Confucian Fist：promoting traditional Chinese etiquette and Confucianism #ChinaKungfu
The Confucian fist originated in the late Ming dynasty in Fuzhou City, southeast China’s Fujian Province. It is a rare southern style martial art created by four Confucian scholars.
Confucian fist is used in close combats with explosive force. Combining defense and offense moves, this martial art was divided into Confucian, fish, rooster, and dog styles.
In 2014, Confucian fist was listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Fuzhou City. In 2017, it was selected as an intangible cultural heritage protection project in Fujian Province.
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Fuzhou Ru Jia Quan News Clip
News clip on Fuzhou Ru Jia Quan
Featuring master Pan Liteng and his students demonstrating Ru Jia Quan and showing some applications from the Gou Fa Dog Methods of the Ru Jia Quan system on the grounds of Fuzhou's Confucian Shrine.
Ru Jia Quan
Confucian Family Boxing
Ru Jia Quan is a rare system practiced in the Fuzhou city area.
The style it's self is divided into four sections consisting of Ru Fa Confcuian Scholar's Methods, Ji Fa Rooster Methods, Gou Fa Dog Methods, and Yu Fa Fish Methods
The known history of the style traces back to the Qing/ Republican transition period when army cook Chen Peiguan was stationed with division in the Guan Di Shrine in Quanzhou.
While there he would practice boxing in the Shrine hall when ever no one was around.
The shrine's Miaozhu (ritual functionary in charge of incense and other duties) happened to see him there often at practice.
Seeing Chen's enthusiasm, effort, and good foundation he decided to pass on the secret boxing methods that had been practiced at the shrine.
This system was called Ru Jia Quan Scholar's Boxing and consisted of 4 distinct methods of boxing each with their own forms, special skills and training regimen. These were Gou Fa Dog Methods, Ji Fa Rooster Methods, Yu Fa Fish Methods and Ru Fa Scholar's Methods.
Chen stayed at the shrine and mastered each of these methods before retiring from the army and returning to his native home in Fuzhou.
There he settled in the Old Drumtower District of Fuzhou city and met a young man named He Guohua who was already an extremely skilled boxer and master of another secretly passed system known to only a small group of workers at the local Qing Xiang Incense factory and shop.
This style of Luohan Boxing was for this reason known as Xiangdian Quan and the time of his meeting this young man roughly corresponds to the period in which it first began to be taught openly.
He Guohua would go on to become a famous boxer in Fuzhou locally known as Fei Lai Shi Flying Master and would teach the Incense Shop Boxing style to many students.
He would occasionally show or impart some Rujia Quan skills and his methods of Boxing came to be known as Xiang Dian Men with the various Rujia methods called as Xiang Dian Ji Fa, Xiangdian Gou Fa, etc.
However with exception of occasionally teaching a Xiangdian student some basic skills or a set of Ru Jia Quan movements as part of their Xiandian training, he only passed the complete independent Ru Jia Quan style onto one student.
This student was master Tu Jiqing who also came to be known as one of Fuzhou's great boxers and taught the Xiangdian style to many students. But like his teacher's before him he only passed on the style to a single inheritor, master Pan Liteng.
Both Xiangdian Quan and Rujia Quan are now listed as intangible cultural heritage of Fuzhou city.
Today master Pan Liteng has begun to openly accept students in both the Xiangdian and Rujia Quan systems and is currently teaching Rujia Quan to a group of local youngsters who he has officially accepted as disciples in the Rujia Quan style.
He holds his classes in Rujia Quan on the grounds of the Fuzhou's ancient Wen Miao (Confucian Temple) located in the Old Drumtower District.
The oral mythology of this style traces its origins back to the Ming dynasty when a group of four scholars from Fujian and Guangdong traveled together to take the Imperial Exams.
After arriving at the capitol all four of them failed the examinations in the first round.
Having become close while traveling together they decided that, while they were obviously not destined to become high ranking officials, they would travel the country and learn together.
While touring the country they visited many of the famed ancient temples.
