As an important fist method of Chinese martial arts, Xingyi Quan has unique style and technical characteristics. It is not only a martial arts skill, but also a cultural heritage and spiritual symbol. It is rumored that Xingyi Quan evolved from Yue Fei's marksmanship and was founded by Ji Jike. When Yue Fei trained his soldiers, he only taught the soldiers to practice the three-style simple marksmanship of "splitting and drilling", and the footwork was also changed from a complex and fancy variety to one, that is, a single step method of straight forward and straight back. With this change, the complexity has been simplified, and the soldiers' individual combat capability has risen sharply, and the coordination has become stronger, and they are more able to achieve uniformity and orderly advance and retreat. After Ji Ji could get the gun spectrum handed down by Yue Fei, he directly evolved into three boxing methods: split boxing, collapse boxing, and drill boxing, and followed Yue Fei's straight forward and straight back footwork to form the basic footwork of Xinyi Boxing. Therefore, Xingyi Quan takes Yue Fei as the ancestor, and it is also a reverence for the great man.
Speaking of Xingyi Boxing, in addition to the three boxing methods introduced above, Guo Yunshen's original "half-step collapse boxing" is unique and far-reaching, and has played a vital role in the innovation and development of Xingyi Boxing, making Xingyi Boxing an indispensable part of Chinese martial arts.
Guo Yunshen, born in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, was born in Mazhuang, Shenxian County, Zhili, his family was poor, and he made a living by being a porter for others all the year round. Influenced by the local martial arts, Guo Yunshen loved martial arts since he was a child, and successively worshipped under the Changquan martial artist Feng Yuzhang and the Bajiquan master Sun Tingli, but neither of them succeeded. After Sun Tingli taught his kung fu, he recommended Guo Yunshen to apprentice with Xingyi boxing master Li Luoneng. Li Luoneng was reluctant to accept Guo Yunshen as an apprentice at first, but Guo Yunshen was a martial arts idiot, and he secretly learned boxing at Li Luoneng's house, and finally moved Li Luoneng and became his **. Under the careful teaching of Li Luoneng, after nearly 10 years of hard work, Guo Yunshen finally achieved great martial arts, fully obtained the essence of Xingyi Boxing, and became the first of Li Luoneng's eight **.
After completing his studies, Guo Yunshen began to travel all over the world, often learning skills with others, rarely failing, and people sent Xingyi boxing "tumbler" reputation. The Qing royal family heard of his name and invited him to serve as a martial artist, and fought with the gossip patriarch Dong Haichuan for several hours, regardless of victory or defeat.
In the Tongzhi period, Guo Yunshen left the royal family and came to the Zhengding prefect's mansion to Xi teach his son martial arts. At that time, there was a person surnamed Wuju surnamed Dou in Zhengding, relying on his own name and martial arts, often snaring a group of scoundrels, bullying his neighbors, and preying on the people. Guo Yunshen has always been chivalrous and righteous, and he can't get used to this kind of villain who oppresses the people and forces, so he shot and killed the Wuju people. He was also sued for his life and sent to prison. In prison, he still insisted on practicing every day, but because of the shackles and the cramped cell, it was very difficult to practice the practice of the step collapse boxing, so he adapted measures to local conditions, according to the movement characteristics of walking with shackles, the front foot is one step forward, and the back heel is half a step, on the basis of the practice of the step collapse boxing, he created this set of half-step collapse boxing called a stunt by the martial arts world. After being released from prison, Guo Yunshen competed with his opponent with his fist, no one could stop him, and his deeds of winning three victories over "ghost gossip" Jiao Luo with a half-step fist were widely spread, so he won the titles of "Half-step Crash Boxing Fight All Over the World", "Tumbler", "Golden Eye Eagle" and so on.
After Guo Yunshen was released from prison, he began to teach students and martial arts in the north, and many of his ** later became famous boxers, such as Wang Qianzhai, the founder of Yiquan (Dacheng Boxing), as well as Li Kuiyuan, Xu Zhanao, Qian Yantang and other martial arts masters. Guo Yunshen has systematically studied and summarized the theory of Xingyiquan, and is the author of the book "Can Say Xingyiquan Sutra". In his later years, he changed the practice of Xingyi Quan and constructed a new theoretical system, which provided convenience for later generations of martial arts learners, and was a veritable generation of grandmasters