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I am not an expert of Xinyi Liuhe Quan, but I know it's history pretty well. The Xinyi Liuhe Quan (XYLHQ) is brother of Xingyi Quan, they have the same origin, but the styles now are not the same, but similiar. Both are internal style. The most recent recorded origin of the style was about 300 years ago, master Ji Longfeng learned this style from some unkown master, and he exchanged the style with Shaolin temple for YiJinJing(one of the ultimate Chinese internal practices). That's how Shaolin got its XinYi Ba. Master Ji's disciples are mainly in Shanxi, Hebei and Henan provinces. The Shanxi and Henan style still call themselves Xinyi Liuhe Quan, and the Hebei branch turned into Xinyi Quan, which was very successful at the turn of 19 century. The henan branch only teach the style to muslims. Later on some masters of the henan branch went to Shanghai and begin to teach the style to non-muslims. Currently I think you can find very good Xinyi Liuhe Quan masters in Shanghai.