| Wang Ziping | |
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| Born | 1881 (1881) Cangzhou,Hebei,Qing China |
| Died | 1973 (aged 91–92) Illness |
| Native name | 王子平 |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Style | Wushu: Chaquan, Huaquan, Leopard kung fu, Bajiquan, Tai chi |
| Teacher(s) | Chaquan: Yang Hongxiu |
| Rank | Grandmaster |
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| Notable relatives | Wang Jurong (daughter) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 王子平 | ||||||||
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Wang Ziping (1881–1973,Xiao'erjing:وْا ذِ پٍ) was aChinese Muslim[1] practitioner ofChinese Martial Arts andtraditional medicine fromCangzhou,Cangxian county,Mengcun,Hebei Province.[2] He served as the leader of theShaolin kung fu division of the Martial Arts Institute in 1928 and was also the vice chairman of the Chinese Wushu Association.[3] Wang was known for his mastery ofChaquan,Huaquan,Leopard kung fu,Bajiquan, andtai chi.[4] He was also a master ofWushu.[5][6][7]
Early in his life, Wang fought in theBoxer Rebellion against the foreign Western and Japanese imperialistEight-Nation Alliance. This was believed to have resulted from the fact that Ziping had lived most of his life with China under imperialist pressure from major European powers. Some accounts say he was forced into exile from his home after the end of the Boxer Rebellion and suppression of the Boxers,[8][9][10][11] and became a student of Yang Hongxiu,[12] from whom he learned the art of Chaquan.
Wang won many fights against Russian, American, German, and Japanese martial artists.[13][14]
Wang defeated a German officer's challenge in a weight lifting contest at Jiaoji. When the Germans wanted to take the antique doors of theQinzhou mosque for themselves, Wang Ziping guarded the doors so the Germans challenged him to another weight lifting contest. When Wang triumphed over their challenge, the Germans left.[15]
Wang and Zhu Guofu defended martial arts historianTang Hao (Tang Fansheng) from opponents who were angered by his work "Shaolin-Wudang Kao" which refuted the story ofBodhidharma andZhang Sanfeng as being the creators ofShaolin andtai chi.[16]
Liu Jin Sheng, who authored "Chin Na Methods" along with Zhao Jiang, was a student of Wang.[17]
He developed an exercise regime for long life. He published works on martial arts exercises.[18][19]
At the sixth National Games, Wang served as a judge for martial arts and wrestling.[20] WhenZhou Enlai visitedBurma, Wang, then 80 years old, went with his delegation, performing martial arts during the visit. He died when he was 93 years old.[21]
Wang developed "Quan Shr Er Shr Fa" (Twenty Fist Method)[22] as well as "Ching Long Jian" (Green Dragon Sword).
He was succeeded by his only daughterWang Jurong,[23][24] and his three granddaughters through her are Grace X. Wu,[25][26]Helen Wu, and Wu Xiaoping.
Muslims also have been active in shuai- jiao ( Chinese wrestling), a famous twentieth-century proponent being Wang Ziping ( 1881–1973).
Wang trained on his own by lifting rocks. He became a troublemaker, and stories told of banishment from his hometown for being a "boxer bandit." That might have been the end of his talent, for without a master, it was impossible to become a martial artist.
Xingyiquan style), won a fight against Russian strongman Kang Tyre in 1918 in Beijing; and Wang Ziping (1881–1973) also defeated the same Russian strongman in 1918 in Beijing, as well as an American and a German strongman in 1919 inQingdao and the Japanese fighter Sato in 1919 in Jinan.
Early in this century a Tianjin boxing master named Zhang Zhankui triumphed over a German skilled in Western-style boxing who had won six gold medals from other countries. In 1918 Wang Ziping. a man of great strength, defeated in Beijing ...
The book was titled, Xiezhen Quanjie Jiaofan [Illustrated boxing and weapons instruction manual]. Although publication of ... Zhu Guofu and Wang Ziping, had to stop some of the offended people from plotting against Tang. Tang studied law in
Later in his life, Liu learned various kinds of boxing from a wide variety of teachers including Wang Zi Ping. After accumulating this range of martial arts experience for more than twenty years, he came to realize that the old manual he inherited ...
SEVEN-STAR BOXING OF HU MEICHENG Fig 1 Fig z. The following set of exercises was compiled by Wang Ziping (1880-1973) in the 1950s. Based on the centuries-old therapeutic exercises of daoyin, wuqinxi, yijinjing, and baduanjin, ...
contemporary martial artists such as Tong Zhongyi, Wang Ziping, Jiang Rongjiao, and Wu Junshan were both martial arts and wrestling judges at the sixth National Games, as many accomplished martial artists at the time were also skilled in
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