Shang Sang Feng, a schooler and wise person left his home and family to travel to the Shaolin temple to learn Kung Fu. Being of middle years and not really up to the rigors of Shaolin Training sent him to Wudang Mountain School. Where Shaolin was know for it's hard physical style, Wudang, which was Taoist based, was more versed in the softer and gentler Tai Chi like style. There he learned, the health giving Taoist exercises. It is said that he then started to merge the movements of Shaolin with the principles and foundations of Wudang to create a form of Chi Kung-Tai Chi. It came to him in a dream.

One night while sleeping, he had a dream of a snake surviving an attack against an eagle. Whatever the case the dream inspired Shang Sang Feng to combine the Chi Kung he learned at Wudang, with the martial arts he learned at the Shaolin temple, thus, the martial art known as Tai Chi Chuan was born.