history of hsing i

Hsing I was said to have been created from the famous General of the Sung Dynasty named Yue Fei. It was said that Yue Fie taught Eagle Claw to his troops and Hsing I to his officers. There are many different branches of this style today and Hsing I considered as on of the major four different styles of Chinese Internal Arts, that is based on straight line fighting. All these system are based on two distinctly different styles, the Five Element and the Ten Animal Styles. The Five Element system consist of these core forms: Five Element, Five
Element Linking set, Twelve Animal Form, and the Combination
Form. The Ten Animal System is a Muslin Style and starts out
with a Ten Animal Form and there is no Five Element Forms.
Hsing I has many unusual weapons, like the Wolf Tooth Mace,
along with the staff,spear, straight sword and broadsword.

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