Since around 370 BC, the hermits of Mount Emei and later Taoist believers merged to formally form the largest school of "Taoist Confucian Classics" in Mount Emei, and its alchemy and immortal thoughts also formed a core position.
There are many apes and monkeys in Mount Emei since ancient times. According to "Sou Shen Ji", there is something similar to a monkey on the high mountain in the southwest of central Sichuan. It is seven feet long. It can walk like a human and is good at chasing people. It is named "Monkey". "Guo", also known as "Ma Hua" and "Pipe Ape".
According to the local chronicles of Leshan and Mount Emei, Situ Xuankong in the pre-Qin period called Lingzi and farmed in Mount Emei. He imitated the movements of apes and created a set of flexible offensive and defensive "Emei Arm Fist" and "Ape Gong Sword Technique" based on hunting techniques.
Tongbei Quan "The force is generated from the back. The Governor Vessel is in the middle of the back and governs all the yang meridians. The top of the head and the collar, the yang grows and the yin disappears, the lower qi reaches up, the back qi is released, and the front hand Push it out, and push back the elbow. The energy passes through the back and breaks through the shoulders. The back muscles pass through the hands. The Ren channel is in the middle of the chest and abdomen and governs all the yin meridians. That’s it.”
It is said that Situ Xuankong had many apprentices. Because Situ Xuankong always wore white clothes, his disciples called him "The White Ape Patriarch".
During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Sun Simiao, the King of Medicine, went to Mount Emei to learn how to refine herbal diet and wrote the book "Thousands of Gold Essential Prescriptions". People who practice Taoism and martial arts together with Sun Simiao studied hundreds of medicines all year round and used tea to teach them, forming one of the earliest tea medicine group organizations in my country. This was the beginning of the integration of Emei martial arts and Taoist tea schools.
According to the records of "Wudeng Huiyuan", since the Wenzong period of the Tang Dynasty, the Linji sect and the Caodong sect of the Southern Buddhism in my country have successively landed in Mount Emei, flourishing Buddhist thought, and the Taoist school subsequently declined.
In 835, the monk Linji of the Linji Sect of Buddhism in Mount Emei and others combined Linji Qigong, Emei Tongjiquan and Emei Sword Immortal Technique into one, creating the most complete "Emei Martial Arts" in my country. Zongyuan.
In 845, Zen Master Changfu Dayuan integrated the original Mount Emei Taoist herbal tea concept, Taoist health-preserving scriptures and Buddhist Zen enlightenment thoughts, and founded the "Emei Tea Ceremony Sect Law", forming the earliest Emei Tea Ceremony Sect. source. So far, the two schools of civil and military cultivation of body and mind in Mount Emei have officially supported and developed the balance between Taoism and Buddhism in Mount Emei since the Tang Dynasty.
The three martial arts schools of Emei, Shaolin and Wudang all follow the principle of "both physical and functional, and practice both internal and external". However, in specific practice, they have their own characteristics, especially in the "internal and external", "hard and soft" " and "long and short" each have their own expertise.
Buddhism entered Mount Emei since the Jin Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, Mount Emei became the dojo of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva and is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in my country. After Buddhism and Taoism were introduced to Mount Emei, monks and Taoists often practiced boxing, kicking, and wielding guns and sticks, in addition to meditating, meditating, chanting sutras, and worshiping Buddha. One was to strengthen the body, and the other was to protect the temple.
Because they usually meditate and have profound internal strength; in addition, the monks and Taoists learn from each other in practicing boxing and sticks, learn from each other's strengths and complement each other's weaknesses, and each invent new ways, so the unique Emei martial arts gradually formed.
Emei Martial Arts combines the strengths of Buddhism and Taoism. It absorbs both the dynamic exercises of Taoism and the static exercises of Buddhist meditation, thus creating a set of practice methods that combine dynamic and static exercises. This method is combined with various boxing techniques, equipment, Sanda and Qigong to form a huge Emei sect martial arts system.
The recorded Emei martial arts began in the Southern Song Dynasty. There was a monk named Deyuan in Mount Emei. He was originally a wandering monk with strong martial arts. Because of his white eyebrows, he was known as the "White Eyebrow Taoist" .
Monk Deyuan created a set of boxing techniques called "White Eyebrow Boxing". This boxing is characterized by imitating the white ape in the mountains, jumping and rolling on the grass, dancing with hands and feet, and is extremely agile.
Master Deyuan not only has extraordinary martial arts skills, but also has outstanding literary talents. He collected the strengths of Emei monks and Taoist martial arts and combined them with his own experience to write the book "Emei Boxing". This book is the earliest written record of Emei martial arts. From then on, Emeishan Buddhism had a relatively systematic martial arts theory and practical experience, and formed its own system and style in the Chinese martial arts.
During the Jianyan period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zen Master Baiyun of the Jinding Linji Sect in Emei Mountain mixed and integrated the mechanism of deficiency and excess of yin and yang and the rise and fall of the human body with the dynamic and static techniques in martial arts to create "Emei Qizhuang" "Gong", because its type has 12 sections, later generations called it "Emei Twelve Village Gong". "Emei's Twelve Zhuang Gong" has been passed down to future generations.
Emei Martial Arts