TAI CHI' CHUAN

Hsu, Fun-Yuen

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Hsu, Fun-Yuen:  was born into a Traditional Agricultural Family, in Tien Tai Village, on the east-side of Che Chiang Province, in the People's Republic of China. As a child, Hsu suffered from the weakened constitution, granted from the hard life, that his surroundings provided.  His parents therefore encouraged his study of Shaolin, in order to obtain strength and stave-off illness. This gradually replaced his weakness with vigor and good health. Rarely ill from then on, he developed a passion for Chinese Martial-Arts. 
When Hsu's School years were finished, he continued his studies in the Martial Arts, with Li Yuanchih, at a Military School. He thereafter furthered his instruction under the tutelage of Cheng, Man-Ching, in an intense Study, and Analysis, of the Martial Arts, particularly, Tai Chi.  Cheng, Man-Ching was a well-known, connoisseur, of the Tai Chi forms.  The tutelage of Mr. Cheng is what allowed the Traditional Tai Chi movements to be married-into, what we now have, as the Tai Chi Long-Form.  In 1951, Hsu, Fun-Yuen began his career as an Instructor. In 1964, he traveled to such countries as Malaysia, Singapore and to Thailand, in hopes of popularizing Tai Chi Chuan.  Hsu successfully taught over 2,000 students in the popularization of the Art.  Due to the increasing interest in Tai Chi Studies, he also taught in Taiwan, where he founded the Tai Chi Chuan Association: of Taipei, Taiwan, where membership grew to 10,000. 
Hsu Fun-Yuen first came to the United States, in 1977, and taught Tai Chi in New York, and later in Miami.  Later in the Winter of 1978, he was invited to teach in Chicago.  The amount of Students in Chicago steadily increased, resulting in the foundation of The Hsu Fun Yuen Tai Chi Academy, in 1981.