Liuhe Bafa is the simplified name of Huayue Xinyi Liuhe Bafaguan, aka Water Fist.  One of the most brilliant practitioner in recent history is Wu Yihui.  Mr. Wu was born in Tieling, Liaoning Province and lived in Beijing.  He learnt all the essence of Liuhe Bafa from Yan Guoxing and Chen Guangdi.  Mr. Yu also learnt Lu Hong Ba Shi from Song Qingwen in Pienliang.  Lu Hong Ba Shi is said to be the work of Li Fengyuan of Dengfeng.  Li taught it to Xiong Zhanyuan and Wei Lucheng of Hengchuan, Xingkun of Nanyang, and Deng Zhanxiong of Hebei.  Deng taught it to Song Laomai of Qingxian, who in turn taught his son, Wingwen, the teacher of Mr. Wu.

Mr. Wu entered Military Academy of Baoding in 1905 and later met Liuhe Bafa grandmaster Chen Helu.  He learnt from him for two years, during which his martial arts were further refined.  In late 1920s, Wu went to Shanghai to teach martial arts.  In 1936, Director of the National Martial Arts Association of Nanjing, Zhang Zhijiang invited Wu to be the Provost, who taught Liuhe Bafa there at the same time.  After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Wu moved to Kunming with the Arts Association and returned to Shanghai after our victory.  He taught martial arts at the staff club of Shanghai Electric Power Company in 1950 and was hired by the Department of Literature and History, Shanghai in 1957.  He passed away at Shanghai on 29 March 1958, aged 73.

According to legend, Liuhe Bafa was created by Chen Xiyi of the Song Dynasty.  However, such a saying, just like that Taijiquan was created by Zhang Sanfeng and Shaolinquan by Damo, should not be believed.  In the opinion of recent martial artist Li Yingang, Liuhe Bafa used the whole power of Xingyiguan as core, stances of Baguazhang for transfer, and the soft power of Taijiquan for change.  He came to the conclusion that it should have started after these three internal Chinese martial arts, in the Qing Dynasty, and its creation has been falsely credited to Chen Xiyi.

Successors of Wu Yihui included Zhang Changxin, Zhao Daoxin, He Fusheng, Chen Yiren and Liang zipeng.  The latter two moved to the South and Lihe Bafa was transferred to Hong Kong.  Chen later went as far as the South Seas and transferred Lihe Bafa to Singapore.

Xinyi Liuhe Bafa uses the Six Harmonies as the core and the Eight Methods as the application.  Xin (heart) is the brian, Yi (intention) is the consciousness.  Whatever your heart/mind wants, your consciousness/intention follows.  These two are inseparable.  Therefore, the Xinyi Six Harmonies should be the core, that is, body agrees with mind, mind with intent, intent with breath (qi), breath with spirit, spirit with movement and movement with emptiness.  The Six Harmonies can also be divided into the three internals and three externals.  The three internals are mind agrees with intent, intent with breath, and breath with force.  The three externals are hands coordinate with foots, foots with knees, and knees with pelvis.  To make it more concrete, the body parts in coordination should be in opposite sides of the body and in equal strength, for example, left hand with right foot, right hand with left foot, left elbow with right knee, right knee with left elbow, right shoulder with left hip joint, etc.  Generally speaking, the upper coordinates with the lower, the left with the right, the front with the back.  The Six Harmonies and the Xinyi are linked together.  Xinyi controls the Six Harmonies and the Six Harmonies follow Xinyi.

The Eight Methods are: Qi (breath), Gu (bone), Xing (shape), Sui (follow), Ti (raise), Huan (return), Le (retain) and Fu (Conceal).

Xinyi Liuhe Bafa is a stylish internal fist.  Its movements are flowing, smooth and steady, alternating between fast and slow, and slack and tight.  Locomotion uses the waist as axis, with exact steps following the waist movement.  It has the lightness of Taijiquan, variety of Baguazhang, and strength of Xinyiguan.  It is indeed one of its own kind.