Chang Dsu Yao


Chang Dsu Yao was a teacher of the martial arts Meihuaquan and tai chi from Taiwan.

Biography

Chang Dsu Yao was born on June 14, 1918 in Chaiji, a village in of Pei County, Jiangsu. He died in Taipei, Taiwan, on February 7, 1992. He was the sixteenth generation lineage holder of Meihuaquan.
He began to study Meihuaquan when he was six years old, and later trained under Liu Baojun.
In 1938, he came to Guilin to study at the Military School for Officers, a branch of Whampoa Military Academy created in that Year, named "Military Sixth Campus" ). Here, Chang met some important teachers, such as Chang Dongsheng, and studied different styles of Martial Arts, such as bajiquan, baguazhang, xingyiquan, and Fu Style Baguazhang. After graduation, he fought in the anti-Japanese War first and then in the Chinese Civil War with the faction of Chiang Kai-shek against the Communists.
After the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek, Chang Dsu Yao took refuge in Taiwan. In Taiwan he established contact with several famous Martial Artists such as Cheng Man-ch'ing, Liu Yunqiao, Wu Tipang, and. He also taught Martial Arts to the Army and Police. Chang wrote articles for "Wutan Tsa Chih", a magazine founded by Liu Yunqiao.
In 1974, Chang Dsu Yao retired from the Army and in 1975, he moved to Bologna, and then, in 1977, to Milan. He had many students, including his sons Chang Wei-hsin and Chang Yu-hsin, and others, such as Xu Wenli, Maurizio Zanetti, Enrico Lazzerini, and Roberto Fassi, with whom he wrote several books on martial arts.

Chang School

In Italy, people referred to Chang Dsu Yao teachings as "the School of Chang" or "Chang kung fu". This school is divided in two sections: Waijia and Neijia.
"Ti Kung Ch'üan" o "Ti T'ang Ch'üan" ;
In Chang Dsu Yao School there are three exercise named "Baduanjin qigong". The first set has traditional Baduanjin movements, the other two are made of modern Stretching exercises.
  • Weapons
After the graduation in Black Belt there are the study of many weapons and pair exercises with weapons. Also Weapons teaching is divided into Waijia and Neijia.
  • For Waijia, this directory came from the book "Enciclopedia del Kungfu Shaolin":
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