Hello, This is Fuzhou（Part Two）
It has Xuefeng Temple, the famous Buddhist temple in South China; Gu Ling, one of the famous summer resorts of China; and also the shipping cultural zone in Mawei.
It also has Jinshan Temple, a marine temple; Jinshui Lake with beautiful landscapes; and also the Panda World for the protection of panda.
It also has the jasmine flower tea that combines the flavors of tea and flower; the Fotiaoqiang that is a representative dish of the Fujian Cuisine; and Rouyan that is a small, fresh and delicious snack.
It is one of the origins of Zen; a famous cultural city that thrives beside the sea; and a city of luck. Its name is Fuzhou.
Jinshan Temple in Sunset
Jinshan Temple in Sunset
To the most beautiful sunset in Fuzhou, you must go to Jinshan Temple that is the only temple on river in Fuzhou. The little temple sits on an small isle on Wulong River, a sub-branch of Min River, built in the Song Dynasty. Standing in the temple, you may see boats, shoals and tree and grass on both banks of the river. In sunset, scenery of temple and river is gorgeous. Around the temple, there are 8 picturesque scenes, such as ancient ferry in Hongtan Village, fisherman's lamp on river, Yuncheng stone tower and sails on river.
Changle City, Fuzhou, China
Changle is a wonderful city just outside of Fuzhou, although it is classified as a district of Fuzhou. It offers many spectacular temples, peaceful parks, and mountain top views of the city. It's the perfect location if you want to live in a smaller Chinese city, learn Mandarin, and really experience Chinese culture!
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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.
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.
Master Guo Zengxing's Fuzhou Southern Shaolin school
News clip featuring master Guo Zengxing of Fuzhou's Fuqing county
with clips of the newly built Fuzhou Southern Shaolin temple, also located in Fuqing.
Master Guo Zengxing was born into a martial arts family and started studying the Long Hu Zhuang Dragon & Tiger Stake system from his paternal Uncle at the age of ten.
At 13 he began learning staff and cane fighting methods from his father.
At 15 he became a student of master Weng Yimei learning Fujian Di Tang Quan, Ground Boxing methods.
Finally at 17 he became a disciple of monk Zeng Miaoqing of Fuqing's Lingyan Temple who taught him the methods of Nan Shaolin Dian Xue Gong Fu Southern Shaolin Accupoint Strike Skills and Chinese Herbal Medicine.
He spent many years following monk Zeng Miaoqing before returning to his home village where he opened his own school teaching martial arts and giving medical treatments to the local people. He is now in his mid 80's and has been teaching martial arts for close to 50 years.
He is especially known for his mastery of the Long Zhuang San Zhan Dragon Stake Three Wars, Gang Rou Zhang Hard & Soft Palms, and Si Men Gun Four Gates Staff sets.
Bird's eye view of Bridges in Fuzhou
Fuzhou City boasts 20 bridges over Minjiang River. Though you walk through many of them, you never have a bird's eyes view of them.
WUYISHAN NOV29, 2011 Slideshow-Large.m4v
It was my second attempt to climb Huanggangshan. Even though the climb was unsuccessfull, I got some good pics of the area. Thanks to Erin for showing me around Wuyishan, Fujian, china.
Tai Ning Chinese Temple
The Chines temple is located in the island at Golden Lake
Fuzhou Ba Jing Quan, Eight Well Village Boxing of the She people
Ba Jing Quan Eight Well Boxing
This system comes from Bajing Cun Eight Well Village in Luoyuan county, Fuzhou prefecture, Fujian.
According to the oral mythology of the village the martial art tradition of Bajing Cun began in the Ming dynasty when two brothers, Lei Juan and Lei Anliang, moved with their families from the ancestral lands of the She people in eastern Guangdong to Luoyuan county in Fuzhou, settling on the site of present day Eight Well Village.
Both brothers were known as skilled martial artists and stories are told of their battles with neighboring villages over water and land rights.
(some versions of the story have the brothers studying at the mythical Southern Shaolin temple or studying with a monk from the temple, sometimes one of the Iron Five Ancestors who features in local myths and legends and the oral myths of many martial arts across Fujian including a number of other systems practiced by various groups of She people.
The area of Luoyuan bay has very saline soil and in many areas the groundwater is too salty to use.
Because of this good soil and fresh water are very precious comodities in the area and early settlers in eight well village saw many fights with neighbors over these resources.
