Master Zhang’s training in Chen style Tai Chi began with Master Tien Xiu Chen. During the same period, Master Zhang began studying a variety of Wu Shu styles and forms as well as their cultural and philosophical underpinnings.  His expertise is vast.  He is an expert in Xingyi Quan (Hsing I Chuan), Tongbei Quan (Tong Bei Chuan), Tui Shou (Push Hands), and Qin Na (joint locking techniques). Master Zhang studied with such renowned Wu Shu masters of China Master as Liu De An (Pao Chuai Quan) and Master Cheng Fung Yun (Bagua Zhang).

Master Zhang's continuing interest in the integration of Wu Shu, Taoist philosophy, traditional Chinese medicine and cultural heritage led him to seek a new way of practicing Tai Chi Chuan. This eventually brought him to study with Grand Master Feng Zhi Qiang.

In 1990, under the tutelage of Grand Master Feng, Master Zhang won the All-China Tai Chi Chuan competition, performing the newly developed Hun yuan Tai Chi Chuan 48 posture form for the first time in competition.

The 2007 International Symposium on Hun Yuan Tai Chi, Beijing, China

As a result, Grand Master Feng invited Master Zhang to be his live-in student - a special and rare honor accorded to only those who showed special talent and dedication to the practice of Hun yuan Tai Chi Chuan.

Since then, Master Zhang has worked closely with Grand Master Feng to refine and advance the techniques and promote greater understanding of Hun yuan Tai Chi. During this period, he won many top prizes at national and international level competitions in China; including taking the highest prizes in Short Weapons and Fist.

In 2001, Master Zhang immigrated to the United States as an outstanding scholar in Chinese martial arts. Now he resides in the state of Connecticut and devotes his life to promoting Hun yuan Tai Chi Chuan and other forms of martial arts, as well as Chinese culture.