Original Chinese Language Article By: http://www.sohu.com/a/137441211_238318 (Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Translator’s Note: Mao Zedong was an ‘Internationalist’ inspired by the works of Marx and Engels,
Category: Hakka Ethnography
The ‘Hak-gar’ or ‘Guest People’ live in South China but follow a Northern Chinese culture.
Email: Two Types of Hakka Categorisation (Friday, March 02, 2018 14:30)
Dear Waiman I was reading a Chinese language article about Mao Zedong’s association with Hakka culture. I might translate this later this evening. However, in
Hakka Revolutionaries of Mainland China!
The formation of Hakka culture happened during periods of social turmoil. This led to the Hakka being surrounded on all sides, often suffering the worst excesses of imperialism and siege. This is the origin of the Hakka struggle for self-defense. This is a manifestation of the Hakka solidarity, advocacy of armed forces and Revolutionary traditions.
Emails: Yang Family Fist and Hakka Gongfu (3.5.2017)
From what I see, the Southern Mantis looks like longer movements that have been ‘shortened’ to fight off the back leg (perhaps due to a lack of living or training space). My theory is that genuinely ‘Northern’ Hakka martials arts were either lost or modified after the Hakka-Punti Clans wars, and the Taiping Rebellion of the middle 1800’s, which occurred in and aground Guangdong province.
Northern Hakka Gongfu (Email 29.4.2017)
When I wrote my Hakka martial arts article, I had communicated with a number of Mainland Hakka gongfu masters who all told me the same story – namely that their arts originated in Northern China. This is exactly what Master Chan had told me, and it seems to be a Western myth encouraged by ignorance of the subject matter, that suggests that Hakka martial arts originated in the South.
Hakka Gongfu: Iron Ox Cultivates Land (鉄牛耕地)
As the legs sink into the earth, the ox bends the knee and extracts the limb – this is the squat-kick, and as the broad back carries the plough and the farmer – this is the back-raise of the gongfu practitioner. Finally, for many Hakka gongfu practitioners, standing in ‘Horse Stance’ (馬步 – Ma Bu) is actually holding the ‘Ox Stance’ (牛步 – Niu Bu).
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 