mantis boxing

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Mantis Boxing

Applicant: Qixia City, Shandong Province

Project No.: 805

Project No.: VI - 33

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics

Region: Shandong Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Qixia City, Shandong Province

Protection unit: Qixia Cultural Center

Introduction to Mantis Boxing

Applicant: Qixia City, Shandong Province

Mantis Boxing is a kind of traditional boxing evolved from imitating Mantis movements, which is widely spread in Jiaodong area of Shandong Province.

Mantis boxing was born in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, and was created by Wang Lang in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty.

In the hundreds of years since it came into being, mantis boxing has gradually formed a unique style with distinctive characteristics, both long and short, combination of hardness and softness, bravery and rapidity, and strong practicability through the summary, refining, innovation and development of previous generations of martial arts experts. There are mainly Taiji mantis, plum blossom mantis, seven star mantis, Liuhe mantis, Xiaojia mantis and other schools. Taiji mantis, Meihua Mantis and Xiaojia Mantis are popular in Qixia.

The characteristics of mantis boxing are fast and brave, resolute and courageous. It is difficult to grasp and defend the opponent by attacking the opponent from side to side, combining virtual with real, combining long with short, combining hard with soft, and using both hands and feet. It is impossible to press the opponent with a series of tight techniques, so that the opponent has no chance to breathe. The technique is quite rich. There are long hitters with big opening and closing, short and quick stealers, elbow catching and ground wrestling. In the aspect of routine drills, we should pay attention to speed but not chaos, rigidity but not rigidity, softness but not softness. The routine structure is rigorous, and the connection between movements is ingenious. The external skill is iron sand palm, and the internal skill is Luohan skill. Often practicing mantis boxing can cultivate people's strong fighting spirit and adaptability.

As one of the top ten schools of Chinese traditional martial arts, mantis boxing is the concentrated product of Shandong Peninsula culture and the comprehensive embodiment of the "martial spirit" of the Chinese nation.