Military atmosphere in Baojiatun, Guizhou

Baojiatun Village, alias Yangliuwan and Baotun Village, is an administrative village under the jurisdiction of Daxiqiao Town, Xixiu District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, and is also a traditional village in China, located 20 kilometers east of Anshun. This village is blessed with a unique geographical location, which is really a treasure trove of geomantic omen. In May 2020, the official website of China Traditional Village Digital Museum showed that the collective annual income of Baojiatun Village was 200,000 yuan, and the per capita annual income of villagers was 6,200 yuan. It is also an ordinary village.

Anshun Tunpu people are actually "descendants of the Ming Dynasty Tunjun", not local aborigines. Therefore, the defense is tight and the military style is very strong. Baojiatun village consists of eight internal and external arrays, which were mainly used for ancient military defense. The Inner Eight Arrays take the Great Temple (Zhong Jun) as the core and the Inner Wengcheng as the link. Hundreds of sturdy stone houses form eight defensive positions (eight streets). A strong and tall stone wall encircles the Eight Arrays, forming a huge "maze". Eight outer arrays and eight inner arrays are the central army (core), and eight peripheral defensive positions are built with stone walls, bunkers, rocks, trenches and rivers by using the seven surrounding peaks and the favorable terrain of Xingjiang River. The overall layout consists of eight arrays inside and outside one axis and two areas, emphasizing the symmetry of the central axis and the distinction between primary and secondary. After more than 600 years of wind and rain erosion, it is like a small military museum in the Ming Dynasty, which makes us marvel at this historical reappearance and feel the wisdom and magical creativity of Tunpu people. "

? Bao Jiaquan is not well known. At present, the routines practiced are guard boxing, four-door hanging hammer and small four-door hanging hammer. There are big back sticks, small back sticks, one hundred single eight sticks and so on. The technical structure of Baoquan is relatively stable, the movements are simple, the footwork is flexible, the fist palm protection is the main method, and both attack and defense are available. But today, due to the lack of historical materials, we can't systematically sort out and describe the inheritance of Baojiaquan, and Baojiaquan is also facing the crisis of inheritance dating because of the large-scale social changes, and is on the edge of rural society. Perhaps this is the fate of many martial arts routines.