Dog Style/ gǒu-quán (狗拳)/ gao-kuen is a so rarely encountered martial art that I almost overlooked it. Dog Style is said to be a kind of sister of the White Crane Style because both were around the same time in the same province founded by women. This explains why also the founder of the Dog […]

This article series shall increase the readers’ economic literacy, but this blog post shall additionally also increase the readers’ judicial literacy. Although I’m due to differences in the judicial systems not sure how much this blog post can be helpful to people, who live in an Anglo-Saxon jurisdiction. If you are for example in France […]

Miáo Xiǎn (苗 顯)/ Miu Hin shall have contributed to the martial art of Wing-Chun. He added Snake Style techniques and the twin knives or butterfly swords. These two weapons seemingly aren’t distinguished in English. They are very similar, but the butterfly swords have broader blades than the twin knives. The blades are of the […]

Nowadays a retired pediatrician is required for explaining that an unvaccinated child isn’t putting others at risk. It’s exactly the opposite and the unvaccinated are those at risk. Nowadays it requires a retired pediatrician for explaining that the unvaccinated get sick at much greater percentages than the vaccinated. (Albeit it’s reverse in the case of […]

Another martial art associated with Wǔ Méi (伍 枚)/ Ng Mui is Yuè-jiā-quán (岳家拳)/ Ngok-Gar-Kuen/ Geok-Ga-Kuen. Yet the attempt to make her this martial art’s founder is ridiculous because in all variants of her tale, albeit these are set in different centuries, she still lived centuries later than when this martial art shall have been […]

In the natal chart of Taylor Swift shall the asteroid #408 (also known as Fama) be in a conjunction with the asteroid #3811 (also known as Karma) and this conjunction shall have determined her superstardom. Yet a Fama-Karma-conjunction seems not always to lead to superstardom! I at least had never taken notice of a hydramyself. […]

Not only Wing-Chun, but many martial arts trace their origins to Wǔ Méi (伍 枚)/ Ng Mui! Amidst them naturally Wǔ-Méi-Pài (五枚派)/ Ng5-Mui4-Paai1, a martial art, which bears her name. Lǚ Sìniáng (呂 四娘) was the daughter of a general, so she was interested in everything martial. Because she was a girl, so her father’s […]

Sweet is asteroid #11727 and also known as 1998 JM1. Sweet measures 4.3 km in diameter. Sweet’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.38 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.05, a period of revolution of 1’344 days, and an inclination of 1.8 degrees. Sweet was discovered during the course of the Near Earth […]

Each battle monk in the Shàolín (少林) Monastery shall have known the moves and techniques of one animal of the original Shàolín (少林) Five Animals Style. Only the abbot knew the complete style. The Yip Man/ Ip Man lineage of Wing Chun wants to make Wǔ Méi (伍 枚)/ Ng Mui the abbess of the […]

Taco is asteroid #14917 and also known as 1994 AD11. Taco measures 9.4 km in diameter. Taco’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.84 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.21, a period of revolution of 1’746 days, and an inclination of 12.4 degrees. Taco was discovered at the Kitt Peak Observatory during the […]