[2] 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.

[5][6][7] Early in his life, Wang fought in the Boxer Rebellion against the foreign Western and Japanese imperialist Eight-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.

[15] Wang and Zhu Guofu defended martial arts historian Tang Hao (Tang Fansheng) 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.

[16] Liu Jin Sheng, who authored "Chin Na Methods" along with Zhao Jiang, was a student of Wang.