China Wushu Nanquan

Nanquan has formed a unique southern feature in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian. Especially since the Qing Dynasty, it has played an important role in martial arts legendary novels and movies. For example, South Shaolin in Fujian Province is said to be an anti-Qing stronghold, where Hong Men's children and chivalrous men gathered in three mountains and five mountains. Qing soldiers burned South Shaolin, and Hong Xiguan came to Guangzhou, lived in seclusion in the Big Buddha Temple, and opened a martial arts school with a monk. Another example is Fang Shiyu (the first person is Hong Xiguan), the No.2 figure in Guangdong's "Ten Tigers of Shaolin", whose mother Miao Cuihua is the daughter of Miao Xian in the "Five Old Shaolin" and is known as "a generation of women". Fang Shiyu became the hero of many chivalrous cultural works, such as Shaolin Little Hero, Evergreen Tree, Fang Shiyu's Three Visits to Wudang Mountain and Qianlong's Xiajiangnan. In the late Qing Dynasty, there appeared "Ten Tigers in Guangdong" in Nanquan, among which Su of Tieqiao III and V was also the hero of many chivalrous cultural works.

Nanquan is a general term for a large-scale boxing that has been popular in the south since the Ming Dynasty. Focusing on Fujian and Guangdong, it is widely spread in the south of the Yangtze River, so it is called "Nanquan".