Wushu Performance

Chinese martial art or "Wushu" is one of the popular item during Chinese New Year and Cultural event.Sabre(刀),Qiang(枪),Sword(剑),Long Stick(棍),Quan/martial art without weapon(拳法)are the most popular performance items you can see during various events.

Lion Dance and Mei Hua Zhuang (梅花桩)

To do the lion dance, you definite need to went through the basic foot job steps of Kung Fu training, usually is the ‘ma bu’ (马步), because this is the most important basic requirement in doing lion dance yet follow by how good you coordinate with your partner. In advance Kung Fu foot job steps training, we need to do our basic step posing on top of the wooden poles (木桩)with about the palm size thickness which start from the height about 1 foot height, and these poles were called Mei Hua Zhuang (梅花桩).
In higher level, these Mei Hua Zhuang (梅花桩) poles could be in about 5 foots to about 12 foots!

Since lion dance is Chinese martial art with performance criteria, doing lion dance on the wooden poles (nowadays all of us was using metal based poles) is a very interesting art.

Lion Dance and Huang Fei Hong Films

Talking about ‘Wong Fei Hong’ (黄飞鸿) film (or Huang Fei Hong), other than ‘Wong Fei Hong’ film was act by Jet Li (李连杰), for those who near my age or elder people, they sure know ‘Kuan Tak-Hing’ (关德兴) who acted as Wong Fei Hong’ (黄飞鸿) in the films from 50s to 70s or 80s.
If you known this, I bet you sure know the best ‘Bad Guy’ in the films, which is Sek Kin (石坚).

In my memory, almost all ‘Wong Fei Hong’ films, you sure see lion dances; I think the popularity of these films also made lion dances became well known Chinese cultural items around the world, hence whether it acted by Kuan Tak-Hing (关德兴) or Jet Li (李连杰), most of us sure think about ‘Wong Fei Hong’ while doing lion dance, or either think about ‘Wong Fei Hong’ while seeing lion dance performance, it just my personal feeling for today.

Triple Stick linked with Metal Chain

I you had seen Bruce Lee's movie, you definitely seen his trademarked stunning chained stick weapon. This triple sticks chained with metals, which is called "三节棍"。In Japanese martial art also having such weapon as well and it usually in double sticks and named "Nunchaku".
Double chained stick "双节棍" or "两节棍"(or triple chained stick, "三节棍") in traditional Chinese martial usually was much longer at what you seen in Bruce Lee movie.

Our Students

Due to the popularity of Chinese Gong Fu movie, lots people were interested in Chinese Gong Fu.You definitely know Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen and related Chinese Gong Fu super stars, and we definitely not forgot the great hero that promote and introduce Chinese Gong Fu to the world --- Bruce Lee.

I felt great that our lion dance and wushu school (chinsee martial art) also having some students from many countries.