Real Shaolin Kung Fu: Shaolin Long Quan (Shaolin Dragon Boxing) VCD
Performed and demonstrated by Shi Xingxia
Explained Shi Deci
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Published by People's Physical Education Publishing House
ISBN 7887210437

Animal-imitating Boxing imitates the forms and movements of animals with the stress on the hitting features of their movements and actions. These are then developed into fist plays by combining the offensive and defensive skills of the martial arts. Such animal-imitating boxing styles include monkey boxing, mantis boxing and eagle claw boxing. The movements look like a dragon flying, a tiger jumping, a clever monkey clattering, an eagle soaring, a crane standing, a snake roving, a duck waddling, a dog leaping, a rooster pecking and a mantis wielding its forelimbs. In the Shaolin boxing there are five animal-imitating routines - dragon, tiger, leopard, snake and crane.

Dragon Fist belongs to the Shaolin animal-imitation series. In Chinese mythology, dragon is formlessly agile and changeable, and so this dragon-imitation hand form is characterized by changing movements.