Yiquan

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Yiquan
Chinese: 意拳
Literal meaning: "Mind Boxing"
dacheng quan
Chinese: 大成拳
Literal meaning: "Great Achievement Boxing"

Yi quan , also known as dacheng quan, is a martial art system which was founded by the Chinese xingyiquan master, Wang Xiangzhai (王薌齋).

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[edit] History

Having learned xingyiquan with Guo Yunshen in his childhood,[citation needed] Wang Xiangzhai travelled China, meeting and comparing skills with masters of various styles of kung fu.[citation needed] In the mid-1920s, he came to the conclusion that xingyiquan was often taught wrong,[citation needed] with too much emphasis on 'outer form', neglecting the essence of true martial power.[citation needed] He worked to return to what he felt was the true essence of the art using a different name, without the 'xing' (meaning form), and began teaching and practicing accordingly.


[edit] The style

Yiquan is essentially formless, containing no fixed sets of fighting movements or techniques. Instead, focus is put on developing ones natural movement and fighting abilities through a system of training methods and concepts, working to improve the perception of one's body, its movement, and of force. Another thing that sets yiquan apart from other eastern martial arts, is that traditional concepts, like qi, meridians, dantian etc. eventually were discarded, the reason being that understanding ones true nature happens in the now and that preconceptions block this process.

Yiquan seems to have been influenced by various other arts that Wang was exposed to, include Fujian hèquán,Tai chi chuan and bāguàzhǎng,[citation needed]. But in fact it was the internal core of these other arts that made them effective. It was this core that master Wang perceived. In essence there is only one principle of merit in all martial arts, one core, one moment of truth.

[edit] Overview

The actual training in yiquan can generally be divided into:

  • Zhan zhuang (站樁) - Slow Motion postures, where emphasis is put on relaxation, working to improve perception of the body and on developing Hunyuan Li, or "all things that make the whole". Zhan zhuang can also be divided into two different types of postures; health postures and combat postures.
  • Shi li (試力) - moving exercises, trying to bring the sensations developed through zhan zhuang into movements.
  • Moca bu (摩擦步) - Shi li for the legs.
  • Bu Fa - footwork.

Principle of Nature. That all truth and action occur in 'Shunjen' the split second of now. Everything before this moment is 'Wu' the Void, and thus unknowable. All objective and preconception is fixed and not in accordance with this undetermined state of Nature. "The Dao that is called the Dao is not the eternal Dao"...

[edit] Schools

Two of the teachers of modern yiquan are Yao Chengguang (姚承光) and Yao Chengrong (姚承榮), twin sons of Yao Zongxun (姚宗勛) Others include Cui Ruibin of Beijing. Schools include the Han xing Yuan(韓星垣) School, the Han xing qiao (韓星橋)School,(Wangs adopted son and the teacher of Yao Zongxun),The Han Shi Yiquan school [(Han Jing Chen)], Son of Han Xing Qiao, and the Li Jian Yu (李見宇) School.

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