Editing Zhang Sanfeng (section)

==Legend==
Zhang Sanfeng is purported as having created the concept of ''[[neijia]]'' ({{lang|zh|內家}}) in [[Chinese martial arts]], specifically [[tai chi]], a [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] syncretism of [[Kung Fu|martial arts]] with his mastery of ''[[daoyin]]'' (or ''[[neigong]]'') principles.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Henning |first=Stanley E. |date=1981 |title=The Chinese Martial Arts in Historical Perspective |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1987462 |journal=Military Affairs |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=173–179 |doi=10.2307/1987462 |jstor=1987462 }}</ref> On one occasion, he observed a bird attacking a snake and was greatly inspired by the snake's defensive tactics. It remained still and alert in the face of the bird's onslaught until it made a lunge and fatally bit its attacker. This incident inspired him to create a set of 75 tai chi movements.<ref name=leung>{{dead link|date=November 2014}} [http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e2007/e200701/p62.htm Mount Wudang – Abode of Immortals and a Martial Monk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924195817/http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/English/e2007/e200701/p62.htm |date=2009-09-24 }}, by staff reporter Huo Jianying (front page)</ref> He is also associated with the Taoist monasteries in the [[Wudang Mountains]].

[[Huang Zongxi]]'s ''Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan'' (1669) gave Zhang Sanfeng credit for the development of a Taoist "internal martial arts" style, as opposed to the "external" style of the Shaolin martial arts tradition. Stanley Henning's article, ''Ignorance, Legend and Taijiquan'', criticised the myth that Zhang Sanfeng created tai chi and cast doubt on whether Zhang really existed.<ref name="henning">{{cite journal|author=Henning, Stanley|date=1994|title=Ignorance, Legend and Taijiquan|journal=Journal of the Chen Style Taijiquan Research Association of Hawaii|volume=2|issue=3|pages=1–7|url=http://seinenkai.com/articles/henning/il%26t.pdf|access-date=2010-10-23|archive-date=2011-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110223223752/http://seinenkai.com/articles/henning/il%26t.pdf|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

Zhang Sanfeng was also an expert in the [[Fujian White Crane|White Crane]] and [[Snake Kung Fu|Snake]] styles of Chinese martial arts{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}, and in the use of the ''[[jian]]'' (double-edged Chinese sword).{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} According to 19th century documents preserved in the archives of the [[Yang-style tai chi|Yang]] and [[Wu-style tai chi|Wu]]-styles tai chi families,{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} Zhang Sanfeng's master was [[Xu Xuanping]], a [[Tang dynasty]] Taoist poet and ''daoyin'' expert.