Mu Jinqiao

01 · Lineage & Regional School

A Xinyi Quan boxer, a sixth-duan holder of Chinese wushu and a sixth-generation transmitter of Dai-style Xinyi Quan. Within the regional tradition and school record of Xinyi Boxing in Qi, Shanxi: The Dai family's Xinyiquan is centered on Xiaohan Village in Qi County and circulates through the villages and towns of the Jinzhong plain, including Qi County, Taigu, Pingyao, Wenshui, and Jiaocheng, where it was mostly taught in boxing halls, trading houses, and escort agencies in and around Qi County. The Guangsheng Escort Agency founded by Dai Longbang, while guarding merchants on the road, honed the offensive and defensive techniques of Xinyi Liuhequan into their mature form, and his disciple Li Luoneng went on to found Xingyiquan. For this reason the branch in Qi County today calls itself Dai's (or Dai-style) Xinyiquan in order to distinguish itself from Xingyiquan and from the Xinyiquan of Henan and elsewhere. The inheritor Mu Jinqiao established the Dai's Xinyiquan Teaching Institute and organized the publication of the Dai's Xinyiquan Routine Competition Rules and the Dai's Xinyiquan Boxing Manual. According to textual research, this boxing style was created in the last years of the Ming dynasty by Ji Jike of Shanxi, who adapted the techniques of the great spear into a boxing method. During the Qianlong reign of the Qing dynasty, Dai Longbang of Xiaohan Village in Qi County, Shanxi, received the transmission of this boxing. He then studied it with single-minded devotion and taught it widely to his clansmen and disciples, promoting the inheritance and refinement of Xinyi Liuhequan (Heart-Intent Six-Harmony Boxing).

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

Male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1955, a native of Qi County, Shanxi Province. Passionately fond of martial arts from childhood, at the age of 13 he took Duan Xian as his teacher, studying the methods of Xinyi Quan and the secret art of acupoint striking, and received the full transmission. He has a thorough command of the internal methods and routine sets of Xinyi Quan and, on the basis of boxing theory combined with practice methods, grasps the manifestation of power points in the movements from inside to outside and from top to bottom, especially the integration of body method with hand techniques and footwork. He places great emphasis on transmitting the art: he established a Dai-style Xinyi Quan teaching institute, trained a large number of disciples, cooperated with a television station in filming instructional programmes, and brought Xinyi Quan into the classroom of the wushu association of Beijing Polytechnic College. He has also conducted systematic research on Dai-style Xinyi Quan, publishing articles in magazines such as Wulin, Boji and Chinese Wushu, and organizing the publication of books including Competition Rules for Dai-style Xinyi Quan Routines and The Boxing Manual of Dai-style Xinyi Quan. Within the documented technical tradition of Xinyi Boxing in Qi, Shanxi: Xinyiquan (Heart-Intent Boxing), also known as Xinyi Liuhequan (Heart-Intent Six-Harmony Boxing), is a school of traditional martial arts. The Xinyiquan transmitted by the Dai family includes both unarmed boxing methods and weapons practice. In unarmed training, standing exercises such as the zhan dan form are taken as the foundation, and the boxing methods are characterized by generating outward force from within and driving the extremities from the root; by constructing forms out of circular movement so that attack and defense are freely deployed; by combining hardness with softness and accumulating softness into hardness; and by being plain and unadorned yet prized for its practicality. Its combative function lies in abundant force and vigorous qi, steady and powerful; internal and external in unity, with force issued together and fiercely; strikes delivered in every rise and fall, so that there is no point at which an attack cannot land. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Standing dan and other foundations": Standing dan and similar exercises lay the foundation before boxing technique, driving outward from within and from root to tip. "From inner to outer, root to tip": Circular construction, alternating hardness and softness, homely technique prized for utility, with power issued whole and hard. "The Guangsheng escort agency": Dai Longbang spread the art among his clan and pupils and founded an escort agency, whose work sharpened its fighting method. "Dai family Xin Yi and Xingyi boxing": Li Luoneng's development of the Dai family art produced Xingyi boxing, so the older practice is now named after the Dai family.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

National representative bearer of Xinyi Quan, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier

05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage

National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.

06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography

1. Mu Jinqiao · National Representative Bearer Archive