Wudang chuan

In China, the martial arts are dichotomized into two major groups: Wudang and Shaolin. Wǔdāngquán (or Wudang fist/Wudang boxing) includes only the arts applied with internal power; this typically encompasses Tai chi chuan, Xing-Yi chuan and Bagua zhang, but must also include Baji chuan and the legendary Wudang Sword. Although it simply distinguishes the skills, theories and applications of the "internal arts" from those of the Shaolin styles, or external arts (hard arts), the name Wudang falsely leads people to believe these arts originated at the so-called Wudang Mountain. The name Wudang comes from a popular Chinese legend which entertains the genesis of Tai chi chuan and Wudang Sword by an immortal, semi-mystic Taoist hermit named Zhang Sanfeng who lived in the monasteries of Wudang Mountain.Nèijiā is a more broad term used mistakenly in the West as a synonym for the more specific Wǔdāngquán; while Nèijiā encompasses Qiong, Wǔdāngquán does not.