What are the famous Taoist sects in martial arts

The Wudang Sect was founded in Wudang Mountain, Hubei Province, as a sect of internal martial arts, starting in the Song and flourishing in the Ming.

According to Huang Zongxi's Epitaph on the Tomb of Wang Zhengnan in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Wudang School was founded by Zhang Sanfeng of the Song Dynasty.

Their gong method is characterized by strong muscles and bones and lucky gong.

Emphasizing the practice of internal kung fu, it is concerned with the use of silence, the use of softness to overcome rigidity, the use of shortness to overcome length, the use of slowness to combat speed, the use of luck with the intention of luck, the use of qi to move the body, and it is biased in favor of the yin and the soft, the main breathing, and the use of the short hand, the Wudang Kung Fu is not the main offense, however, it is also not to be easily violated.

After that, Taijiquan, Bagua Palm, Xingyiquan and other internal martial arts are all developed from Wudang internal martial arts.

The global Taoist mainstream sect, heir to the Laojun legacy, uphold the Donghua evolutionary teachings, Cheng Zhonglv missionary, started in the auxiliary pole emperor Wang Chongyang . With the tenets of "equality of the three religions", "all essence, all gas, all spirit", and "suffering oneself and benefiting others", it has returned to Laozhuang by removing the Ghost Road, and has gradually incorporated and merged the Tai Dao, the True Dao, and the Southern Jindan Sect, opening the way for a rich and colorful Taoism. This opened a colorful new chapter in Taoism. The founder of the sect, Wang Yang, was known as Chongyang Zi, a native of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province. In his early years, he was a scholar in the martial arts and joined the civil service, but later resigned from the civil service and went into seclusion. In the fourth year of Zhenglong (1159), he met the immortals in Ganhe Town, Han Zhongli and Lu Dongbin, and was authorized to teach him the secrets of the Golden Elixir. He then retired to Zhongnan Mountain and practiced Buddhism for three years. In the year of Da Ding, he went to Shandong to preach. He recruited seven disciples, including Ma Yu, Tan Chuiduan, Liu Chuixuan, Qiu Chuiji, Wang Chuyi, Hao Datong, and Sun Buer, who are known as the Seven Sons of Quanzhen.

Which the Quanzhen Longmen School ancestor Qiu Shiqi at the age of 74, from Shandong Kun Bei Mountain all the way to the west, in Central Asia, opportunity Genghis Khan, to obtain the Mongolian regime at that time worship and call it "immortal", worship for the "master of the country", in charge of the world's religions for the The foundation for the development of Quanzhen Tao and the whole Taoism in the future was laid.

Wang Changyue, a famous Taoist priest at the end of the Ming Dynasty, put forward the "precepts of purity", rectified the sect, and created the "Longmen Zhongxing", which promoted the revival of Quanzhen Tao. The Quanzhen Tao had the most outstanding achievements in the interpretation of internal alchemy. During the decline of Taoism in the Ming and Qing dynasties, only the Quanzhen Longmen sect was once "revitalized", while other Taoist sects, such as the Zhengyi sect, were mostly in decline. Quanzhen comprehensive and profound inheritance of traditional Taoist thought, but also the rituals, precepts, talismans, elixirs and other Taoist cultural treasures reorganized. It laid the foundation for today's Taoism. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taoism was widely spread throughout the country, even in remote areas such as the northeast, southwest and northwest. Become the owner of almost all Taoist caves.