Who is the founder of Mantis Fist?

Mantis FistFounder: Wang Wencheng.

Mantis Fist, originating in Chunhua County, Shaanxi Province, is a traditional Chinese boxing style that evolved by imitating the movements of the praying mantis, and is widely practiced in the Jiaodong region of Shandong.

The late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Wang Lang failed in martial arts, a chance to see the mantis catching cicadas dexterous and fierce situation, compiled a number of boxing attack and defense combinations to practice, and in the process of visiting friends and practicing martial arts and constantly sum up the experience of learning from experience, learning from the heart, learn from the long and make up for the shortcomings of the enrichment and improvement of the results already achieved, so as to create the early stage of the Mantis Fist; the middle of the nineteenth century, Qixia's Praying Mantis Fist into the boom, a number of masters of the Mantis Fist. In the mid-nineteenth century, Qixia's Mantis Boxing entered a period of prosperity, and a group of Mantis Boxing masters appeared.

Main features

Cui Shoushan's "Taiji Hard Praying Mantis Fist Record" wrote in the "Narrative" that "Gong (Li Bingxiao) got a foreigner's transmission, and was able to get both internal and external strengths of the two families", which was a kind of excellent Han Chinese boxing, combining internal stumbling and external short strikes, and absorbing many of the specialties of Praying Mantis. In the long process of teaching and learning, and widely absorbed some of the advantages of other Chinese boxing to transform, and constantly enrich and develop the formation of an independent boxing school.

Mantis Boxing is a kind of boxing that is both short and long, strong and soft, brave and fast, and when learning, it requires air as the best practicing equipment, and it has a remarkable and unique style among all kinds of boxing in Wushu.