Zhang Sanfeng

Zhang Sanfeng (Chinese张三丰, Pinyin Zhang Sanfeng, W.-G. Chang San -feng ) is a legendary hero figure in China. He is also known under the name Jumbao or Dangchu Zhenren ( " the true man from the cave ").

To the figure of Zhang Sanfeng is shrouded in many myths and legends. Already his year of birth is given in different sources with 960, 1247 or 1279.

According to legend, he was said to be a Daoist monk who lived in the Wudang Mountains. One day he watched the battle between a snake and a crane. The snake gave the hard, quick strokes of the crane 's beak repeatedly sent out until the crane had to give up exhausted. Zhang realized this the principle of " soft fighting " with inner strength, and deduced from the basic principles of Internal Martial Arts ( Neijiaquan, short neijia ) from.

According to another legend, he was a master of external martial arts (外家 拳wàijiāquán ). At the age of 70 years, he retired to a monastery in the Daoist Wudang Mountains back in order to devote himself to meditation and inner alchemy. The Daoist meditation techniques could learn the qi him. When asked whether it was possible to implement these energy rivers that are in the sitting meditation feel and steerable in motion, his teacher but him could not answer. After the fight a crane had appeared to him with a snake in a dream, Zhang Sanfeng developed the Internal Martial Arts.

Allegedly, he was 200 years old and is one of the immortals of Chinese mythology.

• Monk
• Person ( Daoism )
• Born on the 1st or 2nd millennium
• Died in the 2nd millennium
• Man