In one of these temples they found that the monks there were inheritors of the 7 methods of divine boxing passed down by the 8 women who had studied under the immortal goddess Li Shan Lao Mu* Ancient Mother of Mt. Li during the Tang dynasty.
The 7 methods consisted of of Scholar, Crane, Fish, Chicken, Monkey, Dog and Ox.
Taking inspiration from Confucius's teachings that both scholarly and martial knowledge were needed by a learned man, they decided to try their hands at martial arts.
Each of them mastered one of the methods (Dog, Rooster, Fish, and Scholar) at the monastery and later they combined their knowledge, founding the Rujia style.
Fuzhou Ru Jia Quan Confucian Boxing system
Ru Jia Quan
Confucian Family Boxing
Video for the inclusion of Ru Jia Quan as one of Fuzhou's official Intangible Cultural Heritages.
This tape includes footage of both the present inheritor Pan Liteng and his teacher master Tu Jiqing.
Ru Jia Quan is a rare system practiced in the Fuzhou city area.
The style it's self is divided into four sections consisting of Ru Fa Confcuian Scholar's Methods, Ji Fa Rooster Methods, Gou Fa Dog Methods, and Yu Fa Fish Methods
The known history of the style traces back to the Qing/ Republican transition period when army cook Chen Peiguan was stationed with division in the Guan Di Shrine in Quanzhou.
While there he would practice boxing in the Shrine hall when ever no one was around.
The shrine's Miaozhu (ritual functionary in charge of incense and other duties) happened to see him there often at practice.
Seeing Chen's enthusiasm, effort, and good foundation he decided to pass on the secret boxing methods that had been practiced at the shrine.
This system was called Ru Jia Quan Scholar's Boxing and consisted of 4 distinct methods of boxing each with their own forms, special skills and training regimen. These were Gou Fa Dog Methods, Ji Fa Rooster Methods, Yu Fa Fish Methods and Ru Fa Scholar's Methods.
Chen stayed at the shrine and mastered each of these methods before retiring from the army and returning to his native home in Fuzhou.
There he settled in the Old Drumtower District of Fuzhou city and met a young man named He Guohua who was already an extremely skilled boxer and master of another secretly passed system known to only a small group of workers at the local Qing Xiang Incense factory and shop.
This style of Luohan Boxing was for this reason known as Xiangdian Quan and the time of his meeting this young man roughly corresponds to the period in which it first began to be taught openly.
He Guohua would go on to become a famous boxer in Fuzhou locally known as Fei Lai Shi Flying Master and would teach the Incense Shop Boxing style to many students.
He would occasionally show or impart some Rujia Quan skills and his methods of Boxing came to be known as Xiang Dian Men with the various Rujia methods called as Xiang Dian Ji Fa, Xiangdian Gou Fa, etc.
However with exception of occasionally teaching a Xiangdian student some basic skills or a set of Ru Jia Quan movements as part of their Xiandian training, he only passed the complete independent Ru Jia Quan style onto one student.
This student was master Tu Jiqing who also came to be known as one of Fuzhou's great boxers and taught the Xiangdian style to many students. But like his teacher's before him he only passed on the style to a single inheritor, master Pan Liteng.
Both Xiangdian Quan and Rujia Quan are now listed as intangible cultural heritage of Fuzhou city.
Today master Pan Liteng has begun to openly accept students in both the Xiangdian and Rujia Quan systems and is currently teaching Rujia Quan to a group of local youngsters who he has officially accepted as disciples in the Rujia Quan style.
He holds his classes in Rujia Quan on the grounds of the Fuzhou's ancient Wen Miao (Confucian Temple) located in the Old Drumtower District.
The oral mythology of this style traces its origins back to the Ming dynasty when a group of four scholars from Fujian and Guangdong traveled together to take the Imperial Exams.
After arriving at the capitol all four of them failed the examinations in the first round.
Having become close while traveling together they decided that, while they were obviously not destined to become high ranking officials, they would travel the country and learn together.
While touring the country they visited many of the famed ancient temples.
