Talk:Crane (martial arts)

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There are two main schools of White Crane Kung Fu (&#30333;&#40372;&#25331;; pinyin: bái hé quán; Hokkien: pek hok kun) with very different origins and techniques.

The first one is originated from Tibet and is also linked to "Lama Style" and "Hop Gar" Kung Fu. According to the White Crane (Pak Hok) Athletic Federation in Hong Kong the style was developed secretively in Tibet during the Ming dynasty. Later it spread to middle and southern China around the 1860s. White Crane style is very well known in Chinese martial arts circles, emphasizing high steps, sweeping diversions of attacks with the arms for defense and high kicks and strikes with the elbows, fingers (in the form of 'the crane's beak') and wrists for offense.

The second school of White Crane Kung Fu is also known as Fujian White Crane Kung Fu and this school traces its history to the Southern Shaolin Temple in province of Fujian. White crane is one of the original five animals of Shaolin Quan and one of the styles that constitute Five Ancestors Fist.

Early Okinawan Karate masters are said to have been strongly influenced by Fujian White Crane stylists from China.

Have moved content on Tibetan White Crane to Lama (martial art) and content on Fujian White Crane to Fujian White Crane Kung Fu.

JFD 16:01, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

New Tibetan White Crane page
I have created a new Tibetan White Crane page. Apparently the Lama Pai page referenced above was deleted after a few years, for poor citations and general notability issues.

I believe this new page will pass muster, not only because it includes much better references, but also because this martial art certainly meets general notability requirements: see for example the section on the long-lasting impact of the 1954 Wu vs. Chan match on Chinese and worldwide popular culture.

In fact, I created this page primarily so we can link from mentions of the art and that 1954 match on existing t'ai chi and crane pages. Like many I have mistakenly linked to the Fujian White Crane page in the past. Tibetan White Crane's brother arts Lama Pai and Hop Ga are discussed in every section of this new article, as there really is no way to delve into the history of one without discussing the others.

Jōkepedia, 17 December 2020