Professor Yu Yong Nian

Professor Yu Yong Nian was born in Beijing in 1920. At the age of 21 he had finished his study of western medicine. Three years later, burned out and with chronic backache, he was looking for somebody that could help him. He found Wang Xiang Zhai in a park en stayed his student for the rest of his life.

After some ten years of training he introduced zhan zhuang at hospitals for internal diseases. Professor Yu is still alive and healthy and his work is continued by his student, Lam Kam Chuen.