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 Liang Yi, also known as Tai Yi or Tai Chi Long Fist, is a Wu Dang Internal Kung Fu (Nei Jia Chuan) style. It is a technique to train hands, eyes, body, foot work and explosive power (Hun Yuan Jin) for internal martial artists. Characteristically it combines fast and slow, soft and hard movements and teaches the student to move like a dragon, sit like a tiger, and yield like lighting. It applies softness to overcome hardness, stillness to restrict motion, following the opponent's energy to strike back. It is a very practical self defense art. All Wu Dang martial artists are required to practice Liang Yi.
The Tao tells us that Yin and Yang unite as Tai Chi and separate as Liang Yi. This technique includes both soft and hard forms, slow and fast styles; it has its own clear and unique yin yang character. That is why it is called Liang Yi.
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Master Chen's US Wu Dang School will continue traditional Wu Dang training methods to promote this ancient internal art.
At present there are about thirty Wu Dang Kung Fu styles that are recognized by the Wu Dang Taoist Association. Among the most well known methods are the Zhang Sanfeng branch, Tai Yi Five Element Fist, Chuan Yang Fist, Bagua Zhang, Xing Yi, Tai Yi Fist, Eight Immortals Fist and Xuan Gong Fist. In Wu Dang and in the rest of the world only a few schools remain that continue the legacy of Zhang Sanfeng's Martial Art.
Master Zhong's Taoist Wu Shu Institute and Master Chen's US Wu Dang School will continue the traditional Wu Dang training methods to promote these ancient internal arts.
 Since Master Zhong stopped teaching in 2005, there hasn't been a true qualified Kung Fu priest teaching Kung Fu and internal alchemy in Wu Dang. In the traditional Taoist way of teaching, a true Master will not teach to the general public but only on a limited basis in a one-to-one setting.
Wu Dang has stood by its name from ancient times until today. Some modern business practices to "promote" Wu Dang culture are not permitted by the spirit of the Wu Dang Taoist Masters. Master Tseng's and Master Zhong's Masters Guo Gao Yi and Li Cheng Yu did not give permission for these ancient arts to be taught to or by those who would use them for profit.
Master Yun Xiang Tseng (Chen) is the only representive for the Wu Dang Taoist Association in North America.
 Liang Yi Master
Master Zhong Yun Long, Wudang Zhang Sanfeng Sect,
Abbot and 14th generation successor.
 Master Guo Gao Yi, the twenty seventh generation Longmen Sect successor, passed away in 1995. He was highly respected by the Chinese martial arts community. In 1989, he opened a school to the public, along with his disciple Master Zhong, for the first time in Wu Dang history. Master Tseng studied with Master Guo during his years in Wu Dang.
Master Zhong Yun Long is the Abbot of the Wu Dang Zhang Sanfeng Sect, and is the 14th generation successor of Master Guo Gao Yi and Master Zhu Cheng De of Wuxing Qi Gong and many other styles. He is an authentic Taoist priest, highly respected in the Chinese martial arts community. Currently he is the President of the Wu Dang Taoist Wu Shu Institute; he travels widely and is a distinguished visitor of various countries. Master Yun Xiang Tseng is a 14th generation disciple of the Wu Dang Zhang Sanfeng Sect and a 25th generation Longmen Sect priest. He studied under Master Guo Gao Yi and also studied with his Taoist brother Master Zhong Yun Long.
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Wu Dang internal Kung Fu is as highly revered in the South, as the Shaolin External Style is respected in the north
Wu Dang internal Kung Fu is as higly revered in the South of China as the Shaolin External Style is respected in the north. Wu Dang and Shaolin are the birthplaces of Chinese Kung Fu and both have had strict principles in succession since the ancient times. The reform and opening-up in the early 1980's, has made Wu Dang accessible to the outside world. In 1989, Master Zhong Yun Long and his master Guo Gao Yi founded the Wu Dang Taoist Wushu Institute. That was the first time Wu Dang martial arts were opened to the world. Since then, lots of excellent Wushu professionals and Kung Fu pilgrims have visited and studied there. The Wudang Taoist Wushu Institute is located near the Zixiao Palace in the Wu Dang Mountain Monastery. For information about it, please check http://www.wdgf.com.
Since Master Zhong stopped teaching 2005, there hasn't been a truly qualified Kung Fu priest teaching Kung Fu and alchemy at Wu Dang Mountain. Traditional Taoist belief and the teaching methods dictate that a real master priest won't teach in public in Wu Dang, they only teach privately and one-to-one with selected students.
Wu Dang stands by its name from ancient times to today. The modern business practice of "promotion" is not permitted by the spirit of the Wu Dang Taoist Masters. Master Guo Gao Yi and Li Cheng Yu did not give permission to those who promote them for personal profit.
Master Tseng is the only representive of the Wu Dang Taoist Association in North America.
The Wu Dang US Branch is located in Fort Collins, Colorado. For further training with Master Tseng, contact us at info@wudangtao.com.
 Liang Yi History
Attributed as the founder of Wu Dang Tai Chi Chuan,
Zhang Sanfeng (960-1644 Ce) created Wu Dang
Internal (Nei Jia) Kung Fu
Attributed as the founder of Wu Dang Tai Chi Chuan, Zhang Sanfeng (960-1644 CE) created Wu Dang Internal (Nei Jia) Kung Fu about 700 years ago.
 According to legend Zhang Sanfeng was a Taoist priest who was attacked by 100 bandits while responding to imperial summons from the capital, Kai Feng. That night, hidden in a cave, Zhang had a vision of Zhen Wu, Wu Dang’s warrior god, who revealed to him the fighting skills of Tai Chi. The next day, Zhang defeated the bandits with this divine style. He cultivated immortality at Wu Dang Mountain over a period of 300 years. At that time in Wu Dang, he observed sparrows fighting with snakes. Combining the characteristics of the existing Kung Fu schools and the Taoist method of cultivating alchemy, he created the Wu Dang Internal Martial Arts. From his time until now these arts have traveled directly through the years and have been transmitted directly from teacher to individual student; establishing a direct lineage to Master Zhong and Master Tseng, who are 14th generation disciples of the Zhang Sanfeng branch. Master Zhong is the abbott of the fourteenth generation.
According to the records, sage Zhang created the Wu Dang Tai Chi system first. The next few generations achieved internal break through with the forms. Each made a new style or brought in new forms to Wu Dang. The forms all had the same internal characteristics such as: bagua, Xing Yi, Ba Ji, Ba Xian, Xuan Gong, etc. In Wu Dang, Tai Chi remains as a primary system.
Wu Dang Nei Jia Kung Fu, which combines Kung Fu and Qi Gong methods, has proven not only to be practical but also to be a great method for nurturing life. For seven hundred years, it has been as well respected in the world as Shaolin Kung Fu.
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