[QUOTE=SPJ;809055]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIQ2JxF_Kis
a poem by yue fei.:)[/QUOTE]
It has been proven that Yue Fei did not write this. It was written during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Yue.
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this guy miught be able to help you.[/QUOTE]
If anything, that guy ain’t helping at all.
I received Bishop William Charles White’s “Chinese Jews” (1966) in the mail yesterday. It was the first “major” study of the community and it’s people. My copy is a whopping 643 page reprint of the original 3 volume version from 1942. It must weigh a good two pounds! It has three sections: (1) History (2) Inscriptional (translations of the 3 Ming and Qing Dynasty stone monuments left by the Jews) (3) Genealogical and has people pictures of various Chinese Jews and artifacts throughout. I highly suggest anyone interested in the subject buy it. It cost me $75, which is SUPER cheap compared to the usually asking price! I have seen it anywhere from $150 - $400!
I will read through this for any further ideas on possible boxing styles.
Someone on the Chinese History Forum suggested the following:
For hand to hand combats, you can use the Greek hand to hand combat style (I think it started with P) as the base and mix in with Hindu’s yoga. I don’t think Chinese Taiji Chuan was invented at that time, and I can’t think of any Chinese hand to hand combat style at that time.
For the weapons, you can use the shephards’ weapons for base, such as: staff (or rod) and sling (like king David). Added to it, the middle eastern style of curved swords or Roman style of short swords. Or you can use the type of gladiator weapons seen in Rome because they might have some Roman influences in the past. You can also arrange some of them to learn the traditional Chinese sword fight style (I read that the traditional sword fight style in ancient time was mostly lost during the chaos after Tang dynasty, and totally lost after the Song dynasty. Some part of it got to Japan with the Chinese refugees.)
I like their enthusiasm, but I am looking for distinctly Chinese-Jewish arts. I don’t see how Pankration (the word they were reaching for) or even Roman sword fighting would have anything to do with Chinese arts. The “Staff” they are referring two was previously suggested by another person:
Like that famous psalm…136 I think or maybe its another one, where it starts with the Lord is my shepherd…
the part where it saids “your rod and staff they comfort me” has a really deep meaning to it, and it’s quite long so here is part of an article to describe it.
http://www.aish.com/spirituality/growth/Th...My_Shepherd.asp
http://www.aish.com/torahportion/betweenTh...ve_and_Pain.asp
Furthermore, King David writes in Psalms, “Your staff and Your rod have comforted me” (Psalms 23:4). It seems strange that he would use this imagery to depict comfort, since staffs and rods are instruments of pain. If King David wanted to use soothing symbolism, why didn’t he write something like, “Pillows and cushions have comforted me”?
The Chafetz Chaim cites the Talmud (Brachot 5a), in which Rava explains that God smites His desired ones with pains and difficulties, as the verse says, “The one whom God desires is smitten with illness” (Isaiah 53:10). We also find a support to this idea in the verses, “God chastises the one He loves, like a parent who desires the child” (Proverbs 3:12) and “Fortunate is the one whom God afflicts with pains and suffering” (Psalms 94:10).
What’s a shepherd without his rod? His staff is there to protect the sheep, not to attack them. When our lives are harsh and force us into confronting realities that we would rather not face, we sometimes confuse the staff with the shepherd. The one fact that must never be forgotten is that we are beloved.
This world is not a place of ease; it is a place of challenge. Our humanity is not challenged by comfort. The “rod of the shepherd” takes us to situations that give us the ability to discover what we are really made of. This is not only true in life-threatening situations, but even in the difficulties that are closer to a pebble in your shoe than like a sword at your throat.
I really like the bolded part because there are tales of Chinese spear masters that retired and used staves because of its lesser killing ability. The staff was also a weapon used by prison and caravan guards. I think a staff style known as the “rod of the shepherd” would be kind of neat.
yoga is a high level of meditation and also stretching and strengthening ligaments, tendons–
it is like Yi Jing Jing introduced by da mo into shaolin.
Ba Ji has yi jing jing incorporated. meaning yoga is sort of integral part of many styles of CMA and shaolin.
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on the other hand, chen tai chi is modelled after general qi ji guang’s 34 postures.
and plus daoist tu na breathing methods.
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just some rambling thoughts.
[QUOTE=SPJ;809664]yoga is a high level of meditation and also stretching and strengthening ligaments, tendons–
it is like Yi Jing Jing introduced by da mo into shaolin.
Ba Ji has yi jing jing incorporated. meaning yoga is sort of integral part of many styles of CMA and shaolin.
–
on the other hand, chen tai chi is modelled after general qi ji guang’s 34 postures.
and plus daoist tu na breathing methods.
–
just some rambling thoughts.
:D[/QUOTE]
There is a type of Jewish Yoga with body postures based upon the shapes of the aleph-bet letters, but it wasn’t created until the 1950’s. It was created by a female mystic (if I remember correctly).