Yuejiaquan

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: yuejiaquan

Applicant: Wuxue City, Hubei Province

Project No.: 807

Project No.: VI - 35

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics

Region: Hubei Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Wuxue City, Hubei Province

Protection unit: Wuxue Yuefei Wenwu School

Introduction to yuejiaquan

Applicant: Wuxue City, Hubei Province

Yuejia boxing was created by Yue Fei, a national hero of Song Dynasty. Yue Fei taught the whole army the boxing skills he learned in combination with the combat requirements. Since then, Yuejia boxing has begun to take shape. It is said that Yue Zhen, the fourth son of Yue Fei, and Yue Ting, the fifth son of Yue Fei, taught this boxing to the people when they took refuge in Hubei, and spread it in the east of Hubei. It was silent because of the prohibition of learning and practicing in Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and developed to its peak again in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

Yuejia boxing has a unique attack function. Its routine is simple and easy to learn. The body movement takes forward and backward as the principle, swallowing, spitting, floating and sinking as the main method. The technique takes the cloud throwing as the main method, and the principle takes the eight character formula of disability, disease, aid, snatch, pulling, holding, forcing and sucking as the main method. It emphasizes the use of four or two kilos to draw on the force, eliminate the body flash and hard To fight, to save, to fight. Yuejiaquan stresses both internal and external training, and pays attention to the training of spirit, consciousness and breath. Through internal training, it cultivates the vitality and healthy qi of the human body, improves the functions of various systems and organs of the human body, so as to help and promote the internal and external training, strengthen the internal and external, and achieve the comprehensive health function of strengthening the internal and external.

With the changes of the times, a number of old boxers died one after another, which hindered the development of Yuejia boxing. Nowadays, there are only a few boxers in Wuxue City who can practice one to ten sets of yuejiaquan boxing routines and yuejiagun, yuejiashuangchui, yuejiashuangmace, yuejiacudgel, yuejiaqigong. There are fewer and fewer inheritors of yuejiaquan, and fewer people can study it deeply. Yuejiaquan is in danger and needs to be rescued and protected.