In an attempt to obtain a dependable source of fresh water for the village a number of wells were dug around the area, all of which turned up only salty water. Finally the 8th well dug by the community was found to contain pure fresh water.
Eight Well boxing is known for it's use of acupoint striking in accordance with the Eight Well medical system developed by Lei Qianzhen, an early master of Eight Well boxing.
The Eight Well system of medicine is known for it's practice of using the appearance of the eyeballs and the fingernails at different points in the twelve period cycle as the main methods of diagnosis.
The medical system contains it's own methods of acupuncture and acupressure and this knowledge was incorporated into their system of boxing.
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.
Jixia Village Tiger Boxing
Jixia village is located in Gantang countryside, Pingnan county, Ningde prefecture, Fujian province.
Huzun Quan has been practiced in Jixia village since at least the mid 18th century. However the exact period it started is not known.
It is often said that general Gan Guobao practiced this art as a child in the village. While he was known for his martial arts skills as well as his tiger paintings, this contradicts the traditions that Hu Zun Quan was taught to the Gan clan by Zheng Yuanhui who is alternately said to be the child or successor of either Zheng Li of the Yongchun white crane school or (much more likely) of Zheng Dengguang of the Yongtai Hu Zun Quan school.
Either way this would mean that at the earliest it would not have arrived in the village until after Gan Guobao was already a skilled martial artists and famous general.
There is another version which says that Gan Guobao brought Zheng Yuanhui in order to have him teach his martial arts to his children, grandchildren and other villagers.
Although it is more likely that Hu Zun Quan did not arrive until after his period.
Either way it is clear that the village has a long martial tradition and that martial arts were a daily part of village life even before the arrival of Hu Zun Quan in the village.
Jixia is an ancient mountain village which was founded by the Gan family.
During the early Qing dynasty it was home to the famous military general Gan Guo Bao ,who passed the imperial military exams in 1729 at the age of 20, and became known for his knowledge and skills in military tactics which made him one of the Qing's greatest generals.
He is also known by the people of the areas he fought in and looked after such as Fujian, Guangdong, and Taiwan as a righteous official who tried to help the local people and for his many selfless acts such as donating his entire years personal salary for relief supplies during a drought.
Besides his fame as a military figure and his skills in archery, horsemanship, he was also a great artist and is probably the most famous as the greatest painter of tiger pictures in Chinese history.
The village was founded by Gan Xikuang in the Ming dynasty (1437).
Howeve Gan family mythology passed down in the village claims that the area was part of the Gan Kingdom who's ruling family took the Gan name and were Feudal lords under the Xia dynasty ruling the area over 4000 years ago. Their branch of the Gan family claims descent from Gan Pan, senior minister of Shang Wudi, founder of the Shang dynasty.
Gan Pan was named because his father, the great doctor of the Shang royal family, dreamed that the gods gave him a stone basin (Pan) to bath in and cleanse himself. That night his mother gave birth to him, so he was named Gan Pan (basin).
(lineage mythology is usually created to make a family seem as illustrious as possible)
Jixia village is a protected ancient city which contains many Ming and Qing dynasty structures.
Because it was located in the mountains it was built to be defended from bandits.
The village is surrounded by a pounded earth wall with a main gate tower dating to 1467 and all approaches from any direction to the village are visible.
Like many old villages the houses are built closely together to create narrow alleyways with many easily defensible choke points.
The village is built on a river which divides it in two and is crossed by two ancient covered bridges, one of which dates to 1702 and the other is of similar age.
The riverside it's self built up with stone walls coming directly upwards out of the water. These are topped by long covered walkways backed by building which form a solid wall behind them.
There are several temples to different gods dating back to the 16th century as well as the Gan family temple dating to 1810.
The estate of Gan Guo Bao is also preserved inside the village as well as the vermillion plaque painted with a gold character 福 Fu (good fortune, happiness, luck, also the Fu in Fujian) which was painted and presented to him by emperor Qianlong in 1769.
Jinshan Temple (Jin Shan Si)
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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.
Garden of the Master of the Nets
The construction of the Garden of the Master of the Nets (Wangshi Yuan) started during the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Originally, it was called Ten Thousand Volume Hall (Wanjuan Tang in Chinese). In 1785, it was restored by a retired government official of the Qing Dynasty (1644--1911). He hoped for a simple life of a fisherman. Thus, he renamed the garden as the Garden of the Master of the Nets.
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.
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