Interesting thanks!
The animal names don't seem to add anything, there is nothing characteristic in the sets and it is unusual for northern sets to name that way. Possibly a later addition to...
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Interesting thanks!
The animal names don't seem to add anything, there is nothing characteristic in the sets and it is unusual for northern sets to name that way. Possibly a later addition to...
AWESOME FIND!
Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl5D7jWE55M
It is the same as the first road of the video you posted.
This was taken actually at Shaolin. The performer...
300 years is certainly enough to transform to the local flavour. I once trained in a small village south of YuZhai (Shaoshi) mountain. They had separated from Shaolin for 360 years, but still...
Great!
Thanks very much for the video TeaSerpent,
In my opinion its not a recent import from SongShan. Though the techniques are all readable that way, the form is more in the style ErLangQuan...
Its entirely possible.
I have never come across the BeiYuan or DongYuan sects in terms of martial arts. Doesn't mean they didn't have any, I hope they did, it would be fascinating. But there is so...
Sure.
NanYuan, XiYuan, BeiYuan and DongYuan are often referred to in Shaolin lore as 4 sections of the Shaolin temple. 僧院 SengYuan as you rightly say is abbey. But it would be kind of strange to...
Shaolin ChanSi, Shaolin Zen Temple was split into 4 abbeys. NanYuan, XiYuan, DongYuan, BeiYuan.
That is Southern abbey, western abbey, eastern abbey, northern abbey. (also sometimes referred to as...