At Long Tou Shan, teaching is rooted in lineage, and lived through daily practice.

The school was founded by Master Luo Mei Juan (Mei), whose decades of study and teaching established the foundation of Long Tou Shan. Today, that tradition continues through her son, Master Zhou Da Zhu, who leads the training and daily life of the school.

Master Zhou Dazhu

Master Zhou Da Zhu is the primary teacher at Long Tou Shan, guiding students through daily training in Tai Chi and Qigong. Having trained from a young age under his mother, Master Luo Mei Juan, he has continued to deepen his practice through study with respected teachers and in traditional training environments.

His teaching is known for its clarity, attention to detail, and ability to meet each student where they are. Rather than focusing only on form, he emphasizes the internal mechanics, principles, and understanding that allow Tai Chi to become a lived practice.
For most students, it is through training with Da Zhu that the experience of Long Tou Shan takes shape.

From a young age, Da Zhu was immersed in martial arts under the guidance of his mother, Master Luo Mei Juan (罗美娟), a 7th Duan master of the Chinese Wushu Association. In addition to this lineage, he developed his internal foundation through dedicated study with respected masters, including Master Zhang Xiao Yuan (张晓元), in Xinyi Liu He Ba Fa (心意六合八法), Qigong (气功) Master Chen Jing (陈靖), and Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei (陈正雷) at the Chen Village Tai Chi Training Center (陈家沟太极拳培训中心).

His approach centers on building true foundation (ben, 根). Training emphasizes correct alignment, the opening and integration of the kua (胯, the internal hip–pelvic hinge that connects the body and allows power to move from the ground through the entire structure), and the development of strength through the tendons and connective tissue. Rather than focusing on merely memorizing movements, students are taught how to position, shift, and connect the body so that movement becomes efficient, supported, and free of unnecessary strain.

Master Zhou began teaching at Long Tou Shan in 2008 and has been recognized in national competitions, earning a bronze medal at the National Chinese Wushu Competition in Guilin (2009) and a gold medal at the Chinese Martial Arts Association (CFWS, 中国武术协会) National Competition in Beijing (2011).

Master Luo Mei Juan

Master Luo Mei Juan (Mei) is the founder of Long Tou Shan Tai Chi School, a 7th Duan Master of the Chinese Wushu Association, and a certified competition judge.

With over two decades of teaching experience and numerous national and international competition awards, she has dedicated her life to the study and sharing of Tai Chi and Qigong.

While she now teaches internationally and offers occasional workshops at the school, her influence remains at the heart of Long Tou Shan. Her approach continues to shape the training, environment, and standards upheld by the school today.

From her youngest days with her father, a Kung Fu master, Mei loved the martial arts. However, as her father was very traditional, he refused to teach his skills to a girl. Mei took up dancing until she was old enough to learn martial arts by herself, when she started taking lessons in Yang style Tai Chi from local teachers. She practised both the long and short forms, and later the Yuan (circle) Neng (energy) Gong with a Taoist Wudang Master. At the age of seventeen she learned acupuncture and traditional medicine from Doctor Lei Long Hui. Mei also intensively studied tai chi sword and fan, push hands, and meditation, as well as an-in depth exploration of yoga with well-known instructor Richard Baimbridge. Practising Tai Chi every day Mei wanted to learn more styles and this led her in 1996 to Chen Village, the home of the Chen Family and 19th Generation Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei, recognized by the government as one of the ten great martial arts masters of China.

In 2003, while regularly teaching students by the riverside in Yangshuo, Mei applied to become a Tai Chi Master and took the written and practical exams, as well as the required demonstration of teaching skills before the examination panel at the Chen Village Tai Chi Training Center, and was accredited as a Master under the supervision of Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei. Encouraged by her teachers she began to enter competitions, winning numerous gold and silver medals in both taijiquan and sword.

Since 2003 Mei has been apprenticed to Chen Zheng Lei, and returns to Chen Village for three weeks every year to study with him.

In 2004 Mei founded the WuWei school of martial arts, moving the school in 2006 to a new location under Long Tou (Dragon Head) mountain and giving it the name Long Tou Shan Martial Arts School that it has today. Over the years, students from all over the world have come to study and practice at the Long Tou Shan school.

In 2007 the Chinese Wushu Association invited Mei to be examined as an Advanced Level Wushu Coach and she was subsequently invited to participate in the 2008 Beijing Wushu Competition, held alongside the Olympics, where Mei won two gold medals and a ticket to watch the Olympic events.

Perhaps most important from the point of view of her students, in 2009 Mei won a gold medal as best Tai Chi instructor as she led her student group to success at the regional competition in Guilin, China, where several students brought home medals. She also led students to gold medal awards at the CFWS (Chinese Martial Arts Association) competition in Beijing and at the Kung Fu Championship event in Denver, Colorado, USA in 2011.

In 2012, Mei trained in Tai Chi Kung Fu fan techniques with renowned Professor Li De Yin at a special event conducted at the studio of Master Sitan Chen at Long Island, New York, U.S.A.

Though Mei is proficient at and teaches traditional sword and hand styles, she also has developed a freestyle Chen form selecting steps from the Lao Jia and the Xin Jia (long forms) and improvising her own sequence called the Chen-style 13 form.

In addition to leading the Long Tou Shan Martial Arts School and conducting workshops there each year, Mei has been a guest instructor in southern Thailand and Bali, Indonesia, and has taught students in Colorado, U.S.A. 

John L Payne, author of ‘The Presence of the Soul & The Healing of Individuals, Families and Nations‘, wrote:

“Mei is the most wonderful Tai Chi teacher I have ever worked with. She radiates enthusiasm, passion and genuine concern for each of her students. It was a great pleasure to work with her. For Mei, Tai Chi is not a dance as many others would have you believe, but the enhancing and realisation of our inner authentic power in the form of Chi. Mei is truly a master!”