FUJIAN WHITE CRANE
Relevance
Thanks to the many years of
painstaking research by historians such as Patrick McCarthy, it has become
known that Kanryo Higaonna, whilst in Fujian province, studied with 2 or more
teachers. One of these was a man called Xie Zhong Xiang (a.k.a. Ryu Ryu Ko) a
renowned master of the Whooping Crane style of Fujian White Crane, with whom he
studied for about 4 years.
The Whooping Crane, Feeding Crane, Flying
Crane etc are sometimes considered as different styles. According to Master
Huang however, they are in fact just different aspects of the one style, and so
within his White Crane, all of them may be found.
Form (Kata)
The form is on four sets as
follows:
Pai Puh Lian - the basic form which contains the Sanchin or
"three steps".
Lohan - the Monk Fist or sometimes called
Quick-Fist
Hua Pah Pu - an advanced version of Pai Puh
Lian
Chung Chien - the "Central Frame"
Principles
Floating
Sinking
Spitting
Swallowing
Springing
Lifting
Bursting
Rebounding |
Lineage
Fujian White Crane is part of the
ancestry of Goju Ryu Karate Do. Although the forms (kata) of White Crane have
not been passed down verbatim, it is likely that what Kanryo Higaonna learned
from Xie Zhong Xiang was how to develop and apply the fundamental princples of
force and movement.
For more information about Fujian White Crane,
please visit the Central
Equilibrium UK website. |
