Shiheng township's Mei Family Boxing
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2022
- Mei Family Boxing and Staff Arts of Shiheng Town
The Mei family school of the martial arts of Shiheng village is particularly well known for it's staff fighting skills. Among the more prominent forms of staff are the Tai Gun "Great Staff", Wu Hu Qun Yang Gun "Five Tiger Sheep Herd Staff", and the Pan Long Gun "Coiling Dragon Staff" methods.
Mei Family boxing, like other local Shiheng systems, is largely composed of a collection of regional boxing methods such as Mizong, Yanqing, Mei Hua, Taizu, etc.
Mei family boxing in particular seems to draw on Yanqing / Mizong methods.
Martial arts of Shiheng Town, Feicheng county, Taian prefecture, Shandong province.
The martial arts of Shiheng Town trace their origins back to the year 1675.
In this year Wang Chongyu, the prefectural magistrate of Jinan prefecture in Jiangxi province, retired due to old age and arranged to return to his hometown of Kong village, Pingyin county, Jinan prefecture, in Shandong province. Before leaving he hired two skilled martial artists, Mei Zhankui and Zuo Guangzhen, to accompany him as guards for the journey.
After escorting prefecture Wang to Kong village both Mei and Zuo passed through Shiheng village. Seeing that the area was clean and fertile and had healthy strong looking villagers they decided to retire there and use their money to buy land to farm.
In their free time they began to teach martial arts to the local people in the village. Soon their reputation as teachers spread and they had many students coming to learn.
As a result Shiheng became known for martial arts and large classes were held by locals to teach and practice martial arts with men and women, young and old in attendance. Likewise every festivals had huge displays of martial skills and specialities by local residents.
A saying found in the region, "the spear dares not stab in Shiheng, Company guards dare not speak their name in Tongcheng"* attests to the fame of Shiheng martial arts.
Eventually as a result of people coming to Shiheng to study and exchange skills a large body of martial practices grew in the village and the village arts split into various styles with their own specialities.
Another local saying talks about these three lineages and their respective specialities mentioning the "Mei Family Staff, Xu Family Spear, and Zuo family "Pi Chui" (empty handed boxing) skills".
These traditions contain many sets from local Shandong styles such as Yanqing Quan, Mizu Quan, and Meihua Quan as well as unique local versions of important regional weapons forms.
In addition other arts native to Shiheng are listed under the intangible cultural heritage of Feicheng township such as Five Flower Eight Branch Plum Flower Boxing and Mi Zu Quan**.
* this is a pretty liberal translation, anyways armed guard companies which protected goods or people on the road would call out the name of the company to warn any would be bandits, in certain regions it was said that companies would not call their names for risk of offending local martial artists. Tongcheng here refers to the Tongcheng district of Dong-e city which is located in Liaocheng prefecture just north of the border with Taian prefecture. Tongcheng was one of the famous martial centers of Liaocheng and was known for it's local system of Erlang Quan.
** honestly I don't know what Mizu Quan (Crazy Ancestor Boxing) is. There is a "Mizu Quan" (Rice Ancestor Boxing) in Beijing but I have no idea if there is any relation.
Personally I would guess this is a local variation of or simply alternate name for some type of Mizong Quan.
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Even though I speak only English, I really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting!
I was told to learn this before Mantis. This is the old underlying base of Mantis Kung Fu.
How do get this info and from where
When you will post next video? It is really interesting about legends and their stories
Hopefully soon, but I am way to easily distracted.
I keep meaning to finish these ones but the stuff about imperially registered temple fair martial traditions in Beijing is just to distracting.
Plus I'm away from my desktop for weeks at a time sometimes.
I'll try to get the video of the other style from this village done this weekend when I have some free time.
@@TeaSerpent what is temple fair martial traditions ?
@@TeaSerpent it is anything about martial systems
@@muzankibutsuji-ro7ck groups that dressed in costumes and put on martial arts performances during temple fairs.
I'm planning on putting up some stuff on some groups that reenacted a fight scene from books and plays and plays about the Song Taizu Emperor.
It's probably going to be a while.
My computer fried it's self so I'm going to have to buy a new one before I can do anything.
Any of nanzhong Shaolin ?
Nan Zhong Shaolin isn't a style.
It's just a phrase meaning southern style Shaolin.
There are hundreds of styles in southern China which now claim to come from the southern Shaolin temple.
The southern Shaolin temple is likely a fictional creation originating from the mythology of gangs in southern China during the late Qing dynasty.
If you're talking about a specific lineage of southern boxing I'd need more information. Because Nan Zhong Shaolin can refer to a large number of unrelated styles.
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