Chin Li Ming means literally "golden dawn" and is the name of an obscure northern Chinese warrior of reputedly Korean/Manchurian ancestry who was very skilled in a mysterious, all but unknown of, style of white crane boxing called colorfully "the flying art of the child spirits of the night". God, and some lucky person only knows what it looked like, but it was supposedly unbelievably awesome. The
epitome of human movement potential. Also supposedly this Chin Li Ming was a traitor to the Manchurians (dragon throne), and threw in his lot with the rebellious south (the underground secret societies). At the end of the 19the century, the revolutionary state of the populace was at a fever pitch. The rebels had for the past two centuries (since the fall of the Ming Dynasty in 1644) organized an underground organization in scope unequaled in the history of man: the dreaded and feared Triad Society (Heaven, Earth, and Man Society), also know as the "Hung League". the original purpose of this society (started by 5 shaolin monks) was to train the populace in martial arts for the eventual overthrow of the Ching (Manchurian) Dynasty, and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. In and around the turn of the century (1900), a secret Chinese Triad society (of which there were dozens) called the "Dragon Flower Society" gathered together several Chinese martial arts masters. In secret, and of coursein jeopardy of there lives if they should have been discovered, they devised from their combined knowledge a system of empty handed assassination techniques. This system of nine techniques (called the "nine dragon flowers"). This secret society obviously had some special mission, perhaps to kill certain select Manchurian government officials in case the revolution were to fail. The revolution led by the "Righteously Harmonious Fists Society" did, of course fail. The societies seized the city of Peking, and held it for 55 days. The kung fu boxers terrorized the city, held the foreign missionaries captive, and r***d, tortured, and killed both Chinese and "foreign devils" alike. This was known as the Boxer Rebellion. British, German, French, Italian, and finally, American troops were lead into Peking to save the missionaries by the heroic.. Japanese. The kung fu boxers were absolutely unmatched in hand-to-hand combat, but they could not stop bullets..or rather..they DID stop bullets (but not the way they wanted to). The true purpose of the Dragon Flower Society is unknown. All we can do is surmise. There is a lot of colorful mystery surrounding these nine Dragon Flower warriors . Accounts show that two high officials of the revolutionary secret societies escaped. One was the leader of the entire underground movement and nationalist predecessor of Chiang Kai-Shek. His name was Sun Yat Sen. The other, an obscure, secretive agent of General Sun Yat Sen, supposed leader of his intelligence operation, and the leader and chief instructor of the "Dragon Flower Society", escaped to Japan in 1900, and was not heard from since, even though the Ching Dynasty fell in 1912 placing Sun Yat Sen in power. This Master Assassins name was Moon. Carl Taylor was introduced to CHINESE BOXING in 1965 by Wen Yen Pao at East Texas University. Wen Yen Pao, and his family, are from Japan, although they are of Chinese heritage.Wen Yen Pao specialized in Pa Kua Chang, and an especially ruthless jujitsu-like art that was handed down from his two uncles (his father refused to teach him). His uncles stated that the art had been taught to them by their father, Wen Yen Pao`s grandfather. Wen Yen Pao also stated that his grandfather had learned the fundamentals of the art from a man named "Moon". The art is called Chi Tao Chuan not to be confused with several other systems advertised today that also bear that name. Wen Yen Pao`s family system of Chinese Boxing appears to be a devastating mixture of mostly Shaolin Tiger/Crane, some Southern Praying Mantis, and allot of Shaolin Plum Blossom Boxing techniques.
