Best Fight Scenes Animal Style Kung Fu
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In the Chinese martial arts, imagery of the Five Animals (Chinese: 五形; pinyin: wǔ xíng; literally: "Five Forms")—Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon—appears predominantly in Southern styles, especially those associated with Guangdong and Fujian Provinces. An alternate selection which is also widely used is the crane, the tiger, the monkey, the snake, and the mantis.
The Five Animal martial arts 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 T'ai chi ch'uan or Xíngyìquán) 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").
In Mandarin, "wǔxíng" is the pronunciation not only of "Five Animals," but also of "Five Elements," the core techniques of Xíngyìquán, which also features animal mimicry (but of 10 or 12 animals rather than 5) and, with its high narrow Sāntǐshì (三體勢) stance, looks nothing so much like a Fujianese Southern style stranded in the North.
Although the technique is mainly associated with the tiger, dragon, snake, crane and leopard, many other animal styles have been developed:
List of animal styles
Tiger Fist
Hei Hu Quan (Black Tiger Fist)
Fu Jow Pai (Black Tiger Claw)
Panther
Praying Mantis Fist
Shandong Tánglángquán (Northern Style)
Nán Pài Tángláng (Southern Style)
Horse
Cobra
Bull
Wolf
Deer
Bear
Boar
Ying Zhao Pai (Eagle Claw Style)
Python
Scorpion
Elephant
Lion
Frog
Duck
Dog
Crow
Tiger cub
Chicken
Hawk
Turtle
Swallow
Lizard
Monkey
The Five Animal martial arts 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 T'ai chi ch'uan or Xíngyìquán) 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").
In Mandarin, "wǔxíng" is the pronunciation not only of "Five Animals," but also of "Five Elements," the core techniques of Xíngyìquán, which also features animal mimicry (but of 10 or 12 animals rather than 5) and, with its high narrow Sāntǐshì (三體勢) stance, looks nothing so much like a Fujianese Southern style stranded in the North.
Although the technique is mainly associated with the tiger, dragon, snake, crane and leopard, many other animal styles have been developed:
List of animal styles
Tiger Fist
Hei Hu Quan (Black Tiger Fist)
Fu Jow Pai (Black Tiger Claw)
Panther
Praying Mantis Fist
Shandong Tánglángquán (Northern Style)
Nán Pài Tángláng (Southern Style)
Horse
Cobra
Bull
Wolf
Deer
Bear
Boar
Ying Zhao Pai (Eagle Claw Style)
Python
Scorpion
Elephant
Lion
Frog
Duck
Dog
Crow
Tiger cub
Chicken
Hawk
Turtle
Swallow
Lizard
Monkey