Sal Canzonieri
02-20-2009, 02:43 PM
Can someone please shed some light on this, thanks!
I am doing some research on various Shaolin styles, and came across contradictory or at least confusing information.
1. Kanjia Quan was a series of special sets of Long Fist martial art that the guards of the various gates on the Shaolin grounds practiced to protect the area (or to keep watch of Qing activities in the area). The style was saved by Monk Zhi Yuan (志遠) who fled from Henan Province to Hebei Province and passed the style onto Zhili Sheng Xihe Jie (直隸省西河街) lay follower (non-clerical) of Shaolin. He taught many villagers and the Shaolin style was passed onto Feng Shaochen (馮少臣), who passed the skills onto Xu Weisan (徐畏三) from Jiangsu. Xu Weisan went to Kiangsu Province and taught the Northern Shaolin style to the Yan Family, who later spread it throughout Shandong Province. Eventually, the Kanji Quan changed over time as it reached Yan Degong (Yan Po) to Yan Sansen, who taught Yan Jiwen, until it reached Gu Ru Zhang (Ku Yu Cheong), who incorporated them with many other styles he had learned, creating what is now called the ‘Bei Shaolin’ / ‘Bak Sil Lum’ style.
2. okay, then most other Bei Shaolin style people say that it was Gan Fengchi passed on this Shaolin art to Xu Weisan.
3, OTHER Bei Shaolin say that Gan taught Shaolin long fist to a student named Wan Bengcai.
3. All I have ever seen that is verifiable in research about Gan Fengshi is this:
The famous Shaolin master Gan Fengchi also left the Shaolin area during the reign of the fourth Qing Emperor Yongzheng (1723-1735 CE.). Under his rule, all weapon training was banned. Defiance was punishable by death. Gan Fengchi was a native of Ningxian County in Jiangsu Province (he was born around 1600 and had lived to about 80 years old); he eventually became the layman disciple of a Shaolin monk name Zhao Yuan. Zhao Yuan was originally from the royal family of the previous Ming Dynasty, whose secular name was Zhu Fu. When the Qing overthrew the Ming in 1644, Zhu Fu renounced his family name and became a monk, in hopes of learning Shaolin kungfu to help restore Ming reign. He trained Gan for twelve years, during which he became an anti-Qing rebel. In the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign, the emperor had over a 100 people arrested for civil disobedience, including Gan.
After leaving the Shaolin area, Gan trained in Sichuan province at Emei and there learned Three Emperor Pao Chui style and internal nei gong practices. According to ancient chronicles, at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Monk Puzhao toured Mount Emei in Sichuan Province, where he met a Taoist priest from whom he learned the Pao Chui (Priest Dong Cheng again? He taught Pao Quan / Pao Chui routines from Da Hong Quan). After mastering the art, Monk Puzhao taught it to Qiao Sanxiu and Gan Fengchi during Qing emperors Kangxi and Yong Zheng's reigns (1622-1735). He taught Qiao to temper suppleness through hardness, with suppleness as the core and hardness as the outward application. In contrast, he taught Gan to temper hardness through suppleness, with hardness as the core and suppleness as the outward application. The Gan-style focused on maintaining health. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795), Qiao Sanxiu passed his Chuan on to Qiao Heling whereas the disciples of the Gan Fengchi-style of Three Emperor Pao Chui are unknown.
Gan eventually developed a style called Hua Quan, Flower Boxing, which was a merger of Taiji like Rou Quan and Pao Chui. He wrote a book, Introduction to Hua Quan, which still exists about his new style; the book shows some common movements with the same names as they are shown in Yang Taiji Quan.
I am doing some research on various Shaolin styles, and came across contradictory or at least confusing information.
1. Kanjia Quan was a series of special sets of Long Fist martial art that the guards of the various gates on the Shaolin grounds practiced to protect the area (or to keep watch of Qing activities in the area). The style was saved by Monk Zhi Yuan (志遠) who fled from Henan Province to Hebei Province and passed the style onto Zhili Sheng Xihe Jie (直隸省西河街) lay follower (non-clerical) of Shaolin. He taught many villagers and the Shaolin style was passed onto Feng Shaochen (馮少臣), who passed the skills onto Xu Weisan (徐畏三) from Jiangsu. Xu Weisan went to Kiangsu Province and taught the Northern Shaolin style to the Yan Family, who later spread it throughout Shandong Province. Eventually, the Kanji Quan changed over time as it reached Yan Degong (Yan Po) to Yan Sansen, who taught Yan Jiwen, until it reached Gu Ru Zhang (Ku Yu Cheong), who incorporated them with many other styles he had learned, creating what is now called the ‘Bei Shaolin’ / ‘Bak Sil Lum’ style.
2. okay, then most other Bei Shaolin style people say that it was Gan Fengchi passed on this Shaolin art to Xu Weisan.
3, OTHER Bei Shaolin say that Gan taught Shaolin long fist to a student named Wan Bengcai.
3. All I have ever seen that is verifiable in research about Gan Fengshi is this:
The famous Shaolin master Gan Fengchi also left the Shaolin area during the reign of the fourth Qing Emperor Yongzheng (1723-1735 CE.). Under his rule, all weapon training was banned. Defiance was punishable by death. Gan Fengchi was a native of Ningxian County in Jiangsu Province (he was born around 1600 and had lived to about 80 years old); he eventually became the layman disciple of a Shaolin monk name Zhao Yuan. Zhao Yuan was originally from the royal family of the previous Ming Dynasty, whose secular name was Zhu Fu. When the Qing overthrew the Ming in 1644, Zhu Fu renounced his family name and became a monk, in hopes of learning Shaolin kungfu to help restore Ming reign. He trained Gan for twelve years, during which he became an anti-Qing rebel. In the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign, the emperor had over a 100 people arrested for civil disobedience, including Gan.
After leaving the Shaolin area, Gan trained in Sichuan province at Emei and there learned Three Emperor Pao Chui style and internal nei gong practices. According to ancient chronicles, at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Monk Puzhao toured Mount Emei in Sichuan Province, where he met a Taoist priest from whom he learned the Pao Chui (Priest Dong Cheng again? He taught Pao Quan / Pao Chui routines from Da Hong Quan). After mastering the art, Monk Puzhao taught it to Qiao Sanxiu and Gan Fengchi during Qing emperors Kangxi and Yong Zheng's reigns (1622-1735). He taught Qiao to temper suppleness through hardness, with suppleness as the core and hardness as the outward application. In contrast, he taught Gan to temper hardness through suppleness, with hardness as the core and suppleness as the outward application. The Gan-style focused on maintaining health. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795), Qiao Sanxiu passed his Chuan on to Qiao Heling whereas the disciples of the Gan Fengchi-style of Three Emperor Pao Chui are unknown.
Gan eventually developed a style called Hua Quan, Flower Boxing, which was a merger of Taiji like Rou Quan and Pao Chui. He wrote a book, Introduction to Hua Quan, which still exists about his new style; the book shows some common movements with the same names as they are shown in Yang Taiji Quan.