As he was a very weak child, his parents decided to send him to the famous Xingyiquan master Guo Yunshen to improve his health.

Learning from his experience and honoring the truly skilled, Wang made a public statement in 1928: 我在國內參學万余里，拜見拳家逾千人，堪稱通家者僅有兩個半人，即湖南解鐵夫，福建方恰庄与上海吳翼翬耳。 I have traveled across the country in research, engaging over a thousand people in martial combat, there have been only 2.5 people I could not defeat, namely Hunan's Xie Tiefu, Fujian's Fang Yizhuang and Shanghai's Wu Yihui.

Later, in the 1940s, one of his disciples who was a journalist publicly called it Dachengquan, which means "great achievement boxing".

One, Kenichi Sawai was assumed to be his student and created his own school in Japan calling his martial art Taikiken.

At the end of his life he performed research into the healing aspect of Zhanzhuang and worked with different hospitals.