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.
Seven-Star Horizontal-Chain Qigong
Seven-Star Horizontal-Chain Qigong is a 1992 Chinese manual that records a seven-part conditioning method, its Daoist lineage story, traditional theory, safety guidance, and external-qi claims.
Seven-Star Hard-Conditioning Practice
Seven-Star Hard-Conditioning Practice is a 1992 Chinese qigong method that combines standing work, breath regulation, seven core routines, traditional theory, and martial-conditioning aims.
Eddie Chong
Eddie Chong is a longtime California instructor who transmitted Leung Sheung lineage Wing Chun, Pan Nam Foshan Wing Chun, and Foshan Pak Mei through decades of teaching, research, and publication.
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.
Cheung Lai Chuen Pak Mei
Cheung Lai Chuen Pak Mei is a Southern Chinese martial art organized in Guangdong during the early twentieth century. Cheung combined four core forms attributed to the monk Juk Faat Wan with methods learned from several East River boxing teachers. The resulting system emphasizes close-range combat, aggressive bridge control, compact stepping, sudden whole-body power, and the body transformations known as swallow, spit, float, and sink.
Foshan Pak Mei
Foshan Pak Mei is the localized Foshan transmission of White Eyebrow Boxing. It developed during the twentieth century through teachers such as Yau Tai Sang and Lau Siu Leung, whose instruction made the art one of Foshan’s prominent Southern boxing traditions during the 1960s and 1970s. Although it descends substantially from the martial tradition organized by Cheung Lai Chuen, Foshan transmission developed its own teaching networks, technical emphases, curricula, and later institutional identity.