Historical Data on Han Tong
As a subset of questions from the thread on Hua Quan
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SHemmati
Shaolin tong bi quan origin, as you know, comes from general Han Tong's Tong Bi quan of the Song dynasty...
...it's is said to have been created under the supervision of abbot FuJu (Song dynasty, 960s AD) or FuYu (Yuan dynasty, 1200s AD). about the 'special' style, i'm unsure if it refers to one specific style. many lineages pick up a form and call it 'special.'
This is something I have been looking into for some time now. Do you happen to have a source for either of these quotes outside of Shaolin's encyclopedia?
As a minor side note, Han Tong is really of the Zhou dynasty. He was killed at the founding of the Song which was later recorded in the official history of the Song 宋史 as follows:
After Emperor Shi-Zongs' death in mid-959, he remained in a key position in the court of the six-year-old Zhou Emperor Gongdi and appeared to have been one of the strong men behind the throne. Thus, when Zhao Kuangyin seized the throne early in 960, Han rode hurriedly home from the Palace in order to seek help. He was attacked by Zhao Kuangyins' supporter Wang Yan-Sheng 王彥升 and killed together with his wife and son.
Han Tong was a general guarding the gates of Mulingguan
I would like to answer your questions in more detail, but first I have a favor to ask.
I really would like to find the source of this information.
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Originally Posted by
SHemmati
this is some part of text i got from Sal:
Han Tong was a general guarding the gates of Mulingguan.
Otherwise I will have to assume that I am the source of this information.
The above was written by me from gathering facts from a source of several original books non martial arts books included. I have all the sources and facsimiles of recent existing copies of this information.
This has not been reported or discovered by any Chinese historian that I know of starting with or including the most famous and well known,
Lin Boyuan, Tang Hao and Ma Mingda.
Is there another source of the above information besides me?