[11] The term neijia and the distinction between internal and external martial arts first appears in Huang Zongxi's 1669 Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan.
[12] Stanley Henning proposes that the Epitaph's identification of the internal martial arts with the Taoism indigenous to China and of the external martial arts with the foreign Buddhism of Shaolin—and the Manchu Qing dynasty to which Huang Zongxi was opposed—was an act of political defiance rather than one of technical classification.
[13] Cheng Ting Hua was shot and killed by German soldiers during the Boxer Rebellion (1900), which likely strengthened the alliance.
Around 1912, the third-generation bagua zhang master Fu Chen Sung was traveling throughout Northern China to meet and learn from the best martial artists when he met the Wudang Sword grandmaster Song Weiyi in Liaoning Province;[14] Fu learned Sung's Wudang Sword and fighting forms: Lightning Palm and Rocket Fist.
[5] In 1925, General Zhang Zhijiang began to propagate his belief that martial arts should be used to improve the health of the Chinese people.
Fu Zhensong won the fighting competition in Beijing, and was named head baguazhang instructor of all China.
[citation needed] Circumspectively, this seems to be the historical point when the name Wudang became the prevalent term for the internal martial arts across China.
In his lifetime, Fu had many notable students, including General Sun Pao Gung and Lin Chao Zhen.
Yonghui had two top students: his son, (Victor) Fu Shenglong, and Bow Sim Mark (the mother and teacher of Donnie Yen).
The system is known for its emphasis on practical applications, and its fighting and healing abilities, with many of its masters entering full contact competitions or becoming traditional healers.
The article connotes that from the time of Li's death until the early 1980s, Jin Zitao was the only person alive who had knowledge of the secret martial arts of Wudang Mountain.
In 1980, Jin Zitao demonstrated Wudang Taiyi Wuxing Boxing to the National Wushu Viewing and Emulating and Communicating Congress in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province.
"[28] According to Kung Fu Tai Chi Magazine, Zhong Yunlong went to Wudang Mountain in 1984, and studied under the 13th generation masters, Guo Gaoyi and Wang Kuangde.
"[4] There does not seem to be any connection between Jin Zitao and the Wudang Sanfeng Sect except for the fact that they both use the term "Taiyi" as the name of a form.
Currently, a contingent of Taoist martial art masters claiming lineage to Zhong Yunlong practice and teach Wudang martial arts at Wudang Mountain, which was named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1994.
This lineage was transmitted to master Zhong Yunlong through the 13th generation leader, Wang Guangde (1947–2001), who became the head of Wudang mountain after religious practice was legalized in 1979.
Through his travels and training, master Zhong amassed a huge body of knowledge ranging from Daoist martial arts to inner alchemy and healing practices.