In one of these temples they found that the monks there were inheritors of the 7 methods of divine boxing passed down by the 8 women who had studied under the immortal goddess Li Shan Lao Mu* Ancient Mother of Mt. Li during the Tang dynasty.
The 7 methods consisted of of Scholar, Crane, Fish, Chicken, Monkey, Dog and Ox.
Taking inspiration from Confucius's teachings that both scholarly and martial knowledge were needed by a learned man, they decided to try their hands at martial arts.
Each of them mastered one of the methods (Dog, Rooster, Fish, and Scholar) at the monastery and later they combined their knowledge, founding the Rujia style.
Fujian Dishu Fist: Merging traditional martial arts with people's lives #ChinaKungfu
Dishu fist is one of the rare traditional martial arts. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Dishu fist originated in a nunnery in southeast China's Fujian Province.
It is said that the fist was created by a Buddhist nun named April. Dishu fist is also called Dog Fist. From various movements of dogs, our ancestors derived defensive positions for people.
Dishu fist manifests the southern style with overwhelming lockdown techniques. It resembles Chinese pictographic boxing. As the quintessence of martial arts, in 2011, Dishu fist was included in the third batch of additions to the national intangible cultural heritage list.
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Nanning Confucius Temple Fair
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Fuzhou Golden Lion Boxing
Jin Shi Quan Golden Lion Boxing
Demonstrated by Yu Zhaoguo
Lion Boxing has a long history in Fujian and was recorded there relatively early. According to legend it was spread in Fuzhou by master Li Chun, better known by his Buddhist name An Hai (Peaceful Ocean). An Hai is often said to have been a Southern Shaolin monk.
However research in Yongtai county where they still practice a style known as Anhai quan suggests that Anhai was actually from Yongtai's Xiaolian Daoist temple and was active in the early 18th century (this is the same time frame given by the golden lion schools). (Boxing was a popular pastime in Fujian temples. There are many boxing schools started by monks and priests from local temples and shrines in Fujian. Within the last century all of those monks from minor temples and Daoist priests have magically become Southern Shaolin monks fleeing the burning of the Shaolin temple. It's amazing how quick history can change.)
The Lion is not a native species in China and was made popular in China by it's symbolic use in Buddhism, Indo-Iranian cults such as Manichaeism, Islam and to a lesser extent Judaism, Nestorian Christianity, and Hinduism.
In Fujian the Golden Lion school is considered to be part of the Buddhist Weituo sect of Boxing.
The much of the Golden Lion practiced today can be traced back to master Chen Yaohua a Chinese medicine doctor and martial arts teacher who was forced to flee his hometown in the Taijiang district of Fuzhou for trying to stand up to the local landlords.
Upon arriving in a small village in Lianjiang county he met a man who went by the title of Kui Jun Jiu (Outstanding Talent 9).
Kui Jun Jiu was a famous martial arts master who taught him the Golden lion methods of boxing and medicine.
Later during the Republican period Chen Yaohua was appointed to the position of president of the Taijiang hospital where they were researching the development of methods integrating western and traditional Chinese medicine.
Today Golden lion boxing is spread in the Yongtai, Minhou, Changle, Taijiang, Lianjiang regions of Fuzhou and in parts of Southeast Asia.
This system is also know locally as Wan Shou Qiao Shi Fa (Ten Thousand Year Old Bridge Lion Methods). This is in reference to the famous Ten Thousand Year Old Bridge which was built in the Yuan dynasty. The bridge was built across the great Min river on the main north -south road in Fujian. It was constructed of stone and had great stone lions set atop the railing pillars.
a few of these lions were salvaged when the bridge was rebuilt and still exist in a local temple.
Fuzhou Xichan Buddhist Temple
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Yongtai, Jishan Quan, Ancient Fuzhou Martial Arts
Newsclip on the tenth anniversary celebration of the Baisha martial arts school.
JiShan Quan is practiced in Yongtai county in Fuzhou prefecture as well as neighboring Dehua county in Quanzhou prefecture.
One of the oldest styles in Fujian, Jishan Quan can be traced back to the 1580's when a boy named Cai Jishan from Sanming prefecture's Youxi county ran away to neighboring Yongtai county in Fuzhou.
