As a practitioner of Chinese Martial Arts I'm very proud to say that your videos about history are much more useful than a lot of videos released by my colleagues. Thank you very much and please, do more historical videos.
This salutation exists in silat as well, especially in Indonesia. Silat masters explain it as representing opposing forces like hard and soft, but it's always acknowledged as being of Chinese origin
Hi Jesse, this is a really interesting part of the history of kung fu / karate. You say the Qing Dynasty crushed many of the secret society groups except for the triads, but if you read about Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the Chinese republic that overthrew the Qing dynasty, you’ll see he had very close links to the secret societies, linked up with Kung fu. Many argue the secret societies were a huge part of the rise of the Republic of China and the ultimate overthrow of the Qing dynasty, so their aim was realised after all (but they were unprepared for the rise of the communist party in China). Their influence can still be seen in Taiwan. I know Martin Watts has a bit on all this in his book on White Crane’s history. Very interesting historical stuff!
For any of those interested: The character 明 is simply the characters for the sun and the moon put together as one character. It means "bright" because it would be bright if both the sun and the moon were put together (not in an eclipse way, of course).
Wow! This is a lot more in depth than the simple “hand representing knowledge and the fist representing student” lecture I got in Wing Chung class last week
Love this history lesson. Being 1/2 Chinese & 1/2 Japanese and studying martial arts from both I find this so fascinating about my ancestors 🙏 When i start practicing this in the Katas, it’s is so powerful and has an even more powerful significance with your history lesson.
My Sifu is the inheritor of the Southern Hakka Mantis Fist and many of the movements are similar to Karate Wing Chun and White Crane. It also has a signature form called Sam Bo Jin that is clearly an ancestor of San Chin. He say that the hand symbol is also the unification of Wen (Scholarly arts) with Wu ( Warrior Arts) excellent video though. Rei!
Jesse is the 🐐 of karate videos!! What an inspiration to create my own channel to bring full karate classes to as many people as possible. Jesse never disappoints!!
Fascinating! We have the same posture in Taekwon-Do. We are told that it represents Um Yang (yin and Yang) which ties in nicely with your comment about the sun and moon. It is interesting that this philosophical concept has a secret meaning. Thank you
Yaaaay! History videos are back. I knew you through your journeys to Japan and then China. These are an amazing content. Thank you so much for your time.
I just adore your work Jesse. Such a great pedagog you are, with so much experience, skills and knowledge. As a returnee to Karate Do after 30 years, I've picked some of your advices and we'll se how it goes for this 49 years old man ;) Thank you sensei! Ossu!
I see what you did there, embracing the meme by winking at us. Its not a Jesse enkamp video Without the signature:"okinawa birthplace of karate" yes!keep up with the history videos
I found this fascinating, it explains why it’s done it so many katas, I do enjoy it when you do videos about the history of karate and why kata are what they are
Awesome animation Jesse! I live in Hong Kong and study Hung Gar and can confirm this. Especially the Ming being the Chinese Renaissance, so true. Cheers!
hi Jesse the clip that u cut from Jet Li's HuoYuanJia movie is more like a 拱手禮 some social greeting back in the day the "抱拳禮ming salute" that you refer to is specifically the beginning of the "套路taolu" or known as "開桩 the intro" the 抱拳礼 functions as a secret gesture function as a password to signal the underground activitist (who ultimately wants to overturn the Ching government) telling the other party 反清复明 but in modern times when Ching & Ming Dynasty cease to exist, modern 抱拳礼 is now interpret as “五湖四海皆兄弟 we are all brothers amongst the five lakes and four oceans” and other variety of meanings and different 开桩 is customised by different Sifu as a personalised signature to represent their School or even particular Lineage.
Woah! Did someone say, "Triads?" I was not expecting that. That's very interesting. I'm going to have to do more research on that. Thanks for history lesson, Jesse. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Enjoyed? This is crazy interesting, as karate practitioner I found this quite important for understanding the roots, this is another puzzle part Jesse that we needed
Thanks for this video, Jesse san. About those hands, the way used by some Shaolin Monks for the meaning is: The open hand is the "book" and the closed hand is the "fist", meaning the "peace in the heart".
You are one of the outstanding players in fighting and your channel is very distinguished. I wish you success in your field. I hope for more videos about kenbo methods around the world.
