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Fu
ZhenSong
(I881-1953)
Known to protect the underdog against bullies he was well respected and worked as a banking security guard. He once used his spear skills to kill a bandit chief. Also he studied from his friend Yang Chen Fu and often compared the two Tai Chi styles he knew of Yang and Chen. He also knew Sun Lu Tang and exchanged information with him on the internal arts while Sun studied Wu Dang sword with him. Later he studied and conferred with the famous swordsman General Li JinLin. Through this association he was exposed to many fine martial artists and this aided in the development of his own style. He was completely dedicated to the improvement and dessimination of martial arts. He travelled throughout China teaching and meeting other practitioners. He was the first man to teach Tai Chi and BaGua in GuanDong. He created his own style with some of these characteristic forms:  Yin
BaGua ZhangYang BaGua Zhang Yin Yang BaGua Zhang Bagua Push hands Liang Yi Quan Orthodox Bagua Zhang Dragon Form BaGua Zhang Dragon Form BaGua Push Hands BaGua Tonado Saber Tai-Chi Lightning Palm Spear Broadsword and others. Some Students of Fu Style BaGua Zhang include: GuangZhou: Liang RiChu, Wang Hong, Cao GuoWei, Li LiCao, Zhai RongJi, Tang HanHui, Fu ShenLong, Fu WenLong, Chen ZhenQing, Hu Chao, Wang YongGuang, Fu YongHui.
In ShenShun City: Zhang Hao In America: Liang QiangYa (last living disciple), Mai BaoChen, Shao YongYi, Peng MiaoYi. In Canada: Zhong YinMin, Zhang GuoXiong. In Australia: Huang Li, Fan RongXiong
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Fu
ZhenSong (aka. Fu
Chien-Kwan) was born in the village
of MaPo, HeNan province, district of Xin-Yang. Initially
he studied in a small school at Chen JiaGou so his first style was
Chen Tai Chi. Auspiciously he began with
Chen Yen-Si (Hwei-Jia).
Chen was an 8th generation master. Yang
Lu-Chan was Fu's KungFu uncle. Fu also began studying Bagua Zhang
from Jia FengMing (QiShan)
in Beijing. Jia had been a top student with Dong
HaiChuan himself. In 1925 he was the head of the Tian Jin
martial arts association. In 1929 he became the head instructor of
the prestigious NanKing GuoShu Institute. The next year, 1929, Fu
was invited by GuangDong's govenor Li Ji Xian to come south and teach
martial arts so he took a post at the "Two Guangs" GuoShu
Institute in GuangZhou. He was named one of the "Five Tigers
south of the ChangJiang -YangTze." The other four were: Wan Lai
Sheng, Gu Ru Zhang, Wai Lai Min, Li Xian Wu Wang
Shao-Jou, and Kang De-Hai ).
Besides being justly famous for his Tai Chi Spear and Sword he was
an excellent performer of Xing Yi. 
HongKong:
Sun BaoGang, Huang YiZhi, Tao Yu, Ma RenChu, Luo Zong, Yang JingTang,
Yang ManYun, ang JinZhen, Zhou JianChang, Guo YunPing, Chen Liang,
Deng XinPing, Gan MingJi, Yan ZhaoFeng, Lu MingJin.