Brief history of I Chuan Tao
Gral Yue Fei (1102 – 1141) sistematized the Martial Art knowledges in China under the name of I Chuan , as time went by , it was taught in monasteries with the name of Hsing I Chuan , depending on the translation.
In 1924, the Great Master Wang Xiang Zhai (1885 – 1963) well-known as Mao Tun Lao Ren (elderly man who is good at contradiction) he reformulated and sistematized the I Chuan on the base of the essential and more effective Martial knowledges accumulated up to that time. The style got away from the classic ways.
The Great Master Tung Kuo Sao ,born in 1929 in Beijing , started his I Chuan Tao practice when he was a little child with the Great Master Wang Xiang Zhai, throughout his life he has founded schools to teach and spread the Wushu. This way brought hiI m to Argentine , in 1981, where he settled down and founded the Ta Chen School. In 1993 , The World Council of I Chuan Tao Masters gave him the highest degree of the Style : Grand Master and named Honorary President of The I Chuan Tao Research Association in Beijing .
In Argentine ,up to his back to Hong Kong in 1998, he dedicated his whole time to the Wushu.
Nowadays, according to his I Chuan Tao high degree , he is concerned with his practice, study, investigation, development and spreading of the I Chuan Tao.