Cai Jishan had a lifelong passion for martial arts and began studying them as a small child, he continued these studies in Yontai county. In addition to being skilled in the methods of Taizu Quan he went on to master the Ox, Lion, Dog, and Monkey methods of boxing.
He is said to have studied some of these methods with the priests of Yongtai's Xiao Lian temple.
These animal methods were traditionally considered to be the oldest methods of boxing in Fuzhou and are traditionally attributed to the three Song dynasty founders of the Wu Tou Pai branch of the Lu Shan sect of Taoism. These three men were Yongtai locals and the two major temples considered to be directly founded by them (Xiao Lian and Fang Guang Cliff) are considered to be the original homes of many of the major styles practiced in Fuzhou.
In time he went on to combine the skills taught in these various styles to create his own methods of boxing.
The style he created Jishan's Boxing is practiced in Yongtai and Dehua counties in Fuzhou and Quanzhou respectively.
In Fukou Baisha's Wu village where Cai Jishan eventually settled the style is still practiced and taught by his direct descendants.
Although very rare today, Jishan boxing is a very important style which has been very influential in the history and development of Yongtai's martial arts.
During the mid 1700's a man by the name of Li Yuanzhu studied this system with the monks at Yongtai's XiaoLian temple. Taking inspiration from the fierce tigers who roamed the mountains of Fujian he adapted the methods Jishan Quan to the shape and skills of the Tiger creating a new style of Boxing which he name Hu Zun Quan (Respecting Tiger Boxing).
Grand Master Chen YiJiu & Master Zai PeiLin Japan 1986
My Master gave me this video of him and Chen YiJiu on one of our trips to China a few years ago. They were sent to Japan to represent the Fujian arts. They were Dog Boxing and there was Golden Lion, Tiger Boxing, White Crane and Bird Style all held in high regard locally as part of their heritage.
DWC-02-16 Cultural Heritage Preservation and Promotion in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, China
Volunteers from Cambodia, Japan, Taiwan, China, Korea, and American came together to experience intangible cultural heritage of China and to understand and share the challenges in preserving and promoting a country's culture. Video created by Jennifer Ling.
Copy of Fuzhou Fish Boxing
Yu Fa Fish Methods
Demonstrated by master Wang Gongyao
This boxing was spread in Fuzhou during the early Republican era by a master named Chen Wenmao.
There is not much information on this system.
International Confucius Cultural Festival in Qufu, China - no comment
The 2014 Qufu International Confucius Cultural Festival is being held in Qufu, Confucius' birthplace in east China's Shandong Province. This year the festival commemorates the 2,565th anniversary of the birth of the ancient Chinese philosopher.
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Neil Johnson, Iron shin skill. Fuzhou Temple 2016
This is one of the 72 Shaolin skills of training the shins to bend an Iron bar. The bar is mild steel and cannot be snapped like the cast iron bars seen in most demonstrations. The skill is not super human but very useful when using Dishu Quan Kungfu. Not many peoples legs can with stand the impact on the shins. Chen Yi Jiu was made famous for breaking the Russian boxers leg in a fight!
Chang Family Boxing, Xiao Luohan, Qinglong Chuhai Quan, and Xiao Hong Quan by Master Gao Siji
Chang Jia Quan, Xiao Luohan Quan, Qing Long Chu Hai Quan & Xiao Hong Quan
Performed by master Gao Siji of Renli Village, Xinyang county, Zhengzhou Prefecture, Henan province.
The son of famous 7th generation master Gao Qinglian AKA Gao Laohu Old Tiger Gao, Gao Siji is now considered one of the senior living masters of Chang Jia Quan.
This video shows a very detailed version of the Chang Family Xiao Luohan set showing very old looking postures matching closely to those seen in older Chang Family manuals as well as a breakdown of the Green Dragon Exits Sea Luohan and Xiao Hong Quan forms.
