Master Wen was born on March 13th 1960 in Zhaodong County, Yunnan Province, South West China. As a boy Linjun liked to fight with his friends. This came to the attention of his Grandfather Peng Qing , a celebrated Wushu Master and Army General, who told him he would teach him the fighting arts, but if he used them on his friends or classmates his lessons would end. Linjun agreed to this and so his training began. He rose early to train before school, at midday and again in the evening. His Grandfather taught him in the traditional way, with no syllabus and no explanation of the movements. Applications were only transmitted on perfection of the forms and the standards of Master Peng Qing were extremely high. So after many years of diligent practice and hard work Master Wen became one of Master Pengs' most highly regarded students. Learning various Shaolin forms, Wushu basics to increase strength, stamina and power as well as Taiji Quan and Qigong. (A list of some of Shifu Wen's forms can be seen at the end of this article.) Due to Zhaodong being on the main route to Kunming Wushu Masters would often pass through, many wishing to pay their respects to Master Peng Qing. So the young Linjun met many of these old Masters. Always being polite and courteous to them he was highly regarded.

Shifu Wen has many stories from his Grandfather one is about a martial artist from Zhaodong called "Iron Leg" Gou Er. He liked to test other boxers passing through and was a bit of a bully and a trouble maker, when it came to other fighters. One day he heard some soldiers would be passing through, so to test their skill he decided to place a millstone above a doorway, when the door was opened the stone would fall and, if their skills were not good enough, they would be killed. At this time high ranking soldiers were taught to sense if there was something wrong with a situation, like using your second sense, so Gou Er's idea was, if they were good, they would instantly feel something was wrong and, if not, be killed! When Master Peng Qing heard about this he arrested "Iron Leg" and took him to jail in Kunming (and released him only after the troops had left), so as to avoid trouble and for Gou's own good.


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