oldest recorded chinese boxing

[bawang]

hi pls see wow so cool mang *rubs nipples

http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/ke05/ke05_00061/ke05_00061_0033/ke05_00061_0033.html

[wenshu]

Nice.

Thanks.

[MasterKiller]

What's the name of the book and year of publication?

[SPJ]

I have a modern script.

I was rite about shi

modern day, we use 式

in old time, we use 势

:cool:

[bawang]

What's the name of the book and year of publication?
wu beizhi by mao yuanyi 1594-1640

[sanjuro_ronin]

hi pls see wow so cool mang *rubs nipples

http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/ke05/ke05_00061/ke05_00061_0033/ke05_00061_0033.html

And this is cool because....

I remind you that some of us constipated white people no habla or read chinese.

[RD'S Alias - 1A]

I can't read the text, but the pictures are out of General Qi Jiguang's book written in the Ming Dynasty. It is showing the 32 postures from Tai Tzu Chang Chuan (well, it's more like 32 postures that are common to a bunch of styles, including Tai tzu)

These postures were taught at the famous Nanjing Kuo Shuo academy as form called "The 32 Famous Killing Fists"

[Sardinkahnikov]

Is it really a manual or it discusses something else?

[David Jamieson]

While I am satisfied this is an old book, I think it's erroneous to say it's the oldest "record" especially when there are paintings that show otherwise that preceded that book by at least 700 years into the Tang Dynasty, where it is these records that tell us that martial arts were practiced and were becoming essential to Chinese society even back then.

There is also work that depicts martial records from the Han dynasty! another 500 years before the Tang.

As soon as someone opens up the records in the forbidden city and actually starts to translate and distribute them, trust me, the whole idea of world history is gonna change in context to the Chinese place in it.

Anyway, it's cool to see these old treatises though.

[bawang]

And this is cool because....

I remind you that some of us constipated white people no habla or read chinese.

theres cool pictures

[SPJ]

long weapon, such as long spear, long staff, ji, shuo etc

they were standard infantry weapons, and used in chariot, too, since warring periods, spring autumn or zhou dynasty, some 2000 to 3000 years ago.


wu bei zhi or war/fighting readiness chronicle.

it will record some spear/staff fighting methodology, of course.

:cool:

[mickey]

Greetings,

I remember reading that the Wu Pei Shi was a vast work, a great many pages. Is this just a chapter?

I also question the type setting. The characters are incredibly clean. I have seen worse print in early 20th century Chinese language publications.


mickey

[Tainan Mantis]

What's the name of the book and year of publication?

Wu Bei Zhi. Published in the year 1621.
The weapons and empty hand are mostly taken from General Qi's Ji Shao Xing Shu (about 1562) New Book on Effective Training Methods, which itself repeats earlier material from empty hand and General Yu Dayou's stick.

General Yu Dayou was dismissed from office by a superior that didn't much like him.

Between the time of General Yu’s dismissal and his later reinstatement on the ‘barbarian frontier,’ sometime in 1567, he finished the martial classic, Compilation of the Righteous Hall. It includes the famous Sword Classic, detailing Yu’s stick fighting method known as "Jing Chu Long Sword" as well as several general formulas that can apply to both empty hand and weapons fighting.

From General Yu and the Escaping Pirates (http://www.plumflowermantisboxing.com/Articles/2010/general%20Yu.htm)

The book also includes stick from Cheng Zengyou in Exposition of Original Shaolin Staff Fighting first published around 1616.

This book became forbidden reading several decades later during Manchurian rule.