User:Kenisgood/sandbox/Tsou Chintsai

Tsou Chintsai Tsou Chintsai Tsou Chintsai (simplified Chinese: 邹钦财；traditional Chinese 鄒欽財; pingyin: Zou Cincai) is the master of Chinese Internal Arts of Bagua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan, and Tai Chi. Tsou Chintsai was born in the Da Dao Cheng District of Taipei Taiwan. This Old historic District was famous for its medical arts and herbs, and martial arts. This District also housed some of the top level teachers and officials gathered in Taipei by Chang Kai Chek (1950′s) after the Cultural Revolution in China threatened their survival there. Tsou Chintsai was born into this lineage of great teachers and began studying internal martial arts and top level culture with extreme enthusiasm. He became so adept that at the age of 16, he was invited to Japan to perform for the Imperial Palace. He taught in the Hong Family School heading the District and representing Taiwan internationally. He flourished in this rich area of serious practitioners of Eastern medicine, internal and external Martial Arts, deep cultural traditions, Buddhism, Daoism, Zen, and some Western medicine and philosophy. Tsou Chintsai grew up in a family of medical doctors mixing herbal formulas at a very early age. As he grew older, he became a doctor himself and continued serious studies, becoming world renowned for his martial abilities, his diagnosis and healing (especially nervous system disorders, stroke etc.), and for his understanding of the classic texts of Daoism by Lao Tzu, Confucius, Mencius, Li Po, and others. Tsou Chintsai achieved deep levels by practice and study, constantly applying theory to practice and testing the herbs, acupuncture, movements, or ideas himself so that he could teach through his own rich experience. He is one of a very few in the world who have a comprehensive understanding in all these areas combined. He moved to Japan and taught for nine years at the top levels of society while continuing his healing. From Japan, he moved to the United States in 1992 in San Francisco. In 1993 he started a professional teaching program with his student Kevin Holthaus in Anchorage, Alaska. He is now living in California, and travels to Alaska, New York, and Taiwan regularly to hold some seminars about internal arts and Wellness Programs.