Shaolin Fist Moves Names All

There are many kinds of Shaolin Fist, among which the common Shaolin Five Fists contains five kinds of fists: Dragon, Tiger, Leopard, Snake, and Crane, which is a masterpiece of Quanzhou martial arts.

I, Shaolin boxing introduction

Shaolin boxing is one of China's traditional boxing, named after the Shaolin Temple, is based on the ancient Chinese fitness, absorbing the strengths of a variety of martial arts and the formation of boxing. As one of the most influential schools, it is renowned both at home and abroad for its robustness, simplicity and skillfulness.

The early stage of development

The origin of Shaolin Wushu can only be the Chinese folk martial arts in the northern region, especially in the Central Plains, where martial arts have been developed to a fairly high level at least during the Two Han Dynasty and the art of qi guiding has also accumulated relatively rich experience. In addition, according to historical records, before Dharma, some temples in the north had a culture of practicing martial arts, and some monks had risen up against the government.

All the monks of the Shaolin Temple came from the folklore, and some of them knew martial arts before joining the temple, and after joining the temple, they taught each other among the monks. This enabled them to draw extensively on the essence of martial arts from both the monks and the laymen, and to constantly summarize their experiences and develop their creativity.

Common boxing

One, Shaolin Huaquan

Huaquan is a rare type of Shaolin ancient boxing, belonging to the school of Shaolin soft boxing. Characteristics: the fist to hit the crouching cow of the ground, out of the agile, hit without revealing the shape of the clothes that hit, the hand to the strength of the hair, away from the body to eliminate the strength. Essence: the eight methods of Hua Quan, namely "swallowing, spitting, floating, sinking, sticking, leaving, pew, dredging".

Shaolin Huaquan is a soft and elegant way, left plate right twist as if the wind swinging flag, skillful hands attack and defense just like the wind blowing willow, up and down in and out as if the clouds and water, relaxation seems to be like the sea tide rise and fall. Flower Fist boxing is not mainly in the mystery of the moves, but more in the handling of the strength. "The hand is agile, hit without revealing the shape, dip the clothes that is hit, hand to the strength of the hair, away from the body to eliminate the strength."

Two, Shaolin Luohan Quan

Features: "The fist is clear and concise, short and compact, flexible and versatile." Essence of the meaning: "out like an arrow, closing like cotton, a move to win, a chain of attacks."

Luohan Quan's boxing theory is permeated with the traditional Chinese philosophical viewpoint of "mutual birth, mutual restraint, this consumes the other, and what goes around comes around". Its hand shape changes reflect the yin and yang five elements. Luo Han Quan hand shape according to the "five elements" is divided into five branches: "Yang palm for the water, standing palm for the wood, pouncing palm for the fire, clenched fist for the earth, hook hand for gold."

At the same time, various hand shapes have different movement requirements: "water branch such as flowing clouds and water, wood branch interspersed with moving arrows, fire branch such as inflammation rushing to the sky, wood branch as heavy as iron, gold branch deformation such as hooks." The "three palms, one fist and one hook" creates the flexibility of Luohan Quan, which is often used in actual combat to win by surprise.