Originally Posted by
Sal Canzonieri
This isn't Shaolin Xiao Hung Quan, it is taiwanese Tai Tzu Quan from the Mai Hua Long Fist system.
What you are correctly observing is that both forms come from the same roots, Tai Tzu Long Fist.
Cool! I'm impressed you all can recognize it. Since most of my Shifu's Longfist comes from either Han Qingtang or Wang Songting and their students, and since they both came from Shandong, I'd guess it would be fair to say this is Shandong Longfist (they call it Jiaomen Longfist cuz it was often practiced by Moslems).
My shifu has several forms called "Taizu" Longfist, but he doesn't lump his Xiao Hong-quan in with that category (though all LF come from Taizu originally). I think it is just because it was a popular form and therefore included a lot of variation. If it really was the invention of Shaolin, then by the time it got to Shandong and spent a couple hundred years there it is not surprising it is very different (or perhaps they're totally unrelated and just share a name?).
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