Wang Ziping

Wang Ziping was a Chinese Muslim practitioner of Chinese Martial Arts and traditional medicine from Cangzhou, Cangxian county, Mengcun, Hebei Province. He served as the leader of the Shaolin kung fu division of the Martial Arts Institute in 1928 and was also the vice chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association. Wang was known for his mastery of Chaquan, Huaquan, Leopard kung fu, Bajiquan, and tai chi. He was also a master of Wushu. Wang fought in the Boxer Rebellion against the foreign Western and Japanese imperialist Eight-Nation Alliance. He was forced into exile from his home after the end of the Boxer Rebellion and suppression of the Boxers, and became a student of Yang Hongxiu, from whom he learned the art of Chaquan. Wang won many fights against Russian, American, German, and Japanese martial artists. Wang and Zhu Guofu defended martial arts historian Tang Hao from opponents who were angered by his work Shaolin-Wudang Kao which refuted the story of Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng as being the creators of Shaolin and Tai chi. Liu Jin Sheng, who authored Chin Na Methods along with Zhao Jiang, was a student of Wang. He developed an exercise regime for long life.