Actually Sanchin 三戦、a popular kata appears in Southern Shoalin kungfu and Naha-te style karate was related to the secret rebel associations too. The ideas of the three battles are sky, ground and humans. In the Qing dynasty, the major anti Qing rebel group was based in Fuzhou, the group was called Tin Day Hui, which literally means the society of sky and ground. The founder believes that once the 3 factors (Sky refers to God or timing, ground refers to geographical and human refers to social ) meet at a point, the target can be highly achieved.
"Fan Qing, Fu Ming" or "Overturn the Qing, Restore the Ming". That hand sign is also the ultimate techniques in kungfu known as "anvil strike". Put the open hand on one side of the head for example and hit with a hammer fist with the other. In that way the energy of the blow rebounds and does more damage but you must be very close... Maybe as a final blow.
Nicely done video on the salute, please create a few more videos about the other ones we preform. American Kenpo has a very large sequence we go through with our forms. Thank you!
Videos about history of karate are my favourite ones😻 Also there is an issue I can't find any information. Who was the first female Karate practitioner? When women started to follow the way of Karate? Thank you very much for the good work, and I hope help about this question
Did you see most of his videos about the origin of Karate in China? I think some of them are showing the first master of karate was probably a woman from the white crane style. So the "first" karate person was actually a woman, not a man
I have heard the ancestors of Mr Yagi (Goju Ryu Meibukan Yagi dojo) were the high rank officers of the late Ming dynasty, therefore their dojo etiquette gesture is the Ming gesture.
What, you just stop it there? I could listen to your karate knowledge for hours. I follow and love quite a few martial arts youtubers: but seriously someone get this guy a Netflix documentary series.
As a Chinese looking on this piece of history, it's an irony that the Qing dynasty under Kangxi was the most prosperous and peaceful moment in ancient China.
Hi Jesse, thank you for your videos. You’ve cleared up so many of the questions I’ve had over the years about karate. You may have a video about this question I’ve not found yet - why in karate are the moves practiced with a pause between each technique? As in jun tzuki why is the punch stopped in mid air and held out? Why do you hold a block in position? Is it to hold form, to teach the body the perfect final end position? It’s so different to boxing where the practice is the same as actual combat - continuous and flowing.
Great video as usual! I love to find out about this connections between Okinawa and Fujian. One little thing though, the Shaolin temple burning thing is more myth than reality. I mean it was destroyed and rebuilt several times during its history but Shaolin monks weren't always enemies of the Qing dynasty. Thanks again for all the work you put in your videos!
Very good video, the origin of the compliment is basically stuff of legends, the Ming version and the boxers wars versions are the most accepted currently, but there a miríade of other possible origins
There is a style of Okinawan Karate called Meibukan Goju-Ryu, and it's symbol, the Meibukan Crest, depicts the Sun and the Moon next to each other, much like the kanji in the video title. The Sun is shown as a large, solid object, unyielding and unchanging, whereas the symbol for the moon is open on one side, ready to flex and change, like the phases of the real moon. Moreover, this can be taken as symbolic for a line from the Bubishi (original Chinese Wubei Zhi), an encyclopedia on war and combat, that reads "The way of inhaling and exhaling is both hard and soft". The Sun is hard, solid, and strong, where the moon is soft, flexible, and changing. Even this style of Karate, "Goju-Ryu" is a reference to this. It means, "Hard and Soft Style". A good fighter needs to use both hard and soft techniques. Solid and strong for your strikes to have force, but if you rely only on that you will move slowly and stiffly.
Do you want to more Karate history lessons? 🥋
Yes I would love to but can u make a video on teakwandow
Yes
I can imagine coming out from a tree and saying "pst! Hey, kid! Wanna karate lessons?".
@@hilkiapanther2829 Everything from you is good Sensei Jesse. May God Muhammed and Ali be with you.
Definitely
I am Chinese and have trained and taught martial arts for five decades . I have to say that your video is very well done and historically correct.
I really appreciate that! 🙏
What style?
As a practitioner of Chinese Martial Arts I'm very proud to say that your videos about history are much more useful than a lot of videos released by my colleagues.
Thank you very much and please, do more historical videos.
I appreciate your kind words 🙏
Agreed, they're the best!
What style are you?
