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In Southern styles, especially those associated with Guangdong and Fujian provinces, there are five traditional animal styles known as Ng Ying Kung Fu (Chinese: 五形功夫) Chinese: 五形; pinyin: wǔ xíng; lit. 'Five Forms')— Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon. The five animal martial arts styles supposedly originated from the ...
No. Shaolin kung fu ( Chinese: 少林功夫; pinyin: Shǎolín gōngfū ), also called Shaolin Wushu ( 少林武術; Shǎolín wǔshù ), or Shaolin quan ( 少林拳; Shàolínquán ), is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous styles of wushu, or kung fu of Chan Buddhism. It combines Chan philosophy and martial arts.
The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
Wushu ( traditional Chinese: 武術; simplified Chinese: 武术; pinyin: wǔshù) ( / ˌwuːˈʃuː / ), or kung fu, is a competitive Chinese martial art. It integrates concepts and forms from various traditional and modern Chinese martial arts, including Shaolin kung fu, tai chi, and Wudangquan. [1] ". Wushu" is the Chinese term for "martial ...
Hung Ga ( 洪家 ), Hung Kuen ( 洪拳 ), or Hung Ga Kuen ( 洪家拳) is a southern Chinese martial art belonging to the southern Shaolin styles. The hallmarks of Hung Ga are strong stances, notably the horse stance, or "si ping ma" ( 四平馬 ), [2] and strong hand techniques, notably the bridge hand [3] and the versatile tiger claw. [4]
In its broadest sense, Northern Shaolin (Chinese: 北少林; pinyin: Běishàolín; Cantonese Yale: Bak-siu-làhm) is the external (as opposed to internal) martial arts of Northern China, referring to those styles from the Northern Shaolin Monastery in Henan and specifically to the style practice by Gù Rǔzhāng (顧汝章 1894–1952; also known as Ku Yu-cheung), the Sōngshān Shí Lù ...
Chinese martial arts are an integral element of 20th-century Chinese popular culture. [28] Wuxia or "martial arts fiction" is a popular genre that emerged in the early 20th century and peaked in popularity during the 1960s to 1980s. Wuxia films were produced from the 1920s.
Taizuquan. Tàizǔquán (太祖拳, eng. Boxing of Tàizǔ o r Great-Ancestor Fist) is a style of Chinese martial arts whose name refers to Emperor Tàizǔ of Sòng, the founder of the Sòng dynasty. There are two distinct variations of Tàizǔquán, the Northern Style: Tàizǔ Zhǎngquán ( Eng. Taizu Changquan ), and the Southern Style: Nán ...