Chang Naizhou learned Shaolin Luohan boxing from his teacher Yan Shengdao in Luoyang. The Chang system includes several Luohan Sets including both Da and Xiao Luohan forms and QingLong ChuHai Quan. It also includes other Shaolin sets such as Da Hong Quan and Pao Quan.
The Chang Jia Quan system was created by Cháng Nǎi Zhōu of the Zhengzhou area of Henan province in the early/mid 1700's. Chang Naizhou was known for his mastery of not just the highest levels of martial arts but also his knowledge of the Confucian classics, Medicine, Neigong, and Buddhist and Taoist scriptures and practices.
Since childhood Chang Naizhou studied martial arts diligently seeking out the best teachers he could find. Eventually after gaining a profound knowledge of the martial arts as well as medicine, philosophy, and Neigong, he created his own unique system.
He also left a very large amount of writings detailing not just forms but also the philosophical underpinnings of his art, as well as the first practical, detailed accounts of the use of Neigong and medical theory in martial arts. A select portion of these writings have been translated into English.
His writings are thought to have been very influential in the development of Taiji Quan.
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This is Part 1 of the videos of my China trip. We briefly stayed in Malaysia, before visiting Beijing, where we saw various temples and palaces and the great wall. Then we took a highspeed train to Xi'an, the home of the Terracotta Warriors. In part 2, we visit Hong Kong, go on a cruise ship, and also visit Singapore! Stay tuned for that!
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Fuzhou Golden Lion Boxing
Jin Shi Quan Golden Lion Boxing system
Shizi Xian Qiu & Shizi Gun
Lion Presents Ball boxing set & Lion Staff
Lion Boxing has a long history in Fujian and was recorded there relatively early.
According to legend it was spread in Fuzhou by master Li Chun, better known by his Buddhist name An Hai (Peaceful Ocean). An Hai is often said to have been a Southern Shaolin monk.
However research in Yongtai county where they still practice a style known as Anhai quan suggests that Anhai was actually from Yongtai's Xiaolian temple and was active in the early 18th century (this is the same time frame given by the golden lion schools). (Boxing was a popular pastime in Fujian temples. There are many boxing schools started by monks from local temples in Fujian. Within the last century all of those monks have magically become Southern Shaolin monks fleeing the burning of the Shaolin temple. It's amazing how quick history can change.)
The Lion is not a native species in China and was made popular by it's symbolic use in Buddhism.
In Fujian the Golden Lion school is considered to be part of the Buddhist Weituo sect of Boxing.
The much of the Golden Lion practiced today can be traced back to master Chen Yaohua a Chinese medicine doctor and martial arts teacher who was forced to flee his hometown in the Taijiang district of Fuzhou for trying to stand up to the local landlords.
Upon arriving in a small village in Lianjiang county he met a man who went by the title of Kui Jun Jiu (Outstanding Talent 9).
Kui Jun Jiu was a famous martial arts master who taught him the Golden lion methods of boxing and medicine.
Later during the Republican period Chen Yaohua was appointed to the position of president of the Taijiang hospital where they were researching the development of methods integrating western and traditional Chinese medicine.
Today Golden lion boxing is spread in the Yongtai, Minhou, Changle, Taijiang, Lianjiang regions of Fuzhou and in parts of Southeast Asia.
This system is also know locally as Wan Shou Qiao Shi Fa (Ten Thousand Year Old Bridge Lion Methods). This is in reference to the famous Ten Thousand Year Old Bridge which was built in the Yuan dynasty. The bridge was built across the great Min river on the main north -south road in Fujian. It was constructed of stone and had great stone lions set atop the railing pillars.
a few of these lions were salvaged when the bridge was rebuilt and still exist in a local temple.
Rujia Quan Rooster method
Master Pan Liteng demonstrating Ru Jia Quan's Ji Fa Rooster Methods.
Ru Jia Quan
Confucian Family Boxing
Ru Jia Quan is a rare system practiced in the Fuzhou city area.
The style it's self is divided into four sections consisting of Ru Fa Confcuian Scholar's Methods, Ji Fa Rooster Methods, Gou Fa Dog Methods, and Yu Fa Fish Methods
The known history of the style traces back to the qing/ Republican transition period when army cook Chen Peiguan was stationed with division in the Guan Di Shrine in Quanzhou.