Yes more historical videos iagree💯
This salutation exists in silat as well, especially in Indonesia. Silat masters explain it as representing opposing forces like hard and soft, but it's always acknowledged as being of Chinese origin
Hi Jesse, this is a really interesting part of the history of kung fu / karate. You say the Qing Dynasty crushed many of the secret society groups except for the triads, but if you read about Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the Chinese republic that overthrew the Qing dynasty, you’ll see he had very close links to the secret societies, linked up with Kung fu. Many argue the secret societies were a huge part of the rise of the Republic of China and the ultimate overthrow of the Qing dynasty, so their aim was realised after all (but they were unprepared for the rise of the communist party in China). Their influence can still be seen in Taiwan. I know Martin Watts has a bit on all this in his book on White Crane’s history. Very interesting historical stuff!
Most definitely! 👍
Triads run China and by extension, the entire world, today.
It's said that two members of Triads are now in the head of the comunist party. And Triads were against rebellions in the Hong Kong last few years.
For any of those interested:
The character 明 is simply the characters for the sun and the moon put together as one character. It means "bright" because it would be bright if both the sun and the moon were put together (not in an eclipse way, of course).
Akira in japanese
And 明 is pronounced: "Ming". Hence - "The Bright Dynasty"
The more I watch your videos, the more karate legends I've learned are being destroyed. You are destroying my illusions one by one...
The moment when THE BIRTHPLACE OF KARATE comes in🤣 love it
Wow! This is a lot more in depth than the simple “hand representing knowledge and the fist representing student” lecture I got in Wing Chung class last week
Love this history lesson. Being 1/2 Chinese & 1/2 Japanese and studying martial arts from both I find this so fascinating about my ancestors 🙏 When i start practicing this in the Katas, it’s is so powerful and has an even more powerful significance with your history lesson.
This comment resonates with me since our sensei makes us empty the gas tank during kata training ...great comment and goodluck on your journey
My Sifu is the inheritor of the Southern Hakka Mantis Fist and many of the movements are similar to Karate Wing Chun and White Crane. It also has a signature form called Sam Bo Jin that is clearly an ancestor of San Chin. He say that the hand symbol is also the unification of Wen (Scholarly arts) with Wu ( Warrior Arts) excellent video though. Rei!
Jesse is the 🐐 of karate videos!! What an inspiration to create my own channel to bring full karate classes to as many people as possible. Jesse never disappoints!!
Fascinating! We have the same posture in Taekwon-Do. We are told that it represents Um Yang (yin and Yang) which ties in nicely with your comment about the sun and moon. It is interesting that this philosophical concept has a secret meaning. Thank you
Yaaaay! History videos are back.
I knew you through your journeys to Japan and then China.
These are an amazing content. Thank you so much for your time.
I love history and karate. So together is even better.
Great video! Also shows that Jon, Jin, Jitte (=Jutte) and probably Chintz as well appear to come from the same region in China and later Okinawa
I just adore your work Jesse. Such a great pedagog you are, with so much experience, skills and knowledge. As a returnee to Karate Do after 30 years, I've picked some of your advices and we'll se how it goes for this 49 years old man ;)
Thank you sensei! Ossu!
I loved the footage of Sandra Sanchez doing the salute when performing a kata!
I see what you did there, embracing the meme by winking at us. Its not a Jesse enkamp video Without the signature:"okinawa birthplace of karate" yes!keep up with the history videos
😉
Excellent and clear explanation of the true origin of "Baquanli", congratulations from Chile Jesse sensei !!!
I found this fascinating, it explains why it’s done it so many katas, I do enjoy it when you do videos about the history of karate and why kata are what they are
The history of karate can be a saga of movies - sequels, prequels and trilogies.
Awesome!Thanks,absolutely love it.More please.
It’s cool to see more connections between Karate and Kung Fu. I wanna know more about how the triads influenced Kung fu though.
More history like this please I always been interested in traditional karate
Thank you so much for keeping karate culture alive.
Awesome animation Jesse! I live in Hong Kong and study Hung Gar and can confirm this. Especially the Ming being the Chinese Renaissance, so true. Cheers!
Great stuff as always Jesse! Keep it up!
Another excellent video with great historical content and high production value. You are an invaluable asset to our discipline.
Great video, as usual 😉, I'm going to share it with my students 👍
Great video. You explain history so clearly.
