Chinese Title: 峨嵋铁豹硬气功
Subtitle: 二十天速成中级教材
Simplified Chinese: 峨眉铁豹硬气功，二十天速成中级教材
Traditional Chinese: 峨嵋鐵豹硬氣功，二十天速成中級教材
Mandarin Pinyin: Éméi Tiěbào Yìng Qìgōng, Èrshí Tiān Sùchéng Zhōngjí Jiàocái
Literal Meaning: Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong, Twenty-Day Rapid-Mastery Intermediate Textbook
Language: Chinese
Format: Illustrated internal training manual
Printed Pagination: 88 numbered pages
PDF Scan Length: 106 scan pages. The scan does not correspond one-to-one with printed pagination.
Overview
Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong: Twenty-Day Rapid-Mastery Intermediate Textbook is an illustrated internal training manual credited to Jiang Hao, also listed as Jiang Mengchun. The available revised edition is dated November 23, 1995 and was issued by the Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong Training Center.
The book presents a complete hard-qigong curriculum built around relaxation, standing practice, breathing, dantian training, palm methods, body conditioning, acupoint massage, controlled striking, and demonstrations. It also includes basic anatomy, meridian and acupoint diagrams, training precautions, equipment instructions, student letters, injury material, and a section exposing false qigong demonstrations.
Its historical connection to Mount Emei is a school claim rather than an independently verified lineage. Its value lies in preserving a detailed example of late twentieth-century Chinese hard-qigong instruction, correspondence teaching, and martial performance culture.
Title and Meaning
Chinese Title: 峨嵋铁豹硬气功
Subtitle: 二十天速成中级教材
Simplified Chinese: 峨眉铁豹硬气功，二十天速成中级教材
Traditional Chinese: 峨嵋鐵豹硬氣功，二十天速成中級教材
Mandarin Pinyin: Éméi Tiěbào Yìng Qìgōng, Èrshí Tiān Sùchéng Zhōngjí Jiàocái
English Title: Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong: Twenty-Day Rapid-Mastery Intermediate Textbook
峨嵋, Éméi, is an older written form of 峨眉, Emei. It refers to the Emei martial-arts tradition associated with Mount Emei in Sichuan.
铁豹, Tiěbào, means Iron Leopard. The name evokes the leopard’s speed, force, and predatory power, combined with the idea of bodily hardness or resilience.
硬气功, Yìng Qìgōng, means hard qigong or hard qi skill. It refers to systems that claim to develop physical conditioning, force expression, impact tolerance, and martial performance ability through coordinated breathing, posture, concentration, movement, and progressive body training.
二十天速成中级教材 means Twenty-Day Rapid-Mastery Intermediate Textbook. This is the manual’s stated course format and marketing claim. It should not be treated as evidence that lasting conditioning or advanced martial ability can be safely acquired in twenty days.
Author or Compiler
Jiang Hao, 蒋浩, also listed as Jiang Mengchun, 蒋萌春, is credited as compiler and author.
The title page reads “compiled and written by Jiang Hao, also Jiang Mengchun.” The front cover separately credits Jiang Hao for writing and illustrations.
The manual identifies Jiang Hao as the founder of Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong. This is a direct school claim in the text.
Publication History
The available copy is a revised edition dated November 23, 1995.
It identifies the Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong Training Center as the issuing organization. The rear cover marks the work as internal material and asks readers to preserve it carefully.
In the postscript, Jiang Hao states that this edition revised an earlier teaching text. He says it added new material, illustrations, fuller explanations of movement and precautions, and answers to questions received from correspondence students.
Jiang also writes that the revision reflected more than two years of correspondence teaching experience.
The scan does not identify a conventional commercial publisher, ISBN, place of publication, or print run.
A later commercial digital listing confirms continued circulation of an electronic copy. It does not establish a separate authorized edition or provide reliable additional information about the author.
Historical Context
This manual appeared during the 1980s and 1990s qigong boom in the People’s Republic of China. In this period, qigong methods spread through books, correspondence courses, public demonstrations, training centers, and large teacher networks.
The book reflects this setting. It uses traditional concepts such as qi, meridians, acupoints, dantian, and internal force. It also uses anatomy diagrams, training progressions, correspondence-course language, illustrated instruction, injury material, and explanations of physical demonstrations.
The text is notable because it does not frame every hard-qigong feat as supernatural. Its final section, “Exposing False Qigong,” explains some demonstrations through preparation, material choice, speed, heat transfer, callused skin, and performance technique.
