- Quoted in Kang Yong Qian shiqi chengxiang renmin fankang douzheng ziliao,
2:619. - The warning was engraved on the back side of a stele, which contains a 1595
letter of patronage by the Dengfeng County magistrate. I am grateful to A’de for
pointing it to me. - See Shahar, Crazy Ji, pp. 30–45; and Welch, The Practice of Chinese Buddhism,
p. 16. On meat-eating monks, see also Kieschnick, The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ide-
als in Medieval Chinese Hagiography, pp. 51–63; and Faure, The Red Thread: Buddhist
Approaches to Sexuality, pp. 151–53. - The other guardian deity mentioned is Kapila ( Jiapiluo shen). See Guang
hong ming ji, T, no. 2103, 52:298a; and Soper, Literary Evidence for Early Buddhist Art in
China, pp. 74, 229. I am grateful to Susan Bush for this reference. - Defending the Nation
- See, for example, Zhu Guozhen (1557–1632), Yongchuang xiaopin, 28.673;
Zuixing shi (ca. 1650), 12.101; and Pingyao zhuan, revised by Feng Menglong (1574–
1646), 10.59. - See Jin Ping Mei cihua, 90.1244.
- Yu Dayou, “A poem, with prologue, sent to the Shaolin monk Zongqing,” in
his Zhengqi tang xuji, 2.7a. - See Hou Anguo’s preface to the Shaolin gunfa chan zong. On Cheng Zongyou
see also Lin Boyuan, Zhongguo tiyu shi, p. 337. - Chen Jiru (1558–1639), for example, wrote the preface to Cheng’s She shi
(History of archery). - Huang Baijia’s martial instructor, Wang Zhengnan (1617–1669), received
no formal education and earned his livelihood as a manual laborer. See Huang
Zongxi’s epitaph for Wang in his Nanlei wending, 8.128–130; and Wile, T’ai Chi’s An-
cestors, pp. 55–57. - The titles of the other three manuals included are Juezhang xin fa (Essentials
of the crossbow method); Changqiang fa xuan (Selections of the long spear method);
and Dandao fa xuan (Selections of the broadsword method). Cheng’s Shaolin gunfa is
available also in an edition titled Shaolin gun jue (The Shaolin staff formulas), which
carries a forged preface attributed to the earlier Yu Dayou (1503–1579). - Yu Dayou, “A poem, with prologue, sent to the Shaolin monk Zongqing,” in
his Zhengqi tang xuji, 2.7a. - A spear manual attributed to Hongzhuan and titled Menglü tang qiangfa is
included in Wu Shu, Shoubi lu, pp. 113–124. - Cheng Zongyou, Shaolin gunfa, 1.1b –2b.
- Mao Yuanyi, Wubei zhi, 88.1a.
- Ibid., chapters 88–90.
- See Cheng Zongyou, Shaolin gunfa, 2.1a, 3.8b. For the relevant conversions,
see “Ming Weights and Measures,” in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 7, p. xxi. - Cheng Zongyou, Shaolin gunfa, 3.8a–b.
1 5. Ibid., 1.5b–6b.
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