Fuzhou Feeding Crane News clip

Shí Hè Quán (Feeding Crane Boxing)
News clip featuring Chen Wenjin,
Chen Wenjin is known in Fuzhou as a master of Feeding Crane and for his high level skills in Iron Palm and Iron Body methods.
This lineage of Feeding Crane can be traced back to the late Qing dynasty to a Taoist priest know locally as Yi Tou Chun "Leaning Head Chun" (for his crooked neck). Chun was skilled in both Golden Lion Boxing and Feeding Crane. Among these two styles the Golden Lion Boxing was the public face of his arts, while he kept his feeding crane skills secret.
He eventually passed the Feeding Crane methods down to his wife's nephew Tai Maoshi, a livestock dealer from Fuzhou's Lianjiang county.
Tai Maoshi in turn began teaching martial arts to a chef in the Xindian district named Chen Lifu. Chen was very respectful and always served his teacher and grand teacher meals whenever they came to see him or he came to see them.
At the advice of Chun, Tai Maoshi decided to pass down the complete system of Feeding Crane to Chen Lifu.
Chen was known as a very respectful man and did not like to fight. However with his job as a chef he often butchered livestock and would use them to test his skills. It is said that he was able to shatter the skull of a pig with a palm strike to it's head. Another time he used the propping palm strike to hit the belly of a water buffalo which was immediately dropped to it's knees by the strike. Later he tried using the crane claw method on the belly of a pig. The pig immediately walked to a ditch and began drinking large volumes of water before collapsing and passing away hours later. Upon butchering the animal he found that it's intestines had been torn by the strike.
Chen was also known for his skill in Dian Xue specializing in the use of acupoints for treating injuries and illness. He grew to become a well known local doctor specializing in injury treatments.
In 1964 Chen received awards in the Fujian martial arts competition and was then appointed to be a judge of southern style boxing in national martial arts competitions.
Chen Lifu later passed his system of Feeding Crane to his nephew Chen Wenjin.
This system of Feeding Crane contains nine Kuang (taolu / forms), these are in order from 1st to last Dia Gu "Hanging Bones", Dian Fei "Point Flying", Diao Lian "Holding Lotus (in mouth)", Si Men "Four Gates", Wu Xing "Five Phases", Sanshiliu Jiao Shou "36 Legs and Hands", Bagua "Eight Diagrams", Yin Yang Shou "Yin Yang Hands", Shi He Luohan Duo Shou Zhan Quan "Feeding Crane Luohan Many Hands Battle Boxing".
(aside from being transliterated in standard Mandarin Pinyin rather than Mindong it's likely many of these are mistranslated. For one thing often the correct characters for the names of forms get lost, also people in Min language areas commonly used characters for their phonetic values to render unique local words or slang. Even in the martial arts the Min speaking areas tended to have particularly unique terminologies. Which makes understanding form names or sayings from old folk arts in Min speaking areas particularly hard.)
There are a number of lineages that use the name "Feeding Crane" in Fuzhou, Putian and Taiwan. There are a number of possibilities such as some of these schools being completely unrelated to each other or stemming from an older body of material which is now lost. The line named Feeding Crane which seems to have been prominent in Fuzhou during the late 19th and early 20th century is quite possibly lost. There were at least a couple old teacher who knew bits of it during the 1980's. However I do not know if any of it survives today. It is possible the Putian lineage is an offshoot of these but I don't have any information on their lineage history.
So what we do have is at least 3 different still extant systems calling themselves Feeding Crane, each of which have totally different lineages which all can reliably be traced back to the later part of the 19th century but no further.