Talk:Animal styles in Chinese martial arts
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Liks in Chinese language is "Five animals and bird plays" of Hua Tou. I think that it not have connection with Wuxingquan of Shaolin.—Precedingunsigned comment added by87.11.47.179 (talk)20:51, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Interwikis should be checked. The related articles describe theWuqinxi (五禽戲) which was developed by Hua Tao. This article here describesWuxingxi at the beginning, the Five Animals of the Shaolin. Although both belong to Qigong, there is a difference between Wuqinxi and Wuxingxi. Thus the interwikis should be removed.Sat Ra (talk)19:13, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Noticed right now that "Five animal play" (Wuqinxi) is part of this article. It should get an own named "Five animal play".Sat Ra (talk)19:20, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm currently learning "Five Animal Qigong" in the Wudang SangFeng school, and they use the original five animals cited at the top of the article (Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon). So while the bottom section may describe a particular style's five animal qigong, it's not an exhaustive description of all present day qigong practices. This is a link to a video from my current school clearly showing different names than those in the article:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Up2Mnq7JSM . Also, I see some other Wudang school uses a completely different set of five animals (Tortoise, Swan, Snake, Tiger, Dragon), described here:http://www.wudangdao.com/KUNGFU/wuxinggong.htm . I am not an expert on the subject and don't know which written resources I could turn to in order to provide correct/comprehensive clarification. (Sawall (talk)10:06, 12 November 2012 (UTC))[reply]
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Appears to be closely related. "Ng Ying" is also the Cantonese romanisation of the Mandarin "Wu Xing" ("Five Forms").LDScontact me15:13, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The Ba Gua, or eight major animal styles correlated to the Chinese Trigrams. Tiger, Leopard, Panther, Crane, Preying Mantis, Eagle, Wild Boar, Black Cobra (or Snake). - eight major animal styles of Chi Tao Gung-Fu (Northern Chinese Animal System).Setenzatsu.2 (talk)21:48, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Spider Kung Fu, Ghost Bat Kung Fu, Golden Rat Style Kung. They were fashioned after the animals that were found to frequent the Taoist Temples, the Spider, Bat, and Rat. Spider represents Yin, patience, and grappling. The Rat represent Yang, aggressiveness, seeking, leaping, kicking, and active hunting. Bat represents Ho (balance) being both silent and invisible, while also active and dynamic.Setenzatsu.2 (talk)22:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The result of the move request was:page moved.Andrewa (talk)17:16, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Five Animals →Animal styles in Chinese martial arts – The article talks about there being 5 animal styles and also talks about there being 12 animal styles. Most of the cited sources do not treat "Five Animals" as aproper name – outside oftitle-case headings, they use lowercase. There are about 40 animal styles listed in the article. Most of the cited sources focus on 12, although some of them say there are 5 primary animals in southern Chinese kung fu. The article Talk page also has a discussion of 8 animals. Let's just make the title reflect the scope of the article by discussing all numbers of animals, allowing all numbers of animals to be considered equally, while acknowledging that some animals are more equal than others. And let's follow Wikipedia'sMOS:CAPS convention by using lowercase. I thought about using "kung fu" instead of "Chinese martial arts", butKung fuKung fu redirects toChinese martial arts, so I'm proposing that phrase for consistency. — BarrelProof (talk)21:43, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In "(Chinese: 五形功夫) Chinese: 五形; pinyin: wǔ xíng; lit. 'Five Forms')".
🎗🧡הראש (talk)08:16, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
