{"id":10941,"date":"2019-11-21T06:47:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/bagua-zhang-eight-diagram-palm\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T06:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T06:47:26","slug":"bagua-zhang-eight-diagram-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/bagua-zhang-eight-diagram-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagua Zhang (Eight-diagram Palm)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Bagua Zhang or the eight-diagram palm is one of the  most popular schools in China. It is also called Youshen Bagua (roving  eight-diagram), Lo<em><\/em>ngxing Bagua (dragon-shaped eight-diagram), Xingyi  Bagua (Xingyi eight-diagram Chuan), Yinyang Bapan Zhang  (positive-negative eight-plate palm), etc.<\/p>\n<p>There are different stories a<em><\/em>bout the origin of this school of Chuan.  Some say it originated among the anti-Qing Dynasty cliques while others  believe that it was created by the two Taoist priests of Bi Yun and  Jing Yun on Mount Emei in Sichuan Province during the late Ming Dynasty  and early Qing Dynasty and it has been passed down to its ninth  generation of practitioners.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Bagua Zhang boxers are found in Hebei Province. Some of them  learned Bagua Zhang from scratch from their tutors, while others asked  the masters for advice to improve their own skills. Over the years  various routines of exercises were cultivated in different styles.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-diagram palm is ba<em><\/em>sed on the old Chinese philosophy of  eight combinations of three whole and broken lines used in divination.  While practising, the practitio<em><\/em>ner moves according to the eight  diagrams. There are eight basic palm plays. A total of 64 palm tricks  and moves have come from the original eight basic palm plays. Apart from  solo practices, there are also sparrings, Sanshou (free sparring) and  fighting with weapons, such as Bagua sword play, Bagua sabre play and  Bagua cudgel play, and Bagua play of shaft decorated with seven stars,  etc. While practising these routines, practitio<em><\/em>ners rove around like a  dragon moving amidst clouds (see picture).<\/p>\n<p>Bagua Zhang features dexterity and agility. When moving around it is  like walking in a muddy place, with foot steps changing all the time  like running water. Palm tricks and body movements follow one after  another. The roving around looks like endless circles which overlap one  another. The body turns around from the waist during walking, roving,  turning, rising and falling. Palm tricks change with the movements of  the body. When the upper body protrudes, the lower part of the body  squats back to keep balance. When the arms are sent out, the feet are  drawn back. When moving it is like a roaming dragon; when squatting it  is like a sitting tiger; when looking around it is like a mo<em><\/em>nkey on the  lookout; when roving it is like a circling eagle.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2172440164\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bagua Zhang or the eight-diagram palm is one of the  most popular schools in China. It is also called Youshen Bagua (roving  eight-diagram), Longxing Bagua (dragon-shaped eight-diagram), Xingyi  Bagua (Xingyi eight-diagram Chuan), Yinyang Bapan Zhang  (positive-negative eight-plate palm), etc.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2858],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-kung-fu"],"views":252,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}