Why is there a saying in traditional martial arts that taking off a gun is a fist?

Take off your gun and change your fist? This statement mainly refers to Xingyiquan, because the origin of Xingyiquan is that Yue Fei evolved his marksmanship into a set of fierce boxing techniques to teach his subordinates in order to improve the combat capability of his soldiers, that is, he took off his gun and integrated marksmanship into his own creation, so Yue Fei is actually the real founder of Xingyiquan. It has been so many years since the Song Dynasty that there has been a saying in Wulin that "taking off the gun is a fist", so it will also be said in other kinds of traditional Wushu.

Yue Fei took off his gun as a fist. According to the preface of Ancient Prose of Xingyiquan written by Dai Longbang of Ma Xueli Bookstore in Qianlong 15, Yue Fei, a national hero, studied martial arts with a famous teacher when he was very young. With his age, Yue Fei practiced marksmanship extremely well. Later, when he became an officer as an adult, Yue Fei also realized a set of boxing methods from his own marksmanship. Take off your gun and change your fist? Taking boxing as a gun can be said to be a powerful boxing method of self-reliance, and named it? Italian boxing? Teach his men to improve their fighting ability against the nomads from the army, which is the origin of the first edition of Xingyiquan.

Sun Lutang's "Xing Quan Yi Studies" preface Yue Fei? Take off your gun and change your fist? The idea of creating Xingyiquan was strongly recognized by Sun Lutang, a famous martial artist in modern times. He wrote in "Preface to Xingyiquan": I once heard my master say that Xingyiquan was originally founded by grandfathers. At that time, this kind of boxing was called? Inner diameter punch? . Xingyiquan was invented by Yue Wumu, King of Yue in Song Dynasty. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, because there were no books, they were almost lost in the Wulin.

It was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty that Mr. Ji, a martial arts expert in Pudong, was able to find a famous teacher to teach Yue Fei several pieces of boxing scores. In the following years, Mr. Ji studied hard and gradually understood the mystery of Xingyiquan left by Yue Fei, and later passed it on to Mr. Cao. After learning Xingyiquan, Mr. Cao also took the martial arts exam during the Kangxi period and worked in General Town, Jingyuan, Shaanxi Province.