Eight trigrams palm

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: baguazhang

Applicant: Langfang City, Hebei Province

Project No.: 797

Project No.: VI - 25

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics

Region: Hebei Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Langfang City, Hebei Province

Protection unit: Wenzhu military school of Wen'an County

Introduction to baguazhang

Applicant: Langfang City, Hebei Province

Bagua palm is a boxing technique based on palm changing and walking. It was created by Dong Haichuan from Wen'an County, Hebei Province. At present, it has been inherited in Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin, Hubei and other places. This is a kind of boxing that combines attack and defense tactics and guidance methods in a circle. It has been continuously developed and improved since it was handed down in the late Qing Dynasty.

The Eight Trigram Palm is called "Yang instrument" when it goes around the circle to the left and "Yin instrument" when it goes around the circle to the right. All other changes and functions are to integrate offensive and defensive moves or certain training methods into walking around the circle. When facing the enemy, it is necessary to keep walking around to deal with the opponent, avoid the real and the virtual, avoid the positive and seek the slant, pay attention to controlling immobility by movement, and control slow movement by fast movement, so as to form "action oriented, change oriented method" ”The rules of eight trigrams palm technique. The basic palm techniques include single palm changing, double palm changing, double palm hitting, palm piercing, palm picking, palm turning, palm shaking and palm turning. The basic footwork includes lifting, falling, buckling and swinging. The movement characteristics of Bagua palm are walking, seeing, sitting and turning. It takes "mud step" as the starting point, twisting, turning, walking and turning as the basic movement form, takes the change of palm technique as the main attack means, stresses both internal and external cultivation, emphasizes the combination of body and mind, makes the body quick and the spirit like a dragon, and the twisting, turning, walking and turning palm technique is changeable.

Baguazhang emphasizes that "mind adjustment" is the main way to practice, followed by others. It is necessary to calm down all the time and cultivate a group of "neutral Qi". All the movements of the body are guided by the mind. As far as boxing itself is concerned, it is the source of "Qi sinking into the elixir field and cultivating the foundation". From the perspective of fitness, only when the mind is calm, can people's limbs and viscera relax, and automatically adjust the relative balance between them, so as to make their Qi and blood unobstructed, and achieve the purpose of eliminating pain and strengthening the body. It can be seen that baguazhang is an excellent sports event with synchronous and coordinated development of body and mind, and a treasure of traditional sports culture.

In recent years, many famous martial arts experts and scholars have devoted themselves to the research and practice of baguaquan and achieved fruitful results. However, in the face of the overall decline of martial arts, the prospect of baguazhang is worrying, and it is urgent to be included in the scope of national protection.