[setsu nin to]

Here is the last part of list...



Kung-Fu; Wu Shu; Gung-Fu; Chinese Boxing


Ma-Chung Lama-Pei
Mei Hua: see Tang-Lang; Tang-Lang Chuan ("Praying Mantis")
Mi-Chung; Mi-Chung-I ("Lost Track")
Mi-Tsung-I; Yen Ching Chuan
Mian Chuan
Mien Chuan
Mo Chuan
Mo-Chia; Mo-Jia-Quan
Mok-Gar; Mok-Ga; Mo-Jya
Monkey: See Tai-Sing Pek-Kwar
My-Jong-Law-Horn
Nam Wah Pai
Nan Chuan
Natural System
Ng Ga Kin ("Five-Formed Fist")
Northern Dragon
Northern Long Fist
O-Mei Shan
Pa Chuan
Pa Ming Chuan
Pa Shih Chuan
Pa Tuan Chin
Pa-Chi Chuan; Pajiquan
Pa-Fa Chuan
Pa-Kua; Paqua Chang; Baguazhang ("Eight Trigrams")
Chiang Jung Chiao
Chiu Loong Paqua Chang
Combined
Honan
Hopei
Pa-Kua Leung Yee
Shansi
Tzu Jan Te
Wu-Tang; Wutang Chuan; Wu-Tang-Shan
Pak-Hoc; Pai-Ho Chuan ("White Crane"); Hao Chuan; Ta Sheng ("Crane Boxing")
Bai-Ho
Chang Er Gau Fukien White Crane
Tibetan Crane
Wu Mei White Crane
Yunnan White Crane
Pak-Pai
Pangai-Noon
Pao ("Leopard")
Pao Chui
Pat Mei Pai
Pei-Pai Fo-Chia Chuan
Phoenix Eye Fist
Pi-Kua Chuan; Pi-Qua
Plum Flower Fist
Plum Flower Praying Mantis
Po Kwa Zen
Praying Mantis
Pu Don
Que Moi Shantung
Ru He Chuan
Sam Sow Chi
San Soo
San-Hwang Pao-Chui; Hsing-Kung Chuan
Seven Stars Praying Mantis
Shaolin
Shau-Wan Chuan
Sil-Lum; Siu-Lum; Sil-Lum Pai ("Shaolin")
Long Fist (Northern)
Northern
Fukien Sil-Lum
Honan Five Animals
Shantung
Shantung Black Tiger
Shensi Sil-Lum
Wu Hsing Chuan ("Five Animals"; "Five Animals Pattern Fist")
(The Five Animals are: Tiger (Fu), Leopard (Bao), Snake (Sare), Crane (Hok), Dragon (Loong))
Southern
Hung-Gar
Lau-Gar
Li-Gar
Mok-Gar
Phoenix Eye Fist
Six Harmonies Praying Mantis
Six Harmonies
Six Methods Praying Mantis
Snake and Hawk
Southern Dragon
Southern Praying Mantis
Stone Monkey
Sum-Yee
Sun Ping Chuan
Syin-Yee Liu Ha Pa Fa Chuan
Ta Sheng Pek Kwar; Ta-Sheng-Men; Tai Shing Pekwar
Monkey Kung Fu
Drunken Monkey
Lost Monkey
Stone Monkey
Tall Monkey
Wood Monkey
Ta Sheng
Ta-Cheng Chuan ("Great Achievement Boxing")
Ta-Hung Men
Ta-Mo
Tai-Chi Chuan; Taijiquan
Chang
Chen
Cheng
Fu
Guang Ping Yang
Hao
Hsu
Hu Lei Jia ("Thunder")
Lee (modified)
Li
Lui
Sun
Tsuen
Wu Jianquan
Wu Yuxiang
Yang
Tai-I Chuan
Tai-Tsu Chuan; Tai-Tsu-Chang Chuan ("Emperor's Long Fist")
Tall Monkey
Tam Tui; Tan-Tui Men Chuan
Tang Shou Tao
Tang-Lang; Tang-Lang Chuan ("Praying Mantis")
Ba Pu Tang Lang
BaBo Tang Lang
Bare Mantis
Chi-Hsing Tang-Lang ("Seven Stars Praying Mantis"); Tang-Lang Gou-Dz (Praying Mantis Hook)
Chu Gar Praying Mantis
Chow Gar; Zhou Gar
Chuka Shaolin
Jook Lum
Kawan-Pai Tang-Lang; Liu-Hor Tang-Lang
Kwong Sai Jook Lum; Tsu-Chia Tang-Lang
Liu-He Tang-Lang
Mei-Hwa Tang-Lang; Mei-Hua Tang Lang
Qi Xing
Shwei-Shou Tang-Lang
Tai Mantis; Tai-Chi Mantis
Wah Lum Tam Tui Praying Mantis
Tao Yin
Tao-Chia Chuan
Tao-Ga
Tao-Te-Ching
Ti Kung Chuan
Ti-Sha Shou
Ti-Tang; Ti-Kung; Bai-Ma-Sya-Shan
Tsui Pa Hsien
Tieh-Hsien Chuan
Tien-Hsueh
Tien-Shan-Pai
Tiger Claw
Tiger Crane
Tongbei
Tsai-Chia Chuan
Tsai-Li-Fu
Tsien Tao
Tso-Ku Shu
Tsui Chuan Lo Han Tao
Tsui Pak Hsien ("Drunken")
Lok Hop Tsui Pak Hsien ("Drunken Six Harmonies")
Tuan Chuan
Tung Pi; Tungpi Chuan
Tung-Hai Chuan
Two Element Boxing
Two Instruments
Tzu Men Chuan
Tzujan Men; Tsu-Jan Men
Ving-Tsun
Wah Kuen
Wah Lum Tam Tui
Wah-Lum; Wa-Lum
Wei-To Men
Wenjin
White Crane
White Eyebrow
White Lotus
Wing Chun; Wing-Tsun; Ving-Tsun; Yung Chun
Futshan Pai
Jiu Wan
Man Yip
Pan Nam
Wood Monkey
Wu Chuan
Wu Kung
Wu Shong Tuo Kao
Wu Wei
Wu-Tang
Wudang
Xin-Yi
Xing-Chiao ("Eagle Claw")
Eagle Claw Fan-Tzu
Ying Jow Pai ("Northern Eagle Fist")
Xingyiquan
Yee Chuan
Yen Ching Chuan
Yi-Quan
Ying Jow Pai
Ying Yee Chuan
Yu Chia
Yueh San-Shou
Yueh-Fei Chuan
Yueh-Lien Chuan
Yung-Chun Chuan
Zhao
Zuijiuquan ("Drunkard's Boxing")



