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| Focus | Striking, Chin Na, Qigong |
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| Country of origin |  China |
| Creator | Five animal forms: Jueyuan & Li Yuanshou (Li Sou) with Bai Yufeng (co-founders) Five animal play: Huatuo & Jiun Chiam (attributed) |
| Parenthood | Five animal forms: 18 Luohan Hands, Neigong Five animal play: Qigong |
| Descendant arts | Fujian White Crane, Hung Ga |
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| Chinese martial arts (Wushu) |
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In Chinese martial arts, there are fighting styles that are modeled after animals.
In Southern styles, especially those associated with Guangdong and Fujian provinces, there are five traditional animal styles known as Ng Ying Kung Fu (Chinese: 五形功夫) Chinese: 五形; pinyin: wǔ xíng; lit. 'Five Forms')—Tiger, Crane, Leopard, Snake, and Dragon. The five animal martial arts styles supposedly originated from the Henan Shaolin Temple, which is north of the Yangtze River, even though imagery of these particular five animals as a distinct set (i.e. in the absence of other animals such as the horse or the monkey as in tai chi or xingyiquan) is either rare in Northern Shaolin martial arts—and Northern Chinese martial arts in general—or recent (cf. wǔxíngbāfǎquán; 五形八法拳; "Five Form Eight Method Fist").[1] An alternate selection which is also widely used is the crane, the tiger, the monkey, the snake, and the mantis.[2]
In Mandarin, "wuxing" is the pronunciation not only of "five animals", but also of "five elements", the core techniques of xingyiquan martial arts, which also features animal mimicry, but often with ten or twelve animals rather than five, and with its high narrow Santishi stance, these look nothing like a Fujianese Southern style found in the North. Other animal styles of various types are sometimes used.
- ^ Alscgbach, Travis. "5 Animals Fundamental Training". Inside Kung Fu. Archived from the original on 2010-07-04. Retrieved 2010-03-10.
- ^ "Kung Fu Panda: Big Bear Cat was 'PO-fect'". Kung Fu Magazine. Retrieved 2009-12-27.