This is simular to the White Eyebrow council's decision around 200 years ago to create Hua Chein (Modern Hua) in order to encompass all the moves of the roads of the Hua into one form.
When Master Sin first taught out the form, that is the story he told. That a group "White Eyebrow Council" had met and from this meeting it was decided that the Hua roads would be comdensed into one form. Now I may have been under the influence of mind altering drugs at the time but that is the way I remember the background going. Perhaps some of the other old timers from Master Sin's saturday class can shed some more light on this. So many years, so many beers.....
so how did this work? 200 years ago a bunch of bak mei peeps got together in a council and decided to create a style of long fist?

interesting