on in Law and Disciple of Grand Master Wu Kung Yi
75th Anniversary Book, May 2012
Reflections on Six Decades
My inseparable ties with Taichi began in 1945, after the second Sino-Japanese War, when I met and became friends with Wu Tai Kwei and his sister Wu Yan Hsia at Tongfu East Road, Guangzhou.
In 1946, Wu Tai Chi came to Guangzhou on his father Wu Kung Yi directive, and along with Zhao Zhongbo (Grand Master Wu Kung Yi's sworn brother, a military law officer under Commander Zhang Fakui of the Guangzhou Detachment), presided over the ceremony of my engagement to Wu Yan Hsia, held at the Datong Restaurant in Guangzhou.
The wedding was held on 4 August, 1947, at the Garden Hotel's private club on Ruijin Road, Shanghai, where Grand Master Wu Kung Yi personally presided over the ceremony, attended by well over three hundred special guests.
I joined the management board of Jianquan Taichi Association in 1952 upon the invitation of Grand Master Wu Kung Yi (who was President at the time and Yuan Xi was Director). Since then, I have headed up various functions for the Association, including: Secretariat, General Affairs, Education, Promotion and Benefits. As well, I have served as the Third Vice-President (during which time, Wu Tai Chi was the President, Wu Yan Hsia was the First Vice President and Wu Tai Sin was the Second Vice President). For several decades, I have served Grand Master Wu Kung Yi, and witnessed three generations of the Wu family and six Association Presidents. In these past sixty years, my union with the Wu family has made me what I am, and in return I have serviced it wholeheartedly.
Since the days of ChuanYau some one-hundred years and six generations ago, the Wu family has never ceased to build upon its glorious foundation, with countless proud achievements generation after generation. May the Association continue to prosper and flourish around the world.
