Historical development of mantis boxing

Mantis Boxing is one of the famous traditional martial arts schools in China, and it is a kind of pictographic boxing. It is one of the four famous boxing in Shandong, and it is also one of the first nine schools of traditional Wushu systematically researched and sorted out by the Wushu Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration. The formation and development of mantis boxing is the result of many martial arts schools in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. According to the statement that there is "the ancestor name of eighteen fists" in the boxing spectrum, it can be said that mantis boxing is the carrier of ancient Chinese martial arts culture. Studying this kind of boxing is of great help to understand the martial arts of Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Manta Boxing is a treasure in China's traditional martial arts and a wonderful flower in China's martial arts. In her history of more than 200 years, generations of heroes and talents have multiplied and their influence has increased day by day.

Li Zanyuan, formerly known as Li Li, was given the name Zanyuan by the emperor shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, with the word Gongbi and the name Wang Shi. In the 12th year of Shunzhi (1655), he was admitted to Jinshi. In April of the following year, he was appointed as the suggestion of Shandong Road. Because of his outspoken, the emperor called it "the truth". In the 13th year of Kangxi (1674), he was promoted to the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War. Li Zanyuan holds an important position, and his family background is prominent, but his family rules are very strict. He once wrote "Four Don't Poem": "Don't put down the poem with your hands, don't dress carefully, don't think evil in your heart, and be impartial in your shadow", which is the motto of his godson, so all his 13 sons (Zawon * * * has 17 sons, of which 6, 7, 8 and 9 sons are dead) are. From generation to generation, there is a beautiful talk of "three generations and eight scholars".

Li Zanyuan 17' s great-grandson Li was born in Qingganlong. He was smart and studious since childhood, inherited his family style, was both civil and military, and was proficient in medical skills. He was named a tribute before he became a weak champion. I failed to take the rural examination in a certain year, so I simply abandoned my studies and joined the army. Li is an open-minded person. From then on, he disappeared from the nymphs and devoted himself to making friends with the world's masters and heroes. Coincidentally, he simply became a monk again. Li traveled all over the world with a martial arts skill, visited all the martial arts masters in the world, studied with an open mind, pursued diligently, explored the true meaning of Chinese martial arts, and integrated 18 martial arts in the world. From martial arts to Taoism, he explained martial arts with Taoism, and finally achieved great success.

Manta Boxing was produced in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and it is said that it was created by Wang Lang (a native of Qixia, Yu Qi) in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. He is rich in family, cool and martial arts. He once invested a lot of money to study in Shaolin and devoted himself to serving the country. Helpless, the soldiers were locked up and there was no way to serve the country. He angrily returned to Shandong and organized an uprising against the Qing court. Once, due to being outnumbered, almost all the troops were wiped out. I ran to the foot of Laoshan alone and hid in the fisherman's house. The Qing soldiers chased him. Yu Qi rushed to Huayan Temple in Laoshan Mountain and found his brother, the monk in charge of Huayan Temple. He had studied in Shaolin to seek asylum. When he came out of the temple, he hurried in and ordered Qi to change into a monk's robe, cut off his hair and dress up as a monk. He was scalded by boiling water until his face was red and swollen. After a while, the Qing soldiers found that the elder brother said that this was a new monk with smallpox. The honest official was afraid of being infected, so he only looked at it for seven minutes and then withdrew. I didn't recognize him at all, and I fooled the Qing soldiers. The senior brother told Qi that the wind outside was still very tight, and told him to simply become a monk here, avoid the wind and extinguish the fire, and he agreed. Because he is the leader of the rebel army, he sometimes secretly goes to the old army to find him. He lives in seclusion in the State of Qi and doesn't meet guests easily. He sent a secret signal to the old army. Anyone who comes to see him must write the word "Wang" and give it to the gatekeeper before he is allowed to enter. (The word "Wang" is the overlapping of words) Later, people simply said that their surname was Wang, so people called him Wang Lang, and "Lang" was a man's address. Later mistaken for Wang Lang, the name "Wang Lang" has been passed down to this day.

Wolf boxing techniques mainly include: hook, floor, pick, hang, stick, touch, stick, lean, tricky, forward, collapse and twelve-character tactics. Requirements: "Don't play tricks, don't fight, fight as soon as you play tricks, hit a few times" serial attack.

