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conversations.value: What could be a title for a story about Chuan, Extensive, Chinese with the genre: Sports & Outdoors, Individual Sports?
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conversations.value: A title for this story could be 'The Complete Book of Yiquan'
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conversations.value: The Complete Book of Yiquan
  This chapter is based on Han's speech and notes and our experience in organizing many push hand competitions.
  I have been a judge in traditional martial arts and Wushu-form competition and San Shou ring fighting for a long time. I have organized several push hand competitions among Yiquan practitioners in Hong Kong. We have gathered information and rules for the combats and developed a series of tactics for the participants. We hope the participants will follow the way of training and consider all factors before entering the combat.
  No matter whether in push hand, free sparring, or street fighting, tactics are important factors in Yiquan combat. Nowadays, people work and live in safe places; their awareness of being attacked is lacking. Even when they enter the ring, they still retain passive gestures and a lack of consciousness.
  Tactics consciousness is the key to tactical ability, and the cultivation and strengthening of tactics consciousness are important ways to improve a fighter's capabilities.
  Tactics consciousness is a kind of consciousness that fighters have, which guides their actions and their use of appropriate tactics, in response to situations arising in the course of the game. This ability is also a way by which athletes can demonstrate their maturity and experience in the fight. This tactics consciousness is practiced by showing the combat stances in a spirit of high alert. The Yiquan manuscripts always describe this spirit as the Chicken Upright Stance posture and the Hedgehog (刺蝟) Preparing for War. This is to use all one's power against the opponent no matter whether they are stronger or weaker than you. This is the theory of when the lion attacks, he will treat his enemy as having the same destructive power whether it is an elephant or a rabbit.
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conversations.value: Performance boxing or Quan Wu, also called the Health Dance or Martial Dance, was already well established by the Sui (AD 581–618) and Tang (AD 618–907) dynasties and was performed by martial artists and literati alike.
  What are the Nine Cuts? The Book of Rites explains that "one attack, one thrust is called one Cut," so the Nine Cuts are nine exchanges of attack. From this one can probably infer that the "Nine Cuts" were probably also a form of martial dance. It is also recorded that King Wu of the Western Zhou dynasty (1134–256 BC) used Martial Dance when on a military expedition to raise the morale of his troops. This style of attack, when paired with music, was called Wu Xiang or Symbolic Dance.
  Thus it can be seen that the Dance of Shield and Ax, Nine Cuts, and Wu Xiang were all dances that took place during a time of war and helped cultivate one's attack and defense capabilities.
  The founder of the Han dynasty (206 AD–220 BC), Liu Bang, when present at Hongmen Banquet, drank three rounds of wine, stood up, and, while singing and drinking, ran through a round of boxing to demonstrate his strength and courage. This was also a type of performance boxing.
  Wang Xiang Zhai, the founder of Yiquan, also called this Quan Wu. In 1925, during the time of the Northern Expedition, when visiting Huainan in Anhui province, he studied Health Dance or Jian Wu from Huang Mu Zhao. Huang was inspired by the Dunhuang cave paintings and the dancing postures from ancient Terracotta figurines. Wang combined this with Yiquan and, casting off bounded forms, moved as his mind wished.
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conversations.value: Performance boxing or Quan Wu, also called the Health Dance or Martial Dance, was already well established by the Sui (AD 581–618) and Tang (AD 618–907) dynasties and was performed by martial artists and literati alike. 
  What are the Nine Cuts? The Book of Rites explains that "one attack, one thrust is called one Cut," so the Nine Cuts are nine exchanges of attack. From this one can probably infer that the "Nine Cuts" were probably also a form of martial dance. It is also recorded that King Wu of the Western Zhou dynasty (1134–256 BC) used Martial Dance when on a military expedition to raise the morale of his troops. This style of attack, when paired with music, was called Wu Xiang or Symbolic Dance. 
  Thus it can be seen that the Dance of Shield and Ax, Nine Cuts, and Wu Xiang were all dances that took place during a time of war and helped cultivate one's attack and defense capabilities. During each attack, if there was partnered training and an exhibition and an exchange of martial techniques, this naturally led to the development of stronger and more effective techniques and the birth of martial arts. 
  The founder of the Han dynasty (206 AD–220 BC), Liu Bang, when present at Hongmen Banquet, drank three rounds of wine, stood up, and, while singing and drinking, ran through a round of boxing to demonstrate his strength and courage. This was also a type of performance boxing. 
  Wang Xiang Zhai, the founder of Yiquan, also called this Quan Wu. In 1925, during the time of the Northern Expedition, when visiting Huainan in Anhui province, he studied Health Dance or Jian Wu from Huang Mu Zhao. Huang was inspired by the Dunhuang cave paintings and the dancing postures from ancient Terracotta figurines. Wang combined this with Yiquan and, casting off bounded forms, moved as his mind wished.
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conversations.value: Discipline means that you keep to a fixed schedule to do pre-scheduled activities and a set number of exercises. In this way your path to success will be straightforward and your achievement will be only a matter of time. Hence, discipline can only be enhanced by a clear objective of purpose.
  The key to success in training is to know what stage you want to achieve. Therefore, you should strive towards your goal, you must have a definite degree of control, and you must understand that the exertion and difficulty of today will definitely achieve success in the future.
  If you have discipline and dedication but without direction and objective, you behave like a robot—you practice day after day, night after night, but it will be the same as an ox. If you have high ambition and a clear objective (胸懷大志), and execute it with discipline accordingly, you can succeed in anything. He will know how to explore the resources of your surroundings, making use of your limited resources to expand into a whole new horizon. Such learning will have a snowball effect so that you can accumulate your knowledge and strengthen yourself and become an outstanding martial artist.
  My teacher of seal engraving, Master Feng Kang Hou (馮康侯), carved a seal for me and said, "The best art is natural and powerful, 渾厚平實. There is no affectation."
  Please start straight away to practice and work consistently, with a longer duration, harder, and with a well-planned and organized schedule. I wish you every success in self-training.
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conversations.value: Discipline means that you keep to a fixed schedule to do pre-scheduled activities and a set number of exercises. In this way your path to success will be straightforward and your achievement will be only a matter of time. Hence, discipline can only be enhanced by a clear objective of purpose. 
  The key to success in training is to know what stage you want to achieve. Therefore, you should strive towards your goal, you must have a definite degree of control, and you must understand that the exertion and difficulty of today will definitely achieve success in the future. 
  If you have discipline and dedication but without direction and objective, you behave like a robot—you practice day after day, night after night, but it will be the same as an ox. If you have high ambition and a clear objective (胸懷大志), and execute it with discipline accordingly, you can succeed in anything. The best way is to seek a mentor in your training life in order to guide you to maturity. He will know how to explore the resources of your surroundings, making use of your limited resources to expand into a whole new horizon. Such learning will have a snowball effect so that you can accumulate your knowledge and strengthen yourself and become an outstanding martial artist. 
  My teacher of seal engraving, Master Feng Kang Hou (馮康侯), carved a seal for me and said, "The best art is natural and powerful, 渾厚平實. There is no affectation. "
  Please start straight away to practice and work consistently, with a longer duration, harder, and with a well-planned and organized schedule. I wish you every success in self-training.