Two thousand five hundred years ago, formal education in China was a privilege of the nobles, Due to Confucius' (BC 551 - BC 479) efforts of advocating education, peasants started to have the opportunity to have a formal education. The purpose of education at the time was to learn the way to govern people. The education at that time mainly was the teaching of literature and martial arts.

Since the age of 7, Mr. Lee's parents taught him the traditional education: calligraphy, poetry, and Chinese literature. At age 15, his 4th uncle asked a close friend to teach him Tai Chi Chuan, but he did not practice. Starting from the age of 20, his 4th uncle passed on his family’s complete Tai Chi Chuan heritage, until his uncle’s later years. His uncle is the honorable Yang Cheng-Fu's last disciple.

At age 21, he followed his 4th uncle’s order to seek out a famous Shuai Jiau master in Taiwan. After a friend named Hwang Hwei-Yang presented him to Master Chang Dong-Sheng, he then bowed to Master Chang to learn his martial art.

While Mr. Lee studied ancient Chinese classic literature in university, his father provided him guidance with letters every two weeks to direct his education. Mr Lee is slightly different from others. The origin of his sciences and arts came from his family heritage more than from other sources.

Since childhood, literature and martial art have been Mr. Lee's interests. In this age of neglecting spiritual life, Mr Lee has taken the education of the ancient gentlemen/scholars as his model, practicing and teaching the roots of the Chinese culture as his duty.

Mr. Lee would like honest and reliable people to learn at his center.

A relaxed and comfortable feeling of beauty

The creation of the Chinese written language originated with drawing the shapes of things in the world, which are pictures.
Therefore someone said that calligraphy and drawing have the same origin.

Learning calligraphy is to learn how to use brush, ink, and paper to help each other in harmony, to let symmetric and parallel lines be created with a relaxed and comfortable feeling of beauty.

Using this skill purifies the soul. The way of calligraphy is also the way of the gentleman.

Mr. Lee's Calligraphy

Mr Lee's Calligraphy Analects of Confucius

Mr Lee's Calligraphy Analects of Confucius

The way of Chinese language

Chinese language is monosyllabic. Each word has a shape, a sound, and a meaning. Each word has 4 tones. Each word can also have more than one meaning. In the Mandarin system, there are many homophones. Therefore, Chinese language is more difficult to learn than English. One must have a specialized teacher to learn.

Not every American can teach English. For the same reason, not every Chinese person who can speak English can teach foreigners Chinese. 

Language is only a bridge. Inside language, the thinking, emotion, and knowledge it contains is what we have to learn. 

You can use Chinese language to learn Mao Ze Dong's Quotations, read Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase), but Mr. Lee only teaches phonetics, I Ching, Analects, Lao Tzu, and Yellow Emperor's Nei Jing.

The true face of Tai Chi Chuan

Tai Chi Chuan is a martial art and a way to preserve health. Then it develops into a more profound subject of self-examination and spiritual practice.

Tai Chi Chuan was created in the Sung Dynasty by Zhang San-Feng. Between the Ming and Qing dynasties, historian and martial artist Hwang Tsung-Hsi and his son called it the “Inner Sect”. Hwang Tsung-Hsi said: “Sung Dynasty Zhang San-Feng learned his martial art in a dream, here he was taught by Emperor Hsuan.”

Ever since Grandmaster Yang Lu-Shan started the Yang Sect of Tai Chi Chuan, he honored Zhang San-Feng as the forefather of Tai Chi Chuan.

Tai Chi Chuan become a famous branch of martial arts starting with Yang Lu-Shan. His grandson, Yang Cheng-Fu made it more perfect. This is what is now widely known as Yang Sect Tai Chi Chuan.

Tai Chi Chuan is traditional Chinese culture. Its development emphasizes a tradition passed down within the lineage - generation to generation. One must have the qualification of this lineage, only then can one correctly grasp its motions and using, and only then can one have the true effect.

Mr. Lee from a young age began to follow his uncle in learning the complete Tai Chi Chuan martial art. His uncle is the honorable Yang Cheng-Fu's last disciple. Mr. Lee has over 50 years experience practicing Tai Chi Chuan. He has taught students of over 30 nationalities.

Motions and Applications - Mr Lee training students

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