02-25-2022, 11:17 PM
You mean the names of the movements? Those are called quanpu - literally ‘fist poems’. Remember that Chinese is a highly idiomatic language so it’s akin to the metaphor that Star Trek TNG was aiming for with ‘Shaka when the walls fell’. I’ve done a lot of translating of those - sometimes they are quite revealing. They are also very subjective and never x=x. I’ve done comparisons with other schools on lyrical sets and it’s a lot like how songs diverge lyrically between versions.
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