Bajiquan Mnemonic

Bajiquan Technique Recipes:"Upper hit cloud swept point lift, middle hit poked and squeezed by, lower hit eat root buried root."

Bajiquan, also known as "open fist" or "open door fist", known as "open door Bajiquan", it is one of China's traditional boxing. Bajiquan is famous for its strong and robust, simple and concise style and unique technical characteristics. Boxing proverbs say: "Wen have Taiji security world, martial arts have the eight pole to set the world", it can be seen in China's martial arts in the status of the many sects.

Bajiquan is mainly popular in the north of China, the south also see, now throughout the country has also been spread abroad. Hebei Cangzhou Mengcun is the birthplace of Bajiquan. It is said that Bajiquan has a history of more than two hundred and seventy years, it is the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period a named "Lai" wandering monks (but "Cangxian Zhi" said "Lai" is a Taoist priest) began to Mengcun Wu Zhong.

So honor "Lai" for the first ancestor of the first, Wu Zhong for the first ancestor of the second. Wu Zhong word Hongsheng, Hui people, born in the fifty-first year of the Kangxi (1712 AD) died in the Jiaqing seven years (1802 AD), aged ninety years.

Rumor has it that Wu Zhong learned the art from a wandering monk for ten years, and gained the essence of Eight Extremes Boxing. Two years after the monk's resignation, he sent his Buddhist disciple "Fetish" to Wu Zhong to teach him the wonders of the big gun and gave him the secret of Eight Extremes Boxing in a volume. So Wu Zhong was like a tiger with wings, and his skills were even more exquisite. Legend has it that he competed with Shaolin monks in Hangzhou and won many times.

Yongzheng years Wu Zhong broke into the Shaolin Temple in Putian, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, the temple, although many hidden weapons, but none of the body, because of its famous. In Beijing and Hsun Qun Wang Yunxian art, in the upper end of the weapon Shu bound to the cloth, coated with white powder, two people back and forth several times, when the gun, the powder stuck in the forehead of Yunxian above, and Yunxian do not realize. From then on, Wu Zhong was known as "Wu Shen Gun".