Cangzhou Wushu (Yanqing boxing)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Cangzhou Wushu (Yanqing boxing)

Applicant: Cangzhou City, Hebei Province

Item No.: 292

Project No.: VI - 10

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics

Region: Hebei Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Cangzhou City, Hebei Province

Protection unit: Cangzhou Wushu Association

Introduction to Cangzhou Wushu (Yanqing boxing)

Applicant: Cangzhou City, Hebei Province

It is popular in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. There are more than 100 kinds of boxing techniques, such as unarmed boxing, equipment, single training and pair training, mainly including lost boxing shelf, spring leg, lost boxing one to six ways, lost boxing art, eighteen turns and so on. Yanqing boxing not only has the tendency of Neijia boxing to refine Qi and arc, but also has the opening, splitting and stretching posture of Waijia boxing. It is loved by the majority of fans for its rich movement changes and flexible posture. This fist combines hardness and softness. It's both internal and external. It's a great opening and closing move. It's full of potential. It's full of opportunities to kill. It's used to attack people's vital parts. It's often one and a half moves that can defeat the enemy to death. It is said that the practitioners include Zhou Dong, Lin Chong, Lu Junyi, Yan Qing and Yue Fei in Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, sun Tong introduced this kind of boxing to Cangzhou. In modern times, Huo Yuanjia, Jiang Rongqiao, Guo Xishan, Chen Fengqi and other famous martial arts masters all practiced Yanqing boxing, and their related deeds have been widely spread in the Wulin. Yanqing boxing can strengthen people's physique, cultivate people's indomitable character, and play an important role in carrying forward the national spirit and enriching the way of recuperation. There are fundamental factors of other kinds of boxing in the skill. The demonstration does not lose the beauty of foreign boxing, but also includes the moderate and gentle, the accumulation of Qi and the whole force. With the development of the market economy, martial arts activities have entered a stage of low ebb. The accomplished boxers have died one after another. The outstanding skills of young boxers are rare, leading to the loss of Yanqing boxing weapons and worrying inheritance.