Tao Ching

Tao Ching (道珍,Dào Ching) is a fictional character in the manga and anime series of Shaman King. He is the oldest, now living member of the Tao Family and the 42nd head of the family. He is the grandfather of Tao Ren and Tao Jun. His birthday is January 8, 1926.

Appearance
Tao Ching appears as a small and stubby man. He is completely bald, and he is usually seen wearing traditional Chinese yellow robes. In his youth he looked exactly like his grandchild Ren, with the only difference beeing that he wore chinese robes instead of casual cloth.

Personality
Like the rest of the Tao Family, Ching follows the doctrine of Tao. He also appears to be rather sadistic at times as he claimed during his youth that he would rather hear the sound of a soldiers neck snap instead of his song.

Spirit

 * See More: Kyuuki

His primary spirit is the ghost of a tiger he named Kyuuki after the evil god of legend.

Past
When he was young during World War 2 he killed the 999 members of the Japanese Imperial Infantry and turned them all into Jiang Shi under his command. One of them was private Shimamura Joutarou who's ideals he found idiotic.

He was once the head of the Tao Family, until he resigned due to unknown reasons and gave the position to his son-in-law, Tao Yúan.

He would later go on to kill the famous martial artist Lee Pyron and turn him into a Jiang Shi and gave him as a present to his daughter Tao Jun. As the Shaman Fights grew closer he presented the Jiang Shi he created from the Japanese Imperial Infantry to his grandson Tao Ren as a present for his 9th birthday and had him cut them all down