Post by Shifu Tolson on Feb 17, 2016 20:40:06 GMT -5
Bengbu Dao Bazhou Shen Xian Ye Nan Tiao - From Crash and Fill to Eight Elbows even the Gods and the immortals find it hard to escape.
The proper name of this form is "fen shen ba zhou", which means “dividing the body into eight elbows”. The Mandarin word, zhou (肘), should not literally be taken to mean “elbow“ in this context. It should rather be interpreted as “sections”. Thus it means that the body itself is divided into eight sections that are used as attacking weapons.
The eight sections refer to the head, the left and right shoulders, the two elbows, the two knees and the hips. Thus, the emphasis of this form is the proper use of short striking methods rather than the longer striking methods that employ the fists and feet.
The first mention of Fen Shen Ba Zhou is in the manuscript 拳 棍 槍 譜 Quan Gun Qiang Pu “Boxing, Staff, and Spear Fencing Manual” written by the famous Shandong mantis boxer Liang Xuexiang in 1842 C.E.. Liang lists it with Beng Bu and Luanjie as one of the three fist sets taught in his style of tanglangquan. Thus, the creation of this fist set can be verifiably traced back to a time at least one hundred and sixty years ago.
The first emphasis of the form is 寸 力 - cùn lì - "inch power". It is an explosive, short striking force that is generated by the whole body.
The second emphasis of the form is the eight keys: 陰 陽 - yīn yáng (passive-active), 虛 實 - xū shí (void-solid/false-real), 剛 柔 - gāng róu (hard-soft) and 進 退 - jìn tuì (advance-retreat).
The "ba" or "eight" has significance in Chinese numerology: the eight keys times the eight trigrams equal the sixty-four methods of short striking.
The proper name of this form is "fen shen ba zhou", which means “dividing the body into eight elbows”. The Mandarin word, zhou (肘), should not literally be taken to mean “elbow“ in this context. It should rather be interpreted as “sections”. Thus it means that the body itself is divided into eight sections that are used as attacking weapons.
The eight sections refer to the head, the left and right shoulders, the two elbows, the two knees and the hips. Thus, the emphasis of this form is the proper use of short striking methods rather than the longer striking methods that employ the fists and feet.
The first mention of Fen Shen Ba Zhou is in the manuscript 拳 棍 槍 譜 Quan Gun Qiang Pu “Boxing, Staff, and Spear Fencing Manual” written by the famous Shandong mantis boxer Liang Xuexiang in 1842 C.E.. Liang lists it with Beng Bu and Luanjie as one of the three fist sets taught in his style of tanglangquan. Thus, the creation of this fist set can be verifiably traced back to a time at least one hundred and sixty years ago.
The first emphasis of the form is 寸 力 - cùn lì - "inch power". It is an explosive, short striking force that is generated by the whole body.
The second emphasis of the form is the eight keys: 陰 陽 - yīn yáng (passive-active), 虛 實 - xū shí (void-solid/false-real), 剛 柔 - gāng róu (hard-soft) and 進 退 - jìn tuì (advance-retreat).
The "ba" or "eight" has significance in Chinese numerology: the eight keys times the eight trigrams equal the sixty-four methods of short striking.
