Liang Shaozong

Liang Shaozong (梁少宗, b. 1968) is the eldest son of Liang Yiquan and the seventeenth generation of the Camel Cliff Liang family line — the man who turned a cave-founded school into an education group. In the pair that defines the modern Shaolin story at this archive, his father was the pioneer who lit the lamp in the caves; Liang Shaozong is the heir who took a Beijing job, gave it up in 1994, came home, and built the institutional bridge from folk discipleship to a modern school system.[1][2]

Dawn before the caves

He was born June 15, 1968 at Luotuo cliff (骆驼崖), the first child of the family while his father was still a proscribed man teaching villagers’ children in secret. The biography follows the founder’s own: morning training before light from the age of six, the family long fist and the big flood fist, the children of the cave school as his playmates.[1][2]

The competition years, 1983–1986

The school’s and his own accounts record a four-first sweep at the Dengfeng county games at fifteen, then a double victory — barehand and weapons, Shaolin fist and the travel cudgel — at the 1986 national observation meet in Xuzhou, and the Shaolin-fist title at the Henan provincial games that autumn.[1][13] These early results come chiefly from profile literature rather than competition archives; the archive carries them as recorded.[13]

Beijing: the university and the cadre college

In September 1986 he entered the wushu department of Beijing Sport University, graduating in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree; a senior-year thesis 《少林长拳的现代教学研究》 on modern teaching research into Shaolin long fist is his own later account of separating fighting content from display content in training.[13] He was assigned to the China Coal Management Cadre College (中国煤炭管理干部学院) — the institution later folded into the Communication University of China — as its chief wushu coach, holding the college rank of senior instructor. By 1994 he had what generations of his family had not: a stable capital career.[1][6]

1994: quitting the city

In October 1994 he resigned and returned to Dengfeng. The motive reported in both families’ telling is the plain one — the academy his father had run since the county permit of 1981 needed the modern education and management he had acquired. In 1995 father and son founded the Dengfeng Shaolin Wushu Specialized Academy together, the direct forerunner of the Ebo group; Liang Yiquan had taken the national ten-famous-masters honor the year before.[1][2]

The principal’s curriculum

Accounts put his principalship in 2001 or thereabouts, and in April 2002 the academy added a state-curriculum secondary professional school, completing a through-track from kindergarten to secondary. His innovation is structural: the three-block day (三段式教学) — cultural subjects in the morning, wushu in the afternoon, virtue in the evening — which institutionalizes the family maxim 文无武则馁，武无文则蛮, and stands against the heavy-hand-and-light-book style that dogged the commercial boom after the 1982 film.[1][2] The numbers he reports for the school — thousands of graduates into university, into police and armed-police units, into coaching, tens of thousands of competition medals — are school marketing figures, rounded here as the school itself rounds them.[1]

One axis, two wings（一轴两翼）

The group’s own strategy phrase, in print from the mid-2020s, names the layout: the Dengfeng school on Ebo ridge (鹅坡岭) as the axis, and two wings — the Foshan Wong Fei-hung (International) Culture-and-Martial School (佛山市黄飞鸿文武学校) opened in 2012 in Nanhai, facing the Greater Bay Area, and the Harbin Shaolin Huiwen (International) Culture-and-Martial School (哈尔滨少林慧闻文武学校) opened in 2017, tying the northern season to ice sports.[7] Around the axis the group added commerce (2005), a hotel (2008), a media company (2020), kindergartens (2018), a restaurant brand (2023), and a Beijing cultural-IP company; the holding company Henan Shaolin Ebo Education Technology Group was registered in December 2019.[10] In 2019 the school also became a national pilot base for youth football and ice hockey.[1]

The torch, and the national stage

On July 25, 2008 he carried the Olympic flame through Zhengzhou in the city’s relay — photographed by Xinhua, and later referenced in the people’s congress’s own report of his delegate training — and sent more than two hundred of the school’s performers into the torch-day program.[3][4] Under him the school’s troupes became a fixture of the state calendar’s big evenings: the 2008 world table-tennis championships in Guangzhou, the 2010 Shanghai Expo, the 2014 APEC gala at the Water Cube, the 2015 track world-championship opening at the Bird’s Nest, the 2016 Spring Festival Gala, the 2019 basketball World Cup opening and the 70th national-day gala, and the fifteenth national games’ water stage in 2025.[1][2]

A master’s degree, late

In June 2009 he completed a professional master’s at Wuhan University (武汉大学) — in software engineering (软件工程), not sport science — a choice his accounts explain as the toolkit for running a school system on data rather than memory.[1][6] The academic appointments followed the practice: engagements as visiting professor and senior researcher at Beijing Normal University’s Zhuhai campus, Henan University and its wushu college, a seat on the Chinese Wushu Association’s youth and school committee from 2019, and vice-presidencies and chairmanships in the Guangdong, Heilongjiang and Foshan associations.[11][12]

The seventeenth generation

He is listed as a Dengfeng municipal intangible-heritage representative inheritor for the Ebo Liang-style long fist in the city’s fourth batch — the formal seal on a family line its own genealogy counts from a Ming-era monk at a hermitage above the village.[9] In the federation ranking he holds the eighth duan (中国武术八段)。 In July 2026 he was re-elected vice president of the Henan Wushu Association (河南省武术协会副会长), the office his father had held: the two-generation description the provincial association itself uses.[8] His brother 梁少飞 runs the competitive track inside the provincial system; the family’s second generation holds both the school and the stadium.[2]

Cautions

• Competition record. The 1983 and 1986 results come from profile and school literature, not located competition archives; carried as recorded.
• School figures. Graduate, medal and performance counts are the school’s own marketing numbers; stated as approximations.
• The thesis. The Beijing Sport University thesis title and its separation-of-teaching idea are self-reported in interviews.
• 少林十八金刚. The label appears across sources without a clear awarding body or year; mentioned only as a circulating tag.
• The principalship year. 2001 and about 2002 both appear in the school’s literature; the difference is the gap between appointment and the state-certified secondary school’s opening.
• Party and public office. Delegate and committee posts are listed by the official bodies named in the references; no further inference is made here.

The record continues

The first half of this story is at Liang Yiquan; the temple dharma line behind the family’s second name runs through Shi Zhenxu; the Japanese mirror of the same family of arts stands at So Doshin. The village ground beneath them all is at the archive’s historical record.

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