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Boxing, Chinese Shaolin Styles
Chinese boxing systems have commonly been understood in terms of dichotomies:
hard versus soft, external versus internal, northern versus
southern, Wudang versus Shaolin. Using these folk categories, the “Shaolin
tradition” has been understood as covering those systems that are hard and
external as distinct from soft and internal. The Shaolin arts may be further
subdivided into northern and southern styles.
The distinction between northern and southern boxing reflects traditional
beliefs in China that the martial systems that developed in the north
(using the Chang River [also known as the Yangtze] as a point of demarcation)
emphasize kicks and long-distance attacks, while southern systems
rely on hand techniques and short-range combat. The source of both styles