吕紫剑 Bagua Master Lu Zijian

Lu Zijian (1893 - 2012) was a martial artist and a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In 1911 he studied Baguazhang, Art and Calligraphy with master Li Changye, becoming his third generation successor. In 1929, to protest the government’s plan to “abolish traditional Chinese medicine“, he was elected head of the medical team as an advocate for traditional Chinese medicine. In 1937, 44-year-old Lu Zijian personally experienced the Nanjing Massacre, managed to save himself by posing as a doctor, but never accepted the Japanese as his disciples ever since. During the Cultural Revolution he was considered a “counter-revolutionary“ and spent more than ten years in a labor camp in Xinjiang, during which time he became famous for having treated two young spouses with acupuncture, she a Uyghur and he of Han ethnicity. In 1979, after seeing him practice Martial Arts in an exhibition, Lu was rehabilitated by President Deng Xiaoping himself and was able to return to his