There were many schools of cudgel in ancient China. In the Ming Dynasty, Shaolin, Wei Zi, Zhangjia, Qingtian, Zhao Taizu made snakes, Hetu hooks, Niu Jia, Ba Zi, Yu, and so on.
In the forty years of Jiajing, famous anti-Japanese soldiers were ordered to go south and visit Shaolin Temple via Henan. After observing Shaolin's stick technique, Yu thought that "the ancients' truth has been lost" and all the monks "wanted to be taught", so they both entered Yu's army to study. Three years later, they returned to the temple and taught as many as 100 people, making Shaolin stick technique famous all over the world.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Zhongdou, a famous martial artist in Xiuning County, Anhui Province, studied in Shaolin Temple and published his Shaolin stick skills in words. This is a book "Explanation of Shaolin Clutching Sect", which provides valuable information for studying the evolution and development of ancient clubbing.
The Sword Classic written by Yu in the Ming Dynasty, Ji Xiaoxin's Book by Qi Jiguang, the Military Equipment Written by Mao and the Shaolin Stick Technique Written by Cheng Zongyou all discussed the stick technique in detail. The method of holding the stick is called "handle method", and the common methods are male handle (palm holding the stick upward), female handle (palm holding the stick downward), male and female handle (palm facing), opposite handle (two jaws facing), cross handle (left and right hands crossing) and sliding handle. Stick techniques include: hitting, uncovering, splitting, covering, pressing, sweeping, stabbing, grasping, picking, lifting and poking. The stick technique requires that the arm is round and hot, the handle is used together, the body and stick are integrated, and the force penetrates the stick tip, showing the characteristics of being brave and fast, and "hitting a large area with one stick". The routine of stick technique is: optional stick, monkey stick, seven-star stick, five-tiger sheep stick, eyebrow piercing stick, big pointed stick and so on. Duets include Sticks and Sticks, Sticks and Guns, Sticks and Sticks, and Sticks for Three. The stick is dominated by waving, chopping, sweeping, poking and dancing, and forms a routine structure with various footwork and postures. It is characterized by quickness, courage, strength, intensive stick skills, pungent style and distinct rhythm, and has the effect of "hitting a large area with one stick".
According to legend, the five-lang bagua stick method was created by Yang Five-lang in the Song Dynasty, hence the name. Yang Wulang followed his father to levy the Khitan, and then came to Wutai Mountain to become a monk. He used a gun to make sticks. The stick technique changed from Tai Chi to two instruments, two instruments to four elephants, four elephants to eight diagrams, and evolved into a 64-point stick technique, which is consistent with the number of internal and external eight diagrams, hence the name "Five Lang Eight Diagrams". After learning from his father, he merged the essence of Nanquan and carried it forward from Gao. This set of stick techniques is long and short, both in single and double forms. There are many techniques, and the tactics are circle, point, gun, cut, draw, pick, draw, draw, mark, sweep, press, knock and type. It is changeable.