Present Wudang Chun Yang masters and their path

GRAND MASTER LIU LI HANG (Liu Ding Guo) 1906-2002

22nd Generation Pure Yang Renunciate.
Born in Wuchang, Hubei Province.
Liu Li Hang became a renunciate when he was only 15 years old at the Wudang Temple in Wuhan.
He ascended at age 96.
Part of The Project proceeds go towards building a pagoda in his honor on White Horse Mountain.


MASTER GE ZONG ZHEN (Ge Xiao Hui) 1963-

23rd Generation Martial Artist and Healer.
Born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.
Ge Xiao Hui moved to Wuhan at age 3. At 13 he began to study the Internal Arts of Yan Chi Gong (translated as Ink slab sect).
In 1986 Master Ge bowed to Liu Li Hang and was accepted into the Pure Yang Sect. He studied martial arts and Traditional Chinese Medicine and Healing. Another teacher during this time was Dragon Gate Sect Huang Zhong Sheng of Chang Chun Temple.

For 10 years, Master Ge awoke at 4 a.m. to ride his bike one hour across the Yangtze River to where Liu Li Hang lived. Ge and his brothers would train for one hour with Liu and ride their bikes back to the other side in time to go to work at 7 a.m. They were taught in a traditional way in which the Master reveals the technique and demonstrates it once, perhaps 3 times at most. It is then up to the student to figure it out and practice on their own time. This is a test of a student's latent knowledge within.

In 1996, at age 33, Ge opens a Pure Yang Health Preservation Center accepting patients for Traditional Chinese Massage and Yang Sheng Longevity practices. In Liu Li Hang's last years,

Ge closed his Healing Center and moved across the Yangtze to be by his Master's side everyday. During this time, Liu transmitted his last lessons to him.

In 2004 he was certified as a High Level Massage Therapist by the People's Republic of China.

In 2007 Ge leaves his family to teach on Bai Ma Shan. Master Ge and Master Du come together to combine their studies and restore the Pure Yang arts to a state of totality.


ABBOT DU ZONG CHANG (Du Song Feng) 1964-

23rd Generation Renunciate.
Born in Shang Qiu, Henan Province.
Master Du's Family lived in an ancient ruined temple. Three days before he was born many crows came and lived in the trees around their home and stayed there until he came of age. Many thought that this was surely a bad omen. However, in Wudang, the crow is the spirit of the mountain.

One day in the market when Du was 7 he met a Wandering Taoist on the street. The Taoist looked at him, felt his bones, and told him that he had destiny with the Tao. The young boy thought nothing of it at the time.

By age 13 Du began to study Taoist and Buddhist beliefs as well as Chinese Internal and External Arts such as Shaolin's Plum Blossom Boxing and Chen Family Tai Ji Quan. He traveled many places in China and learned under the tutelage of several Masters.

At age 16, his teacher guided him to broaden his religious studies to include Christianity and Judaism.

By 1991 he was formally accepted as a disciple of Taoism, and by 1996 he left his family to become a Renunciate and found his way to Bai Ma Shan. By 2000, he became the Abbot of the Five Immortal Temple, undergoing severe hardship in the bitter conditions.

Master Du's brothers all refer to him as a rare genius. Unlike other practitioners, he studies under many different Masters gaining a myriad wealth of skills. His forte is in the realm of Internal Alchemy, Talisman Magic, and Chun Yang Men Jue Fa Zhou. He also practices Traditional Chinese Medicine, 5 Tone Healing Music, and Jing Cha Fa Shi (reciting the scripture ceremony.)

-Translated by Lindsey Wei-