These are excerpted from Shaolin Gong Fu – A Course in Traditional Forms. I love their translations because they are so funky. They call qixing The Plough Form, which could be a reference to the big dipper stance work. In Chinese, it’s (qixingquan). This comes from V. 3 p. 11:
The Plough Form
Ready Position
Starting Movement
Small Position With A Plough Stance
Crisscross Snapkick
Small Position With a Plough Stance
Defending The Left Ear While Clapping The Right Foot
Rushing A Fist In A Forward Lunge
Enpi The Left Elbow In a Horse Stance
Striking Both Hands While Stamping a Foot
Striking the Crotch
Enpi and Rebounding
Crisscross Snapkick
Small Position With A Plough Stance
Clapping The Right Foot
Pushing A Claw By Turning Back
Walking like a ****
Walking like a ****
Walking like a ****
Small Position With A Plough Stance
Crisscross Snapkick
Small Position With A Plough Stance
Rushing A Fist In A Forward Lunge
Rushing A Fist In A Forward Lunge
Rushing A Fist In A Forward Lunge
Small Position With A Plough Stance
Crisscross Snapkick
Small Position With A Plough Stance
Enpi The Left Elbow In a Horse Stance
Right Enpi
Outside Crescent
Rushing A Fist In A Forward Lunge
Enpi The Left Elbow In a Horse Stance
Striking Both Hands While Stamping a Foot
Striking the Crotch
Enpi and Rebounding
Crisscross Snapkick
Small Position With A Plough Stance
Clapping the Foot While Jumping Up
Rushing Both Fists to Both Sides In A Forward Lunge
In our 2005 Shaolin Special (May June issue), we published 7 Star Fist: Shaolin Qixing Quan Revealed By Shi Xing Ying with Grace Gee, Bujin Guo, and Chen Xinghua. It described the seven significant moves from this form. I’m copying them here. Note that the issue has the Chinese characters too, but I’m not going to transfer those (too much work right now).
Qixing Bu Shi (Seven Star Foot Pattern)
Soushou Bingbu Shi (Locking Hand, Feet Together Pattern)
Jixing Bu Shi (Rooster Form Foot Pattern)
Sanzhou Tiaoshui Shi (Single Elbow Carries Water Pattern)
Tixi Zuandi Shi (Lift Knee, Screw into Ground Pattern)
Shuanglong Chudong Shi (Twin Dragons Come out of the Cave Pattern)
Dangshan Boshui Shi (Seal the Mountain, Splash Water Pattern)
It is from when Ji Long Feng visited Shaolin, it is a rooster fighting set. it is defense against kicks.
It either was inspiration for Ji Long Feng or came from his instruction there to the monks. It was originally called Qin Xi Ba, which shows it has a relationship to the Xin Yi Ba that Shaolin got from Ji Long Feng. So, the 7 Star set is related to the Rooster set practiced by Henan Xinyi Quan and Shanxi Xingyi Quan.
“qixingquan” (eng.: seven star boxing)
“changhuxinyimenquan” (eng.: constant protection of the mind-gate boxing)
they are called “mother and son” sets, just as xiaohongquan and its matching dahongquan set.
changhuxinyimen is said to have been created by song dynasty monk huiwei, then altered in the yuan dynasty by jinnaluo, and in the ming dynasty by juexun, tongxiang and other warrior monks.
the qixing set is laid out upon the formation of the big dipper rather than the usual straight line. hence the name “seven star”.
qixing and changhuxinyimen share the “rooster” steps along with the hand formation and some similar applications.
Qixing may have Taoist origin, since the Qixing is a Taoist concept.
Excellent posts, LFJ & Sal. It’s reaffirming to see some solid stuff here.
It’s worthy of note that these lyrics map on to the Taguo lyrics but are slightly different in Chinese as well as English. For example Seven Star Foot Pattern () is Small Position With A Plough Stance ().
Anyone want to venture a connection between Qixing and Qixing Tanglong? The Taguo Qixing Tanglong is in my practice regimen lately. I’ve been working a lot of the Taguo-influenced renditions recently.
Qixing has 2 major variations, one is the current popular one, the other follows roughly the same sequence but is quite different. It is centred around the technique ‘JiXingBu’ or the ‘Rooster step’.
