Cheng Aiping

Cheng Aiping (; born 1955) is a taijiquan and wushu coach originally from China. She has been based in the United States since 1997.

Early life Cheng was born in Zhejiang in 1955 and learned to dance and perform gymnastics at a young age while growing up in Quzhou. At the age of 15 in November 1970, she was selected to take part in a one-month training program to begin learning wushu. She was one of the elite few selected to begin training and studying with the Zhejiang wushu team. She studied with and Fu Zhongwen for Yang-style taijiquan, Sun Jianyun (daughter of Sun Lutang) for Sun-style taijiquan, and Chen Zhenglei for Chen-style taijiquan. The team also performed in Hawaii, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and New York City. In 1988, Cheng was a member of the first China national taijiquan team. As a part of her national team appointments, she began performing and giving workshops worldwide. These rules were among a series of developments made which led to the taijiquan compulsory routine ahead of the 1990 Asian Games.

In 1997, Cheng moved to the United States. and opened her first school in Connecticut to teach taijiquan. From 2002 to 2008, Cheng organized the "Spring Festival Gala" in her region to promote Chinese culture and wushu.

She opened a second location in Austin in 2018 and is currently semi-retired from coaching. Her students have competed in the 2024 World Taijiquan Championships in Singapore.