While there he would practice boxing in the Shrine hall when ever no one was around.
The shrine's Miaozhu (ritual functionary in charge of incense and other duties) happened to see him there often at practice.
Seeing Chen's enthusiasm, effort, and good foundation he decided to pass on the secret boxing methods that had been practiced at the shrine.
This system was called Ru Jia Quan Scholar's Boxing and consisted of 4 distinct methods of boxing each with their own forms, special skills and training regimen. These were Gou Fa Dog Methods, Ji Fa Rooster Methods, Yu Fa Fish Methods and Ru Fa Scholar's Methods.
Chen stayed at the shrine and mastered each of these methods before retiring from the army and returning to his native home in Fuzhou.
There he settled in the Old Drumtower District of Fuzhou city and met a young man named He Guohua who was already an extremely skilled boxer and master of another secretly passed system known to only a small group of workers at the local Qing Xiang Incense factory and shop.
This style of Luohan Boxing was for this reason known as Xiangdian Quan and the time of his meeting this young man roughly corresponds to the period in which it first began to be taught openly.
He Guohua would go on to become a famous boxer in Fuzhou locally known as Fei Lai Shi Flying Master and would teach the Incense Shop Boxing style to many students.
He would occasionally show or impart some Rujia Quan skills and his methods of Boxing came to be known as Xiang Dian Men with the various Rujia methods called as Xiang Dian Ji Fa, Xiangdian Gou Fa, etc.
However with exception of occasionally teaching a Xiangdian student some basic skills or a set of Ru Jia Quan movements as part of their Xiandian training, he only passed the complete independent Ru Jia Quan style onto one student.
This student was master Tu Jiqing who also came to be known as one of Fuzhou's great boxers and taught the Xiangdian style to many students. But like his teacher's before him he only passed on the style to a single inheritor, master Pan Liteng.
Both Xiangdian Quan and Rujia Quan are now listed as intangible cultural heritage of Fuzhou city.
Today master Pan Liteng has begun to openly accept students in both the Xiangdian and Rujia Quan systems and is currently teaching Rujia Quan to a group of local youngsters who he has officially accepted as disciples in the Rujia Quan style.
He holds his classes in Rujia Quan on the grounds of the Fuzhou's ancient Wen Miao (Confucian Temple) located in the Old Drumtower District.
The oral mythology of this style traces its origins back to the Ming dynasty when a group of four scholars from Fujian and Guangdong traveled together to take the Imperial Exams.
After arriving at the capitol all four of them failed the examinations in the first round.
Having become close while traveling together the four of them decided that, while they were obviously not destined to become high ranking officials, they would travel the country and learn together.
While touring the country they visited many of the famed ancient temples. While touring one of these temples they found that the monks there were inheritors of the 7 methods of divine boxing passed down by the 8 women who had studied under the immortal goddess Li Shan Lao Mu* Ancient Mother of Mt. Li.
The 7 methods consisted of of Scholar, Crane, Fish, Chicken, Monkey, Dog and Ox.
Taking inspiration from Confucius's teachings that both scholarly and martial knowledge were needed by a learned man, they decided to try their hands at martial arts.
Each of them mastered one of the methods (Dog, Rooster, Fish, and Scholar) at the monastery and later they combined their knowledge, founding the modern Rujia style.
Temple Hopping in Beijing (雍和宮, 孔庙)
Join me for a day trip to two of Beijing's most famous temples - 雍和宮 (Lama Temple) and 孔庙 (Confucius Temple).
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Hundreds of years ago, the Lama Temple was an Imperial Palace. Today, it is a popular tourist attraction and a lamasery for Tibetan and Mongolian monks.
The Confucius Temple honors China's most famous scholar, 孔子 (Confucius). Built in 1302, people have come here to pay homage to the master scholar for hundreds of years. Here you can learn a great deal about Confucius and how his teachings have influenced people in the past, and continue to influence our lives today.
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