Generally speaking, the style of mantis boxing is fast, brave, resolute and brave. Its characteristics are: in the face of attacks from the side, the combination of reality and reality, both length and weakness, both rigidity and softness, both hands and feet, making people elusive and hard to prevent; Force each other with interlocking methods, so that the enemy has no chance to breathe. There are a variety of techniques, including thugs who keep their mouths shut for a long time, stealing hands, grabbing elbows and hitting the ground in a short time. In routine practice, we should pay attention to fast but not chaotic, rigid but not rigid, soft but not soft. The routine structure is rigorous and the movements are cleverly connected. External skill is iron sand palm, and internal skill is arhat skill. Regular practice of mantis boxing can cultivate people's strong fighting spirit and agility

The core of traditional Wushu is to guide modern people to learn necessary techniques such as fitness.

Carry forward the connotation of Chinese culture and Wushu.

The mantis boxing was created by Wang Lang, a native of Jiaodong in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties (when Wang Wencheng was mentioned, Wang Lang and Wang Wencheng belonged to the same person), with a history of more than 300 years. According to legend, the founder of Wang Lang observed the movement of mantis catching cicada, took its expression, endowed it with the theory of rigidity and softness of yin and yang, and used the method of advancing and retreating up and down, left and right, back and forth to perform 18 ancient methods and create mantis boxing.

"Ancient Boxing Manual of Mantis Gate" (written by Liang in Daoguang period) records that "Wang Lang, a former teacher, was busy for eight cubits, but his reality was rigid and soft, which was wonderful". The ancestors' names of the eighteen fists in Mantis Boxing Manual mentioned that "Wang Lang is the general enemy of Mantis". In other words, during the Daoguang period, the known founder of Mantis Gate was Wang Lang. After the introduction of mantis boxing from Laiyang, Mr. Jiang Hualong, Mr. Song Zide, Mr. Cui Shoushan and Mr. Wang Yushan went to Yantai and Qingdao to teach their own mantis boxing in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Martial arts museums that teach mantis boxing are all over Jiaodong. Due to the large number of practitioners, Yantai Mantis Gate has gradually formed three schools and four schools, namely Laiyang Taiji Mantis, Yantai Jiahao Taiji Meihua Mantis and Yantai Linjingshan Qixing Mantis. 65438-0983 In the work of "National Wushu Heritage Rescue, Excavation and Arrangement" carried out by the State Sports Commission, Mr. Liu, a folk boxer from Laiyang, dedicated his ancestral "Mantis Boxing Spectrum" to the country and won the "Lion Award". At the same time, Mr. Wang Yuanliang, the son of Mr. Wang Yushan, one of the world-famous "Three Mountains", was recognized as a direct descendant of mantis boxing and was taught to fight boxing in Laiyang. Under this opportunity, Laiyang's martial arts became popular for some time. Most boxers who practice mantis boxing in Laiyang are apprentices of Mr. Wang Yuanliang. In addition, mantis boxing has spread all over the country and even many countries in the world. According to research, it has a deep origin with Laiyang mantis boxing. Mantis Boxing is a traditional boxing that imitates mantis movements and is widely spread in Jiaodong, Shandong Province. China is one of the outstanding martial arts boxing, and it is listed as a national martial arts exhibition competition. The vast area of Jiaodong, represented by Qixia, Haiyang and Laiyang, is the main inheritance place of mantis boxing, which has been extended to more than 20 countries and regions in China 10.

Manta Boxing was produced in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and it is said that it was created by Wang Lang (a native of Qixia, Yu Qi) in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. /kloc-In the middle of the 9th century, the mantis boxing in Qixia entered a prosperous period, and a number of mantis boxing masters such as Mi Zhuofu, Mi Mi, Sun Ying, Sun, Yang, Yang, Yang Zhenbao, Yang Dechang and Zou Liang appeared. The little mantis boxing created by Qixia basket man was handed down from generation to generation by Zhang Hongxi, Yi Shouchun and Shan Jinsheng. Eight-step mantis boxing originated in Qixia, from which it was introduced to Taiwan Province Province and other parts of the world. Wei and Wei are important inheritors.

