Zhang Sanfeng is a casual person. He lived in Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, nuns, thatched cottages and caves. His fist is thirteen-style, which is really not what people now know as Tai Ji Chuan. Legend has it that Zhang Sanfeng lived in Wudang Mountain for a long time, and he was very lonely. Intentionally or unintentionally, he passed on his boxing skills to three people, either the woodcutter or the herbalist.
There are several legends about the time when Zhang Sanfeng lived, but we know that there was no Taiji Biography in that time, no matter in legend or history. It is a historical fact that Tai Ji Chuan will not exist until two or three hundred years later. There are many legends about Zhang Sanfeng, such as Peng Zu. Whether it exists in history, of course, only the immortals in Wudang know.
The emergence of Wushu in China is related to war. People who practice martial arts all the year round know that martial arts is really not as magical as depicted in Jin Yong's novels, Gu Long's novels and Liang Yusheng's novels, nor as pleasing to the eye as in film and television dramas. It's true. If you want to practice well, you must do three things: first, be clear about boxing, second, work hard, and third, persist, so as to practice Tai Ji Chuan well.
According to legend, Zhang Sanfeng is the founder of Wutangmen, a master of Taiji and Taoism. Others are not in the Jianghu, and his legends are everywhere in the Jianghu, but these may not be credible. He is the shadow of many people and has become a strange man through various folklore.
Many records about him come from the Ming Dynasty, but most of the records about him in the Ming Dynasty came after Zhang Sanfeng gained the Tao. When he was born and when he died is impossible to prove.