Shenzhou Xingyiquan

Hebei
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Shenzhou City is located in the southeast of Hebei Province and is under the jurisdiction of Hengshui City. Shenzhou Xingyiquan is mainly spread in Wangjiajing Town, Shenzhou Town, Mucun Township and Bingcao Township of Shenzhou City. Xingyiquan is one of the excellent traditional Chinese martial arts. It evolved from Xinyiquan. It was created by Li Laoneng of Shenzhou and taught to many disciples. The boxing styles of his disciples are divided into Hebei School and Shanxi School (Japanese Matsuda Takatomo divided it into Hebei, Shanxi and Henan schools, among which Henan School is Xinyiquan). The Hebei School is represented by the boxing taught by Li Laoneng's son Li Taihe and Lao Neng's disciples Guo Yunshen and Liu Qilan. Because the three were all from Shenzhou in the Qing Dynasty, the so-called Hebei School Xingyi is Shenzhou Xingyiquan. Xingyiquan is a perfect combination of traditional Eastern philosophical thoughts and medicine, Daoyin techniques and martial arts, and is a high-level human body culture. This boxing is compiled according to the principle of the transformation of all things in heaven and earth, and it connects the internal organs, meridians, and the eight extraordinary meridians. Shenzhou Xingyi Quan uses the three-body stance as the basic stance, the five-element boxing as the basic training, and the twelve-form boxing as the application. It has routines such as advance and retreat chain, body cannon, and miscellaneous punches, as well as internal strength, free-hand fighting, and other techniques. It has complete theories and techniques and has distinct personality characteristics. The weapons include knives, guns, swords, sticks, etc. Shenzhou Xingyi Quan integrates fitness, techniques, and health preservation. Through exercise, it can strengthen the body, defend oneself and resist the enemy. It can also be used as sports medicine and has obvious effects on many chronic diseases. Shenzhou Xingyi Quan is a boxing method based on Taoist doctrines and is unique. The movements are both hard and soft, bright and powerful; tight and compact, with overall force, fast and rigorous, different from the long-range and wide-opening and closing of Changquan; solid and steady, with three-body posture as the unique stance, the upper body is wide and comfortable, the lower limbs are solid, the movements are not floating, not stiff, solemn and comfortable; coordinated and neat, the movements are connected throughout the body, and the strength is coordinated; simple and practical, the techniques are not fancy, practical, and have high combat value. Shenzhou Xingyiquan is widely spread. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Shen Wanlin, the successor of Guo Yunshen, spread the boxing to the three provinces in the northeast; Li Cunyi, the disciple of Liu Qilan, spread the boxing to Beijing and Tianjin; Wang Fuyuan spread the boxing to Taiyuan and Pingyao; Sun Lutang, the disciple of Guo Yunshen, promoted the boxing to Jiangnan; Hao Enguang, the disciple of Li Cunyi, spread the boxing to Japan. At that time, Xingyiquan was among the four famous traditional boxings in China. Since most of the martial arts masters who guarded the courtyards in the north at that time were descendants of Shenzhou Xingyiquan, Shenzhou was respected as the "first martial arts town". In recent years, the passing of many veteran boxers has caused Shenzhou Xingyiquan to gradually decline and lack successors.

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