By the 1920s, Qixia Manta Boxing had become very popular, spreading to 54 villages, with boxing gymnasiums all over urban and rural areas and thousands of practitioners. After liberation, the development of Manta Boxing tends to be low tide. In 1980s, communication learning activities entered an active period, and then entered a low tide again in 1990s. At present, the Manta Boxing Association has been established, with as many as 100 employees.

In the hundreds of years since it came into being, mantis boxing has gradually formed a unique style with unique features, both length and weakness, combination of rigidity and softness, bravery and quickness, and strong practicability, mainly including Tai Chi mantis, Plum Blossom Mantis, Seven Star Mantis, Liuhe Mantis, Small Box Mantis and so on. Among them, Taiji Mantis Boxing, Plum Blossom Mantis and Small Box Mantis are more popular in Qixia.

Mantis Boxing is a sport with distinctive technical and combat characteristics, strong actual combat strength, strong physical fitness and long life without illness, and its protection has important practical significance.

When Wang Lang was founded, mantis boxing was just a rudiment, no matter what genre. After hundreds of years of evolution, until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, mantis boxing showed a prosperous scene. Practitioners spread all over Jiaodong, and their reputation became louder and louder. More than ten schools were formed in Jiaodong, including Taiji Manta Boxing, Plum Manta Boxing, Seven Star Manta Boxing, Liuhe Manta Boxing and Small Frame. In Qixia area, Tai Chi and Plum Blossom Mantis Boxing are the main boxing types, while Small Box Mantis Boxing and Eight Steps Mantis Boxing are unique to Qixia, with strong practicability and great deterrence. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Wang Lang (Wang Wencheng) in Chunhua County, Shaanxi Province began to practice Shaolin Kung Fu. He was inspired when he saw mantis beating cicada. After returning to China, he studied hard, took the characteristics of frog knitting activities, absorbed the essence of eighteen boxing methods, and compiled two sets of learning methods, namely "collapse repair" and "eight elbows", named "mantis eighteen strokes"

Wang Lang is good at absorbing the strengths of others to make up for his own shortcomings. He combined the essence of Taiji Zhuan, Tongbei Boxing and Beaver Boxing into Eighteen Sets of Mantis. Make it constantly improve in attack and defense technology, working path and motivation. Therefore, his movements are divided into yin and yang, and his upper and lower limbs always rotate and draw arcs, which also has the characteristics of Tai Ji Chuan. The upper limbs rotate up and down, surrounded on all sides, and manually like "plum blossom". It is like a bow when it is vigorous, and it is like a ball when it is vigorous. There was another activity to shed the length of the book, so it was later renamed as "Tai Chi Mei Qi Quan", which was also called "Tai Chi Mei Qi Quan" by later generations, and was also referred to as "Mei Qi Quan" for short, actually referring to the same kind of boxing. In the late Ming Dynasty, Zhao Zhu was born in Zhaojiatuan, Laiyang County, Shandong Province, and studied martial arts since childhood. Brilliant literary talent, martial arts superman, a scholar in the arts club, was arranged to be a county magistrate in Rong County, Shaanxi Province. His sister married Wang Lang. Wang Lang saw Zhao Zhu's outstanding martial arts since he was a child, so he taught him mantis boxing. At that time, martial arts were corrupt in society, and Wang Lang was dissatisfied with the world and determined not to spread it. Helpless, Zhao Zhu brought boxing back to his hometown in Laiyang. Since then, Mantis Spider Boxing has disappeared in Chunhua County, Shaanxi Province. Later, Zhao Zhu absorbed the essence of boxing techniques such as "collapse and supplement" and "eight elbows" to change it, followed the characteristics of mantis boxing, and created "random interception", the name of which was taken from "interception" (it was incorrect to call him "random interception" or "blocking interception" later). One year in late autumn, in Xiaochishan, Laiyang County, Shandong Province, the thief Gao Cheng was critically ill. Li saved Gao Cheng to his home. Li studied medicine since childhood, and has profound medical skills, personally dispensing medicines to treat diseases. After Gao Cheng recovered from his illness, he lived in the Li family for a year and passed on his martial arts (Gao Cheng's kung fu is not recorded). Since then, he has also stepped into the door of Li's martial arts.

