Legend About Zhang Sanfeng
One tradition claims that Master Chang San feng was born at midnight on April 9, 1247 AD, near Dragon-Tiger Mountain in Kiang-Hsi Province in the southeast of China. He is said to have been a government official in his youth, learned Shaolin martial arts while living in the Pao-Gi Mountains near Three Peaks (San Feng), and then living for scores of years as a Taoist hermit and sage in the Wu-Tang (Wudang) Mountains. He is reported to have lived to be 200 years old (1247-1447AD), but his death date is uncertain.
