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Fu Chen Sung

傅振嵩
Fu Zhensong
Baguadao (八卦刀).jpg
Fu Zhensong practicing the large sabre form of Baguazhang
Born 1872
Mapo village, Biyangxian, Huaiqing, Henan, China
Died 1953 (aged 80–81)
Style Chen-style t'ai chi ch'uan,
Ma style Baguazhang,
Cheng Style Baguazhang,
Wudang Sword,
Xingyiquan,
Sun-style t'ai chi ch'uan,
Yang-style t'ai chi ch'uan
Teacher(s) Chen Yanxi (陳延禧)
Chia Feng Ming
Ma Gui (马贵)
Cheng Tinghua (程廷華)
Sung Wei-I (宋唯一)
Sun Lu-t'ang (孫祿堂)
Yang Chengfu (杨澄甫)
Rank Founder of Fu Style Baguazhang
Fu Zhensong
Chinese
Fu Qiankun
Chinese

Fu Zhensong (Fu Chen-sung) or Fu Qiankun (1872–1953) was a grandmaster of Wudangquan martial arts. He was best known as one of the famed "Five Northern Tigers," and a third-generation master of Baguazhang who founded Fu Style Baguazhang. He was also a soldier and a supporter of Sun Yat-sen.

Fu Zhensong was born in Mapo village, Biyang County, Henan province, China. When he was 16 years old, he joined his village's newly created martial arts school, where he studied under Chen Yanxi () from the nearby Chen village, an 8th generation disciple of Chen family of taijiquan. He also learned from Chia Feng Ming () (also written in English sometimes as Chia Chi-shan or Jia Feng Meng), a top student of the founder of baguazhang, Grandmaster Dong Haichuan. After nine years of training, his teachers encouraged him to move to Beijing to learn more. When he moved to Beijing, Fu continued his studies of baguazhang with Ma Gui and Cheng Tinghua, both first generation disciples of Dong Haichuan.

In 1900 he moved back to his home village to teach. He became well known in that part of China for defeating a large gang of bandits that attacked his village; he did so armed with a metal pole. In 1911, Fu Chen-Sung became a caravan guard/body guard in Shandong and Henan at the request of the Kai Kung Hsin Shan Protection Service.

After the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, Fu traveled to Fu Chou, Cheng Chou, as well as Shan Si Province, and beyond. In 1913, Fu was hired by the Revolutionary Army as a martial arts instructor, holding this post for a few years. During those years he met the Wudang grandmaster Sung Wei-I in Liao Ning Province. Fu learned Wudang sword, "lightning palm" and “rocket fist" from Sung. These elements later became part of Fu’s forms. According to Lin Chao Zhen, Fu created the Dragon form baguazhang and LiangYi Chuan (“harmonized opposites boxing") after he studied with Sung Wei-I.


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