Abbreviated ***Family Tree Of Tchoung T'ai-Chi Ch'uan.  Only The Direct USA NWTCCA/CTCCA Relationships Are Shown. Copyright H. Kurland 2000

 

               CHANG SAN FENG (1279-1368) Mythological founder?

 

               WANG TSUNG-YUEH (1736-1795)

 

               CHEN WANG-TING   (1700'S)

 

               CHEN CH'ANG-HSING (1800'S)

                             |

                 /------YANG LU-CHAN (1799-1872)\  Origin of the Yang Style

                /                                \

   YANG PAN-HOU---\/-----------------------YANG CHIEN-HOU

    (1837-1892)   /\  /                     (1839-1917)

WU YU-HSIANG /   /  \/                            |

|               /   /\-----WONG JIAO-YU           |

               /   /        |                     |

| YANG SHOU-HOU-  /         |                     |  

   (1862-1929)\  /          |                     |

|        /|    \/      KUO LIEN YING              |                  

WU TU NAN |    /\        |    \              YANG CHENG FU (1883-1936)

|         |   /  \       |    T.R. CHUNG            |         |

|         |  /    \    H. Kurland-<|                |         |          

|         | /      \                                |         |         

| TIAN ZHAO-LIN     \->----- HSIUNG YANG-HO         |         |         

|            |               | (1886-1984)          |         |         

|            |               |\                     |         |         

|            |               | \                    |       YANG SAU-CHUNG

|      SHI TIAO-MEI          |  \         CHENG MAN-CH'ING       |              |                \           |   \          /   |       RAYMOND CHUNG

 \                \          |    \        /    |           |    | 

  \                \         |     >------/->-TT Liang      |    |

 HSIUNG CHIEN-YUAN  \        |           /         \        |    |

 (NATURAL SCHOOL) \  \       |          /           \       |   Dave Harris

ABBOTT             \  \      |         /             Harvey Kurland /

HUI KUNG            \--\     |        /                      

(O'MEI MONASTERY)--à TCHOUNG TA-TCHEN                       

                  (Tchoung Style)CTCCA ++                     

                             |                                

NWTCCA (USA)Officially Certificated Lineage Holders##         

|----------------------------|--------------------|----------------/

ANDREW DALE**#          HARVEY KURLAND**      DAVE HARRIS**c  Don Scott

(SEATTLE)               (RIVERSIDE)           (SEATTLE)       (Seattle)

                               |

--------------|----------------|---------------|-------------

         SPOKANE WA                      SO. CALIFORNIA

              |                                |

         Jeff Herda                     Tom Barrett

         Kevin Harms*                   Alex Gomez

         Barbara Prete                  Quresh Latif

         Cheryl Kangas                  Karin Casey

         B.J. Marmon                    Myra Allen

         Daniel Brasher*                Kurt Erthner

         Bernie Elmendorf*              Tim Greek

         Donna El-Din                   Susan Langhorne

         Carl Dalzell                   Aleta Laurence-Johnson

                                        Stephen Bay

                                        Robert Graham

                                        Scott Mullen

                                        Ron Sahli*

                                        Asatar Bair

                                        Edna McCollum

                                        Grace Weathersby

                                        Ruth Villalobos

                                        Mick Branch

                                        Edna McCollum

                                        Diane Schilling

                                        Daniel Venditti

                                        Joe Pagan

 

Not to Scale.

 

** Currently teaching level 10 - Chief Instructor

*  Currently teaching less than level 7

c  Teaching Applications only

 

Harris OBM also studied with Raymond Chung, Fuk Yueng, Zhang Jie, TY Pang, and others. He is 6th Generation Lineage Holder in Old Form of Yang Style and 6th Generation Standard Yang Style.  First Adopted Son of Fuk Yueng of Yueng Ch'uan.

 

Dale also studied or trained with Dave Harris, Zhang Jie, Gao Fu, Feng, Fuk Yueng, TY Pang, and others. He is 6th Generation Lineage Holder in Old Form of Yang Style.  Second adopted Son of Fuk Yueng.

 

Kurland also studied or trained with Dave Harris, Andrew Dale, Raymond Chung, Fuk Yueng, Zhang Jie in Seattle as well as several other masters such as Kuo Lien Ying (Kuang Ping), TR Chung, TT Liang, KY Tung, TR Ying, J Zhang, XW Chen, and others. He is 5th Generation Kuang Ping Yang Style and 6th Generation Lineage holder in the Old Form of Yang Style and 6th Generation Standard Yang Style.

 

## Other Seattle Directly Certified Level 10 Instructors include Carey Brooks who is not currently teaching so is not included on the above chart. Don Scott Teaches with Andrew Dale in Seattle.

 

Tchoung Ta-tchen's training partners included: Cheng Man Ch'ing, "TT" Liang Tsung Tsai, Kuo Lien Ying, Wang Shu Chin, Yuan Tao, Wang Nien Yien,etc, in Taiwan.

 

Tian Shao-lin is said to have trained with Yang Chien-hou and Yang Shao-hou. He is also included in the Yang Cheng-Fu lineage. His form is the basis for the Tchoung Symmetrical Form. Kurland and Dale teach the Older Version of the Tchoung Symmetrical Form.

 

#  See Andrew Dale www.wuji.com for the list of certified instructors under Sifu Dale.

 

+  There are certified instructors in Canada, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Australia and South Africa.  The Certificated instructors in Canada are included in the instructors section of www.ctcca.org . Only USA Instructors are listed here.

 

 All of grandmaster Tchoung's official students are pictured in his book.  For more history see "T'ai-chi Walking Stick" Karate/Kung Fu Illustrated, August 1996. Or History Article at www.dotaichi.com

 

***TCHOUNG SYSTEM FAMILY TREE (BASED ON INFORMATION BELIEVED TO BE CORRECT). If you notice any errors please bring them to our attention.

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