PAI, LI LUNG'S PAI LUM HOMEPAGE

PAI LI LUNG'S PAI LUM KUNGFU HOMEPAGE: AUTUMN MOON

Pai, Li Lung

Autumn Moon
Qui Yu

Autumn moon, first name �Bai Yu-Feng.� He was born in Tai Yuan
City. He was from a rich family and he loved pugilism. His body
is short, not tall, but his spirit (soul) is high (bright). He�s
over 50 years old and his body is very strong. He is good at air
exercises (breathing) and sword. He asks to his home everyone
who is the best to learn from, and he spends all his wealth for
teachers so that he is poor. Everywhere he looks like cloud
(parable-i.e., has no family, not married, no children or
parents). He lives by pugilism. He introduced old man named Lee
and his son to the Buddhist monk Jaio Yuan.

All four lived together in Shaolin temple. The trained from
morning to night, day after day. They learned from five animals
to make their own exercise for pugilism and they wrote down
their exercise in a book. The book is called �The essence of
Five Animal Pugilism.� The book�s system explained and depicted
the five animals. The first is the dragon, second is the tiger,
third is the panther or the leopard, fourth is the snake, and the
last is the crane. The five animal�s characteristics or features
were compared by the hands, feet, body, eyes and footwork for
exercise. The person �Bai Yo-Feng� stayed at Shaolin temple
(shrine) for several decades to exercise his heart. He is
proficient in Chinese boxing. He is head and shoulders, pre-
eminent, above all others in martial arts. He teaches boxing to
other people in the temple. The first person he taught was Jiao
Yuan and another Buddhist monk, and he corrected their mistakes
in boxing.

He started a new way (break a new path such as 18 lohan (18
disciples of Buddha) or (18 push and pull all around way) and the
art of dragon swordsmanship ( fencing). The names of the boxing
ways were the �18 lohan,� the �sword of dragon,� the boxing of �5
animals,� and the boxing of �black tiger�, etc.

Bai Yu-Feng has high morals and his boxing is excellent. Many
people praised and spoke highly of him. People come from all
over the country to visit him to learn Chinese boxing from him.
He became famous all over the world. He taught Chinese boxing
day after day and he trained other people severely. The
exercises for training boxing were always improving to get
better, and he made remarkable achievements. Shaolin gave him
the name �Autumn Moon� �Qui Yu.� He remained in Shaolin. His
Chinese boxing spread far and wide. His contribution was great.