Description: Hou Quan, or Monkey Fist, can be traced back to the Han dynasty. During the Ming dynasty, Song Taizu described 32 forms of long fist and six steps of Monkey fist, a clear indication of its popularity at the time. In fact, there are both Northern and Southern variations of the Monkey style.

The Northern variation utilizes small, compact movements with powerful, damaging short-range techniques. The Southern Monkey also emphasizes short, continuous movements, making it quite effective in short range combat as well. Both styles employ a lot of light jumping and other movements and expressions characteristic to monkeys.

The modern Monkey style is very vivid, having incorporated even more jumping, aerial techniques, and tumbling.