Yu Zhanyuan

Yu Zhanyuan (September 27, 1908 - September 8, 1997), a famous martial artist in Peking Opera, was born in Zhengding, Hebei Province. He was born in Beijing. He became famous in Shanghai in the 1940s and was a well-known martial arts teacher and backstage martial arts manager. Later, due to changes in the political environment in mainland China, he moved south to Hong Kong. In the 1960s, he founded the "Chinese Theater Research Institute" in a tenement building near Bridges Street in Sheung Wan.