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Tung Ying-Chieh Wikipedia

Tung Ying-chieh (Dong Yingjie in Pinyin, 董英杰 8th November 1898-1961) was an influential teacher of T'ai Chi Ch'uan. He was born in China's Hebei province. A senior student of Yang Ch'eng-fu (1883-1936), he originally studied Wu/Hao style T'ai Chi Ch'uan as a young man. Tung also studied with Ch'eng-fu's older brother Yang Shao-hou (1862-1930) and was the founder of Dong Tai Chi. In Shao-hou's classes he was an older classmate of the Wu style T'ai Chi Ch'uan|Wu style's Wu Kung-i (1900-1970) and Wu Kung-tsao (1902-1983), and the men remained respected colleagues in later years. Following the trend of many famous T'ai Chi masters who moved south during the World War II|War years, Tung moved to Hong Kong in 1939 and taught Yang style Tai Chi Chuan|Yang Style there. The Dong (Tung) style as it eventually developed included training features researched by Tung Ying-chieh, both with Yang Ch'eng-fu and independently.

He wrote a book called "T'ai Chi Ch'uan Explained" (Taijiquan Shi Yi, ???????????????) which has recently been translated from Chinese language|Chinese into English language|English. It has been reprinted and updated continuously since the first publication by the Dong (Tung) Family.

Tung Ying-chieh was followed by son Dong Hu Ling (董虎岭) and his grandsons: the Tung family still teach T'ai Chi Ch'uan in Asia, Hawaii, North America and Europe.

Last Modified:   2005-11-04