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)\

                /                                \

   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 (## See Below)

(SEATTLE)               (RIVERSIDE)           (SEATTLE)

                               |

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

         SPOKANE WA                      SO. CALIFORNIA

              |                                |

         Jeff Herda*                    Scott Mullen

         Kevin Harms*                   Mick Branch*

         Barbara Prete                  Ruth Villalobos*

         Cheryl Kangas                  Diane Schilling

         B.J. Marmon                    Myra Allen

         Dan Brasher*                   Edna McCollum*

         Bernie Elmendorf*              Daniel Venditti

         Donna El-Din                   Grace Weathersby

         Carl Dalzell                   Joe Pagan

                                        Tom Barret

                                        Ron Sahli*

 

Not to Scale.

 

** Currently teaching level 10 - Chief Instructor

*  Currently teaching less than level 6

c  Teaching Applications only

 

Harris also studied with Raymond Chung, Fuk Yueng, Zhang Jie, TY Pang, and others.

 

Dale also studied or trained with Dave Harris, Zhang Jie, Gao Fu, Feng, Fuk Yueng, TY Pang, and others.

 

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 LY Kuo, TR Chung, TT Liang, KY Tung, TR Ying, J Zhang, XW Chen, and others.

 

## Other Seattle Directly Certified Level 10 Instructors include Carey Brooks and Don Scott, who are not currently teaching so are not included on the above chart.

 

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 Form. Kurland and Dale teach the Older version of the Tchoung 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.

 

 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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