What is Kung Fu

Kung Fu (Chinese martial arts) is not just a combat art, nor is it just a sport of punching and kicking. It is the crystallization of national wisdom, the embodiment of traditional national culture, and a unique "martial culture" in the world. The core of the idea is Confucianism's neutralization and cultivation of qi, and at the same time, the integration of Taoism's quietness and softness, and Shakya's meditation and enlightenment, which constitutes a profound and profound martial arts system. It is about the combination of rigidity and flexibility, both internal and external training, both robust and majestic appearance, more elegant and profound connotation, contains the enlightenment of the philosophers of life and the universe, is the Chinese people's long-term accumulation of valuable cultural heritage Chinese martial arts sparring, Chinese wrestling, Xingyiquan, Mi group punch jabbing feet over the sub-punch Bagua Palm, Eight Levels of Boxing Chak Fist, Dabei Fist, Emei Tieh Arms, Diamond Whacking, Zuzhou pool legs, Chopping and Hanging Fist, Three Emperor Cannon Whacking, Taichi Mantis Fist, Thong Arm Fist, Wing Chun and other lesser punches, such as the Italian Fist. Yi Quan Wing Chun and other Shaolin Kung Fu is one of the famous martial arts schools in China, with a long history and a wide influence, it is an important part of traditional Chinese martial arts. The "Shaolin Fist" and "Shaolin Stick" occupy an important page in the history of China's martial arts. Overview of Shaolin Kungfu Shaolin Kungfu is rich in content and has many routines. According to its nature, it can be roughly divided into internal kungfu, external kungfu, hard kungfu, light kungfu, qigong, and so on. Internal kungfu focuses on practicing essence and qi; external kungfu and hard kungfu refer to exercising the strength of a certain part of the body; light kungfu specializes in vertical jumping and overdistance; and qigong consists of practicing qi and raising qi. According to the techniques, there are more than 100 kinds of boxing, stick fighting, gun fighting, knife fighting, sword fighting, sparring, equipment and equipment sparring, etc. ****. These routines and soft and hard kung fu, due to the age of the long, lost a lot, according to incomplete statistics have been handed down to the present day are the following major routines: 1, boxing Source for the source of martial arts. Shaolin boxing Luo Han Fist, small Hung Gar, big Hung Gar, old Hung Gar, Shaolin five fists, five war fists, Zhaoyang Fist, Chain of Fists, Kung Li Fist, Tam leg, soft boxing, six fists, round Gong Fist, internal Gong Fist, Tai Zu Long Fist, Cannon Fist, Ground Lying Fist, Shao Lin Fist, Plum Blossom Fist, Tongbei Fist, Kwun Chiu Fist, Vajra Fist, Seven Star Fist, Practice Fist, Drunken Buxi, Monkeyish Fist, Xingyi Fist, Long Hammer Fist, Wu Hu Fist, Foo Hu Fist, Hei Hu Fist, Da Tong Arm, Long Guandong Fist, Qinglong Zhuhai Fist, Flipping Fist, Eagle Claw Fist and so on.　Sparring boxing has three-he fist, bite hand six-he fist, open hand six-he fist, ear handle six-he fist, kicking six-he fist, walking horse six-he fist, fifteen-he inside and outside of the horizontal cannon, twenty-four cannons, shaolin pair of fists, one hundred and eight pair of fists, Chinese boxing, catching the pool leg, and so on.　The Shaolin School of boxing is robust, strong, flexible, simple, and conducive to actual combat, and the moves are not fighting or defending, and there is no flowery style. In the practice of Shaolin boxing, not subject to site constraints, there is a "fist fight crouching ox of the ground," said its style mainly reflects a "hard" word, both offensive and defensive, attack-oriented. Boxing does not emphasize the beauty of the appearance, but only seeks to combat the practical. The footwork is flexible and agile, and there is a line of punch. In the body and punch, the requirements of the maneuver is not curved, not straight, in and out, everything is free. The footwork requires firmness and flexibility, and the eye method emphasizes the eye to see the eye, and the luck should sink into the dantian. Its movements are as fast as lightning, turning like a wheel, standing like a nail, jumping like a light fly. Shaolin Fist is divided into two schools: the southern school emphasizes fists, the northern school emphasizes legs, and each school is divided into many smaller schools.　Shaolin stick skills include the Ape and Monkey Stick, the Wind and Fire Stick, the Qi Mei Stick, the Big Pole, the Flag Gate Stick, the Small Night Stick, the Big Night Stick, the Shaolin Stick, the Small Plum Blossom Stick, the Yun Yang Stick, the Splitting Mountain Stick, the Yin Hand Stick, the Yang Hand Stick, and the Wu Hu Tackle Goat Stick.　The sparring sticks include the row stick, shuttle stick, six-hex rod, and twelve ways of breaking the stick, etc. The stick strikes a large area.　Stick hit a large area, a sweep and a split the whole body. Stick practice up whirring wind, rhythm vivid, dense stick, fast and fierce. It can not only strengthen the body, but also can overcome the enemy to win, in the successive generations of anti-enemy defense, Shaolin stick has played an important role.　3, gun art The ancient king of weapons. Shaolin School of gunplay Shaolin gun, five tigers gun, night fighting gun, the stove gun, stopping the gun, golden flower double tongue gun, tandan stop gun, thirteen gun, eighteen gun, twenty-one gun, twenty-four gun, twenty-seven gun, thirty-one storm gun, thirty-six gun, forty-eight gun, eighty-four gun, six gun situation, ten gun frame, six road gun, the secret gun spectrum of the thirty-six points, the panther flower gun, and so on.　