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Let's talk about Wing Chun depicted in movies and shows!

These characters above are all Wing Chun practitioners, and these are photos of them getting ready for a fight, but why do their poses all look different?

Even though their hand gestures are not the same, they are still adopting the same stance called Man Sau (問手) "Asking Hand". The full verse with Man Sau goes:

有手黐手，無手問手 "With hands, sticky hands; without hands, asking hands"

Meaning: when we are in contact with our opponent's hand/arm, we use a technique called Chi Sau (黐手) "Sticky Hand"; when there is no contact, we use Man Sau (問手) "Asking Hand" to search for one.

Wing Chun is a close combat system, which means we fight very close and "stick" to our opponents. When our opponent is far away, we reach out with our hands to "ask" and look for contact.

Wing Chun is also a self-defense martial art, so we "ask" our opponent to make the first move.

In my opinion, that is why it doesn't matter how Wing Chun practitioners pose their hands, as long as their arm is stretched out. There is no wrong way of doing Man Sau (問手) "Asking Hand".

Li Nezha:

In both movies, when Nezha spoke in poetry, it was accompanied by dynamic stances and powerful motions. This northern style martial art is called Chang Quan (长拳) "Long Fist".

It is often performed in the National Wushu Competitions. Here's an example:

Ao Bing:

In both movies, when Ao Bing was fighting in hand-to-hand combat, he used Wing Chun (詠春) "Singing Spring". This "hand reaching, palm up" pose is called Man Sau (問手).

He often used this technique called Paak Sau (拍手) "Slapping Hand Deflection". Imagine an opponent throwing a fist towards your face, with the right timing, you "slap" and push their forearm to the side with your palm, their fist goes off-center and misses. Example:

Weapons:

When weapons come into play, like Nezha with his spear and Ao Bing with his ice hammers, they used completely different martial arts. All I know is Nezha used some kind of 枪法, and Ao Bing's weapons could be called 双铜锤.

Mountain Wugong, located in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, China, has the most beautiful grass on the mountain in China.

I have planned to visit there at Ching Ming Festival, but my grandpa passed away at that time, so I didn’t make it.

When the Labor’s holiday come, I decided to visit there. Plus I just failed confessing to someone cold bloody, so I want to torture myself...(what an abnormal woman)

2015.4.30

With the ugliest clothes (I don’t care my outfit now since...you know), and the big hiking bag, I started my torture trip.

The highway is so crowded because of the holiday. It took almost 24 hrs from Shanghai to Mountain Wugong. I was regreting my decision on the whole way.

2015.5.1

When I got there, I really appreciate the sightseeing. Amazing sunset, fresh air, I was very expecting my climbing tomorrow.

It’s the sunset when I was down the mountain.

But, unfortunately, we got there at 8:00 p.m., it was nearly dark. The luckiest thing is that we still got the bright moon.

We changed our original plan from climbing to hiking in the AAAA park. Although there were man-made steps, I still felt very tired. Maybe I had the heavy bag or I should admit that I have grown old... not any younger and stronger than before.

Even in the night, the park still charge us!!! What a fucking park. We even can’t see anything at night.

I was in the first 3 of our team, but I got more and more tired, and got relaxed more, so I was left behind and alone. To my disappointed, there were no hot guys nor funny guys in the team!!!

As a city worker, I really enjoyed the moment in the nature. With the moonlight, I can see the trees, falls and frogs,haha. When I sat on the stone, and the wind breeze, cozy and relaxing. I want to sat there all my life. But suddenly, I saw the lightning on the sky. I was scared, and I was afraid of the rain. Since I had no flashlight and my chin was just cured so I don’t want to get hurt again. Plus...at that time, I was not 女汉子.. I turned to be a 软妹子.. but no man was nearby!!!

So I fasten my speed, but there was still 2 hrs’ walk waiting for me.

When I got to the platform, which looked like a camping place. I thought, yeah! I made it! But how fucking stupid I was, there was still 1 hrs’ walk.

During the last one hour, the wind became stronger and stronger, I even couldn’t step my leg towards. I was afraid of being blew away by the strongest wind I have met in my life. Thanks to god, there always appear some good persons to help me out of the trouble. I was accompanied by a man and a woman, I didn’t feel horrible as long as they were with me.

With the terrible wind and frightened lightning, heavy rain finally dropped. It almost destroyed my fantastic looking. I felt very hurt on my face. It’s not just normal heavy rain, with the strong wind, and it became like a tiny knife. You can’t imagine how hard we walking in such situation.

I still remember the 息心亭, the place where we avoided the rain. There were 3 pillars, and we just stay behind the pillar to avoid the rain. But the rain just didn’t stop.

After 1 hr’s hard walk, we finally got to the camping place. We got ourselves totally wet, from head to foot, nowhere was dry. And I even can raise fish in my shoes!

The worst thing to me was that we can’t camp outside because of the heavy wind. So we need to crowd ourselves(almost 30 people) to 4 tiny rooms. It turns out that 8 girls was in one room and the room still charged us 107 RMB per person. Crazy earning bugs, bad Chinese house owner!!!!!

My only wish was to see the beautiful sun rise. But when I woke up at next day. It was still raining!!!! Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sad!

2015.5.2

We planed to get on the highest place on the mountain. But I don’t want to go anywhere after yesterday’s torture. I decided to go down and buy a train ticket home.

When the sun rise, I photoed some. There was still heavy fog. We couldn’t see anything. When we want to go down, there began a strong wind, and blew away the fog for about 30 seconds. We saw the very blue sky and white cloud, green mountain. What a beautiful mountain! If there’s no fog, I will be really happy! So I decided to visit again in the future.

A video posted by Sophia Huang (@ef5tkt) on May 2, 2015 at 7:13pm PDT

A video posted by Sophia Huang (@ef5tkt) on May 2, 2015 at 3:17am PDT

11 of us got down the mountain this afternoon. Thanks to YOYO, we changed our train tickets from 10p.m. to 5:30p.m.. We played table games on the train and there was few people on the train. This evening was the most fantastic evening of this year’s labors’ holiday.

2015.5.3

I got home at 8 a.m. this morning. Relax myself. When I thought back of the experience last few days. I thought I was really a 女汉子(women behaviored like man)

The news published that almost 500 people was trapped on the mountain because of the terrible weather.

A lot of tents and sleeping bags was destroyed. Those people had nowhere to sleep but standing in the wind. ( I felt lucky again)