The uncommon variation has the technique JiXingBu repeated 9 times. The popular variation does not fully contain it at all, instead it breaks it into components and puts it throughout the form.
The technique JiXingBu doesn’t have one specific application, rather it is a technique designed to be used in many ways as a method of entering the opponents space. It employs the ‘WuHuaBaShou’ circling hand technique and simultaneous circling leg technique.
Both variations use very small framed stances. The purpose of the form is to teach you how to keep yourself guarded and evasive while still moving forwards. Keeping yourself moving in the small frame so that you are ready to explode into the large frame when the time is right.
It is said of the form that the feet move like that of a rooster, the body twists like a dragons body and the head turns like a monkeys.
The name ‘QiXingQuan’ and ‘JiXingQuan’ are very similar sounding in Chinese. This is just conjecture but considering the form is centred around the rooster step I sometimes think It may have originally been ‘Rooster fist’ and then changed to ‘7- star’ because it sounds better.
QiXing Quan also has a very rare ErLu (second road). It is also kept in the small frame and makes use of a similar hand position.
In total I have seen 5 distinct forms called QiXing Quan in SongShan. 3 of them are clearly related variations on the same set.
[QUOTE=Lokhopkuen;1165293]Hsing Yi is more related to Wu Dang than Shaolin:D[/QUOTE]
Although this may be true today…
The Henan XinYi styles (not xinG yi) are very closely related to Shaolin and sometimes indistinguishable. XinYi is the precurser of XingYi and so there is a relation.
Looking at modern WuDang forms they definately contain a lot of modern XinG Yi technique, but not necessarily that of the older XinYi which song shan forms contain in abundance. I’m not sure from what era the current set of Wudang forms evolved.
Qixing has 2 major variations, one is the current popular one, the other follows roughly the same sequence but is quite different. It is centred around the technique ‘JiXingBu’ or the ‘Rooster step’.
The uncommon variation has the technique JiXingBu repeated 9 times. The popular variation does not fully contain it at all, instead it breaks it into components and puts it throughout the form.
The technique JiXingBu doesn’t have one specific application, rather it is a technique designed to be used in many ways as a method of entering the opponents space. It employs the ‘WuHuaBaShou’ circling hand technique and simultaneous circling leg technique.
Both variations use very small framed stances. The purpose of the form is to teach you how to keep yourself guarded and evasive while still moving forwards. Keeping yourself moving in the small frame so that you are ready to explode into the large frame when the time is right.
It is said of the form that the feet move like that of a rooster, the body twists like a dragons body and the head turns like a monkeys.
The name ‘QiXingQuan’ and ‘JiXingQuan’ are very similar sounding in Chinese. This is just conjecture but considering the form is centred around the rooster step I sometimes think It may have originally been ‘Rooster fist’ and then changed to ‘7- star’ because it sounds better.
QiXing Quan also has a very rare ErLu (second road). It is also kept in the small frame and makes use of a similar hand position.
In total I have seen 5 distinct forms called QiXing Quan in SongShan. 3 of them are clearly related variations on the same set.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=RenDaHai;1165397]Although this may be true today…
The Henan XinYi styles (not xinG yi) are very closely related to Shaolin and sometimes indistinguishable. XinYi is the precurser of XingYi and so there is a relation.
Looking at modern WuDang forms they definately contain a lot of modern XinG Yi technique, but not necessarily that of the older XinYi which song shan forms contain in abundance. I’m not sure from what era the current set of Wudang forms evolved.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for the clarity;
Although I’m a no expert on the subject I have been around the martial arts for a bit and been blessed to meet many informed practitioners. I had a similar discussion recently with one of my Song Shaolin mates about the root essences of Wu Dang, Shaolin, Emei regarding similar training sets in each system. Thank you all for sharing knowledge and experience here.
[QUOTE=GeneChing;1165620]Xing in xingyi (also Hsing Yi) = (form, shape, appearance)
Xing in qixing = (star)
@wiz cool c: Check out my new article: The 7 Star General of the Celestial Realm in our Shaolin Special 2012.[/QUOTE]
Indeed,
Above was just a small digression because Sal earlier in the thread drew parallels between Henan Xin () Yi and QiXing Quan technique wise.
Song Shan Shaolin although not easily comparable to Xing Yi () like Wudang forms are, is however often technically very similar to the related Xin Yi () Quan.
