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Fanziquan

Fanziquan (翻子拳, Turning Body Fist or Overturning Fist) is a fast hand-technique oriented style of Wushu, and it seems to have been created (or at least spread around) in the 1860's, by a practicioner named Zhao Shanyi after a failed revolt against the Qing dynasty. As a Chinese martial art, it is usually practiced in sets of preformulated routines. Its movements have been described thus: "Two fists are fast like the falling rain drops, and fast like a snapping whip". Fanziquan routines are usually quite short and very fast. There are no weapons routines for Fanziquan.



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