HUA QUAN

Hua quan /China-style boxing

History: This style is believed to have originated in Jining of Shandong Province. It is said that during the Kaiyuan reign of the Tang dynasty (713-741) a Mount Hua knight named Cai Mao killed his enemy of a noble family of Chan'an and went to hide in Jining. Cai Mao was excellent at combat and swordplay. About 400 years later Cai's offspring, Cai Tai and Cai Gang, were also proficient at combat and often competed in local and national contests.

They developed their style in to the present-day Ming dynasty (1522-1566), put the finishing touches on Hua Quan by writing a book The Secrets of Hua Quan. He based his book on the traditional philosophy of combining spirit, breath and ego. Cai Guiqin, grandson of one of the few remaining martial artists Caixing, was born during the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing dynasty (1877) and was fond of wushu as a little boy.

He learned martial arts from his grandfather and after his death, was forced by poverty to move away from Caixing to a district outside the southern gate of the city wall of Jining. There he met with Ding Yushan, a well-known expert in Shandong Province for his mastery of Hua Quan. Cai studied with Ding for three years and also later became a contemporary Hua Quan master during the late Qing dynasty.

In the 1897 Cai Guiqin travelled in the south of China where he met and discussed martial arts with Qiu Jin, a woman revolutionary from Shaoxing in Zhejiang province, in Shanghai in 1906. In 1920 Cai Guiqin met with Dr. Sun Yat-sen before going to teach wushu to government officials in the headquarters of the Republic in Guangzhou. After the death of Sun, Cai went on travelling before settling in Shanghai for the rest of his life. Hua Quan was spread as he travelled through Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan and Henan provinces.

Sejarah: Gaya ini diyakini berasal dari Provinsi Shandong Jining. Dikatakan bahwa selama pemerintahan Kaiyuan dari dinasti Tang (713-741) seorang ksatria Gunung Hua bernama Cai Mao membunuh musuh dari keluarga mulia Chan'an dan pergi ke bersembunyi di Jining. Cai Mao hebat di pertempuran dan permainan anggar. Sekitar 400 tahun kemudian keturunan Cai, Cai Tai dan Gang Cai, juga ahli dalam memerangi dan sering berkompetisi dalam kontes lokal dan nasional.
Mereka mengembangkan gaya mereka ke dalam dinasti Ming sekarang (1522-1566), memberikan sentuhan akhir pada Hua Quan dengan menulis sebuah buku Rahasia Hua Quan. Dia mendasarkan bukunya pada filosofi tradisional menggabungkan semangat, napas dan ego. Cai Guiqin, cucu dari salah satu Caixing sisa sedikit seniman bela diri, lahir pada masa pemerintahan Kaisar Guangxu dari dinasti Qing (1877) dan suka wushu sebagai anak kecil.
Dia belajar seni bela diri dari kakeknya dan setelah kematiannya, dipaksa oleh kemiskinan untuk menjauh dari Caixing ke kabupaten di luar gerbang selatan tembok kota Jining. Di sana ia bertemu dengan Ding Yushan, seorang ahli terkenal di Provinsi Shandong untuk penguasaan Hua Quan. Cai belajar dengan Ding selama tiga tahun dan juga kemudian menjadi master kontemporer Hua Quan selama dinasti Qing.

Pada 1897 Cai Guiqin perjalanan di bagian selatan Cina dimana ia bertemu dan membahas seni bela diri dengan Qiu Jin, seorang revolusioner wanita dari Shaoxing di provinsi Zhejiang, di Shanghai pada tahun 1906. Pada tahun 1920 Guiqin Cai bertemu dengan Dr Sun Yat-sen sebelum pergi mengajar wushu kepada para pejabat pemerintah di markas Republik di Guangzhou. Setelah kematian Sun, Cai melanjutkan perjalanan sebelum menetap di Shanghai selama sisa hidupnya. Hua Quan tersebar saat ia melakukan perjalanan melalui Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan dan provinsi Henan.