Cui Shou Shan
Praying Mantis Shifu
The information presented in this chart was collected from different sources -see Bibliography-, therefore the romanizations in Pinyin according to the Mandarin pronunciation of the characters sometimes is not available. If you find any mistakes or inaccuracies please contact me.
His name is also romanized as:
Shou Shan.
Born in 1890, shifu Cui Shou Shan was student of Jiang Hua Long. He was the elder gong fu brother (Shi Hing) of the famous masters Wang Yu Shan and Li Kuen Shan. It is said that he was even better than Li Kun Shan at spear but he didn't go to the competition in Nankin.
Eight of the most famous disciples of shifu Jiang Hua Long / shifu Song Zi De are known as the Ba Da Di Zi (Eight Great Disciples), being all of them: shifu Wang Yu Shan, shifu Li Kun Shan, shifu Cui Shou Shan, shifu Jiang Huan Ting, shifu Zhao Shi Ting, shifu Jiu Zhu Yuan, shifu Zang Yun Sheng and shifu Jiang Yu Long.
Shifu Cui Shou Shan toghether with shifu Wang Yu Shan, and shifu Li Kun Shan, became famous in Shandong and they were known as the "3 Mountains of Laiyang County." The last Chinese ideogram representing the three masters' names were "Shan", meaning "mountain" in Chinese. Laiyang County in Shandong Province is where many famous Tanglangquan practitioners were from.
Shifu Cui Shou Shan wrote a manuscript about Mei Hua Tang Lang Quan.
Shifu Cui Shou Shan passed away in 1969.
Page Updated: 1st June 2006.
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