Description: Cha Chuan, or the Cha style of boxing, is most popular in Northern China. According to one chronicle about this style, a Tang dynasty (618-907 A.D.) crusade set out on an expedition into eastern China. When the army reached Guanxian county in today's Shandong province, Hua Zongqi, a young general, stayed behind to recover from a serious wound. Thanks to the good care of the Guanxian residents, General Hua Zongqi recovered, and subsequently taught the local people his martial art, Jiazi Quan (frame boxing), to show them his appreciation of their kindness.

Hua invited his senior fellow apprentice Cha Yuanyi to help him. Cha Yuanyi was quite proficient at martial arts, and the two stayed together, eventually becoming highly regarded wushu teachers. The versions of Jiazi Quan that they taught had fully extended movements called Daijia Quan (big frame boxing), as well as compact and fast body postures known as Xiaojia Quan(small frame boxing).

After Cha Yaunyi and Hua Zongqi died, their followers renamed the two Jiazi Quan styles Cha style boxing and Hua style boxing to honor them in their memory. Later, these two styles would be known as one style called Cha-Hua boxing. The Hua-style has four routines, with three very long ones, while the Cha style has ten routines.

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing dynasty(1736 - 1795 A.D.) Cha-style boxing divided into three technical schools in Shandong province: the Zhang school, the Yang school, and the Li school.

Later, wushu masters Wang Ziping, Chang Zhenfang, and Zhang Wenguang, all very well known throughout China, eventually became experts in Cha style boxing and have also contributed to the development of the style over the years.