Great Jessie, as usual! Thanks a lot for keep on sharing your knowledge! Oss
Love the karate history lesson!! Good stuff broski
Much appreciated 🙏
What a great video again Jesse! I love watching Karate historical videos from your channel. 💯
3:08 lol gotta love that he didn’t edit that out or do a retake. Did it all at once.
That was very interesting, Jesse. You have sparked my curiousity to know more. I will do some research into this. Thanks!
Great job, man... keep up the good work! Congratulations!
These kind of videos are amazing. Way to go!
Great video! Chinese and Japanese history fascinates me.
I love your videos, content and ur voice tone are gold
Really interesting, I'm a kung fu instructor and I think that you way to approach the study of karate is really complete and interesting!!
Omg... U did it... Ive looked a few years ago for a clue to answer this question... Holy moly. Thx for sharing this. As always u r awesome.
Jesse San, another incredible video! I always look forward to your TH-cam Videos!!! Looking forward to the next one!
i have learnt so much from you, U are awsome and keep it up i hope some day i can train with u thats my life dream
hi Jesse
the clip that u cut from Jet Li's HuoYuanJia movie is more like a 拱手禮 some social greeting back in the day
the "抱拳禮ming salute" that you refer to is specifically the beginning of the "套路taolu" or known as "開桩 the intro"
the 抱拳礼 functions as a secret gesture function as a password to signal the underground activitist (who ultimately wants to overturn the Ching government) telling the other party 反清复明
but in modern times when Ching & Ming Dynasty cease to exist, modern 抱拳礼 is now interpret as “五湖四海皆兄弟 we are all brothers amongst the five lakes and four oceans” and other variety of meanings
and different 开桩 is customised by different Sifu as a personalised signature to represent their School or even particular Lineage.
Awesome video Jesse.
The animations are too good, love the video ✌🏿
Woah! Did someone say, "Triads?" I was not expecting that. That's very interesting. I'm going to have to do more research on that. Thanks for history lesson, Jesse. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Please do!
Very cool! I love learning more about the history and culture of karate!
Enjoyed? This is crazy interesting, as karate practitioner I found this quite important for understanding the roots, this is another puzzle part Jesse that we needed
Thanks for this video, Jesse san. About those hands, the way used by some Shaolin Monks for the meaning is: The open hand is the "book" and the closed hand is the "fist", meaning the "peace in the heart".
That was incredibly interesting to me. Definitely do more history videos!
You are one of the outstanding players in fighting and your channel is very distinguished. I wish you success in your field. I hope for more videos about kenbo methods around the world.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing!
Have you got any raccomendation on how to get the book you were writing about in bio? Just can't find it....
Another great video Jesse !
Keep up the fantastic work my friend.
OSU 🙏
Jesse...love your content. Thank you for being such an asset to the Martial Arts community
Love your vids Jesse, more vids please!
This was such an informative video . I have seen this sign many times and i was eager to know what this means and you heard me ..🤩
Arigato sempei🙇♀
Always a good time on this channel. I feel like I am back in school, but this is actually a subject that greatly interests me for a change. ✌️😁✌️
This is awesome Jesse and thank you for sharing this information
Thank you so much for the history. The explanation was so on point!.
Another awesome video and JUST for my 50th birthday Jesse! Thanks man!
Happy birthday!!
Thank you. Jesse, your research into the history of the arts, symbolism and etc is truly amazing. You are indeed thorough.
Hello Jessie you are amazing at what you do your so uplifting and encouraging your the best
Actually Sanchin 三戦、a popular kata appears in Southern Shoalin kungfu and Naha-te style karate was related to the secret rebel associations too.
The ideas of the three battles are sky, ground and humans. In the Qing dynasty, the major anti Qing rebel group was based in Fuzhou, the group was called Tin Day Hui, which literally means the society of sky and ground. The founder believes that once the 3 factors (Sky refers to God or timing, ground refers to geographical and human refers to social ) meet at a point, the target can be highly achieved.
I always love watching your history-themed videos! Great job Jesse!
Love your vids bro.
Awesome to hear!!
every show described on this channel is very good and adds insight ... I'm waiting for the next question Oss Sensei Jessy
👍👍👍👍
"Fan Qing, Fu Ming" or "Overturn the Qing, Restore the Ming". That hand sign is also the ultimate techniques in kungfu known as "anvil strike". Put the open hand on one side of the head for example and hit with a hammer fist with the other. In that way the energy of the blow rebounds and does more damage but you must be very close... Maybe as a final blow.
