What are the types of Chinese martial arts and what are they?

There are many schools of martial arts in China, the main schools are Shaolin, Xingyi, Bagua, Taiji, the four major types of boxing, and there are many schools, such as Taiji on the Chen style, Yang style, Wu style, Wu style, Sun style and so on. In addition, there are many kinds of boxing, practicing a lot of people. Chinese martial arts according to its form of movement can be divided into sets of sports and combat sports two categories.

Set of movements, is to combat action as material, to attack and defense, transport static speed Xu. The pattern of change of contradictory movements such as rigid-flexible virtual reality organized into a full set of practice forms. Set movement according to the form of practice can be divided into single practice, practice and collective rehearsal of three types. Single practice includes unarmed boxing and equipment. Sparring includes unarmed sparring, equipment sparring, unarmed and equipment sparring. Group drills: divided into unarmed boxing, equipment or unarmed and equipment.

Combat sports, two people in certain conditions, in accordance with certain rules for the battle of wits against the form of practice. At present, the wushu competition is being gradually carried out in the loose hands, push hands, short arms three.

Long Fist: is a posture stretch, flexible, fast and powerful, rhythmic, and has a jumping jumps, flash show Tengnuo, ups and downs and turns and falls and rolls over and other actions and techniques of boxing. Mainly includes fist, palm, hook three types of hands, bow, horse, servant, virtual, rest five types of steps, and a certain number of boxing, palm, elbow and flexion, straight swing, sweeping and other different groups of legs, as well as balancing, jumping, falling, rolling movements. The eight elements of the Long Fist technique are posture, method, stance, eyesight, spirit, strength, breathing and rhythm. Changquan routines mainly include primary and intermediate routines adapted to popularization, as well as prescribed routines and optional routines adapted to competition.

Taijiquan: It is a soft, slow and light boxing. It takes *, strokes, squeezes, presses, picks, *, elbows, leans, advances, retreats, Gu, expects, and sets as the basic thirteen positions. The movements are soft and slow, with arcs everywhere, and the movements are continuous and connected. Traditional Taijiquan has more influential schools such as Chen style, Yang style, Wu style, Sun style and Wu style. Each style of Taijiquan has its own characteristics, such as big frame, small frame, open and close, rigid and flexible. The State Sports Commission has published Simplified Taijiquan, Forty-eight Types of Taijiquan and various Taijiquan competition routines.

Nanquan: it is a kind of strong boxing which has been passed down in the southern provinces of China. There are many styles of Nanquan, each with different characteristics. The general leg is not away from the kick, more than the bridge method, good standard hand. The movement is characterized by the action of tight cutting, strong and powerful, solid footwork, changing methods, the body in the center, the eight sides in and out, often with the sound of the air to help the power, help boxing potential.

Shape Idea Boxing: It is a boxing art composed of the basic posture of the three-body style, the basic boxing method of chopping, collapsing, drilling, gunning, and crossing five fists, and absorbing the image of twelve animals such as dragon, tiger, monkey, horse, *, chicken, harrier, swallow, snake, *, eagle, bear, and other boxing methods. Its movement is characterized by: neat and concise movements, tight and compact, hair force calm, simple and bright.　

The Bagua Palm: is a pendulum buckle step-based, in the walk around to change the posture of the boxing. It is a single palm, double palm, palm, palm, back body palm, grinding body palm, back body palm, turn palm for the basic eight palm, footwork change to pendulum buckle step-based, and includes push, support, take, lead, move, block, cut off, buckle and other techniques. Its movement is characterized by walking along the circle, the situation is connected, the body spirit step live, walk with the change.

Bajiquan: It is a kind of boxing with the main content of close and close-attacking movements such as being next to, beside, squeezing and leaning against each other. The structure of the routine is short and concise, the force is brittle, and the footwork is mainly based on shocking feet and breaking into steps, which is characterized by short and dangerous potentials, fierce and violent, fierce and hard, forcing the body to attack the characteristics of the short-attack type of boxing.

Tongbei Quan: is to wrestle, shoot, wear, chop, save and other five kinds of basic palm for the main content, through the circle range hook robbery, cut Mo dial fan and other eight methods of the use, and biochemical out of the many actions of boxing. It is characterized as a palm, point hand into a fist, recovery is still palm; action is wide open, put a long strike far, the force from the waist and back, flinging bladder shaking wrist, the force of cold spring brittle fast.

Chopping and hanging fist: is a kind of fierce chopping and hard hanging mainly, long hit fast, compatible with short-handed boxing. The basic method of rolling, strangling, chopping, hanging, chopping, unloading, cutting, picking, skimming, renouncing, stretching, closing, touching, probing, popping, smashing, ringing, fierce, and other eighteen words. When practicing, it requires twisting the waist and cutting the hips, slipping the arms and wrists, paying attention to the rolling force, throughput force, chopping and hanging force, turning and pulling force and reel force and other force methods. Its movement is characterized by the following: wide open and close, long strike and cold draw, double arm interlocking chops, diagonal blocking and horizontal strikes, throughputting strength, chopping and hanging strength, turning and pulling strength and reeling strength and other strength methods. Its movement is characterized by: big open and close, long strike cold draw, arms interlocking split, oblique blocking horizontal strike, throughput containing release, rolling endlessly.

Flip Fist: It is a short punch-based, tight and compact, dense boxing, out of the brittle and fast boxing. The main punches are punch, *, exclusion, picking, support, rolling, chopping, fork, tricky, wrapped, buckle, embrace, seal, lock, cover, pressure and so on. Its movement is characterized by the step fast hand dense, beads of artillery movement, flash pendulum to take the momentum, up and down the flip, swift and vigorous, there is a "flip a hanging whip" said.

The ground lying fist: is to fall, pounce, roll, flip and other ground lying wrestling method and ground lying leg law as the main content of boxing. Stronger skills, movement difficulty is also higher, often appear in the full set of movements are robbing the back, plate leg drop, drop shear, WuLong strangulation column, tiger pouncing, planting tablets, pouncing on the ground jump, carp fight and hooks, shear, sweeping, strangulation and other leg methods. Its movement is characterized by the trend of the fall, the whirlwind and up, lying on the ground and hit, high flip low roll, undulate and dodge, all in one fell swoop.

Image boxing: is a simulation of various animal specialties and forms, as well as the performance of some of the ancient figures of the fighting image and life image of boxing. Such as eagle claw boxing, mantis boxing, monkey boxing, snake boxing, duck boxing, as well as the Eight Immortals drunkenness, Lu Zhishen drunkenness, Wu Sung off the handcuffs, etc., all belong to the figurative boxing. Pictorial Fist is divided into two kinds: Pictorial Fist and Picture Taking Fist. Elephant-shaped is to imitate the form of animals and people, lack of or very few technical action; to take the intention of the animal fighting specialties to take the intention of the animal fighting specialties to enrich the content of the technical action.