Three years later,
exhausted from the long, constant hours of dental practice,
he began training under Great Master Wan Xiang Zhai, After
nine years of study and practice, Yu Yong Nian began to introduce
aspects of Zhan Zhuang as treatment for internal diseases
at his hospital.His initial successes
led to a major medical conference in 1956 at the Beijing Shoudong
San Hospital to introduce the Zhan Zhuang system to hospitals
throughout China.
“When I was training in the park under Master Wang
Xiang Zhai,” Doctor Yu Yong Nian recalled, “he would tell me to
“pull the tree” towards me, and push it back. This was from a
distance and I couldn’t try how I could possibility do that! I
tried everyday. Only after long practice did I begin to feel the
connection with the tree. Then I began to understand his words.”
After the Cultural Revolution, Doctor Yu published the first of
four books on the Zhan zhuang system. The first edition of Zhan
Zhuang for Health (Educational Publishers, Beijing) was published
in February 1982 with a print run of 20,000. By April, a second
edition of 120,000 copies was issued.
By 1987, a further 294,500 copies had been printed.
A limited edition of his second book on the application
of Zhan Zhuang for health was published in Beijing in 1989 and
in the same year a further book on the system was issued by Cosmos
Books in Hong Kong.
His research:
Grand Master Yu Yong never stops to research on Zhan Zhuan, even
nowadays he continues tp perfect its theories. One most unknown
part of his research is an exclusive interpretation of Zhan Zhuan
system and its correspondence in the “Tao de Ching” of Lao Tseu.
With his scientific formation and his mastering of Chinese traditional
philosophy but also with 60 years of uninterrupted practice of
Zhan Zhuan, he brings a new light in the understanding of the
essence of Internal Martial Arts through Yi Chuan healing and
fighting systems.
