The successful attempt was to break the Guinness World Record of the largest martial arts display ever.