Tien Chi, original named WENG Tien Chi, alias Ping Zhai, native of Changshu, but born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, china in1949. Tien Chi learnt Chinese painting and calligraphy under tutelage of his father, WENG Yuan, his mother and his grand uncle, WU Hufan, a renowned modern Chinese painter. In his youth, he has been under the instruction of another prominent modern Chinese artist, PAN Tianshou. In 1986, he went to study Western painting in France from Nane Stern.
