Re: Northern vs Southern arts
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:54 pm
Most Southern arts do have a Buddhist background, being derived from some sort of Shaolin - but perhaps as an "extraction" from the huge corpus that Shaolin is (e.g. no one person could master/know it all, plus all the religious stuff), maybe they were happy to concentrate on a part.
Wing chun has its own sort of classics and songs - they start like this:
咏春绝技,源于少林;招无虎鹤,法无五行,只谈线位,力与角度,同门技力,四位三度。
The meaning is (my loose translation - feel free to fix if wrong!):
The invincible techniques of Wing Chun,
originate from Shaolin,
the techniques have no tiger or crane,
the methods have no five elements,
we only speak of lines and position,
strength and angles,
in this school's techniques and strengths,
there are 4 positions and 3 spaces.
But anyway, in separating from the original religious roots a bit, it looks like they were able to concentrate more on the strategy and fighting part.
Wing chun has its own sort of classics and songs - they start like this:
咏春绝技,源于少林;招无虎鹤,法无五行,只谈线位,力与角度,同门技力,四位三度。
The meaning is (my loose translation - feel free to fix if wrong!):
The invincible techniques of Wing Chun,
originate from Shaolin,
the techniques have no tiger or crane,
the methods have no five elements,
we only speak of lines and position,
strength and angles,
in this school's techniques and strengths,
there are 4 positions and 3 spaces.
But anyway, in separating from the original religious roots a bit, it looks like they were able to concentrate more on the strategy and fighting part.