Mr. Lin Jianhua was born in Indonesia 1953 and came back to China with his family in 1954. He began to learn Chinese martial arts in 1964. He entered the Physical Education Department of Fujian Normal University in 1973 and studied Chinese Martial Arts under the direction of Professor Guo Minhua. In 1979, Mr. Lin entered Wuhan Institute of physical Education to learn Form and Will Boxing (Shing-Yee-Ch'uan), Eight-diagram Palm (Bagua-Ch'uan), Taijiquan (T'ai-Chi-Ch'uan) and other excellent techniques from Professor Wen Jingming and Professor Liu Yuhua, the famous martial artists of China. On graduation from Fujian Normal University in 1976, Mr. Lin began his career in universities as a martial arts teacher. He worked in the Physical Education Department of Fujian Normal University from 1978 to 1983, and he has worked in the physical Education Department of Amoi University since 1983. During the past eighteen years, Mr. Lin has taught many students Chinese martial arts, some of whom came from Japan, America, England, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany, Singapore and The Philippines. He has once been invited to Ateneo University of The Philippines to give a lectures of Chinese martial arts. Mr. Lin Jianhua is now a council member of Fujian Martial arts Association, the vice-president of Amoy Martial Arts Association, the president of Martial arts Association and the Research Society of Taijiquan of Amoi University, and the chief coach of the martial arts team of Amoi University. As a national grade judge of martial arts, he has executed his duties in many national or international contests of martial arts.

Contents Foreword Preface Chapter One: Introduction 1 The origin and the development of Xingyiquan 2 The main characteristics of Xingyiquan 3 The attack-defence features of Xingyiquan 4 Requirements and steps of practice Chapter Two: Essentials 1 Three sections 2 Three centres 3 The three-in-one posture 4 Four tips 5 Four images 6 Five elements 7 Six conformities 8 Basic rules and methods Chapter Three: Five-element boxing 1 Chop palm 2 Drill fist 3 Punch fist 4 Cannon fist 5 Crosscut fist 6 Use of the boxing methods Chapter Four: Twelve-animal style boxing 1 Dragon exercise 2 Tiger exercise 3 Monkey exercise 4 Horese exercise 5 Snake exercise 6 Cock exercise 7 Swallow exercise 8 Sparrow hawk exercise 9 Alligator exercise 10 Tai exercise 11 Eagle and bear exercise Chapter Five: Shadowboxing routines 1 Five-element linked boxing 2 Eight forms 3 Twelve crosscut punches Chapter Six: Paired practice