Contents and Structure
PREFACE
OVERVIEW
PART ONE: CONCISE BASIC KNOWLEDGE
上篇，简明基础知识
- Human Anatomy Knowledge
人体解剖知识
Page 1 - Meridians and Acupoints
经络、穴位
Page 3 - Dantian
丹田
Page 9 - Summary of Iron Leopard Hard Qigong Breathing Methods
铁豹硬气功呼吸方法总汇
Page 11 - Three Essentials of Practice
练功三要素
Page 12 - Training Essentials
练功要领
Page 13 - Training Precautions
练功注意事项
Page 16
PART TWO: INTRODUCTION TO EMEI IRON LEOPARD HARD QIGONG METHODS
中篇，峨嵋铁豹硬气功功法介绍
- Preparatory Exercise, Relaxation Exercise
预备功，放松功
Page 18 - Iron Leopard Holds the Peach, Standing-Post Exercise
铁豹抱桃，站桩功
Page 19 - Iron Leopard Devours Food, Dantian Exercise
铁豹吞食，丹田功
Page 23 - Iron Leopard Scoops Sand, Force Exercise
铁豹捞沙，劲功
Page 29 - Iron Leopard Digs Out the Heart, Heart Exercise
铁豹掏心，心功
Page 32 - Iron Leopard Spouts Fire, Palm Exercise
铁豹喷火，掌功
Page 34 - Iron Leopard Opens the Bow, Chest, Arm, and Palm Exercise
铁豹开弓，胸、臂、掌功
Page 34 - Iron Leopard Becomes Angry, Throat Exercise
铁豹发怒，喉功
Page 37 - Iron Leopard Strikes the Bell, Head Exercise
铁豹撞钟，头功
Page 39 - Iron Leopard Muffles the Base, Lower-Base Exercise
铁豹闷底，底盘功
Page 42 - Golden Body Striking and Qi Treatment Method
金身排打疗气法
Page 43 - Closing Method
收功方法
Page 44 - Auxiliary Exercises
辅助运动
Page 45
Training Equipment
练功器具
Page 48
Hard-Qigong Demonstrations
硬气功表演
Page 50
Compilation of Student Letters
学员来信选编
Page 55
Iron Leopard Hard Qigong Questions and Answers
铁豹硬气功答疑
Page 59
PART THREE
下篇
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Sports Injuries
运动损伤诊治
Page 67 - Simple Qigong Therapy Methods
简易气功疗法
Page 73 - Secret Practice Formulas
练功秘方
Page 73 - Correcting Deviations
纠正偏差
Page 74 - Exposing False Qigong
伪气功揭谜
Page 80
POSTSCRIPT
编后
Page 88
Major Themes
Traditional and modern explanatory systems.
The manual combines qigong concepts with basic anatomy, meridian diagrams, acupoint charts, and body diagrams. It does not establish that its traditional explanations are biomedical facts.
Progressive hard conditioning.
The core curriculum moves from relaxation and standing work toward force expression, palm training, body striking, and performance claims. The manual repeatedly recommends gradual progression, although its twenty-day marketing conflicts with its own emphasis on individual pace and sustained practice.
Correspondence teaching.
The postscript and student-letter section show that the manual served as a correspondence-course text. It was designed to guide learners beyond the immediate reach of an in-person school.
Demonstration and skepticism.
The manual includes hard-qigong demonstrations while also explaining how apparent feats can depend on controllable physical factors. This makes it a useful record of the period’s mixture of training, performance, commercial instruction, and skepticism.
Injury and deviation.
The final part addresses sports injuries, qigong therapy, training deviations, and alleged false qigong. It shows that the author expected physical strain, mistakes, and exaggerated claims to be part of the broader practice environment.
Martial or Cultural Significance
Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong is not currently supported by evidence as an ancient or major historical Emei lineage. Its significance lies in its survival as a 1990s martial and qigong artifact.
The manual documents how a small hard-qigong school presented itself through traditional language, conditioning drills, illustrated instruction, correspondence teaching, bodily-performance claims, and anti-fraud explanations.
It provides evidence of what one martial-qigong school taught, claimed, demonstrated, questioned, and sold as a structured training course in the late qigong-boom period.
Known Editions
Earlier teaching text, date unknown. Jiang Hao’s 1995 postscript states that the available edition revised an earlier teaching text.
Revised internal edition, dated November 23, 1995. This is the scanned edition used for this entry. It identifies the Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong Training Center and has 88 pages of printed pagination.
Later digital circulation. A commercial listing advertises an electronic version as a 98-page text. This confirms later circulation only. It does not establish an authorized new edition or change the bibliographic facts visible in the 1995 scan.
Related Encyclopedia Entries
Jiang Hao
Yang Guozhong
Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong
Hard Qigong
Emei Martial Arts
Qigong Fever
Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals
Correspondence Martial Arts Courses
References
Jiang Hao, also listed as Jiang Mengchun. Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong: Twenty-Day Rapid-Mastery Intermediate Textbook. Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong Training Center. Revised edition dated November 23, 1995. Scanned edition supplied for this research.
Li, Junpeng, and Z. Fu. The Craziness for Extra-Sensory Perception: Qigong Fever and the Science-Pseudoscience Debate in China. Zygon, 2015.
Palmer, David A. Le Qigong et la Tradition Sectaire Chinoise. Social Compass, 2003.
Ng, Beng-Yeong. Qigong-Induced Mental Disorders: A Review. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 1999.
Electronic listing for Emei Iron Leopard Hard Qigong: Twenty-Day Rapid-Mastery Intermediate Textbook. Used only to document later digital circulation.