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Xing Yi Quan, also known as Hsing I Chuan, is one of the oldest internal styles of Chinese Kung Fu. Xing Yi Quan is commonly referred to as Form and Mind or Form and Will Boxing. The name illustrates the strong emphasis placed on the motion of the body being subordinate to conscious control. According to history, the creator of Xing Yi Quan was Ji Jike from Shanxi province in China. He created Xing Yi Quan known as Shanxi Style during the early 1600s. Today there are three major styles of Xing Yi Quan, Shanxi, Henan, and Hebei. |
Xing Yi Quan Styles
Shanxi StyleShanxi Style is the original style of Xing Yi Quan. It is known for its vigorous and powerful movements and abundant releases of fah jing energy. This style is tight in frame keeping a well guarded movement structure, which is quick and extremely powerful. Today, it is the most rare of the Xing Yi Quan styles. |
Hebei StyleHebei Style uses much larger frames and appears slower in practice in contrast to Shanxi Style. The stances are wider and there is less appearance of fah jing energy in the practice of forms. It’s Five Elements and Twelve Animals forms are much simpler than Shanxi Style. More people practice the Hebei Style of Xing Yi Quan today than any other. |
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Henan Style Henan Style is a very simplified style of Xing Yi Quan practiced exclusively by Muslim Chinese community. It has only Ten Animals structure, which are extremely simplistic forms that contains one or two movements. The Five Elements are present only as concept in this style, having no movements or forms representing it at all. |
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The techniques of Xing Yi Quan are characteristically aggressive in nature. A Xing Yi Quan fighter prefers to move into the opponent
with a decisive strike at the earliest opportunity. Xing Yi Quan is a no-nonsense fighting system that is relatively easy to learn, but very
difficult and long to master. |
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