Around 1912 Gao claimed he met Song Yiren, a Taoist from Guang Hua Mountain who gave him the Hou Tian sets. It is likely that this is a fabrication because the Chinese attribute many of their martial arts to famous yet obscure sources. Even his direct students expressed doubts about this story. There are many Baguazhang systems with application based short forms similar to Gao's Hou Tian Sets. It is not difficult to imagine that Gao had learned some of them from Cheng or Zhou. Another student of Zhou Yuxiang wrote a book that had 31 of Gao's 64 Hou Tien palms in it. Han Muxia, grand-student of Cheng Tinghua and friend of Zhou Yuxiang's had 48 straight line Baguazhang sets almost identical to Gao's. Based on the above facts, it is possible that Gao may have standardized 48 of the Hou Tians from his experience with Zhou, Cheng and Li Cunyi then rounded out the total number to 64 in accordance with well-known Daoist cosmology.