GrahamB wrote:made me think.... could it be? Why a cross? Choy Lee Fut was caught up in the same "strengthen the nation" nationalist movement.....
kenneth fish wrote:GrahamB wrote:made me think.... could it be? Why a cross? Choy Lee Fut was caught up in the same "strengthen the nation" nationalist movement.....
In a word, no. The character for the number ten in Chinese is a "cross". The form translates to "Character ten fist (form)". Movement along the character ten moves one through the four cardinal directions. It is a very common pattern for beginning forms in CMA, and predates any Christian influence.
GrahamB wrote:"On July 30, 1864, Qing forces exhumed, beheaded, and burned his body.[64] His body was later exhumed on orders of Zeng Guofan to verify his death, and then cremated. Hong's ashes were later blasted out of a cannon in order to ensure that his remains have no resting place as eternal punishment for the uprising. The Taiping Rebellion was suppressed by Qing forces later in 1864."
Wow - talk about a send off!
Yeung wrote:The history of Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1912) or the Manchurian domination of China, sort of explained the missing links between Internal Martial Arts dated back to the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and the appearance of Taijiquan, Baguaquan and Yongchunquan (Wing Chun) in the late Qing period. There is also good reason to believe that Liuhebafa is a Manchurian development of Internal Martial Art. As the founder Wu Yihui was a Manchurian and was trained in the Qing Imperial Naval College. There is also the Taixuquan 太虚拳 claims to be the Wudang Internal Martal Art taught in the Qing imperial household.
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