List of Chinese martial arts

For an overview of styles, see Styles of Chinese martial Gouquan ( ) - Dog Fist
arts.
Hap Ga ( )

The hundreds of dierent styles and schools of Chinese Houquan ( ) - Monkey Fist
martial arts ( ) are collectively called kungfu ( ),
wushu ( ), kuoshu ( ), or ch'uan fa ( ), depending Drunken Monkey ( )
on the persons or groups participating. The following list Hei hu quan ( ) - Black Tiger Fist
is by no means exhaustive.
Huaquan ( ) - China Fist

Hung Fut ( ) - Hung and Buddha style kung fu

1 Alphabetical listing
Hung Ga ( ; also known as Hung Kuen)
1.1 Traditional styles Jing Wu Men ( ) - Jing Wu, a famous school
founded in Shanghai that teaches several dierent
The following martial arts have not been inuenced by styles.
other cultures or have a lineage that predates the 1940s:
Jow-Ga Kung Fu ( ) - Jow family style
Bafaquan ( ) - Eight method
Lai Tung Pai - Shaolin Style that mixes long and
Baguazhang ( ; Bagua Zhang) - Eight trigrams short st
palm
Lama Pai ( )
Bjqun ( ) - Eight extreme sts
Leopard Kung Fu ( )
Bak Mei ( ) - White Eyebrow
Li Gar ( ) - Li Family or Lee Family style
Chqun ( ) - Cha Fist
Liuhebafa ( ; Liu He Ba Fa) - Six Harmonies,
Changquan ( ) - Long Fist Eight Methods or Water Boxing

Chujio ( ) - Poking Feet Longquan ( ) - Dragon Fist

Choy gar ( ) - Choi Family style Luohan Quan ( ) Arhat Boxing, Loh Han Kuen

Choi Li Fut ( ; Cilf) Meihuaquan ( ) - Plum Blossom Fist

Ditangquan ( ) - Ground-Prone Fist, Ground Mian Quan ( ) - Cotton Boxing

Tumbling Boxing
Mizongyi ( ; Mzngqun) - Lost Track Fist
Duan Quan ( ) - Short Range Boxing (also known as My Jong Law Horn; )

Emeiquan ( ) - Emei Fist Mok Gar ( ) Mok family style

Fanzi ( ) - Overturning Fist, Tumbling Boxing Nam Pai Chuan ( ) - North South Fist

Five Ancestors ( ) - Wuzuquan or Ngo Cho Kun Nanquan ( ) - Southern Fist

Five Animals ( ) Ng Ga Kuen - Five Family/Five Animal style (Hung,

Mok, Li, Choy, Fut)
Fujian White Crane ( ) - also known as Bai
He Quan ( ) Northern Praying Mantis ( )

Fu Jow Pai ( ) - Tiger Claw System Northern Shaolin ( ) - Bei Shaolin

Fut Gar ( )- Buddhist Palm Po Chu ( ) - Cannon Fist, Sanhaung Paochui

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2 2 GENERAL TERMS

Piguaquan ( ) - Chop-Hitch Fist, Axe-hitch box- Jeet Kune Do ( ) - Bruce Lees Way of the
ing Intercepting Fist; though it is not considered a Chi-
nese martial art it incorporates concepts from Chi-
Shaolin Kung Fu ( ) - Shaolin Fist nese martial arts
Shequan ( ) - Snake Fist Jing Quan Dao ( ) - A modern synthetic style

Shuai jiao ( ; Shuaijiao) - Chinese and Mongolian Kenp - Japanese description of various Chinese
styles of wrestling arts

