Ma Dexing
Lineage & School of Heritage
He is the second-generation bearer of Yueshan Bajiquan. At the age of five he began learning Yueshan Bajiquan under his father Ma Zhanyuan. Throughout his study he has consistently upheld respect for history and for the line of transmission, handing down the art in its authentic form and promoting the spirit of esteeming virtue and honouring the martial.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in August 1946 in Bo'ai County, Henan Province. The principal technical characteristic of the Yueshan Bajiquan he transmits is that in the instant of issuing power the movement is like a snapping bow and swift as lightning, with firm force predominant. For more than fifty years he has opened martial arts schools successively in Luqiao Village of Baishan Town and in Qinghua Town to train new practitioners; his disciples are scattered across the world and have become effective transmitters of Chinese wushu overseas.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Bajiquan (Yueshan Bajiquan), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. He attaches importance to research on history and culture and has unearthed material evidence concerning Yueshan Bajiquan from many quarters, laying a relatively solid theoretical foundation and documentary support for its transmission and safeguarding.
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