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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.
Leung Sheung 梁相
Leung Sheung was one of Ip Man’s earliest Hong Kong students and a key figure in the Restaurant Workers’ Union class that helped establish modern Wing Chun.
Leung Yee-Tai 梁二娣
Leung Yee-tai is a traditional Red Boat Wing Chun figure linked with the Six-and-a-Half-Point Pole and Leung Jan. This entry explores his lineage role, alternative accounts, and disputed historical record.
Li Fuyan (李復言)
Li Fuyan (李復言) was a Tang-dynasty writer and official best known for Xu Xuanguai Lu (續玄怪錄), or Continuation of the Records of Mysterious Anomalies. His work helped preserve the Tang tradition of supernatural narratives involving strange encounters, religious figures, fate, transformation, and the extraordinary. Li is also closely associated with The Tale of Du Zichun (杜子春傳) through its textual transmission, although competing traditions attribute the tale to Zheng Huangu (鄭還古).
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.
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.
Living Wude: The Modern Path of Martial Virtue
Living Wude: The Modern Path of Martial Virtue is a 2025 book by Dustin Shane Bunnell that applies the ethical principles of Chinese martial arts to contemporary life. The second volume of The Martial Virtue Series examines how Wude can guide relationships, work, leadership, digital conduct, conflict, emotional discipline, service, and personal development.