Introduction of Meihua Quan

Plum Blossom Fist is one of the ancient and excellent traditional martial arts styles in China, and the civil and military feats of Plum Blossom Fist originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to "Liezi - Tang Wen" (page 184-185) and "Shiji - Zhao Shijia" (page 1779), during the Western Zhou Dynasty, the general Zuo Fu helped King Mu of Zhou to pacify the world after learning Wenwu Kung Fu and Pile Method from the Tai Dou Clan of that time, which was then known as "Che Wufei". Since then successive generations of the royal family have made the Wenwu Kungfu Law the royal method of subduing the country and kept it secret. Later, he was granted the title of Zhao Cheng and became the founder of the surname "Zhao" around 1000 BC. And Zao father practiced the gong method, is now the main method of Plum Blossom Fist practice - "dry five potential Plum Blossom Pile" source, which can be seen, Plum Blossom Fist has been at least 3,000 years of gong method.

Wenwu Kung Fu was prevalent in the Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty, to the Tang and Song Dynasty has developed to its peak, and then because of the Southern Song Dynasty traitorous officials, the country was destroyed. Song Gongdi Zhao Xian was captured by Kublai Lie, some of the civil and military ministers with the Lord to the north, some of the hidden folk, civil and martial arts also took root in the folk secret, and a steady stream of inheritance until the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, the original not openly outside the civil and martial arts, by Zou Hongyi system to organize and perfect the name: Plum Blossom Fist, and passed on to the world. Zou Hongyi was also honored by later generations of disciples as the "plum fist ancestor".

According to historical records, Plum Blossom Fist since the beginning of Zou Hongyi, before the official spread of folk. Qing Kangxi years, Zou Hongyi's martial arts has been practiced to pure fire, out of the realm of God, fame, he in order to promote the plum fist to the people, they left Xuzhou cloud travel to Kaiju (now: Henan Puyang), has received Cai Guangrui, Wang Xizheng, Meng Youde as a disciple, teach all the literary and martial arts. The three arts have been completed, they will be divided to teach boxing.

Cai Guangrui received Han Huaili and Sun Panlong in Kaizhou, and then went north to open the road to teach boxing, passing through Neihuang County, and accepting Yang Bing of Bailizhuang as an apprentice (i.e., the later martial arts scholar of the year of the Kangxi Imjin (1712)). Afterwards, he continued his journey northward and came to Mazhuangqiao (present-day Houmazhuang) in Pingyi (present-day Pingxiang County), Shunde, where he took Zhang Fuxu as an apprentice. He then taught martial arts in Mazhuangqiao, and later took on the apprentice grandsons Li Jinde, Xu Jinde, and Zheng Yude. In 1705, Cai Guangrui ordered Li, Xu and Zheng to go to Henan to welcome their master, Zou Hongyi, which is known as the "Three Virtues Inviting the Master" in the martial arts world. Zou Hongyi was invited to Mazhuangqiao, then settled down, set up in this field to accept disciples, teach boxing, "a time from the learning disciples no less than a hundred people. Because of Zou Hongyi high skills, boxing is exquisite, and soon make the plum blossom boxing in Pingyi spread, four-way missionary, famous martial arts.

Plum Blossom Boxing is a traditional Chinese martial arts culture in a unique and excellent boxing, and still retains its traditional essence and the original form of inheritance. On May 20, 2006, Plum Blossom Boxing was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and Zhang Xiling was approved by the State Council and named by the Ministry of Culture as the "Representative Inheritor of Xingtai Plum Blossom Boxing, a national intangible cultural heritage".