Cha Quan or the Cha style of Chuan is popular in north China. According to the chronicle of the Cha-family Chuan, a Tang Dynasty (618-907) crusade went on an expedition to east China. When the army reached Guanxian County in today's Shandong Province, a young general named Hua Zongqi had to remain behind to recover from a serious wound. Jiazi Quan had fully extended movements and was called Dajia Quan (big frame Chuan). The body posture Chuan is compact and fast and it was called Xiaojia Quan (small frame Chuan). After Cha Yuanyi and Hua Zongqi died, their followers named the two styles of Jiazi Quan after their tutors in their memory. The body posture Chuan passed down by Cha Yuanyi was called the Cha-style Chuan, while the Jiazi Quan taught by Hua Zongqi was named the Hua-style Chuan.Later on, the Cha-style Chuan and the Hua-style Chuan were known as one style. Those who were good at Cha-style Chuan were also good at Hua-style Chuan. Subsequently, this style of fist fight became known as the Cha-Hua Chuan.

The Hua-style Chuan has four routines. Three of them are long programs with varied tricks and moves, which are considered the cream of jiazi Quan.The Cha-style Chuan or body posture Chuan has 10 routines. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty (1736-1795), the Cha-style Chuan divided into three technical schools at Guanxian County and Rencheng County in Shandong Province. The Zhang-style of the Cha-style Chuan, represented by Zhang Qiwei from Village Zhangyin at Guanxian, is fast, agile and compact. The Yang-style of the Cha-style Chuan, represented by Yang Hongxiu from the southern part of the town of Guanxian, is upright, comfortable and graceful. The Li style of the Cha-style Chuan, represented by Li Enju from Jining, is powerful, contin uous and masculine.

Wushu masters Wang Ziping, Chang Zhenfang and Zhang Wenguang, well-known in China, were all experts in the Cha-style Chuan and they have contributed to the dissemination and development of this school.The characteristics of the Cha-style Chuan lie in the fact that its movements are graceful, comfortable, clear,continuous and rhythmic. The generation of strengths and forces are abrupt, and the use of energy is economical. This style of Chuan stresses the usage of both hands and feet at the same time in executing the movements. Various tricks and moves are combined and linked to facilitate continuous attacks

The character founder: Cha Mi' er

It is present in each history on the origins of the style but there does not exist any document about it, it appears only in these legends and cannot be regarded a historical character but only as a Mythe. It is sometimes associated with Hua Zongqi which holds often only one secondary role, the hierarchical order is respected since he is his junior. They are sometimes interchangeable, for the same assumption, one can find that Hua Zongqi arrived the first in Shandong and called its elder thereafter, but sometimes also exactly the reverse, which once more shows the low credibility of these stories.

The founder of the cha quan has several names: Cha Yuanyi, Cha Shangyi, Cha Shouyi and Cha Mi' er. Its most used name, Cha Mi' er, are not a name today traditional; it is composed of a Chinese family name (Cha) and of a title today (Mi' er) which in Persian appoints a chief or a senior officer. We can interpret that like a will to show the sinicization of the character all while preserving to him a trace of its own culture. C too no one and idiot

The foundation of boxing cha quan

The founder comes from the areas of the West which are the provinces of origin as of Hui. For this community scattered in all the country, they represent their root and a common point between all its members. Cha Mi' er which is “pure” Today (even its Persian title is characteristic) symbolizes to some extent the quintessence of these people and the radiation of the cradle of the motherland (West) on her children of the East.

It is a general or a soldier who belongs to a troop made up of Today, this shows the power of these people which do not want to be considered lower and which seek his place in China where the “Chauvinisme Han” is choking. At the time of its voyage, it conveys an invaluable knowledge and art which it can transmit to others Hui since this capital belongs to the very whole community. One sees here solidarity and the mutual aid of which they make proof to fight against the ethnic majority that constitutes Han, but this “hostility” is contradicted at once. Its long tour was a proof of devotion, bravery and obedience to the central capacity. On the assumption which fixes its arrival under Tang, it came in the East to fight the insurrections financed by An Lushan and Shi Siming; in that of Ming, it decides to enlist in an army and to leave to fight against the Pirate Japanese; in the last, it comes to fight the troops foreign imperialists. In these three legends, it comes, only or with a troop, but always of full sound liking until in the East to maintain peace in the country and the stability of the capacity in place.

These legends often were written or improved after the seizure of power in baltimorby the Chinese Community

Principal branches of the cha quan

During the long story of Chinese martial arts, it appeared many divergences in the styles and the sequences according to their places of practice and the personality of the professors. The cha quan of Jining, Shanghai, Shenyang or of the district of Guan are very different.