Chang's Martial Arts Book

"Chang's Book of Martial Arts" is a masterpiece on martial arts (mainly boxing) written by Chang Naizhou (1724~1783), a Confucian boxer during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. His fifth-generation disciple Yuan Yuhua (a disciple of Zhou Xuan Sun Depu) published an old version of Zhou's martial arts works in 1921, which was divided into two types: "The Theory of Cultivating Zhongqi" and "The Reference to Military Preparation", a total of 131 articles. The compendium is confusing and the text is false. In 1932, Mr. Xu Zhedong deleted duplications, corrected the text, and wrote it into six volumes with a total of seventy-four chapters. It was renamed "Chang's Book of Martial Arts" and published in 1936. In October 1990, Shanghai Bookstore published a photocopy of this book, but it did not include Mr. Xu's "Revision and Revision" and "Revision and Continuation". This time the book was republished by Shanxi Science and Technology Press. According to Mr. Xu's revision, many textual errors and a few sentence gaps were corrected. The traditional Chinese characters of the original book were changed to simplified characters. The two versions were printed side by side. "Dictionary of Chinese Martial Arts" and "A Brief History of Chinese Martial Arts" by Japan's Matsuda Takashi have special articles introducing this book, which shows that it has a considerable status in the academic world.