Wang Zi-Ping
Chinese master of the Chaquan style from the Hui Muslim community, vice-chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association and author of the Twenty Fists Method and the Green Dragon sword technique.
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Wang Zi-Ping was a Chinese master of the Chaquan style, a member of China's Hui Muslims. He was born in 1881 and died in 1973 at the age of 93; his life is associated with Cangzhou (Mengcun in Cangxian County) in Hebei province.
Besides Chaquan, he also mastered Huaquan, Paoquan, Bajiquan and taiji. We have not been able to verify in the sources who taught him these. According to a source, he defeated Russian, American, German and Japanese fighters in competitions and won strength contests against German officers.
In 1928 he headed the Shaolin kung-fu department at the Institute of Martial Arts. He later served as vice-chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association and acted as a martial arts and wrestling judge at China's 6th National Games. He developed the Twenty Fists Method and the Green Dragon sword technique and published works on martial arts exercises and longevity methods. His student Liu Jinsheng co-authored a work on qinna technique, published as Chin Na Methods.
Together with Zhu Guofu, he defended martial arts historian Tang Hao against opponents angered by his revisionist works on the origins of Shaolin and taiji. At the age of eighty he took part in a delegation to Burma led by Zhou Enlai. After his death, the family line was carried on by his daughter Wang Jurong and three granddaughters: Grace X. Wu, Helen Wu and Wu Xiaoping.