张三丰
Huang Zongxi's "Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan" (1669) gave Zhang Sanfeng credit for the development of a Taoist "internal martial arts" style, as opposed to the "external" style of the Shaolin martial arts tradition. Stanley Henning's article, "Ignorance, Legend and Taijiquan", criticised the myth that Zhang Sanfeng created "taijiquan" and cast doubt on whether Zhang really existed.