Southern Praying Mantis ( ) Kuntao ( or ) - Way of the Fist, a Hokkien

term referring to Chinese martial arts practiced in
Chow Gar ( )- Chow Style Southern Praying Southeast Asia and Indonesia in particular
Mantis
Liu Seong Kuntao (also Liu Seong Gung Fu,
T'ai chi ch'uan ( Taijiquan) - Supreme Ultimate Liu Seong Chuan Fa) - a Chinese art with
st Indonesian inuence, practiced primarily in
the United States
Chen-style t'ai chi ch'uan
Sanshou ( ) or Sanda ( ) - Free Fighting
Yang-style t'ai chi ch'uan
Shaolin-Do ( ) - Translated as the Way of
Wu (Hao)-style t'ai chi ch'uan
Shaolin
Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan
Wushu (sport) ( ) - Exhibition and a full-contact
Sun-style t'ai chi ch'uan sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts.
Tn Tu ( / ) - Springing legs style

Tibetan White Crane ( ) 2 General terms

Tien Shan Pai ( ) Chi Gerk ( ) - Term used for sticky legs sensitivity
training most notably used in Wing Chun. Similar
Tongbeiquan ( ) - Through-the-Back Fist
concepts are also practiced in Hung Gar and other
Wing Chun ( or ) Chinese martial arts.

Wing Tsun ( ) Chi Sao ( ) - Term used for sticky arm sensitivity
training most notably used in Wing Chun. Similar
Wudang chuan ( ) concepts are also practiced in Hung Gar and other
Chinese martial arts.
Xingyiquan ( ; Hsing-i Chuan) - Form-Intent
Fist Zui Quan ( ) Drunken Fist - Term used for
drunken techniques in many styles of Chinese
Yau Kung Moon ( ) - Flexible-Power Style Martial Arts.

Yingzhaoquan ( ) - Eagle Claw Fist Dim Mak ( ) - General term for point striking.

Yuejiaquan ( ) - Yue family Fist/Boxing Iron Palm (Chinese: ; Cantonese: tit1 zoeng2
gung1) is a body of training techniques in various
Yiquan ( ; I Ch'uan) - Mind Boxing Chinese martial arts.

Zi Ran Men ( ) - Natural Boxing or st of na- Iron Shirt (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplied Chi-
ture nese: ; Pinyin: ti shn; Cantonese: tit1 saam1)
is a form of hard style martial art exercise for pro-
Zui Quan ( ) - Drunk Fist tecting the human body from impacts in a ght.
Lei tai ( ; Li ti) - Full Contact competition plat-
1.2 Modern hybrids form used in Chinese Martial Arts.
Chin na ( ) - General term for joint locks.
The following martial arts systems are either inuenced
by other cultures or possess a lineage that started after Sanshou ( ) - General term for sparring methods,
1940: but also another name for the sport, San da. ( )
Tuishou ( ) - Term used for the push hands part-
Hong Cha ner exercises used in the neijia arts.
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3 Internal and external styles

Chinese martial arts may be divided into neijia ( , inter-
nal family) or wiji ( , external family) styles. How-
ever, many styles combine both internal and external
techniques.
There is a discussion within the martial arts commu-
nity, at both the popular and scholar level, over the dis-
tinction between internal and external arts. Conse-
quently, the list of styles considered internal or exter-
nal may vary greatly from source to source. There are
only three Chinese styles that are universally recognized
as internal, sometimes referred to the Orthodox Internal
Styles. These three styles are: Xingyiquan, Baguazhang,
and T'ai chi ch'uan (Taijiquan). These three internal arts
were categorized as such by Sun Lutang, who greatly pop-
ularized the terms "neijia" and "wiji" as a method of
classifying martial arts.

3.1 Styles often considered internal styles

Baguazhang ( Pa Kua Chang) - Eight Trigrams
Palm
Liuhebafa Chuan ( Liu He Pa Fa, Lok Hup Ba
Fa) - Water Boxing
T'ai chi ch'uan ( Taijiquan) - Ultimate Supreme
Fist

Tongbeiquan ( ) - Through-the-Back Fist

Xingyiquan ( Hsing-i Chuan) - Shape-Intent
Fist
Yiquan ( I Chuan) - Mind Boxing

4 See also
List of martial arts (for martial arts from other coun-
tries)
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