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				Wang Ji Wu (Also known as Wang Zhong Gao), was born in Shanxi province, in 1891. He moved to Tai Yuan at 16, and began his xingyi training at 18, with Wang Fu Yuan. Wang Fu Yuan was a student of Liu Qi Lan, and a Hebei stylist, but later moved to Shanxi, adopting its system's characteristics. Wang was a very persistent student, practicing day and night. But, when he reached his 24th birthday, his master died. Wang Ji Wu went on with his training with Wang Fu Yuan's top student, Peng Ying Xi. Late Grandmaster Wang Jiwu in Xingyi's Pao Quan
		After practicing with Peng for seven years, Wang moved to Hebei province to set up a bodyguard service. He met his xingyiquan uncle, Li Cun Yi, with whom he ran the 'Yi He' scort and bodyguard service in Bao Ding. After refusing to teach the local warlord army, he moved to Tianjin, and got into commercial business. Finally, in 1933, he settled in Beijing, where he began to study Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Taoism, and medicine. During that time he created the Xingyiquan Sixteen Health Excercises, a series of Neigong excercises to promote health and longevity, and began to accept students. His Shanxi xingyiquan system is very wide and complete, with a great amount of two-man forms, and weapons. Master Wang's system became well known in the west thanks to Dan Miller and Tim Cartmell's book "Xingyi Neigong."
		Wang Ji Wu died in 1991, at 100 years of age, proving by himself the efectiveness of his art's health excercises. Until the time of his death his health was excellent, keeping a lucid mind, and still practicing his beloved art of xingyiquan. <--- | --->