The Golden Bell Kung Fu 金鐘罩
From at least the Ming dynasty there has been a kung fu training method called 金鐘罩 jin zhong zhao or golden bell cover.
The Shaolin Book of Short Strikes has this to say.
If you've mastered the golden bell cover, what is there to fear of spears,
sabers, swords and axes?
若得學成金鐘罩﹐何怕鎗刀並劍戈。
Golden Bell Cover was popular enough to be included in martial novels of the mid to late Qing dynasty, so its existence was no secret.
It was taught to peasants for use in the Boxer Rebellion of 1911 where many unfortunate peasants discovered that Golden Bell Cover does not stop bullets.
What I am trying to discover is if it was taught to small Chinese militias at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty as part of their military training program to take China away from the Manchurian rule.
Are there any other schools that teach or taught or have heard of the Golden Bell Cover?
Golden Bell is it's Own Technique (Combination)
If a school practiced this it would be as the Seven Star Praying Mantis School of eighteen individual and accepted whole stand-alone techniques.
Yet Golden Bell is not a Kung-Fu as much as it is the result of the practice of two stand-alone Defensive Kung-Fus Turtle Back is one. Iron Bull Kung is the other. Unless you're just going to call callasing the front and back Golden Bell.
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No_Know Response Tainan Mantis
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Do you have a specific reference that ties together Golden bell with the two methods (which I have not heard of) together?
Chapter title 11 Chapter Title 42
p.102 of the pdf;p.101 in the book reference to Iron Bull end of 1st paragraph
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No_Know's Say of the Difference Between Iron Skill and Golden Bell
When the Muay Thai kick the banana tree in the movies, that's iron body training. Leg sweeps called Iron Broom. Iron arms, Iron Head, Iron Palm, Iron Leg, Iron Bull (toughening the belly), Iron fingers, Knees and Elbows are naturally hard or are effectively useable strikers--elbows are not ever Iron. Knees might be trained individually or as part of a collection of honing hard strike tools. Notice these are individual body areas. And there is no Iron Back.
The Irons seem to be impact conditioning of a body area usually an appendage.
Golden Bell from my reading is a composite of two skills--Iron Bull and Turtle Back.
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The Venerable Monk Enters Nirvana
Here is an original. There are several that are very similar, all dating from some period in the Qing dynasty.
The Venerable Monk Enters Nirvana
Third Round; Divide the Legs Ride the Horse
The twenty-four joints make the spine.
Yin and yang combine and harmonize at wei-lu.
With a mouthful of qi raise up the anus.
The floating toad rushes to the bottom of the well.
Use strength and grab your legs.
Exert your knees and straighten your waist like a stone column.
If you’ve mastered the Golden Bell Cover,
What is there to fear of spears, swords, sabers or lances?