B01. Wudang Taiyi Five Elements Boxing

elementary: 5 months;intermediate: 2 months

This boxing was created by Zhang Shouxing, the 8th Master of Longmen of Wudang during Ming Dynasty (1488-1504). It combines Taichi 13 Postures of Grand Master Zhang Sanfeng with the Five Animals Movement of Huatuo, the famous ancient herbal medicine practitioner of late Han Dynasty. It also integrates with Taoist’s breathing, Dao-yin (exercise) and fighting techniques.  In 1929, the 24-year old Aisin Gioro Puhuan, whose Chinese name was Jin Zitao, the younger brother of the last Emperor of Qing Dynasty, had stayed in Zixiao Temple for more than seven months. During this period, Jin accidentally saw Priest Li Heling practicing this boxing, so he asked Priest Li to teach him. Due to the Taoist rule, it is forbidden to pass on kungfu to outsiders and people like Jin with special background. Thus, Priest Li refused Ji’s request. But Jin was sincere. He knelt in front of the statue of Emperor Xuanwu and swore that he would never pass it on to other people if he could learn this fist. Finally, Priest Li was touched and taught Jin the boxing. Jin practiced it for the rest of his life and managed to realize the true essence of the boxing. During the National Wushu (Martial Arts) Demonstration Convention in 1980-1981, Jin performed this boxing for the first time in the public. With the consent of Jin, the Wuhan Sports Commission established a special team to learn it from Jin. Since then, the boxing is circulated broadly. The boxing features circling movements toward all directions. It has outstanding health preservation and fighting functions with special effects to the muscles, bones and joints. It has absorbed the pictographic motions of Huatuo’s Five Animals Movement, including tiger shape strengthening the lung, monkey shape strengthening the kidney, deer shape strengthening the liver and the crane shape strengthening the heart. It is very effective in preventing from aging and illnesses. Practicing this boxing is good to the systems of central nervous, cardiovascular, respiration, bone and digestion. Thus, the practitioners can improve their organs, eliminate disease and prolong life.

The program includes Nourishing Life through Jiugong Xuanzhuan Shierzhuang Gong. It also practices Taiyi Five Elements Boxing which is a series of body building method with specific movements of hands, eyes, body, steps, spirit, Qi and force. It is also a series of training muscles and bones method which trains shapes, mind, Qi and strength. It is the elementary training of shapes and body movements.

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