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Brief introduction of eight-step mantis boxing

Eight-step mantis boxing is a branch of China mantis boxing, which is mainly spread in the traditional martial arts circles in Taiwan Province Province. Mantis Boxing is a kind of Chinese boxing that imitates mantis movements, and it is a kind of pictographic boxing. It is one of the four famous boxing in Shandong Province and one of the nine schools of traditional Wushu listed by the Wushu Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration. In the early years of the Republic of China, the king who was good at mantis boxing, the king who was good at eight diagrams boxing, and Chen Deshan who was good at performing and knowing the back made mantis boxing a new kind of boxing. Its basic movements consist of eight formulas and eight footwork, so Jiang Hualong named it Eight Steps Mantis Boxing. Its movements have a gossip circle, a loose long back and a quasi-ruthless and straightforward form and meaning. Pay attention to cutting.