The Sixteen Postures Form was created by Master Lu Shengli. Everything in the form is based on internal gongfu (kungfu): Taiji Quan, Bagua Zhang, and Xingyi Quan; and also some useful skills from Tongbei Quan, Baji Quan, etc. are included. Master Lu studied internal martial arts from Grand Master Wang Peisheng and Master Luo Shuhuan for more than thirty years. He has practiced very hard and developed his actual fighting skills to a high level. From his personal experience, he has chosen about thirty single techniques from internal gongfu and created this form. He wants to help people who are already proficient in basic gongfu to study and master actual fighting skills quickly. We know that in the study of internal gongfu, we are able to experience many beneficial feelings. However in real fighting people are unable to pick up the feelings quickly. We can always find people who have practiced internal gongfu for many years but they can not use internal idea in their fighting. The study of this form is a shortcut in applying internal principles to real fighting. In the traditional view people said: "to master one technique is better than knowing a thousand incompletely". Master Lu adopted this idea. Under Grand Master Wang's instruction, he did a lot research in creating this form. Everything he has chosen is simple but useful. If one already has some basic gongfu skills of the internal styles, we believe this form can help him to really understand actual fighting principles and let him utilize some skills quickly.

Master Lu studied martial arts from ten years of age. He practiced very hard and developed his fighting skill to a high level. For many years, he starts his training from five o'clock in the every morning. His high level gongfu skill made him win a good reputation among the martial artist community of Beijing.  

Master Lu has been teaches martial arts for more than fifteen years. To date he is the martial arts instructor of Beijing Information Technology Institute, Beijing Wu Style Taiji Quan Association, and Yin Cheng Gong Fa Association. As an assistant of Grand Master Wang, he has helped Master Wang organize and teach classes and seminors for many years. He also helps Master Wang train many foreign visiting martial arts practitioners. In 1993, when he visited Unite States Grand Master Wang chose Master Lu as his assistant. They taught a week long workshop in the Taste of China event in Virginia.

Grand Master Wang Peisheng and Master Lu Shengli demostrated Taiji Push hands in the Taste of China in 1993.