Tangshan Eight Immortals Boxing, Ho HsienKu's Boxing

Описание: Bā Xiān Mén, Hé Xiāngū Quán
"Eight Immortals School, He Xiangu's Boxing"
This set is from the Bā Xiān Mén "Eight Immortals Gate" system from Hebei provinces Tangshan prefecture, demonstarted by the 5th generation inheritor of the system mister Li Jinghe.
He XianGu better known as Ho HsienKu is the only female among the eight immortals.
Accounts of her life vary greatly, is said to have been born either in the Quanzhou area of Fujian province or Guangzhou. She was born to a family of officials and from an early age was extremely intelligent and independent. Refusing to marry she instead was interested in Taoist arts and spent much time in the mountains. Around the age of 16 she was given a peach by Lu DongBin who saw the potential she had. He said "if you eat this entire peach and continue to practice abstinence from grains you will become immortal". After eating the peach she stopped consuming grains and became lighter and stronger eventually reaching immortality.
In another version of the story she was told by a voice in a dream to consume powdered Mica (Cloud Mother Powder)(a common ingredient in Taoist alchemical elixirs) in order to achieve immortality, when she awoke she began to consume it daily eventually rising into the air as an immortal in broad daylight in front of the people of her town.
It is said that both her parents lived to over 100, when they died she set up a shrine for them at their tomb.
Hearing of her powers empress Wu of Tang issued an imperial order for her to be brought to the capital thinking she could learn the secrets of immortality and rule for all of time. However when the envoy came for her she traveled with them for a time, disappearing right before they reached the capital. After that time there were several sightings reported to the empress but whenever the imperial envoys arrived she had already disappeared.