A 98-YEAR-OLD wushu master and a 43-year-old woman have tied the knot at a simple wedding in Pingshan New Zone.
Fang Taishan arrived in Guangdong from Thailand at the age of 9 to learn martial arts. He learned medicine and martial arts at the South Shaolin Temple in Quanzhou in Fujian Province, the Daily Sunshine reported Thursday.
In 1946, Fang joined the army and started serving as a bodyguard for Ye Jianying, the late Chinese communist general and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People s Congress from 1978 to 1983.
Fang has more than 3,000 disciples whom he teaches martial arts and medicine.
He is a hero and I m willing to stay with him for the rest of his life, said his bride, who gave only her surname, Yang.
A Guizhou native, Yang was introduced to Fang by friends and became one of his disciples.
The two eventually fell in love, with Yang proposing to Fang, the paper said.
The couple will live in Longgang District. (Martin Li)
