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Animal styles in Chinese martial arts
Focus
Striking, Chin Na, Qigong
Country of origin
China
Creator
Five animal forms: Jueyuan & Li Yuanshou (Li Sou) with Bai Yufeng (co-founders) Five animal play: Huatuo & Jiun Chiam (attributed)
Parenthood
Five animal forms: 18 Luohan Hands, Neigong Five animal play: Qigong
Descendant arts
Fujian White Crane, Hung Ga
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List of Chinese martial arts
Terms
Chin Na
Fa jin
Kung fu
Neigong
Neijia
Qi
Qigong
Shifu
Yin and yang
Historical locations
Kunlun Mountains
Mount Emei
Mount Hua
Shaolin Monastery
Wudang Mountains
Legendary figures
Guan Yu
Bodhidharma
Zhang Sanfeng
Fong Sai-yuk
Yim Wing-chun
Li Ching-Yuen
Eight Immortals
Five Elders
Historical individuals
Emperor Taizu of Song
Yue Fei
Hong Xiguan
Dong Haichuan
Yang Luchan
Chan Heung
Wu Quanyou
Wong Fei-hung
Sun Lutang
Li Shuwen
Huo Yuanjia
Wang Ziping
Chen Fake
Ip Man
Ten Tigers of Canton
Modern celebrities
Bruce Lee
Bolo Yeung
Sammo Hung
Jackie Chan
Jet Li
Donnie Yen
Vincent Zhao
Zhang Jin (actor)
Dennis To
Related
Hong Kong action cinema
Kung fu film
Vietnamese martial arts
Wushu (sport)
Wuxia
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In Chinese martial arts, there are fighting styles that are modeled after animals.
In Southern styles, especially those associated with Guangdong and Fujian provinces, there are five traditional animal styles known as Ng Ying Kung Fu (Chinese: 五形功夫) Chinese: 五形; pinyin: wǔ xíng; lit. 'Five Forms')—Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon. The five animal martial arts styles supposedly originated from the Henan Shaolin Temple, which is north of the Yangtze River, even though imagery of these particular five animals as a distinct set (i.e. in the absence of other animals such as the horse or the monkey as in tai chi or xingyiquan) is either rare in Northern Shaolin martial arts—and Northern Chinese martial arts in general—or recent (cf. wǔxíngbāfǎquán; 五形八法拳; "Five Form Eight Method Fist").[1] An alternate selection which is also widely used is the crane, the tiger, the monkey, the snake, and the mantis.[2]
In Mandarin, "wuxing" is the pronunciation not only of "five animals", but also of "five elements", the core techniques of xingyiquan martial arts, which also features animal mimicry, but often with ten or twelve animals rather than five, and with its high narrow Santishi stance, these look nothing like a Fujianese Southern style found in the North. Other animal styles of various types are sometimes used.
^Alscgbach, Travis. "5 Animals Fundamental Training". Inside Kung Fu. Archived from the original on 2010-07-04. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
^"Kung Fu Panda: Big Bear Cat was 'PO-fect'". Kung Fu Magazine. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
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