dacheng wrote:Nobody knows. It is even very doubtful that Jie Tiefu (or Xie Tiefu) was actually doing Xingyi/Xinyi. At some period of time Wang Xiang had idea that all styles originated from xinyi, which was created by Bodhidharma, and later just lost the original simplicity. So at least in some period he tended to describe anything which was efficient and without flowery as xinyi. ... As I wrote above, his idea was: the higher skill and less flowery, the closer it was to his idea of original Bodhidharma's xinyi.
dacheng wrote:This comes from Wang Xiangzhai himself. He developed such an opinion. You can read this in his own preface to his early work "The right path of Yiquan":
"During Liang Dynasty Damo (Bodhidharma) came to the east. Apart from teaching Buddhist
sutras, he also practiced art of exercising tendons and bones. He collected those characteristics
of various animals and birds, which give them advantage in fighting, mixed them with
methods of washing bone marrow and changing tendons, and created yiquan, also known as
xinyiquan".
Trick wrote:Thanks Dacheng for clarifying, till now I had though that perhaps WXZ had suspected that the white crane of Fujian had an direct connection with XYQ or at least shared the same source of origin ...As I understand, in the Crane tradition of Fujian it’s also believed their Sanchin kata has an direct origin with Bodhidharma..
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