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Glossary
- Hao style tai chi
- The least widespread style of tai chi; based on small external and internal movements.
- Hard martial arts
- Those martial methods whose techniques rely on superior force and strength to defeat inferior strength. Practices of the hard martial arts are aimed at making the body as hard as steel, especially the arms and legs. Hard approaches may be used in both internal (hsing-i, for example) and exter-nal schools, but prevail mostly in the external martial arts.
- Hebei hsing-i
- A branch of hsing-i where hsing-i and ba gua are commingled and not distinct.
- Heng chuan (heng quan)
- Crossing Fist. One of the five basic techniques of hsing-i chuan.
- Hexagram
- One of the sixty-four energetic changes of the I Ching.
- Hinduism
- A major religion of India that reaches as far back as recorded time. Its most important texts are the Vedas, Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita. Hinduism gave birth to Yoga, Tantra, and Buddhism.
- Hit medicine (die da, tie da, di da)
- A branch of Chinese medicine that deals with the aftermath of traumatic injuries, such as broken bones, swelling, soft tissue damage, spinal misalignments, joint dislocations, and internal organ damage.
- Hombu style
- See Aikido.
- Hou tien
- See Post-birth.
- Hsien tien
- See Pre-birth.
- Hsin (xin, shin)
- Heart/mind. The ultimate source of a person’s being according to classical Taoist and Buddhist thought. The hsin is both subtle and nonphysical, and is located near the physical heart.
- Hsin-i
- Heart/mind boxing. Another term for hsing-i chuan.
- Hsing (xing, shing)
- The form or shape that any manifestation takes, be it a concrete object, a martial art movement, a subtle energy or feeling, or a mental construction of the mind.
- Hsing-I
Also known as or Hsing-i Chuan, xing yi quan or shing yi chuan. Mind-form boxing. A hard internal martial art created by the Chinese general Yue Fei in the thirteenth century. Hsing-i emphasizes all aspects of the mind to create its forms and fighting movements.
- Hsing-i men
- A hsing-i chuan school that has the complete martial tradition of hsing-i intact, usually from a lineage source.
- Hung gar
- An external style of Southern Shaolin from Canton province.
- Hyung (Hyung is Korean; in Chinese: tao lu; in Japanese: kata)
- A form. A set of prearanged choreographed martial movements done either alone or with a partner or partners.
