Pingyang White Crane of Zhejiang province
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Pingyang's Leidu Baihe Quan AKA Mabu Baihe Quan
Mabu White Crane Boxing was also known locally as Leidu He Fa "Leidu Crane Method".
This style originates from Leidu village in Mabu township, Pingyang county, Wenzhou prefecture.
This system has a large number of empty hand forms number up to 58 sets by some counts
In Pingyang Crane Method schools San Zhan is often referred to as San Zheng (Three Corrections / Rectifications) and the other core set is usually called San Bian (Three Transformations) in Xiaonan schools although it is also often referred to as San Jian (Three Arrows) especially in Mabu He Fa lines. The oral teachings of Pingyang He Fa say that San Zhan focuses on "correcting the head, correcting the body, correcting the horse" so for this reason it is often called San Zheng "Three Corrections". San Jian is said to focus on "transforming the hands, transforming the body, transforming the stepping" for this reason it is often called San Bian "Three Transformations".
This system traces back to 1813 when a local Pingyang man named Wen Dajiu (born 1789) left Zhejiang and travelled south to Zhangzhou. Spending a few years he learned traditional Fujian White Boxing.
Upon returning to his home in Leidu village he began teaching white crane boxing. Soon Leidu village would become well known for it's crane boxing methods.
Later on in the late 19th century in the reign of Guangxu a man named Wen Jianrong (1862 - 1949) from Chuiyangliu stockade (modern day Chuiyang village neighborhood of Aojiang town) began to study White Crane Boxing in Leidu village (which is only about 7 miles from Chuiyang). Wen Jianrong had previously learned Gong Rou Quan (Skilled Supple Boxing) and the White Crane Boxing passed down from him is said to have some influences from this.
Wang Jianrong's style would come to be known as Xiaonan He Fa "Xiaonan Crane Method" because it is practiced in Aojiang town and nearby villages on the Xiaonan flats of the Ao river.
Today both of these styles of crane boxing are still popularly practiced in their respective areas in Pingyang county.
This video however only features the white crane of Leidu village.
one form they did reminds me of the kata Chinto/Gankaku. oddly enough I also see some similar positions to the closing manji uke of the similarly named Pinan Godan.
I’ll also add if it wasn’t for your channel and our conversations, I’d have had no idea Zhejiang province has so much martial arts!
I also learned about this too from Tea Serpent's channel.
@@jadenng7569 you live in Shanghai right? It’s only a couple of hours train to Wenzhou or Taizhou. You could go visit some of these guys
Monkey Steals Peach I can’t. I am still a high school student after all, and I can’t go anywhere during Chinese New Year because there have been some new cases of COVID in Shanghai. I would love to go sometime, however; Zhejiang is not far from Shanghai.
@@jadenng7569 oh didn’t realize you’re so young lol
@@jadenng7569 I'm planning on focusing on Zhejiang now. I was planning on just doing these Pingyang Crane styles and one other style from Lishui and a couple of noteworthy interesting folk styles from central Zhejiang then skipping straight to the Yangtse delta / lakes region parts of northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu.
But now I'm thinking I'll do a more in depth look at southern Zhejiang stuff as well.
But I will get up to your area at some point.
That area was actually pretty well known for martial arts during the Ming and Qing periods.
That region was such a thriving commercial center that you had a lot of armed guards, commercial guilds which hired guards, local gangs, boat guards, naval bases, smugglers, piracy, and just as important in terms of understanding the surviving folk arts from the area is that it was major center of the performing arts.
Anyways I'll go into more when I start posting some of the styles from there that I want to write about.
How would you say the Xiaonan and Leidu styles differ from each other? They both seem fairly unique compared to other White Crane styles.
What’s he doing at 1.20? Drinking water off the floor, jumping up and spitting it out???
That's just a public street demonstration thing. I've seen people from other styles from other areas of China do the same thing. Sometimes they drink water from cups, sometimes they put like something tied up in a piece of cloth of the ground and pick it up in their mouth.
I guess it's supposed to show strength and flexibility and control or something but it's basically an old convention from kungfu street performers.
The government in this locality seems interested in supporting the promotion of this art. Is that true?
How true is that in other jurisdictions in China?
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