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Popular: Yongxiang has gathered more than 110,000 followers on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter, after starting to promote Tai Chi. Above are two pictures of her on Weibo
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Yongxiang hopes to correct the common misconception that Tai Chi is a slow and boring exercise belonging only to pensioners. She stressed that Tai Chi could be fierce and competitive and it could also involve lethal weapons such as swords
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Yongxiang's stylish looks have also attracted the attention of various fashion magazines
Yongxiang said her mother, 62-year-old Chen Tieling, started learning Tai Chi at the age of 14.
However during 1960s and 1970s, China was going through turbulent times and citizens were discouraged from pursuing non-Communist ethos. As a result, her mother, a Kung Fu world champion, was allocated by the authority to work as a vegetable seller at a farmers' market.
That didn't stop Tieling from passing her sword to her daughter. Yongxiang started practising Tai Chi boxing skills at home with her mother from three years old. A tiny Yongxiang had to wield a two-metre-long bamboo rod as she learnt to fight.
In 2004, Yongxiang was enrolled into the Shanghai Sports Academy to further her training. She also started working as her mother's assistant to provide private Tai Chi lessons.
Upon graduation in 2008, Yongxiang began teaching Tai Chi by herself, hoping to spread the traditional sport to millions of young office workers.
She won three gold medals - in Tai Chi boxing, Tai Chi blade and Tai Chi sword - at the Hong Kong International Martial Arts Festival in 2014.
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Yongxiang and her mother, Chen Tieling, practise Kung Fu while wearing traditional Chinese robes. Yongxiang started learning Tai Chi at home with her mother from three years old
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Yongxiang's mother, Chen Tieling, started learning Tai Chi at the age of 14 and is the disciple of Tai Chi master Fuzhongwen. Tieling is 'crazy about martial arts' as Yongxiang described
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Yongxiang poses with her gold medal and her mother after winning the Shanghai JingWu Traditional Taichi Competition in 2013. In 2014, she became a world champion in Tai Chi
With more than 110,000 followers on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter, Yongxiang posts short videos and stunning photographs regularly on her account to spark the public's interest in Tai Chi.
Having taught Tai Chi for 13 years, Yongxiang hopes to correct the common misconception that Tai Chi is a slow and boring exercise belonging only to pensioners.
Yongxiang argued: 'Who says Tai Chi can't be young, elegant and fashionable?'
She stressed that Tai Chi could be fierce and competitive and it could also involve lethal weapons such as swords.
Yongxiang said she had received doubts about her being a Tai Chi heir and teacher as a young woman - many people in China still believe only senior men could be real Kung Fu masters.