After the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Zhu returned to her hometown. Li also abandoned medicine and became a teacher. Seeing his noble character, Zhao Zhu took pains to teach him, making Xiao Bing a master of mantis boxing. In his later years, Li learned some key tricks, such as "mending by collapsing", "eight elbows" and "chopping". Gao Cheng taught his skills, learned from others and compiled a Summary. "Abstraction" has become the essence of mantis, which was not easily passed on to others by boxers in previous dynasties.

Foreigners also learn mantis boxing from Li Jia. Liang of Liangjiakuang Village in Laiyang is one of them. When he grew up, he showed the Woods to the Li family and became a loyal long-term worker of the Li family. He was smart and studious since he was a child. Li Bing practiced until midnight and waited on him every night, secretly learning technology. After Li went to sleep, he secretly went to practice, often staying up all night. Li was very moved when he learned about it, so he took him as a disciple and taught him the art himself. Later, Liang became a master of mantis boxing. During this period, Jiang Hualong, a native of Huangjingou, Laiyang County, Shandong Province, was defeated by others in the competition, and he felt that his artistic skills were insufficient. After learning that Liang's martial arts were superb, he worshipped him as a teacher and practiced mantis boxing hard. After his success, he went to Yantai to teach boxing. At that time, Song Zide of Zhaogezhuang, the same county, lived in Yantai, where he was a very influential figure. Because he is the second child, he is called Master Song. Mr. Song is very martial, and he worships Jiang Hualong's apprenticeship. There is also a famous teacher Li Danbo (word Zhongxiang) in Yougezhuang, Laiyang County, who also teaches boxing in Yantai. These two men are famous martial arts experts and communicate with each other. Worship as sworn brothers, Li Danbo as the dragon, the second child, and Song Zide as the third child, three people are like brothers. Jiang Hualong passed on his art to Song Zide without reservation; Li Danbo and Jiang Hualong communicate with each other and learn from each other. For example, dozens of tricks in Jiang Hualong's Summary, such as "rollover", "one rib covering half the body" and "pulley hammer", all absorbed Li Danbo's key tricks, and he independently created a set of "ground boxing", which was later called "the seventh summary". At this time, the content and method of mantis boxing also reached the highest stage. Jiang Hualong lived in Yantai for eight years. When he saw Song Zide's success, he bid farewell to Li and Song and returned to his hometown. Jiang Hualong established a teaching area after he returned to his hometown. Li Danbo's nephew Li Kunshan took Jiang Hualong as his teacher. Song Zide also ran a boxing class after returning to China. Wang Yushan of Cuituan in Laiyang County and Cui Shoushan of Zhulu Village also worshipped under Song Zide. Later, Jiang Hualong and Song Zide taught together. Under the guidance of two strict teachers, Li, Wang and Cui inherited the mantis boxing completely and practiced hard for more than ten years. In order to take advantage of others and visit friends everywhere, the three men have never met an opponent. Li Kunshan loved big guns since he was a child, and once practiced "The lion never leaves his mother". This kind of marksmanship has no routine, just some actual single marksmanship. Later, he incorporated the characteristics of mantis boxing into this gun, making it elusive and making his opponent's fingers turn red in the fight. That is, stab a knife in the middle of the other person's forehead to make it slightly bleed without injury; You can take off your opponent's buttons without being found. 1933 held a national competition, which clearly stated that "if you are killed, you will go back to your original place", and weak artists are afraid to take the stage. Li Kunshan and Wang Yushan both took part in the competition. Li Kunshan won the big gun championship and the golden shield with such marksmanship as "Phoenix nods three times", "Matchmaker calls the door" and "Leaking the bottom gun". Nanjing and some foreign newspapers published: "... Li Kunshan's collection is dazzling, and it is really a magic gun." He got a gold plaque in a challenge, written by Chiang Kai-shek, which said, "Half-life heroes build cannons." Wang Yushan's iron fist is like a storm. He used such tricks as "one elbow to protect himself", "somersault" and "pulley hammer" to beat the opponent, and he couldn't dodge it. After several rounds, he also won a great victory. Since then, Li Kunshan, Wang Yushan, Cui Shoushan and "Three Mountains" in Laiyang have become famous all over the country and even the world. Laiyang's mantis boxing has also flourished for a lifetime. The mantis boxing spread to Li Kunshan, Wang Yushan, Cui Shoushan and others, which was the sixth and seventh generation.