Wudang Sword is a body of Chinese straight sword (

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) techniques—famous in China—encompassed by the

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or internal martial arts. The oldest reputable accounts of Wudang Sword begin with Grandmaster

Sung Wei-I Sung Wei Yi (宋唯一) was born in Liaoning Province in 1855. He was the Grandmaster of the Wudang Sword. He introduced the sword to both Chen-style t'ai chi ch'uan and Yang-style t'ai chi ch'uan; he taught the Wudang Sword to Guo Qi Feng 郭岐� ...

around the turn of the 20th century. Sung taught Wudang Sword to Li Jing Lin and a few others. He learned the art from a Daoist named Zhang Ye-He, who was the 8th generation lineage holder. Sung also learned the martial art of Bagua from the kung fu brother of

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, the supposed creator of

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. Disciples of Li Jing Lin who learned the Wudang Sword were Huang Yuan Xiou, Meng Xiao-Feng, who taught current head Grandmaster in China Ma Jie, and Yang Kui-Shan, who taught modern day Grandmaster Qian Timing. Both Ma Jie and Qian Timing taught Chang Wu-Na and Lu Mei-hui, the current masters of the 13th generation. Li Jing Lin also taught his art to many of his friends and colleagues such as Sun Lu Tang and Fu Chen Song. Inside disciples of Fu Chen Song who learned the Wudang Sword were his son,

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, who taught it to

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and to his children, including Victor ShengLung Fu, Fu WenLung and Fu MeiLan.

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