Interesting. 😊
Great history lesson, thanks prof.
History lessons from you are soo great really boost every aspect of martial arts in oneself
Great video, I mean all you videos are great but I really liked this one.
Yet another amazing video! Thank you
Thank you for sharing the history of karate.
Great video! This is some next level stuff. Thanks!
Nicely done video on the salute, please create a few more videos about the other ones we preform. American Kenpo has a very large sequence we go through with our forms. Thank you!
Much appreciated! 🙏
Thank you !! Really interesting topic
Very clear explanation of the symbol.
Thank you for giving us such a great lessons about karate
Karate Nerd and Kings and Generals combined 👌🏼🔥
I love how he put that blink after he said the birthplace of Karate 😂
As a practicionner of Tai Chi Chuan Yang Style, this part of Karate History sounds ver familiar!
Thank you so much for the very clear explanations!
Thank you for sharing this knowledge mate. Perfect person to share
We close all our kata with this hand symbol in Shuri-Ryu. Trias put his own meaning into it, but I appreciate that we carry on the tradition.
Videos about history of karate are my favourite ones😻 Also there is an issue I can't find any information. Who was the first female Karate practitioner? When women started to follow the way of Karate? Thank you very much for the good work, and I hope help about this question
Depends on what you mean by ”Karate” 😅
@@KARATEbyJesse you're a hard player I'll give you that senpai🌹
Did you see most of his videos about the origin of Karate in China? I think some of them are showing the first master of karate was probably a woman from the white crane style. So the "first" karate person was actually a woman, not a man
I have heard the ancestors of Mr Yagi (Goju Ryu Meibukan Yagi dojo) were the high rank officers of the late Ming dynasty, therefore their dojo etiquette gesture is the Ming gesture.
I heard the same thing. They came with the Sapposhi and never returned to China.
What, you just stop it there? I could listen to your karate knowledge for hours. I follow and love quite a few martial arts youtubers: but seriously someone get this guy a Netflix documentary series.
As a Chinese looking on this piece of history, it's an irony that the Qing dynasty under Kangxi was the most prosperous and peaceful moment in ancient China.
Hi Jesse, thank you for your videos. You’ve cleared up so many of the questions I’ve had over the years about karate. You may have a video about this question I’ve not found yet - why in karate are the moves practiced with a pause between each technique? As in jun tzuki why is the punch stopped in mid air and held out? Why do you hold a block in position? Is it to hold form, to teach the body the perfect final end position? It’s so different to boxing where the practice is the same as actual combat - continuous and flowing.
Great video as usual! I love to find out about this connections between Okinawa and Fujian. One little thing though, the Shaolin temple burning thing is more myth than reality. I mean it was destroyed and rebuilt several times during its history but Shaolin monks weren't always enemies of the Qing dynasty. Thanks again for all the work you put in your videos!
Indeed they were often used as militia themselves. Thank you!
Always learn something new from you, thanks for sharing 🙏
As a Wing Chun practitioner, I was taught this story by my Sifu. Very cool!
I love your presentation of the matter.. & Tradition... Back to the roots.. 🔆🥋🤝Oss!!
Very good video, the origin of the compliment is basically stuff of legends, the Ming version and the boxers wars versions are the most accepted currently, but there a miríade of other possible origins
Excellent presentation, always a privilege, thank you.
Great more please love the history.
There is a style of Okinawan Karate called Meibukan Goju-Ryu, and it's symbol, the Meibukan Crest, depicts the Sun and the Moon next to each other, much like the kanji in the video title. The Sun is shown as a large, solid object, unyielding and unchanging, whereas the symbol for the moon is open on one side, ready to flex and change, like the phases of the real moon. Moreover, this can be taken as symbolic for a line from the Bubishi (original Chinese Wubei Zhi), an encyclopedia on war and combat, that reads "The way of inhaling and exhaling is both hard and soft". The Sun is hard, solid, and strong, where the moon is soft, flexible, and changing. Even this style of Karate, "Goju-Ryu" is a reference to this. It means, "Hard and Soft Style".
A good fighter needs to use both hard and soft techniques. Solid and strong for your strikes to have force, but if you rely only on that you will move slowly and stiffly.
@JesseEnkamp you just blew my mind with this history lesson, god bless you. Thank you.
Simply wonderful 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you Jesse ...ireally appreciated this video.