Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong
Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong is a 1995 hard-qigong system that combines standing practice, dantian work, palm training, body conditioning, acupoint massage, and controlled striking.
Simon Lui 雷龍春
Master Simon Lui is a Hong Kong-born Pak Mei instructor and herbal practitioner who carried the Lum Hung branch of Pak Mei from Toronto into a wider North American teaching network.
Ng Yiu 吳耀
Ng Yiu was a senior disciple of Cheung Lai-chuen, an early Pak Mei instructor in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, an herbal practitioner, and author of the 1977 weapons manual Pak Mei Tiger Fork.
Sum Nung 岑能
Sum Nung was the Guangzhou Wing Chun teacher who preserved and expanded the Yuen Kay-shan branch through trauma medicine, teaching, and association work.
Leung Jan 梁贊
Leung Jan was the influential nineteenth-century Foshan physician and Wing Chun teacher who linked Red Boat tradition to later lineages. Explore his life, teachings, students, and disputed history.
Yan Xin 嚴新
Yan Xin is a Chinese physician and qigong teacher who became one of the most celebrated and controversial figures of China’s Qigong Fever. During the 1980s and 1990s, his enormous “qi-emitting lectures,” reported healings, and collaborations with university researchers helped transform qigong into a mass cultural phenomenon. Supporters presented him as evidence of a revolutionary science of human potential, while critics regarded his extraordinary claims and external-qi experiments as prominent examples of pseudoscience.
Guo Lin 郭林
Guo Lin was a Chinese painter, educator, cancer survivor, and creator of New Qigong Therapy. Beginning in 1971, she taught coordinated walking, specialized breathing, mental regulation, self-massage, and group practice in Beijing’s public parks. Her method became one of China’s most influential cancer-rehabilitation qigong systems and helped create a patient-led social model that later spread throughout China and internationally.
Liu Yafei 劉亞非
Liu Yafei is a Chinese physician and medical qigong specialist who continued and substantially expanded the Neiyanggong system associated with her father, Liu Guizhen. She transformed a practice centered largely on quiet breathing and meditation into a progressive system containing static exercises, moving forms, therapeutic adaptations, and international teacher training. Her work made Neiyanggong one of the most developed surviving systems of institutional medical qigong.
Liu Guizhen 劉貴珍
Liu Guizhen was one of the principal founders of modern medical qigong in the People’s Republic of China. During the 1950s, he transformed a privately transmitted rural practice called Neiyanggong into a standardized clinical method taught through hospitals, books, and national training programs. His work helped establish “qigong” as the modern umbrella term for Chinese breathing, posture, movement, and mental-regulation practices.
Daoism
Daoism includes Chinese philosophical, religious, ritual, and self-cultivation traditions centered on the Dao, or Way. Its ideas have influenced meditation, medicine, qigong, and portions of Chinese martial culture.