";s:4:"text";s:3063:" The northern styles of kung-fu generally emphasize long range techniques, quick advances and retreats, wide stances, kicking and leaping techniques, whirling circular blocks, quickness, agility, and aggressive attacks.
It is so named because it originated in the southern China, especially in Guangdong and Fujian Provinces. The Chinese saw the dragon as an incredibly benevolent and life giving creature worthy of reverence. Due to its popularity and distinction, it has occupied important positions in the Kung Fu novels and movies. The Northern Shaolin style of kung fu is one of the most prominent traditional northern styles of Chinese martial arts. In leaning the moves, there student will strike hard, block hard and stomping into each position, with the idea of learning the properties place to be once each movement is complete. Additionally, if you want something similar to lung ying, look into other hakka kung fu styles like yau kung moon, wing chun (which share similarities to lung ying and other short bridge hakka styles) (I reccommend checking out applied wing chun under duncan leung), and southern praying mantis. Southern Fist (also Southern Boxing or Nanquan) is a type of traditional Chinese Kung Fu with a history of 400 years. The dragon represented by Northern Dragon style Kung fu is not the winged, fire breathing, destructive western dragon familiar to most people; it is the eastern, and more specifically, the Chinese dragon. Dragon Style Many styles of Kung fu were created by watching or imitating the movements of animals, birds, insects, or by molding the system after the movements of nature, as in the Nature Fist Style.