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The Concept of Liang Yi

Learn to Move like a Dragon, Sit like a Tiger,
and Yield like Lighting, Yin and Yang united.

Liang Yi, also known as Tai Yi or Tai Chi Long Fist, is a Wu Dang Internal Kung Fu (Nei Jia Chuan) style. It is a technique to train hands, eyes, body, foot work and explosive power (Hun Yuan Jin) for internal martial artists. Characteristically it combines fast and slow, soft and hard movements and teaches the student to move like a dragon, sit like a tiger, and yield like lighting. It applies softness to overcome hardness, stillness to restrict motion, following the opponent's energy to strike back. It is a very practical self defense art. All Wu Dang martial artists are required to practice Liang Yi.

The Tao tells us that Yin and Yang unite as Tai Chi and separate as Liang Yi. This technique includes both soft and hard forms, slow and fast styles; it has its own clear and unique yin yang character. That is why it is called Liang Yi.

Liang Yi Branch

Master Chen's US Wu Dang School will continue traditional Wu Dang training methods to promote this ancient internal art.

At present there are about thirty Wu Dang Kung Fu styles that are recognized by the Wu Dang Taoist Association. Among the most well known methods are the Zhang Sanfeng branch, Tai Yi Five Element Fist, Chuan Yang Fist, Bagua Zhang, Xing Yi, Tai Yi Fist, Eight Immortals Fist and Xuan Gong Fist. In Wu Dang and in the rest of the world only a few schools remain that continue the legacy of Zhang Sanfeng's Martial Art.

Liang Yi Master

Master Zhong Yun Long, Wudang Zhang Sanfeng Sect,
Abbot and 14th generation successor.

Master Guo Gao Yi, the twenty seventh generation Longmen Sect successor, passed away in 1995. He was highly respected by the Chinese martial arts community. In 1989, he opened a school to the public, along with his disciple Master Zhong, for the first time in Wu Dang history. Master Tseng studied with Master Guo during his years in Wu Dang.

School of Liang Yi

Wu Dang internal Kung Fu is as highly revered in the South, as the Shaolin External Style is respected in the north.

Wu Dang internal Kung Fu is as highly revered in the South of China as the Shaolin External Style is respected in the north. Wu Dang and Shaolin are the birthplaces of Chinese Kung Fu and both have had strict principles in succession since the ancient times. The reform and opening-up of China in the early 1980's, has made Wu Dang accessible to the outside world.

In 1989, Master Zhong Yun Long and his master Guo Gao Yi founded the Wu Dang Taoist Wushu Institute. That was the first time Wu Dang martial arts were made available to the world. Since then, many excellent Wushu professionals and Kung Fu pilgrims have visited and studied in Wu Dang. Master Zhong retreated to the cave in 2005 to pursue his personal cultivation practice. Several of Master Zhong's students continued to teach Kung Fu during this period but there was no truly qualified priest to teach alchemy at Wu Dang Mountain from then until 2010. In August of 2010, Master Zhong and Master Tseng opened the Wu Dang San Feng Academy to once again make available the authentic teachings in Wu Dang. For more information about Master Zhong and his teaching please visit http://www.wdgf.com/Eng/

Traditional Taoist belief and teaching methods dictate that a real master priest won't teach in public in Wu Dang, they only teach privately and one-to-one with selected students. Wu Dang stands by its name from ancient times to today. The modern business practice of "promotion" is not permitted by the spirit of the Wu Dang Taoist Masters. Master Guo Gao Yi and Li Cheng Yu did not give permission to those who promote them for personal profit.

Master Tseng is the only representative of the Wu Dang Taoist Association in North America.

The Wu Dang US Branch is located in Colorado. For further training with Master Tseng, contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Liang Yi History

Attributed as the founder of Wu Dang Tai Chi Chuan, Zhang Sanfeng (960-1644 CE) created Wu Dang Internal (Nei Jia) Kung Fu about 700 years ago.

According to legend Zhang Sanfeng was a Taoist priest who was attacked by 100 bandits while responding to imperial summons from the capital, Kai Feng. That night, hidden in a cave, Zhang had a vision of Zhen Wu, Wu Dang’s warrior god, who revealed to him the fighting skills of Tai Chi.