Editing Neijia (section)

==History==
===Qing China===
The term ''neijia'' and the distinction between internal and external martial arts first appears in [[Huang Zongxi]]'s 1669 ''[[Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan]]''.{{Sfn|Shahar |2001|p=412}}  Stanley Henning proposes that the ''Epitaph''{{'s}} identification of the internal martial arts with the [[Taoism]] indigenous to China and of the external martial arts with the foreign [[Buddhism]] of [[Shaolin Monastery|Shaolin]]—and the [[Manchu people|Manchu]] [[Qing Dynasty]] to which Huang Zongxi was opposed—was an act of political defiance rather than one of technical classification.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Henning | first = Stanley | date = Autumn–Winter 1994 | title = Ignorance, Legend and Taijiquan | journal = Journal of the Chenstyle Taijiquan Research Association of Hawaii | volume = 2 | issue = 3 | pages = 1–7 | url = http://seinenkai.com/articles/henning/il%26t.pdf | access-date = 2006-08-17 | archive-date = 2011-02-23 | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110223223752/http://seinenkai.com/articles/henning/il%26t.pdf }}</ref>

In 1676 Huang Zongxi's son, Huang Baijia, who learned martial arts from Wang Zhengnan, compiled the earliest extant manual of internal martial arts, the ''Neijia Quanfa''.{{Sfn|Shahar|2001|p=413}}

===Republic of China===
Beginning in 1914, [[Sun Lutang]] together with [[Yang Shaohou]], [[Yang Chengfu]] and [[Wu Jianquan]] taught tai chi to the public at the [[Beijing]] Physical Education Research Institute. Sun taught there until 1928, a seminal period in the development of modern [[Yang-style tai chi|Yang]], [[Wu-style tai chi|Wu]] and [[Sun-style tai chi]].<ref name= Wile1995>{{cite book|last= Wile| first= Douglas | title = Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty | series = Chinese Philosophy and Culture | publisher = State University of New York Press |year= 1995| isbn= 978-0-7914-2654-8}}</ref> Sun Lutang also published martial arts texts starting in 1915.

In 1928, [[Kuomintang]] generals [[Li Jinglin]], [[Chang Chih-chiang]], and Fung Zuziang organized a national martial arts tournament in China; they did so to screen the best martial artists in order to begin building the [[Central Guoshu Institute]]. The generals separated the participants of the tournament into Shaolin and Wudang.  Wudang participants were recognized as having "internal" skills. These participants were generally practitioners of tai chi, ''xingyiquan'' and ''baguazhang''. All other participants competed under the classification of Shaolin. One of the winners in the "internal" category was the ''baguazhang'' master [[Fu Zhensong]].