Xinyi Liuhe Quan
01 · Historical Records
The origin of Xinyi Liuhe Boxing can be traced back to the late Ming and early Qing, when Ma Xueli of Luoyang in Henan Province met a recluse who transmitted this art to him. His favorite disciple Ma Sanyuan, a native of Fancheng Town in Linying County, Luohe City, brought the boxing art back to his homeland, and for the several hundred years that followed it was handed down generation after generation among the Hui and Han villages around Luohe and Zhoukou. The Luohe branch centred its practice and transmission on Fancheng in Linying, Yancheng and Yuanhui; in the twentieth century masters such as Lü Ruifang carried it from one generation to the next, and Li Rurbo, a national-level representative inheritor, became a disciple of Lü Ruifang as early as 1962, studying both Cha Boxing and Xinyi Liuhe Boxing, and opened courses to teach the art in martial arts schools in many places.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
Xinyi Liuhe Boxing is practised in Luohe, Zhoukou and other places in Henan Province; it is one of the traditional internal boxing styles of China and a treasure of Chinese martial arts. The movements of Xinyi Liuhe Boxing are fast and fierce, with firmness hidden within softness, hard and soft harmonized, and strong practical combat content; for hundreds of years it has been treasured by boxing masters and it exercises an important influence internationally. The practice of Xinyi Liuhe Boxing takes two forms, fixed forms and free forms, and its main contents are the Xinyi ba, the ten basic forms, the four-hand punch set, the Liuhe sabre and the Liuhe spear, among others. The characteristics of Xinyi Liuhe Boxing are simple movements and rich content, combining health cultivation and physical fitness with combat, so that children, adults and the elderly may all practise it and benefit from it. Vigorously uncovering Xinyi Liuhe Boxing is of great significance for carrying forward China's traditional martial arts culture, strengthening the physique of the people, and enriching the art of martial arts.
Ma Xueli and Ma Sanyuan
Ma Xueli learned the art from a recluse in the early Qing, and his pupil Ma Sanyuan of Linying county rooted it in the Luohe region.
Xin Yi Ba, ten forms and four-hand routine
The core content of the art, practised in static and moving modes and suited to young and old alike.
The six-harmony saber and spear
The saber is lethally straightforward while the spear sends whole-body power to the tip, giving the shaft great spring.
Static and moving methods
Static postures build the power path while moving routines build variation, fast and fierce yet soft within.
Li Rubo and the Luohe tradition
Born in Luohe in 1949 and a national first-class referee, he teaches through martial arts schools across the region.
Strict gates and silent lineages
Strict pupil selection and little contact between lineages meant techniques were lost as old masters died.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
In the late Ming and early Qing, Ma Xueli of Luoyang in Henan Province received this art from a recluse; his favorite disciple Ma Sanyuan was a native of Fancheng Town in Linying County, Luohe City, and from him the art has been handed down generation after generation for several hundred years in the Luohe and Zhoukou area.
Other submitting regions for the same item: Xinyi Liuhe Quan.
04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
Because masters in every generation of Xinyi Liuhe Boxing have chosen their disciples very strictly and because there has been little exchange within the lineage, many old masters have passed away and the art has been lost, so that it is on the verge of extinction; it urgently requires that the government and the public together take forceful measures to protect and transmit this ancient and excellent boxing style effectively. Li Rurbo (as recorded in the official file of the associated inheritor): Male, of Han ethnicity, born in September 1949, native of Luohe City, Henan Province. A master of Xinyi Liuhe Boxing and a national first-class wushu referee. In 1962 he became a disciple of the noted Xinyi Liuhe Boxing master Lü Ruifang and studied Cha Boxing and Xinyi Liuhe Boxing; in 1990 he became a disciple of the Wu-style taijiquan master Wang Peisheng and studied Wu-style taijiquan, xingyiquan and qigong for health cultivation. The Xinyi Liuhe Boxing he performs is flexible and changeable, harmonizing hard and soft and full of elasticity; the Liuhe sabre has extremely strong attacking power, a sound structure, simple movements and is plain, practical and unsophisticated; the Liuhe spear harmonizes hard and soft, so that the strength of the whole body reaches the spearhead directly and the shaft becomes highly elastic. He has served as vice chairman and standing vice chairman of the Luohe City Wushu Association, and as honorary president of the World Wushu Research Society. He carries on the transmission of the art by opening courses in martial arts schools in various places. Representative inheritor of Xinyi Liuhe Boxing among the national-level intangible cultural heritage items in the fourth batch. He won such awards as fifth place and second place in the first and second National Traditional Wushu Competitions and first prize in the Shenzhen International Wushu Competition, and was awarded the honorary title of National Mass Sports Advanced Individual conferred by the General Administration of Sport.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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