Master Baihu

[weber]

In some way i believe if ren DIDN'T Attack the Scout, I reckon the test would have to try beat Baihu... Why else would anyone want to come to the bottom of a building where you would Definately end up getting Hurt/Killed?
I have read through this topic. So im sorry if i missed this In other posts

[Miles Prower]

In some way i believe if ren DIDN'T Attack the Scout, I reckon the test would have to try beat Baihu... Why else would anyone want to come to the bottom of a building where you would Definately end up getting Hurt/Killed?
I have read through this topic. So im sorry if i missed this In other posts

That's fine, that was always my thinking of it too-why else would they show Baihu fighting that guy in the wifebeater when you first go down to the basement?

[Weils]

I don't think he's a member of the Chi-You Men, he may be affilated with them somehow though. Another thing, iread here and skip to the stuff on the white leaf and elixir of eternal youth. I reckon Baihu could be the martial arts expert Iwao got it off. I know it's a flawed theory, as he would probably have remembered the name Hazuki.

Baihu is loosely affiliated with Chiyoumen, which I believe that he's a high-ranking member of Yellowhead (since he's located underneath Yellow Sky Building). But I don't think he's one of the 4 Heavenly Kings at all.

For those who know about Chinese mythology, the name Bai Hu (Byakko in Japanese) is one of 4 Heavenly Creatures. The 3 best fighters in Kowloon area where Ryo has to take on one by one are also designated as each of the remaining 3 Heavenly Creatures. Rod Stunt (Suzaku in Japanese, Zhu Que in Chinese), Greg More (Seiryu in Japanese, Qing Long in Chinese) and lastly Chunyan Xu (Genbu in Japanese, Xuan Wu in Chinese).

These three fighters use their real names but they each represent 3 of the Heavenly Creatures. Baihu is an exception that he uses this title and we do not know his real name.

[Kiyuu]

Baihu is loosely affiliated with Chiyoumen, which I believe that he's a high-ranking member of Yellowhead (since he's located underneath Yellow Sky Building). But I don't think he's one of the 4 Heavenly Kings at all.

For those who know about Chinese mythology, the name Bai Hu (Byakko in Japanese) is one of 4 Heavenly Creatures. The 3 best fighters in Kowloon area where Ryo has to take on one by one are also designated as each of the remaining 3 Heavenly Creatures. Rod Stunt (Suzaku in Japanese, Zhu Que in Chinese), Greg More (Seiryu in Japanese, Qing Long in Chinese) and lastly Chunyan Xu (Genbu in Japanese, Xuan Wu in Chinese).

These three fighters use their real names but they each represent 3 of the Heavenly Creatures. Baihu is an exception that he uses this title and we do not know his real name.

Your calling "Yellow Head Bldg." "Yellow Sky Bldg." made me smile. Because, only those who
can read Kanji would make that kind of mistake. Now, you've proven you can read Kanji. ;)

Anyway, if you know Kanji and the mythology, you can see the name of the area where each
fighter is located represents the color of each direction, can't you?

Rod = red (south), Greg = blue (east), Chunyan = black (north), Baihu = white (west)

[weber]

Baihu has the Tiger Swallow Style. Only Person in the game we know has it is Sunming Zhao and Lan di. I reckon we shall see the rest of the people Kiyuu Posted on the family tree thing with the People that know TSS

[ToL]

Just me or did anyone else think Chunyan was one hot piece of ass?

[weber]

She was ^_^ hehe

[drunkensailor]

Master Baihu translates to Master White Tiger...... i wonder if it means anything in terms of the ranking or people in the chiyoumen.

There is some significance between Master Baihu and the Chi You Men. Remember the rankings? The heavenly beasts?

Heavenly Emperor - Tentei
Black Tortoise - ???
Blue Dragon - Lan Di
Red Phoenix - Niao Sun
White Tiger - ...is said to be Ziming Hong, but with Master Baihu translating to 'White Tiger'?? Maybe Master Baihu is part of the Chi You Men afterall, but what about Ziming?

i dunno if anyone has sugggested this yet but maybe Master Baihu is Ziming?

sorry if some one already has i cant be arsed to read it all

yes I did and although not many people seem to think this is true I have yet to hear a good explanation of why he wouldn't be ziming. his facial shape is even similar.

[Who Really Cares?]

Nice bump....

Not Ziming because the comic from the Xbox version briefly shows him.



Baihu was just another street fighter till late on in the development.

[Amir]

I think the reason Baihu looks so out of place is that he was supposed to be in a different location initially, but when that segment of the game was cut (the original Chapter 4? There are 4 fighters on that concept art picture, but one does look like Lan Di...) they decided to keep him because they liked the design and look of the character. Realising it wouldn't make sense for him to be a street fighter (hence the discarded photo data that was found on Shenmue IIX) he was put in the basement instead. Weber's theory about him being the initial test if Ren didn't beat up the scout makes sense as well.