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People called him "Fan Shi" ("Fan the 10th"). Manchu from Beijing. Studied <B>shaolinquan</B> and <B>tantui</B>, later became Dong Haichuan's student. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Fu Zhensong (1881 - 1953)</B></div> <bR> <div> Fu Zhensong (1881-1953), nickname Qiankun, from Henan province. He began studied martial art in his village when he was 16 years old. Later from Chen Dianshan he studied <B>taijiquan of Chen family</B>, from Jia Fengming - <B>baguazhang</B>. At 1911 Fu became martial art teacher in one of Kaifeng's Guard Bureau, since 1920 - in army, since 1928 - teacher in Nanjing in Central Guoshu Institute. Since 1929 - teacher in Guoshu institute of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. During Second World War he was vice-director of another guoshu institute, at 1945 returned to Guangzhou and began to teach taijiquan. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="061db1c0.jpg" border=0 width="219" height="284" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Gao Yisheng (1968-1951)</B></div> <bR> <div> Gao Yisheng (1866-1951) nickname Deyuan, from Shandong province. During childhood studied <B>hongquan</B>, later studied <B>baguazhang</B> and <B>xingyiquan</B> from Zhou Yuxiang, Cheng Tinghua and Li Cunyi. Created straight-line form of training for 64 palms. He was illiterate, his student Liu Boyong recorded his words and published a book "Continious palms of bagua for training the body". </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="103cf010.jpg" border=0 width="207" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Geng Jishan (1860 - 1928)</B></div> <bR> <div> Geng Jishan (1860-1928) nickname Chengxing, from Shenxian county of Hebei province. Knew <B>huaquan</B>, studied <B>xingyiquan</B> from Liu QIlan, later moved to Beijing and studied <B>baguazhang</B> from Cheng Tinghua, Yin Fu and Liu Dekuang<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >. </FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="161a4070.jpg" border=0 width="164" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Gong Baotian</B> started training with Yin Fu while he was still an adolescent and working as a waiter in a restaurant. It is said that Gong Baotian’s older brother, Gong Baoshan, introduced Gong Baotian to Yin Fu, thinking that his younger brother had martial arts potential. Gong Baotian fulfilled this potential, eventually becoming one of Yin Fu’s top students. He was hired as a royal bodyguard under Yin Fu and became his successor at the palace when Yin Fu retired. When the Qing government was overthrown, Gong Baotian served as the head bodyguard of General Zhang Zuolin. Soon after that he retired to his home in Qingshan District in the province of Shandong. It was there, in his home village, that he had earlier started training a student named Gong Baozai. Gong Baozai had been introduced to his teacher at the early age of six. Over the subsequent years, Gong Baotian transmitted the knowledge and practice of Baguaquan to Gong Baozai.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Gong Baozai</B></div> <div> After reaching adulthood, Gong Baoza<B>i</B> studied a variety of professions and held a number of jobs, from carpenter to head of news agencies to school superintendent. As the Communists took over in China in 1949, Gong Baozai left for Taiwan, where he lived in self-imposed obscurity for many years. Finally, a former resident of his home village recognized him and begged him to resume teaching Baguaquan. He agreed, although he only ever taught a small number of students. One of his students was an American of Chinese descent named Michael Guen, who, as a very young man, met Gong Baozai while living in Taiwan, and began learning from him.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="0fa7b2e0.gif" border=0 width="379" height="558" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Guo Gumin (1887 - 1968)</B></div> <bR> <div> Guo Gumin (1887-1968), another name - Decang, from Yixian county of Hebei province. When he was 15 years old - moved to Beijing, 5 years later became a student of Liang Zhenpu. Also he received instructions of Liu Dekuang, was a friend of Yu Hui (Yin Fu's student). </div> <bR> <div> <B>Guo Shufan (1893 - 1985)</B></div> <bR> <div> Guo Shufan (1893-1985) from Zhucheng, Shandong province. Since 1917 he began to study martial art from Jiang Bao - student of famous "Hawk" Gao San. Studied hongquan and paochui. Since 1920 became a student of Han Muxia, studied xingyiquan and baguazhang. Since 1925 studied taijiquan from Wu Jianyong. Later he taught in Xian. After 1949 he became a head of Xian's "Society for researching xingyi, bagua and sanshou". </div> <bR> <div> <B>Han Fushun</B></div> <bR> <div> Nickname Han Liu. Studied <B>baguazhang</B> from Shi Jidong. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Han Muxia ( ? - 1954)</B></div> <bR> <div> Han Muxia (?-1954), another name - Jinyong. From Cangzhou, Hebei province. Studied <B>mizongquan</B>, later from Zhang Zhankui he studied <B>xingyiquan</B> and <B>baguazhang</B>. At september of 1918 together with Zhang Zhankui, Li Cunyi and Li Jianqiu moved to Beijing to the "Tournament of powermen from 10.000 countries" to defeat russian KangTaiEr. Later taught in Tianjin's "Qushu zhuan guan". Han died when he was 70 years old. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Jia Fengming (1867 - 1939)</B></div> <bR> <div> Jia Fengming (1867-1939), nickname Qishan. Studied baguazhang from Dong Haichuan, since 1901 taught baguazhang in Henan province.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Jiang Rongqiao (1891 - 1974)</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="05eda1d0.gif" border=0 width="218" height="285" ALT="Jiang Rongqiao Picture" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Jiang Rongqiao (1891-1974), nickname - Guangwu. From Cangzhou, Hebei province. From uncle Detai and <B>mizongquan</B> master Chen Yushan studied martial arts. Since 1909 became a student of Zhang ZHaodong, studied <B>baguazhang</B> and <B>xingyiquan</B>. From Li Yusan studied the using of "sweep of Great Teacher", from Tai Shilin studied <B>taijiquan</B>, from Li Jinglin - wudang sword. Since 1920 began to teach wushu (at this time he worked at railway company). Since 1928 he began to publish in Shanghai "Library of high martial art", dedicated to the martail arts technique. Since 1932 he worked as a head of Publishing department of Central Guoshu Institute in Nanjing. During the war he went off from the Institute and moved to Anhui province. Later he lived in Shanghai. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>