Emei Sect
The Emei Sect is a fictional martial arts sect mentioned in several works of "wuxia" fiction. It is commonly featured as one of the leading orthodox sects in the "wulin" (martial artists' community). It is named after the place where it is based, Mount Emei. History. In Jin Yong's "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", the Emei Sect was founded in the early Yuan dynasty by Kwok Sheung around the same time as the Wudang Sect. Kwok was the sole known descendant of the Kwok family from "The Return of the Condor Heroes" after the Battle of  Xiangyang. She escaped from Xiangyang with the Heaven Reliant Sword (), became a powerful martial artist and roamed the "jianghu" as a "youxia". At the age of 40, she became a nun and founds the Emei Sect. Abbess Windy Tomb became her successor, who in turn, was succeeded by Abbess Annihilation. In Jin Yong's works, the Sect's members were predominantly women and its leaders were Buddhist/Taoist nuns. In "wuxia" works by other writers, the Emei Sect had members of both sexes, who played equally important roles in the sect. In "Sword Stained with Royal Blood", set in the  late Ming dynasty, Emei is briefly mentioned as one of the "Four Great Sword Sects" and has male members as well. In Gu Long's "The Kingdom of the Golden Bird" of the "Lu Xiaofeng Series", Emei is led by Dugu Yihe, who is slain by Ximen Chuixue. Skills and martial arts. In Jin Yong's novels, Emei's martial arts are the best among those suited for women. The origins of Emei's martial arts came from its founder, Kwok Sheung. Guo's martial arts were mostly inherited from her family, including some of Wong Yeuk-sze (her maternal  grandfather)'s skills. She also learnt part of the "Nine Yang Manual" from Jueyuan in her younger days. However, it did have some elements of unorthodox skills, as exhibited by Chow Tze-yeuk when she used the "Nine Yin White Bone Claw" () after finding the "Nine Yin Manual" (). Emei's martial arts range from powerful inner energy cultivation techniques to the use of weapons and unarmed combat. They encompass the Twelve Movements () and the Six Specially Mastered Skills (). Emei's members primarily use the sword. They also use needles and hairpins, called the "Prick of Emei" () or "Jade Maiden Hairpin  (), as projectile weapons to be thrown at enemies. The most powerful of Emei's skills are the 'Emei Swordplay' and the 36 styles of dianxue" (). Like Wudang, Emei's skills have two sides to them, encompassing elements of "softness" and "roughness" and "long range" and "short range" attacks, all in the same style of fighting. They rotate between deceptive and direct attacks and can be used effectively by women to overcome opponents who are physically stronger than them. Some movements in Emei's swordplays are feminine in nature and are named after beauties in Chinese history and Chinese idioms used  to describe feminine beauty.