As we all know, the Shaolin Temple under the Five Milk Peaks of Songshan Shaomu in Dengfeng County, Henan Province, is the first Shaolin Temple in China and is the authentic Shaolin martial arts. During the Yuan Dynasty, the Songshan Shaolin Temple presided over Fuyu, and also built five Shaolin Temples in Helin, Jixian, Xi'an, Taiyuan and Luoyang, and later gradually increased to more than ten branches, all of which no longer exist. In addition, there is another one built in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, known as Southern Shaolin
Fujian Quanzhou Shaolin Temple Martial Arts is the authentic Shaolin martial arts of the Southern School, and the temple site is located in the east of the Renfeng Gate in Quanzhou, Fujian Province
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it was the heyday of the Quanzhou Shaolin Temple. At that time, there were about 500 monks in the temple, and the temple covered an area of about half a square kilometer, and there were more than 1,000 acres of pastoral gardens. The abbot is a zen master, a martial arts master, and good at socializing, so many patriots throughout the country, dissatisfied with foreign rule, often gathered in the temple, advocating the anti-Qing restoration of the Ming and Qing Kangxi years, because of the traitors' whistleblowing, the Qing court sent troops to surround and suppress, the night heavy troops surrounded the Quanzhou Shaolin Temple, set fires on all sides, intending to wipe out the net. Legend has it that only five high monks broke through. The monastery was burned down by Qing soldiers. The Quanzhou Shaolin Temple, which is famous for its boxing techniques, has since ceased to flourish, but the Shaolin monks who lived for the rest of their lives scattered in all directions and taught their skills to apprentices, so that the Southern Shaolin martial arts were widely spread in the folk. The Southern Shaolin Tradition is mainly spread in the four provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangxi.
Introduction to Babao Fist Gate
Babao Fist Gate is a unique inner family fist in the Shaolin martial arts of the Southern School of China. It has its own system and a complete set of practice methods.
Since the Shaolin Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, was at that time a secret gathering place for the national heroes, the Eight Treasures Fist Technique began to be practiced only among the monks in the Yongchun Hall of the temple. Later, when the monk Hu Huiqian in the hall went to the Xichan Temple on the western outskirts of Fuzhou to teach boxing, he first passed on the Eight Treasures Fist Method to the folk, and it has been passed down to the history of boxing for a hundred years
The Eight Treasures Fist Gate is divided into Yin Fist and Yang Fist. Yin Fist has a total of five routines, which are the essence of this door, yin fist is mainly soft, and when practicing, it is required to guide with intention, the mind is first, and the action is accompanied. With static braking, a quiet hundred quiet, a hundred movements, static is to guard the qi, quiet to nourish the qi, the movement is fast, strong, brave, fine, qi, god, hand, eye, knot cooperation. In the line of boxing, it is always necessary to make the frame style reach the four words of "loose, soft, round". When the qi is exerted, the qi is sent from the dantian, and the qi is urged, and the strength starts from the heel. Waist, legs, arms should run through the air, strive to be smooth, smooth, pay attention to strength. The strength should be continuous, and the floating, sinking, swallowing, and spitting should be closely coordinated with the breath. The requirements of the opponent, the eye, the body method, and the step are: the technique is curved but not curved, straight but not straight, the palm rolls in and out, as fast as lightning, pay attention to the five elements of change: the eye method pays attention to the eye, the eye is sharp, the eye is seven, the hand and the eye follow, the hand to the eye, the eye is focused, fast as a shooting star; The body method requires the void spirit to top the neck, sink the shoulders and fall elbows, pull the back with the chest, wide chest and solid abdomen, tighten the crotch, float and swallow, and rely on the collapse and flash rotation; Footwork requires fast and sensitive, taking root, and paying attention to the virtual and real, the real and the virtual, the real in the virtual, the virtual in the virtual. Yang Fist is the main gang, and when performing boxing, it requires rigidity and strength, fast and fierce, and has the characteristics of southern fist. In short, the Babaomen fist technique is not gorgeous, and the purpose is to seek practical combat results. It attaches great importance to the cultivation of internal gong (what the Eight Treasures Gate calls "meditation"), and pays attention to the collection of essence, storage of qi, and alchemy of the essence of the spirit. And the internal power is integrated into each fist path, and every move contains the accumulation and rush of internal qi. Used in martial arts, it can play a role in rigidity and softness, with soft rigidity, rigidity and softness. Those who are new to the Eight Treasures Gate first practice the waist, legs, pile gong and three-way Yang Fist for two years, and then they can practice the Eight Treasures Internal Gong (that is, meditation) and various hard qigong skills. After practicing internal skills, you can practice Yin Fist. It is not an easy thing to convert from the outer Yang Fist to the inner Yin Fist, the Yin Fist is soft in the middle of the rigid, the rigid is soft, the rigid and the soft are harmonious, the changes are unpredictable, if the practitioner does not persistently and carefully understand, it is difficult to get its mystery and ingenuity.
Babaomen has fewer fist and weapon routines.
Qigong has Dantian Gong, Zhou Tian Carrying Gong and other Tibetan essence qi cultivation exercises, there are iron belly barrel gong (also known as copper skin barrel zi jin), vigorous eagle claw gong, Luohan iron head gong, hercules king kong palm, golden gun mandarin duck finger (also known as iron finger gong), iron bridge gong (also known as iron arm gong), iron neck gong, iron crotch gong, mixed yuan yi qi yin leg gong and other hard qigong gong techniques, there are also five elements of soul hunting hand, pointing thirty-six secret methods and closed hole to solve the twelve hands of spring and other qigong stunts