Well that was list of 335 Kung Fu styles.

[setsu nin to]

I finde two more lists on the net, but there are all styles that are already on these list.

[asag2]

I didn't realize there were that many styles of kung fu. Are all of those individual styles or techniques/forms within other styles?

[Wilhelm von Wankenstein]

There are some 5000+ known styles of Chinese martial art, but many of them are derivatives, syntheses or subsets of other styles. Perhaps a more efficient way would be to group the styles into families, since many of them are closely related by origin and practice, eg. the Shaolin and Taoist families.

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Hammerhead

Yes, you are right. For example one Kung Fu style is Monkey Kung Fu, but there are Drunken Monkey, Lost Monkey, Stone Monkey, Tall Monkey, Wood Monkey which are all styles of Monkey Kung Fu.

[Fa Jing]

didnt different families in various dynasties have their own variations of the same styles?

[BLACK PANTA]

What would happen is a man learns Kung Fu (in Shaolin or from family members) then adapt it for him, he will find his Kung Fu, then probably name it and pass it down, through his family.

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BLACK PANTA

Yes, and its normal in my opinion. We are all diferent and if something works for you it doesnt mean that it works for me too. So people often changed martial arts and make new styles just to adapt art to themselfs.

[DAT]

Item: White Crane

There are two White Crane styles which are quite different and come from varied origins. First there is the more popular Fukien White Crane which has become the basis for many Okinawan karate systems. Then there is the Tibetan White Crane which combines Crane and Ape. This system has also evolved into Lions Roar, Hop-Gar and Lama Kung Fu.

[DAT]

It's not widely known that there are five distinctly different styles of Wing Chun being practised in Foshan (ancestoral home of WC) today. These styles are Leung Jan, Pao Fa Lein, Wan Qi Shang, Guo Bao Chuang and Zhu Zhong Weng.

Here's some insight into one of these rare WC systems: Pao Fa Lein.

This style is said to have its roots in the Shaolin Monastery in Henan Province and was taught by a Buddhist monk whose nickname was Big East Wind. On leaving the Shaolin Monastery Big East Wind travelled south to Ching Yuen village. The Buddhist monk was a member of a secret society whose aims were to overthrow the Ching Government.

He made friends with two brothers Tse Kwok Cheung and Tse Kwok Leung. One of the brothers was a magistrate.

Big East Wind taught the two brothers his complete system before returning to the north. Soon the two brothers became fed up with their jobs and returned to their home in Foshan.

The two brothers adopted a son whose name was Liu Da Sheng. At the age of nine Liu began to learn the Wing Chun system which he mastered in ten years.

Many stories are told about Liu's fighting prowess. While still young a Kung Fu master by the name of Peng challenged him to a fight with the Millstone Broadswords. Liu killed the master and fled Foshan for fear of prosecution.

He returned around 30 years later and hoped to keep a low profile but his reputation was to great.

Hearing his skill a magistrate challenged him to a duel again with the Millstone Broadswords. Not wanting to make the same mistake Liu suggested that they use one wooden sword and one metal one, the magistrate agreed.

After the fight the magistrate's clothes were left in tatters by the wooden broadsword.

When he grew older he worked in a cosmetics shop making hair gel from sap. This process was called Pao Fa Lein so this became Liu's nickname.

The present day Grandmaster is Chu Chung who now lives in Hong Kong. Grandmaster Chu began his studies at the age of 14 and had learned the complete system before leaving for Hong Kong.

In Foshan the style was always known as Wing Chun but on his arrival in Hong Kong he found other styles of Wing Chun being taught so to differentiate his style from the others he named it after his teacher Pao Fa Lein.

Grandmaster Chu has never wanted to promote his style and has only taken a few disciples, namely his two sons Chu Wing Chi, Chu Ping and Mok Poi On.

The style has many forms for both fist and weapons (the first three have the same names as the Yip Man system) and ten weapons forms, these are Millstone Broadsword, Staff, Sword, Tiger Fork, A broadsword with a long wooden handle, Kwan Dao, Thirteen Section Whip, Millstone Broadsword versus Staff, Broadsword versus Broadsword and Staff versus Staff.

The style also has four wooden dummy forms. These are known as the Internal Dummy, External Dummy, Hard Dummy and Soft Dummy. The Dummy also has a sandbag mounted on each side.