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Chinese Martial Arts Styles

Traditional-

The following martial arts have not been influenced by other cultures or have a lineage that predates the 1940s:

Bafaquan (八法拳) – Eight method

Baguazhang (八卦掌; Bagua Zhang) – Eight trigrams palm

Bājíquán (八極拳) – Eight extreme fists

Bak Mei (白眉拳) – White Eyebrow

Chāquán (查拳) – Cha Fist

Changquan (長拳) – Long Fist

Chuōjiǎo (戳腳) – Poking Feet

Choy gar (蔡家拳) – Choi Family style

Choi Li Fut (蔡李佛; Càilǐfó)

Ditangquan (地躺拳) – Ground-Prone Fist, Ground Tumbling Boxing

Duan Quan (短拳) – Short Range Boxing

Emeiquan (峨嵋拳) – Emei Fist

Fanzi (翻子拳) – Overturning Fist, Tumbling Boxing

Five Ancestors (五祖拳) – Wuzuquan or Ngo Cho Kun

Five Animals (五形)

Fujian White Crane (福建白鶴拳) – also known as Bai He Quan (白鶴拳)

Fu Jow Pai (虎爪派) – Tiger Claw System

Fut Gar (佛家)- Buddhist Palm

Gouquan (狗拳) – Dog Fist

Hap Ga (俠家)Houquan (猴拳) – Monkey Fist

Drunken Monkey (醉猴)

Hei hu quan (黑虎拳) – Black Tiger Fist

Huaquan (華拳) – China Fist

Hung Fut (洪佛) – Hung and Buddha style kung fu

Hung Ga (洪家拳; also known as Hung Kuen)

Jing Wu Men (精武門) – Jing Wu, a famous school founded in Shanghai that teaches several different styles.

Jow-Ga Kung Fu (周家) – Jow family style

Lai Tung Pai – Shaolin Style that mixes long and short fist

Lama Pai (喇嘛派)

Leopard Kung Fu (豹拳)

Li Gar (李家) – Li Family or Lee Family style

Liuhebafa (六合八法; Liu He Ba Fa) – Six Harmonies, Eight Methods or Water Boxing

Longquan (龙拳) – Dragon Fist

Luohan Quan (羅漢拳) Arhat Boxing, Loh Han Kuen

Meihuaquan (梅花拳) – Plum Blossom Fist

Mian Quan (棉花拳擊) – Cotton Boxing

Mizongyi (迷蹤拳; Mízōngquán) – Lost Track Fist (also known as My Jong Law Horn; 迷蹤羅漢拳)

Mok Gar (莫家拳) Mok family style

Nam Pai Chuan (南北拳) – North South Fist

Nanquan (南拳) – Southern Fist

Ng Ga Kuen – Five Family/Five Animal style (Hung, Mok, Li, Choy, Fut)

Northern Praying Mantis (北派螳螂拳)

Northern Shaolin (北少林) – Bei Shaolin

Pào Chuí (炮捶) – Cannon Fist, Sanhaung Paochui

Piguaquan (劈掛拳) – Chop-Hitch Fist, Axe-hitch boxing

Shaolin Kung Fu (少林拳) – Shaolin FistShequan (蛇拳) – Snake Fist

Shuai jiao (摔跤; Shuaijiao) – Chinese and Mongolian styles of wrestling

Southern Praying Mantis (南派螳螂拳)

Chow Gar (周家) – Chow Style Southern Praying Mantis

Tàijíquán (太極拳; T’ai chi ch’uan; Tai Chi) – Supreme Ultimate fist

Tán Tuǐ (彈腿/譚腿) – Springing legs style

Tibetan White Crane (白鶴派)

Tien Shan Pai (天山派)

Tongbeiquan (通背拳) – Through-the-Back Fist

Wing Chun (詠春 or 永春)

Wudang chuan (武當拳)

Xingyiquan (形意拳; Hsing-i Chuan) – Form-Intent Fist

Yau Kung Moon (软功門) – Flexible-Power Style

Yingzhaoquan (鷹爪拳) – Eagle Claw Fist

Yuejiaquan (岳家拳) – Yue family Fist/Boxing

Yiquan (意拳; I Ch’uan) – Mind Boxing

Zi Ran Men (自然门) – Natural Boxing or “fist of nature”

Zui Quan (醉拳) – Drunk Fist

Modern hybrids-

The following martial arts systems are either influenced by other cultures or possess a lineage that started after 1940:

Hong Cha

Jeet Kune Do (振藩截拳道) – Bruce Lee‘s Way of the Intercepting Fist, it incorporates concepts from Chinese martial arts

Jing Quan Dao (精拳道) – A modern synthetic style

Kenpō – Japanese description of various Chinese arts

Kuntao (拳道 or 拳頭) – Way of the Fist, a Hokkien term referring to Chinese martial arts practiced in Southeast Asia and Indonesia in particular

Liu Seong Kuntao (also Liu Seong Gung Fu, Liu Seong Chuan Fa) – a Chinese art with Indonesian influence, practiced primarily in the United States

Sanshou (散手) or Sanda (散打) – Free Fighting

Shaolin-Do ( 少林道) – Translated as the Way of Shaolin

Wushu (sport) (武術) – Exhibition and a full-contact sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts.

 

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_martial_arts)

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