The Legend of Dong Haichuan

Dong Haichuan Legend
Dong Haichuan was born in Langfang, Hebei. Hebei is the hometown of martial arts in China. Since ancient times, many people in Hebei have practiced martial arts, so some of the martial arts left today are from Hebei. Dong Haichuan was influenced by his family’s practice of martial arts since childhood. At that time, many people practiced martial arts and tried to defend themselves and their families. Dong Haichuan really liked it. He practiced very hard in winter and in summer. He is obsessed with martial arts, he often didn’t take care of crops. After growing up, he has learned all the martial arts near his hometown, but still is not satisfied with his skills. In order to make greater progress, Dong Haichuan decided to travel around the whole country and look for a master to learn from him.

It’s been more than ten years since he went out. During these ten years, Dong Haichuan has traveled all over the Chinese land, visited Taoist priests, sought advice from monks, met with hermits, and learned many other fighting skills. One day when he passed Jiuhua Mountain, he saw two children shuttle through the woods, moving forward and backward quickly, strong men walking round and round the tree, his body like lightning, long hair braids hanging air behind his head like a whip. Curious, he asked for advice, and they told him that they were practicing fitness defense. Dong Haichuan asked to combat with them. After they agreed, Dong Haichuan lost to the two boys. Dong Haichuan was overjoyed. He sincerely requested to worship their masters to learn martial arts. They introduced him to their master. It is said that he was an older Taoist priest. Since then, under the old Taoist professor, Dong Haichuan worked hard for several years to did practice round trees and suttle tactical advances. At nearly forty-year-old Dong Haichuan returned to his hometown and practiced every day. He merged various martial arts he had learned over the past few decades, taking the strengths of each martial arts school and combining his many years of experience to create a new one. Use boxing techniques to practice walking around the tree, and move forward and backward through the suttle palms to practice boxing.