Traditional Martial Arts of Wuhan city
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2020
- Traditional Martial Arts of Wuhan city, Hong Men Quan, Yu Men Quan and Kong Men Quan.
Forms shown are:
Hong Men; Qing Long Shou "Green Dragon Hands"
Yu Men; Yan Qing Tu "Yan Qing's Diagram"
Kong Men; Long Shi "Dragon Postures"
Wuhan is a major trade port along the Yangtze. A common feature of the martial arts practiced there is their history of being practiced by the various porters, merchants, and fishermen along the docks of the Yangtze. This can be seen in their history as well as their methods and sayings such as the "using commerce to promote martial arts, using martial arts to conduct business" saying of the Hong Men school or the influence of methods of fishermen casting nets on the Yu Men school.
Here is a short description of the origin myths and known history of each of these styles.
Hong Men Quan "Hong Gate Boxing / Hong Men Boxing"
The history of Hong Men Quan only becomes clear about a century ago. Oral tradition and circumstantial evidence suggest that it was part of body of martial skills that was popular across a wide area of central China.
The oral mythology of the school contains conflicting accounts. One is that it was spread by descendants of Song Taizu and that the methods of the schools evolved from his "32 hands". The other account claims the style originated from the Hong society and references the Hong Wu reign name of Ming Taizu.
The most prevalent line of Hong Men Quan in Wuhan city is the Yang Family style which is centered around the Caidian district where Yang Xiangting opened his school in the early 1940's.
Yang learned his martial arts from various members of Caidian's Yao family. Later he also studied under Liu Yutao of the Hankou district.
Kong Men Quan "Kong's Gate Boxing"
There are several different oral mythologies passed down in different lines of Kong Men Quan.
One version claims the style was created during the late Ming dynasty by Kong Tingzhang a member of the landowning gentry of Huangshi prefecture, Daye county.
Another version says the style was created in the early Qing by a man named Yan Fu (who may or may not have been a Wudang Daoist) from Daye county who passed the school onto his sons Yan Fu and Yan Long (Fu and Long = tiger and dragon in the son's names).
Another version claims the style was originally written using a different character which is also pronounced as "Kong" and means "emptiness". This supposedly referenced Sun Wu Kong as being either the founder or inspiration for the style. In this version the style was eventually passed to Kong Zuoting who lived just over Huangshi prefecture's southern border in Jiangxi. He further developed and transmitted the school and as a result his students began using the Kong family name character instead of the Kong / emptiness character when writing the name of the school. In some cases Kong Zuoting is said to have received the styles from a grand student of Yan Long and Yan Fu.
The actual historical practice of Kong Men Quan can be traced back in Daye with some certainty to the mid 18th century. By the late 18th / very early 19th century Hu Jiabang AKA Hu Tie Tuo (Iron Weight Hu), student of famous 18th century Daye Kong Men master Cao Tongsheng, had spread the art to many students in Wuhan city.
Hu Jiabang is said to have had many friends in the martial arts world and to have gained a huge reputation in Wuhan city. While there he engaged a visiting Daoist in a test of martial skills. After being manhandled by said Daoist he began to study Neigong and Fa Li drills from him. He is said to have become even more powerful after this. From this experience he created the very short form known as Yun Yan Jia "Cloud Swallow Frame". Kong Men Quan traditionally contains 8 forms, however Wuhan Kong Men is known for it's "8 forms and half a frame" the half frame being Iron Weight Hu's Cloud Swallow drill.
Yu Men Quan "Fish Gate Boxing"
The oral mythology of the style claims that 6 martial artists by the names of Ge Ding, Han Tong, Dong Kui, Zhao Xuan, Xue Li, and Zhong Shi were living in hiding in a gorge near Quanshan mountain in the Xianan district of Xianning prefecture. During this time they spent a lot of time fishing and farming. Eventually they were inspired by watching the movements of fish and fishermen.
These 6 people combined their skills to create Yu Men Liu Jia Yi (Fish Gate 6 Family Skills) now more commonly known as Yu Men Quan. One of the main forms of the style Liu He Tu (Six Harmony Diagram) is said to be named after the combining of skills of these six boxers.
Near the end of the Qing dynasty Chen Guangzhou learned this style in his native Xianning. Later he moved to Wuhan and became a well known teacher. Since then Wuhan has been home to a number of well known Yu Men Quan teachers such as Hu Lian, Liu Yetao, "Blacksmith Wang Er", and others.
I figured this was appropriate with the whole Coronavirus thing going on.
It was made as a video on "Ancient Martial Arts of Southern Hubei". But after cutting out the modern Wudang stuff all the traditional styles left were all lineages from Wuhan city and represented the three most popular traditional styles of Wuhan city.
Coronavirus or covid has a lower lethality rate than the flu. There have been only lies since the beginning and it is a huge scam.
The measures like mask measures, quarantine etc... are against human rights, worse than any virus and based on lies.
So good to see people off the video game controller and engaging in real movement. In America, there are a couple generations who are going to seriously be hating life around age 60. The ability to move freely and pain free. Use it or lose it.
As a side note in the last few years some of the younger generation teachers of these styles have begun to invent alternate mythologies in an effort to connect these systems with Wudang in general and Zhang Sanfeng more specifically.
Unfortunately connecting a martial art to Wudang in that manner generally means massive changes in the way the art is practiced rendering it virtually unrecognizable within a generation or two (as has already happened with the Yu Men Quan lines being taught around Wudang). My personal saying is that "Wudang is where martial arts go to die".
Not a particularly optimistic out look. Invariably, a small group retains the authentic art form and that's probably in conformity with natural order.
Really nice to see theses smooth flowing styles. Wuhan City in our prayers.
Is this video taken before novel coronavirus ? Are Piguaquan and Tongbeiquan from this province Hubei? Please make a video about these two styles in future. reply me when you can.
This video was taken a number of years ago.
Wuhan is in Hubei, he most famous traditional styles in Hubei are mainly the ones shown here plus a few others such as Xiong Men.
Pigua Zhang and Tongbei Quan are both from Hebei province in northern China.