#duilian

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Duilian. Wu Tsang. HD color video with sound, installation view. 2016.

Recently announced as one of the 2018 MacArthur Fellows, Wu Tsang is an award-winning filmmaker and performance artist who creates works that deal with issues of gender, sexuality, and hybridity. Tsang is widely recognized for “creating new conceptual and visual vocabularies for exploring hidden histories and marginalized narratives in works that collapse the boundaries between documentary and fiction.”

Duilian is a film inspired by the historial figure and late 19th-century revolutionary poet and feminist Qiu Jin (秋瑾). Tsang reinterprets tales of Qiu Jin and her alleged lover, calligrapher Wu Zhiying in modern day Hong Kong in a film amalgamation of documentary and kung fu genre. The work’s title refers to both traditional couplet poetry and a dueling category in wushu martial arts. According to Arthub, “Duilian decodes and deliberately ‘mistranslates’ official narratives about Qiu Jin, as a way to question the role that language and storytelling play in the construction of history.”

Congratulations to Tsang on her achievement with the MacArthur Foundation!

Xingyi‘s Five Flowers Pounding is a Partner Routine intended time teach useful Strikes for Mid to Short Range fighting. Here’s the Xingyiquan Encyclopedia entry for you edification.

五花炮由鑽拳、裹拳、踐拳、劈拳、反背拳等五拳组威. 它是在戴氏傳統拳鑽拳、裹拳、踐拳俗稱 “三拳” 的基礎上、加入劈拳、反背拳、由兩人進行攻防訓練的一個形式比較簡單、實用價值却頗大的套路形式. 甲乙二人同时出左三体式, 面对面搭把起势.

Five Flowers Pounding, Drilling Fist, Wrapping Fist, Treading Fist, Chopping Fist, & Back Fist, is a group equal in prestige to the Five Fists. It consists of the “Three Fists” of Dai Family’s Traditional Boxing, Drilling Fist, Wrapping Fist, & Treading Fist, as a…