Martial culture in Baojiatun, Guizhou

Baojiatun Village, also known as Yangliuwan and Baotun Village, is an administrative village under Daxiqiao Town, Xixiu District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province. It is a traditional Chinese village located 20 kilometers east of Anshun. The village has a good geographical location and is really a Fengshui treasure. . In May 2020, the official website of the Chinese Traditional Village Digital Museum showed that the collective annual income of Baojiatun Village was 200,000 yuan, and the per capita annual income of villagers was 6,200 yuan. It can be regarded as an ordinary village.

The Anshun Tunpu people are actually "descendants of the Ming Dynasty Tunpu Army" and are not local indigenous residents. Therefore, the defense was tight and martial arts was very popular. Baojiatun village was built with eight inner and outer formations, mainly for ancient military defense. The inner eight formations have the big temple as the core (the central army) and the inner urn city as the link. Hundreds of sturdy stone houses formed eight defensive positions (eight streets). A strong and tall stone wall surrounded the eight formations, forming a huge "enchantment formation". The Eighth Outer Formation and the Eighth Inner Formation serve as the central army (core), taking advantage of the favorable terrain of the seven surrounding peaks and the Xingjiang River to construct eight peripheral defensive positions with stone walls, bunkers, rocks, trenches and river ditches. The overall layout is composed of eight formations inside and outside one axis, two zones, emphasizing the symmetry of the central axis and the clear distinction of priorities. After more than 600 years of wind and rain erosion, it is like a small military museum of the Ming Dynasty. While we marvel at this historical reappearance, To feel the wisdom and magical creative power of Tunpu people. ”

? Baojia Quan is not very famous. The routines currently practiced include guard boxing, four-door hanging hammer, small four-door, etc. The stick skills include big-back stick, small-back stick, One hundred singles and eight sticks, etc.; Baojia Quan has a relatively stable movement technical structure, simple movements, flexible footwork, mainly protecting the body with fists and palms, and capable of both offense and defense. However, today, due to the lack of historical data, we cannot analyze Baojia Quan. To systematically sort out and describe the inheritance lineage, Baojia Quan is also facing the crisis of inheritance due to large-scale social changes, and is on the edge of rural society. Perhaps this is the fate of many martial arts routines