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List of Chinese Kung Fu styles

Alphabetical listing

• Bafaquan – Eight Methods
• Baguazhang ( Bagua Zhang) - Eight Trigrams Palm
• Bajiquan - Eight Extremes Fist
• Bak Mei - White Eyebrow
• Black Tiger Kung Fu
• Chaquan - Cha Fist
• Changquan - Long Fist
• Chuo Jiao - Poking Feet
• Choy Gar - also known as Rat Kung Fu
• Choi Lei Fut (Càilǐfó)
• Dachengquan - Great Achievement Boxing (Yiquan)
• Ditangquan - Ground-Prone Fist, Ground Tumbling Boxing
• Do Pi Kung Fu
• Dragon Kung Fu (Lung Ying)
• Duan Quan - Short Range Boxing
• Emeiquan (O Mei Ch'uan)
• Fanziquan - Overturning Fist, Tumbling Boxing
• Five Ancestors - Wuzuquan or Ngo Cho Kun
• Five Animals
• Fujian White Crane
• Fu Jow Pai - Tiger Claw System (also titled Black Tiger Kung Fu or Hark Fu Moon)
• Fut Gar - Buddhist Palm
• Gouquan - Dog Fist
• Hakka Kuen
• Hong Cha
• Hop Gar
• Houquan - Monkey Fist
o Drunken Monkey
• Heihuquan: see Black Tiger Kung Fu
• Hsing-i Ch'uan: see Xingyiquan
• Huaquan - China Fist
• Hung Fut - Hung and Buddha style kung fu
• Hung Gar (also known as Hung Ga or Hung Kuen) - Shaolin Style and ancestor to many southern styles
• I Liq Chuan - Mind-Body Art, founded by Chin Lik Keong of Malaysia
• Jeet Kune Do - Way of The Intercepting Fist
• Jing Wu Men - Jing Wu, a famous school founded in Shanghai that teaches several different styles.
• Jian Shou - "splashing hands"; the oral history claims was developed for Shaolin guards in the 1700s.
• Jing Quan Do - a modern synthetic style
• Jow-Ga Kung Fu - Jow family style
• Kuntao - Way of the Fist, a Hokkien term referring to Chinese martial arts practiced in Southeast

Asia and in Indonesia in particular
• Lau Gar - Lau family style
o Lai-Ga-Sau - A recently created separate branch based in the United Kingdom
• Lai Tung Pai- Shaolin Style that mixes long and short fist
• Lama Pai
• Leopard Kung Fu
• Li Gar - Li Family or Lee Family style
• Liu Seong Kuntao (also Liu Seong Gung Fu, Liu Seong Chuan Fa) - A Chinese art with Indonesian influence, practiced primarily in the United States
• Liuhebafa Chuan (Liu He Pa Fa, Lok Hup Ba Fa) - Six Harmonies, Eight Methods or Water Boxing
• Luohan Quan Arhat Boxing, Law Horn Kuen
• Mei Hua Quan (Plum Blossom Fist)
• Mian Quan (Cotton Boxing)
• Mizongyi (Mízōngquán) - Lost Track Fist (also known as My Jong Law Horn;)
• Mok Gar Mok family style
• Monkey Kung Fu see Houquan
• Nam Pai Chuan - North South Fist
• Nan Quan - Southern Fist
• Northern Praying Mantis
• Northern Shaolin - Bei Shaolin
• Pai lum - White Dragon, Pai Family Method, a modern style based on Kenpo with Chinese influences found mainly in the US and Canada
• Paochui - Cannon Fist, Sanhaung Paochui
• Piguaquan - Chop-Hitch Fist, Axe-hitch boxing
• Praying Mantis: see either Northern or Southern Praying Mantis
• Sanshou or Sanda - Free Fighting
• San Soo
• Shaolin Quan
• Shequan - Snake Fist
• Shuai Chiao (Shuaijiao) - Chinese and Mongolian styles of wrestling, (predated Shaolin)
• Sun Bin Quan (Predated Shaolin)
• Southern Praying Mantis
o Chow Gar (周家)- Chow Style Southern Praying Mantis
• Tai Chi Chuan (Tai Chi Chuan, Taijiquan) - Supreme Ultimate Boxing
o Chen style tai chi chuan
o Yang style tai chi chuan
o Wu/Hao style tai chi chuan
o Wu style tai chi chuan
o Sun style tai chi chuan
• Tantui - Spring Leg style
• Tibetan White Crane
• T'ien Shan Pai
• Tongbeiquan - Through-the-Back Fist
• White Crane: see either Fujian White Crane and Tibetan White Crane
• Wing Chun - See also Wing Tsun
• Wudangquan
• Xingyiquan (Hsing-i Chuan) - Form-Intent Fist
• Yau Kung Mun - Flexible-Power Style
• Yingzhaoquan - Eagle Claw Fist
• Yuejiaquan - Yue family Fist/Boxing
• Yiquan - Mind Boxing
• Zhuan Shu Kuan - A modern composite styleconsisting elements of northern Shaolin. This style is based in the UK.
• Zi Ran Men - Natural Boxing or "fist of nature"


List of Shaolin styles
• Ng yin quan - Five animal Fist.
* Xiao Hong Quan - Small flood fist
• Da Hong Quan - Big flood fist
• Tong Bei Quan - Through the back fist
• Liu He Quan - Six harmonies fist
• Taizu Chang Quan - Emperor Taizu's long fist( this refers particularly to the 1st Emperor of Sung dynasty who was a military commander)
• Qixing Quan - Seven star fist
• Da Pao Quan - Big cannon fist
• Xiao Pao Quan - Small cannon fist
• Chang Hu Xin Yi Men - Forever preserve the heart-mind link/door
• Meihuaquan - Plum flower fist
• Luohan Quan - Arhat fist
• Tongzigong - Shaolin child training
• Dan Dao - Single sabre technique
• Long – Dragon technique
• Qi Lu Quan - Seven animal fist