Mok Family Boxing
Mo's boxing is known as one of the "Five Famous Boxings of Guangdong". It was originally called "Six-degree Yin-Yang Palm". It is used for self-defense, fitness, competition, daily life, martial arts, and martial arts. Mo's boxing has distinct Lingnan characteristics and a simple and generous southern boxing style. It is famous for its leg techniques. The so-called "one leg is better than three punches, the hand is seven feet long, the foot is three feet long, the long attack, the volley kick, the fist is a hundred taels, and the foot is a thousand pounds." The leg techniques include: supporting chicken kick, tiger tail kick, piercing kick, nail kick, and door-to-door chain kick. The characteristics of boxing are oblique shoulder half-hanging horse, flexible footwork, tight technique, combination of attack and defense, brave boxing, strong and powerful, both soft and hard, and long and short coordination. It is said that boxing is like a tiger and kicking is like a dragon. There are more than 20 types of boxing, such as the stretched boxing, black tiger boxing, cross leopard boxing, arrow boxing, string flower boxing, open-mouth boxing, downhill boxing, iron boxing, eight-sided boxing, back dragon boxing, five tiger boxing, - boxing, wind tiger boxing, etc. The bare-handed routines include: 74-style Mojia boxing, 21-style human-shaped pile boxing, 28-style white tiger boxing, 39-style bridge boxing. The stick methods include dragon-tiger stick, Wuzhou stick, fishing stick, etc. According to the "Guangdong Provincial Annals. Sports Annals", during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Shaolin Temple Huizhen Zen Master who came to Guangdong from Fujian passed it on to Mo Zeyao, also known as Mo Dacai, in Haifeng County, Huizhou Prefecture, and later passed it on to Mo Qingjiao, also known as Mo Zhenjiao, Mo Siji, and Mo Dingru, in Huogang Village, Huizhou. After their discussion and practice, the Mojia boxing was formed. The five of them are the first generation of Mojia boxing. Mo Dashi, Mo Dacai, Mo Qingjiao, Mo Zhenjiao and others taught Mo Jiaquan in Dongguan County. Mo Longfu, Mo Dingru from Dazhou Village, Qiaotou Town, Mo Lisheng, Mo Lin and others from Shishuikou Village inherited their master's teachings and became the second generation of Mo Jiaquan. Mo Liang, Mo Rong from Shishuikou Village and Mo Qunheng, Mo Qunqing from Huogang Village learned from Mo Longfu and became the third generation. Mo Jinghu (Mo Zhaorong, Mo Xiachou), Mo Kong, Mo Xiji from Dazhou Village, Mo Dinggui, Mo Hai from Shishuikou Village learned from Mo Lisheng and became the first generation of descendants. Mo Baixu, Mo Ningle, Mo Deyu, Mo Kunxiong, Mo Runjin, Mo Peigui and others learned from Mo Jingfu (Mo Xiachou, Mo Zhaorong) from Dazhou Village and became the fifth generation of descendants. Mo Woxing, Mo Jingming, Mo Shuqi, Mo Yongqiang, Mo Huanchang, Mo Weiquan and others learned from Mo Baixu and became the sixth generation of descendants. To this day, Mo Jia Quan has been passed down from generation to generation in the Qiaotou area, and it is very popular. There have also emerged many famous martial arts boxers and many popular stories. Today, Mo Jia Quan is mainly spread in Huizhou, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Foshan, Shunde and other places, and has spread to Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia), the United Kingdom, the United States and other places. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Mo Lisheng, the inheritor of "Mo Jia Quan" in Shishuikou Village, defeated the Russian challenger with the "Sky-high Kick" in Hong Kong, winning glory for the country. Mo Baolian, a child of Shishuikou who became a martial artist, served as a captain of a sailor (navy) in the late Qing Dynasty. In the second year of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty (1876), Mo Xiongmou, a martial arts scholar who had practiced martial arts since childhood in Shishuikou, was selected by the Qing emperor as a military scholar of the Bingzi class (blue feather scholar). In the early days of liberation, Mo Jinghu (Mo Zhaorong, Mo Xiachou), a native of Dazhou Village, who was known as one of the five great coaches of Guangdong martial arts, opened a school in Guangzhou and Nanshe Village, Chashan Town to teach his disciples. In the 1980s, Wende Middle School in Qiaotou Town opened a "Mo Family Boxing" class, taught by the old boxer Mo Ningle from Shishuikou Village. The Provincial Sports Committee also sent people to the three villages of the Mo family (Dazhou, Shishuikou, and Lingxia) to record videos for the old boxer. Before liberation, all the men in their 40s and 50s of the Mo family in Qiaotou had learned Mo Family Boxing and Stick. Mo Boxu from Dazhou Village, Mo Lisheng, Mo Ningle, and Mo Deyu from Shishuikou Village were the representatives of the group. Mo Deyu, male, was born in 1943 in Shishuikou Village. He became a disciple at the age of 8 and is currently the traditional martial arts consultant of the Hong Kong Wushu Federation. Mo Boxu, male, was born in 1942 in Dazhou Village. He became a disciple at the age of 12 and successively studied under Li Dinggui, Mo Xiachou, Mo Jinghu, and Mo Zhaorong. Since becoming a disciple, he has been diligent and never tired of learning. At the same time, he has devoted himself to studying the skills of Mo Family Boxing and finally achieved success. He is proficient in Mo Family Boxing, especially in stick fighting. The "Mo Family Boxing Stick Manual" he wrote by hand has been preserved for nearly 50 years and has become an important material for people to study Mo Family Boxing today. He has been passionate about martial arts all his life. He has taught martial arts in Bao'an, Chashan Nanshe, Qishi Mowu, Shipai and other places in Shenzhen. At the invitation of Dazhou Village Committee of Qiaotou Town, he is now a martial arts coach in the village, responsible for teaching the children of the village Mo Family Boxing. He is well versed in Mo Family Boxing and has been practicing for many years. He has taught many disciples throughout his life and made important contributions to the inheritance and development of Mo Family Boxing. In 1985, he was invited by the Provincial Sports Committee to do an interview on the Provincial TV station. In 2007, Dongguan Daily, Dongguan TV and Dongguan Radio successively interviewed and reported on Mo Boxing. During the Spring Festivals of 2008 and 2009, Guangdong Provincial and Municipal Photographers Associations successively organized a number of photography enthusiasts to go to Dazhou Community to participate in the Mo Family Boxing performance photography competition. Especially during the Spring Festival of 2009, more than 200 photography enthusiasts from all walks of life were organized by the Provincial and Municipal Photographers Associations, the Photography Department of South China Normal University, the Hong Kong Art Photographers Association, etc. to go to Dazhou Community in Qiaotou Town to hold the national photography exhibition "Qiaotou Mozhong Boxing" theme creation competition.