地术拳Fujian Di Shu Quan-Fujian Ground Boxing or Dog Boxing

In this video you also see some basic application barehanded and with a stick. Another Southern Chinese Martial Art from Fujian Province. Dishu Quan is also known as Gou Quan(Dog Boxing) or Dishu Quanfa (Ground Skills Canine Methods) or Dishang Feilong (Flying Dragon over ground). There are several legends about the development of Dishu states it that Dishu Quan was started practicing in Ming Dynasty. Another states the the folk hero Fong Saiyuk was a master of Dishu Quan who passed on his skills to monks in the Zhuyuansi/Guanyuan Temple(Chengde,Hebei Province).So it was passed down for several generation till the monk Hui Kai, who was said to be a fellow of nun Si also was said that the art was developed by nuns of the Buddhist White Lotus Temple(白莲庙) of Fujian Province. As these nuns came often from non monastic life they had been threaten with bound feet. So physically standing activity was hard till impossible for them. To solve the problem not being able to defend themselves they deve