Chinese kung fu master’s descendant continues family tradition with gold medal performance

A great great granddaughter of the celebrated kung fu master Huo Yuanjia has won a gold medal at China’s National Games.

Huo Jinghong, 40, was a member of Tianjin’s qigong team which beat seven other teams at an event in the northern city last month, ahead of the official opening of the games.

This year’s National Games included a number of exhibition events to encourage mass participation in the four-yearly competition.

Besides qigong, which puts the emphasis on exercise and spiritual aspects rather than combat, the events also included chess, dragon boat racing and roller skating.

Huo comes from the family of Tianjin native Huo Yuanjia, a kung fu hero from early last century who was the main character in Jet Li’s 2006 martial arts blockbuster Fearless.