17. Cinnabar Palm

ZHU SHA ZHANG

Brief description*

*Excerpt from the book: Jin Jing Zhong. Authentic Shaolin Heritage: Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolin. ISBN: 978-1440474170

“Cinnabar Palm” is the soft Shaolin GONG FU, it trains the inner power and belongs to category YIN. This exercise is also called “The Palm of Plum Blossom” (MEI HUA ZHANG) and “Palm of Red Sand” (HONG SHA ZHANG). Sometimes it is also called “Hand of Black Sand”, but that is not right, because the method of “Hand of Black Sand” involves the use of special preparations to increase the inner power...

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...If you are in command of this Shaolin GONG FU, you need not touch the enemy with hands. You make stroking movements or strike with a palm at some distance and the enemy is severely injured and will surely die in 10-15 days or even in several hours. But at least 15 years of hard work are needed to attain such skill. Being in command of this GONG FU, you must not misuse it in any case. It is a manifestation of guile and ill intentions to use it secretly. It can be used only in extremity to defend your life or the life of your near relatives. Unfounded use of this skill is immoral and disapproved by specialists in WU SHU.

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