Wudang Taiyi Jingang Quan

"Wudang Taiyi Jingang Quan" (Xióng Mén Quán "Xiong Style Boxing")
The Xiong Men school was one of the most popular and widely spread of older traditional Hubei styles during the late Qing and Republican eras.
This schools can be found being practiced under a variety of names such as Xiong Men, Tang Shou, and Wudang Taiyi Jingang Quan.
During the Qing Dynasty, Jiaqing era (1796-1820 A.D.) a man from Wufu township in Jingshan county by the name of Xiong Kaiyuan began to study the local folk martial arts and to collect the various traditional routines and training methods practiced in the area.
It is not known exactly who he studied with although it is generally said that he studied with local teachers in and around Jingshan county.
Some lines claim that he was a student of Yan Peng (founder of the Yan Men Quan system). Given the gap in time periods it is highly doubtful that Yan Peng would have been alive much less actively teaching during Xiong Kaiyuan's lifetime. But looking at the similarities in techniques, terminology, etc. between these two styles (both of which originate in Jingshan county) it appears highly likely that the Yan Men style was one of the main ancestors of the Xiong Men school.
Another lineage instead claims that Xiong Kaiyuan travelled to the Wudang mountains becoming a Daoist priest and then later leaving to teach the ancient martial arts he learned there. This account is likely a modern invention but it is gaining popularity in recent years.
Xiong Kaiyuan taught martial arts in his local area in Jingshan, eventually passing his system onto his son Xiong De-an (who is said to have introduced them to the Xiantao area) and then to his grandson Xiong Yuting who became a very prolific teacher in the Zaoshi and Hushi neighborhoods of Tianmen city and who's student's such as the Danian Monk spread the system widely.
By the late Qing dynasty this style spread to various areas and many lineages formed. Each of these lineages use their own name for the style, have their own characteristics, and their own oral mythologies.
In and around Jingshan county in Jingmen prefecture the system is called Xiong Men after the founding family. Their local oral mythology claim the local arts that Xiong Kaiyuan learned originated in the Lulin (Greenwood Mountain) rebellion which overthrew usurper Wang Mang's Xin dynasty in 23 A.D. thus inaugurating the Eastern Han dynasty. (the Lulin rebels have long been local folk heroes and the term Lulin is applied to robin hood type figures in Chinese folklore. However the idea of any arts surviving in any recognizable form from that period is highly implausible.)
In Xiantao subprefecture it is often called Wudang Taiyi Jingang Quan and modern practitioners of these lines stress claims of Wudang Daoist origins, Their oral myths claim the system descend from the martial arts created by the ancient primordial Daoist god Hongjun Laozu (the first god to appear after the death of Pangu the primordial giant. Hongjun Laozu taught the Dao to the Three Purities, the highest gods of Daoism.)
The name "Tang Shou Quan" has also become popular in and around Xiantao. Tang Shou translates to "warding hand" (the character 搪 "tang" meaning to hold off, keep away, smear, wipe, or ward off.). However in recent years most schools have changed the way they write "tang shou", changing the character tang to that of the Tang dynasty.
In line with that one teacher of the style has begun to claim that it is called that because it was the most popular style in the Tang dynasty (although this is all a modern invention).
The Xiong Men system contains a large number of weapons and boxing forms, conditioning, lion dancing, dragon lantern, medical, and cultivation skills.
Among the Xiong Men arts, the 7 Star / 7 Heart Yangshen Gong is sometimes seen as a lineage in it's own right and is often said to have stemmed from Neigong longevity practices originating in the Wudang mountains. Xiong Men 7 Heart martial and medical arts claims lineage to Xiong De-an, the son of Xiong Kaiyuan, who their lineage claims is actually the one who traveled to Wudang to learn Neidan practices and medical and martial arts.
The 7 Heart arts of the Xiong schools begin with the practice of the 20 "Ba Zi" of the life giving energy moving arts, basic postures / excercises done in over time in a sequential order. After a foundation is built the next section in the 7 heart arts covers the "golden bell iron robe" martial and medical cultivation. Following that in the last section of the 7 Heart curriculum the "sitting and lying" cultivation methods are taught.
The medical skills of the Xiong school focus mainly on injury treatment and bone setting as well as a number of different herbal treatments for common ailments.
Today the Xiong Men system is still practiced across Hubei under and range of names.
Many lines have also influenced or been influenced by the older Yan Men school.

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