Bagua Palm, also known as Swimming Bagua Palm and Bagua Chain Palm, is a kind of boxing with palm changing and turning. Because of its crisscross movements, it is divided into four directions, four corners and eight directions, which is similar to the eight diagrams in Zhouyi, so it is named Bagua Palm. Some old boxing scores of eight diagrams palm often use hexagrams to explain boxing theory, and eight hexagrams represent the basic eight palms. Baguazhang is a kind of boxing widely spread in China. It is one of the three famous internal boxing in Wudang, and it is also the embodiment of Taoist health, fitness and self-defense. It takes the eight-pile method as the palm work, integrates eight hands into one, and is based on one to eight steps of swing, buckle and forward footwork. It takes walking in circles as the basic movement route and palm technique as the core. In the process of turning around, the whole body is one step, and the steps are like running water. Posture requirements are: twist and turn to be coordinated and complete, walk like Youlong, and turn like an eagle. The main techniques are: stabbing, inserting, splitting, pulling, crossing, bumping, buckling, turning, supporting and so on. As for the origin of Bagua Palm, according to research, Dong Haichuan (about 18 13 ~ 1882), a native of Wen 'an County, Hebei Province in the Qing Dynasty, was inspired by Taoist cultivation and combined with martial arts. Dong Haichuan used to be the Boxer Rebellion of Su Wangfu in Qing Dynasty, so Bagua Palm first spread in Beijing, spread all over the country in the past hundred years, and spread abroad (such as Southeast Asia). Baguazhang is characterized by its agile body, which changes with walking and twists and turns when fighting with the other side. The boxing proverb says, "It looks like Youlong, looks like an ape, sits like a tiger and turns like an eagle's plate". Its basic skills are mainly piling and walking. The body shape requires that the head should be vertical, the waist should be straight, the hips should slide, the shoulders should be relaxed, the chest should be relaxed, and the hips should be raised. Footwork requires smooth ups and downs, clear swing, clear distinction between reality and reality, walking like mud, walking like a sedan chair, and rubbing your calves when walking (ankles are touching each other). When walking in circles, the inner foot is straight in, the outer foot is buckled, the knees are hugged, and the crotch cannot be opened. The posture pays attention to twisting, spinning, turning, turning and circling. There are two kinds of hands: dragon claw palm and ox tongue palm. The main techniques are pushing, hugging, taking, leading, moving, blocking, intercepting, buckling, grasping, taking, hooking, hitting, sealing, closing, flashing and scattering 16. It is required to be able to advance and retreat, to be able to change and live, to combine reality with reality, and to change endlessly. Each palm should be issued with the waist as the axis, and the whole body should be integrated, combining inside and outside, focusing on the hands, eyes and body outside, and cultivating the mind and spirit inside. The movements of the Eight Diagrams Palm require lifting the top along the neck, relaxing the shoulders and elbows, relaxing the chest and abdomen, standing up and sliding the hips, shrinking the hips and knees, and grasping the ground with ten toes. The eight diagrams palm is characterized by "rolling drill for wrapping, strange and correct, twisting and walking, changing hands with you, walking like a dragon, turning like a monkey, changing like an eagle, and being as powerful as a tiger"; Take bending and braking straight, moving and disturbing static, braking and moving as the cultivation principle. Eight diagrams palm is divided into three steps: fixed frame, live frame and variable frame. "Fixing the frame" is a basic kung fu, which requires one stroke and one style, following the rules and regulations, and should be slow rather than fast, so as to have a correct posture, a solid pile step and a smooth walk; Earnestly achieve the "nine essentials", that is, collapse (collapse of the waist), buckle (including chest), lift (lifting from the tail and Gu Dao), top (top of the head, tip of the tongue and top of the hand), wrap (wrap the arm), loosen (loosen the shoulder and sink the air), hang (lower the elbow) and shrink (shrink). Don't lift your chest, lift your abdomen and exert your strength (called three serious illnesses). The "living shelf" mainly practices the coordination of movements, so that the basic essentials can be skillfully used in the transformation. "Changing the frame" requires internal and external integration, arbitrary change, random insertion, not limited by the order of knuckles, so as to be as light as a feather, as lightning, and as stable as a rock. The basic content of the Bagua Palm is the Eight Mothers Palm, also known as the Old Eight Palm, that is, single palm exchange, double palm exchange, homeopathic palm, back palm, turn palm, grinding palm, three-piercing palm and turn palm. The content circulated in different places is not exactly the same, with lions, deer, snakes, harriers, dragons, bears, phoenixes and monkeys as representatives, and also with two hands. Each palm can be derived from many palm methods, which is commonly known as one palm gives birth to eight palms. Baguazhang has the forms of single practice, double practice and Sanda. According to the Old Boxing Manual, there are still 18 arhats, 72 hidden feet and 72 amputated legs in the Baguazhang boxing system, but it is rarely known at present. All the instruments in the Bagua Palm system, including knives, guns, swords, halberds, etc. It still embodies the characteristics of changing with the walk, carrying machinery with you, changing with the step, and taking advantage of the situation. In addition, there are Yuan Yangshuo, Ji Zhaorui, hot wheels and so on. Bagua palm is beneficial to training people's flexibility, speed and endurance, especially the strength of lower limbs. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Bagua Palm was listed as a national martial arts performance and competition.