Wujiquan (Chinese "無極拳"; Pinyin "Wujiquan"; Wade-Giles "Wu Chi Chuan" [1]), known as the "Ultimate Void Boxing" or "A Rare and Secret Ultimate Void Boxing Skill" and "Mother Art of Tai Chi,"[2] is a Chinese martial art.
It is a traditional system composed of 36 "Characters" divided into 18 kinds of natural climatic phenomena and 18 of Qi applications.
Wujiquan is an ancient system known in the Three Kingdoms age of the renowned legendary Chinese physician, Hua Tuo (c 208), and with origins reputedly much older (2,000 BCE).
The authority for the assertion of the ancient origins and teaching within the original historical Shaolin Temple System from very early times is derived from one of the last Abbots of the Putian, Nan Pu Tuo (also formerly known as ‘Quanlin Yuan’), Southern Shaolin Temple (Fujian Province).
[5] The Abbot of this historic temple, the Very Reverend Yik Cha’an Cha’an Sze taught this system (and Luohan Ru Yi Quan, and 18 Arhat Boxing) over the course of 3 years to his disciple, Chee Kim Thong prior to the fall of the temple and invasion of Fujian by the Japanese – Chee gave the system the nickname of ‘Shaolin Tai-Ji’.