The gun training has gun to gun, pistol to pistol, war gun, double knife to gun, six gun, thirty-six gun broken law practice, twenty-one gun to stab, etc..　Shaolin gun art has a song is: "the body show like a cat, gun such as fighting tigers, the gun tied a line, the gun out like shooting arrows, the gun such as pressing the tiger, jumping step like climbing, pressure gun such as pressing the tiger, picking the gun such as picking the dragon, two eyes to look high, the body should be natural, stop, take, hyper, point, crash, picking, poking, all kinds of use of the full range of wonders."　4, knife art Knife is one of the most important weapons of all times, of which the big knife is known as "the marshal of all soldiers". "The sword is like a tiger, the gun is like a dragon", the knife art should have a mighty and fierce temperament in every move.　Shaolin knife has spring and autumn knife, plum blossom knife, shaolin single knife, shaolin double knife, brave knife, vertical pouncing knife, snow blade knife, furnace knife, hold the moon knife, split the mountain knife, shaolin all the way big knife, two big knife, six single knife, Zaoshan knife, six double knife, eight double knife, taizu crouching dragon knife, single knife, yanwei single knife, plum blossom double hair knife, double knives, rolling hall knife, single knife, single knife, single knife, long line knife, five tigers, shaolin chasing the wind knife, and so on.　The sparring knife art has knife to knife, two together double knife, pair of split single knife, pair of split big knife, single knife into double knife and so on. The use of the knife is characterized by wrapping the head wrapped brain, turning the splitting and sweeping, teasing and hanging cloud stabbing, bracket wiping picks, etc., and there is a single knife to see the hand, double knife to see the walk, the big knife to see the top of the hand, chopping, teasing, chopping, stabbing like a tiger said.　5、Swordplay Swordplay is robust, graceful and bold, and has been passed down from ancient times to the present day.　Shaolin School sword art has Dharma sword, Qiankun sword, chain sword, Taiyi sword, two-tang sword, five-tang sword, dragon sword, flying dragon sword, white ape sword, coiffure sword, Liu Xuande double sword, Qingfeng sword, Xinglong sword, Wulin double sword and so on.　The sparring sword arts include Ertang Sword, Wutang Sword Pair Stabbing, Shaolin Sword Pair Stabbing, and so on. Sword Recipe: "The sword is the Green Dragon Sword, the sword should be flat and good, the qi should follow the sword, the eyes should be concerned about the tip of the sword, the qi should be steady, the stance should be natural, the sword should be like a flying swallow, the sword should fall like a stopping wind, the sword should be closed like a flower flake, and the sword should be stabbed like a steel nail."　Shaolin Wushu equipment is long, short, hard, soft, pointed, spiked, hooked, and bladed, and there are so many different kinds of weaponry that it is not easy to count them all. In addition to the above knives, guns, swords, sticks, there are three-stranded fork (also known as big palladium in the south), convenient shovels, sets of three rings, Omei thorns, crescent shovels, and halberd sickle, show circle, Fangtian Painted Halberd, double hammers, axes, double axes, three-sectioned stick, tip stick, seven-sectioned whip, nine-sectioned whip, double whips, knives in the whip, rope label, tiger head double hooks, grass scythe, "five together with the grass scythe, six together with the war chain ", halberd head hook, plum blossom single crutch, hexagonal double crutch, horse teeth spurs, turtle circle, double mace, sun and moon wolf teeth Qiankun circle, Zen staff, big long lance, wind devil staff and shield, crossbow and so on.　7, instrument sparring and instrument boxing sparring sets Empty-handed knife, empty-handed gun, single knife to the gun, empty-handed dagger, stick through the gun, grass sickle gun, tip stick gun, knife to gun, double knife into the gun, eyebrow Qi stick gun, single crutch into the gun, double crutch gun, crutch and Qi Mei stick, tiger hook into the gun, horse teeth thorns gun, tortoise circle gun, set of three rings gun, convenient spade gun, crescent shovel broken double gun, nine sections of the whip to the stick, the steel whip on the Nine-section whip, crescent moon joint gun, crescent moon joint mace, three-section stick into gun, square sky painting halberd into gun, three Ying battle Lü Bu, empty-handed sword and gun, and halberd chain into gun, three-stranded fork into gun, big knife sealing gun, three-section stick breaking double gun, Omei stab into gun, etc.　The Shaolin School's techniques include the following: the Flash War Shift Body Handle, the Mindfulness Handle, the Tiger Pouncing Handle, the Swimming Dragon's Flying Steps, the Dangfeng Chaoyang, the Cross Chaos Handle, the Laojun Holding the Gourd, the Immortal's Eggplant Picking, the Stealing of Peaches at the Bottom of the Leaf, the Cutting of Melons at the Back of the Brain, the Stealing of Heart from the Black Tiger, the Monkey's Carrying of Branches, the Golden Silk Tangle Method, the Iron Fan at the Applied Door, the Pivoting Step Cannon, and the Clutching of Guns by the Lesser Ghost.　9, qigong </B> qigong is a major category of shaolin kung fu, shaolin temple qigong passed down the "yi jin jing", "small wu kung", "standing pile work", "Life Benefiting Yin and Yang Method", "Mixed Yuan Yi Qigong" and so on.　10, hard and soft kung fu hard and soft kung fu practice method has a variety of, there are unloading the bone method, capture method, point secret method, short beat manipulation, a variety of medication method, rescue method, and so on.