"After verification according to different historical materials, Zhan Sa-Feng, with the original name Zhan Jun-Bao and the Taoist name Yu-Xu Zi, is now known to be of the Song Dynasty. He was indifferent to fame and wealth and had no interest in the official career given by the authorities. After declining an official position and dispatching his property to his clan, he traveled around the country.
He stayed at Hua Mountain in northwestern China for several years to deepen his own self-training. Afterwards, he left Hua Mountain and lived on Wu-Dan Mountain in Central China, leading a hermit's life.
Zhan Sa-Feng was versed in Shao-Lin Gong-Fu from a young age. After contacting the internal Gong-Fu transmitted from the line of Li Dong-Feng and Jia De-Shen, he changed his ways and turned to internal cultivation. He concluded four principles about his own system: First, control motion with repose. Second, conquer hardness with softness. Third, surmount swiftness with uniformity. Fourth, overcome the many with the few. Thus Zhan Sa-Feng composed a complete internal Gong-Fu system. Because this internal Gong-Fu was explained with ancient Tai-Ji principles, it is called Tai-Ji Gong-Fu by the people."
- Albert Liu, Nei Jia Quan: Internal Martial Arts, 2004, p. 318
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