<span class="chinese-post-title">形意橫拳學</span> The Study of the Crossing Fist in Xingyi from <span class="chinese-post-title">形意拳學</span> The Study of Xing Yi Quan

形意橫拳學

橫拳者，屬土，是一氣之團聚。在腹內則屬脾，在拳中即為橫。其形圓，是以性實，其氣順，則脾胃和緩。其氣乖，則脾虛胃弱，而五臟必失和矣。其拳順，則內五行和而百物生。其拳謬，則內氣必努力矣。內氣努則失中，失中則四體百骸無所措施，諸勢亦無形矣。其氣要圓，其勁要和，萬物土中生，所謂橫拳似彈屬土者是也。先哲雲：“在理則為信，在人則為脾，在拳則為橫。”
人而無信，百事不成，人傷在其脾，則五臟失調，橫拳不和，百勢無形。此言形名雖殊，其理則一也。橫拳乃形意之要著也，學者不可不慎詳之。

孫祿堂

"The crossing fist is affiliated to the earth and is reunion of the unified Qi. In the body it is in the same category as the spleen, in the boxing it is the crossing fist. As its form is round, its nature solid. When its qi is convenient; the spleen and the stomach are at ease. When its qi is abnormal, the spleen is depleted and the stomach feeble; therefore the five viscera will necessarily be in disharmony. When the boxing is convenient, the internal five elements are in harmony and all things develop. When the boxing is erroneous, the internal qi will certainly be strained. When the internal qi is strained, the center is lost. Loosing the center causes the limbs and the structure to loose their placements. All forms become shapeless. Its qi should be round and its strength should be soft. All beings grow from earth. The so-called crossing fist is round and affiliated with the earth. The ancient sages said: “It is like the faith in the principle, like the spleen in a man, like the crossing fist in boxing.”
A man without faith is unable to do anything. A person with a hurt spleen loses the harmony of the five viscera. When crossing fist becomes disharmonius, all forms become shapeless. These sentences appear different, their logic is the same. Therefore, crossing fist is important in Xingyi. Students should be attentive to all its details."

From the book The Study of Xing Yiquan (形意拳學), by Sūn Lùtáng (孫祿堂), based on the translation by Albert Liu and Dan Miller.