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Ch'eng's students included Li Ts'un-i ( ) (see Fig. 3), Sun Lu-
t'ang ( ) (see Fig. 4), Chang Yu-kuei ( ), Han Ch'i-ying
( ), Feng Chun-i ( ), K'an Ling-feng ( ), Chou
Hsiang ( ), Li Han-chang ( ), Li Wen-piao ( ), and
Ch'in Ch'eng ( ).
Ma Wei-ch'i taught Sung Yung-hsiang ( ), Sung Ch'ang-
jung ( ), Liu Feng-ch'un ( ), Liang Chen-p'u ( ),
Chang Chan-kuei ( ), Chih Lu ( ), and Wang Li-te (
). Some sources believe Ma was taught by Ch'eng T'ing-hua
rather than by Tung himself.
The line has proliferated much since then. Greats nearer our
own time are Shang Yun-hsiang ( ), Li Wen-pao ( ),
Keng Chi-shan ( ), and Chang Chao-tung ( ). Chang
Chao-tung (see Fig. 5), a native of Hopeh Province, was expert in
Fig. 3 Master Li Ts'un-i Fig. 4 Master Sun Lu-T'ang both Pa-kua and hsing-i. Each year Chang returned to his home
in Ho-chien Hsien from Tientsin to visit his parents. The year he

few students. For his livelihood he guarded the residence of a
nobleman. He died in 1909 at the age of sixty-nine. Some sources
claim that he was a pupil of Ch'eng T'ing-hua rather than of Tung.
Ch'eng T'ing-hua, also a native of Hopeh, was nicknamed
"Invincible Cobra Ch'eng." Besides teaching Pa-kua he ran a
spectacles shop in Peking.* One story has it that during the Allied
occupation of Peking in the Boxer Rebellion the foreigners were
looting, raping, and killing. Ch'eng is said to have rushed from his
house with a knife concealed under each armpit and to have killed
at least a dozen Germans before being shot to death. Others claim
the story is apocryphal and that Ch'eng died a natural death.

* Whence derived his nickname Cobra. Europeans especially refer to the cobra
as the "eyeglass snake" (in German, brillenschlange). Fig. 5 Master Chang Chao-tung

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