This form was created by Fuju head monk in Song Dynasty. He taught 26 high rank warrior monks the core of Shaolin kungfu and ordered them to guard 13 gates (2 monks each gate). All the monks who wanted to leave the temple have to defeat all 26 monks, or they had to be punished and practised even harder to get a chance to leave the temple. That is the reason it was named “open mountain“.
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