Baguazhang
Zhang Zhaodong, also known as Zhang Zhankui, performing Baguazhang | |
| Also known as | Baguaquan or Bagua |
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| Hardness | Internal (neijia) |
| Country of origin | China |
| Creator | Dong Haichuan (attributed) |
| Famous practitioners | |
| Olympic sport | No |
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| Chinese martial arts (Wushu) |
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Baguazhang (Chinese: 八卦掌; pinyin: bā guà zhǎng; Wade–Giles: pa-kua chang) is one of the three main Chinese martial arts of the Wudang school, the other two being tai chi and xingyiquan. It is more broadly grouped as an internal practice (or neijia). Baguazhang literally means "eight trigram palm", referring to the bagua "trigrams" of the I Ching, one of the canons of Taoism.