The basic contents include five elements boxing, Twelve-Shaped Boxing, Tangzi, sparring and Sanshou. Single practice routines include five-element serial, miscellaneous hammer, eight-character boxing, four-character boxing, twelve-character boxing, entering and leaving the cave, five-element interaction, Long Hudou, eight-character kung fu, upper, middle and lower eight-hand chess and so on. There are three pistols, five flower guns, body rest guns, nine collars and so on. There are many kinds of boxing equipment, including knives, swords, big guns, sticks and halberds painted in the sky. Every musical instrument has strict requirements on its size and shape, the most prominent of which are horse teeth thorn, sharp thorn and boring.
Xingyiquan is characterized by simplicity and compactness, steady, fast and complete footwork, "hands are like steel files, hands are like hooks, steps are like plows, and roots are like roots", which requires the harmony and unity of heart and heart, heart and qi, qi and strength, shoulders and hips, elbows and knees, and hands and feet. Xingyiquan is famous for its actual combat, and it is one of the traditional boxing styles in China, which is mainly based on single practice and Sanshou.
Xingyiquan is an intangible cultural heritage project at Fangshan district level in Beijing. Together with Tai Ji Chuan and Bagua Palm, they are called the three major family boxing. Xingyiquan's style is hard-hitting and hard-advancing, such as lightning and thunder, which is unique in family boxing. Xingyiquan, which was popular in modern times, was improved and created by Li Laoneng, a native of Shenzhou, Hebei Province, after absorbing the contents of Dai Xin Fa Liu Quan in Shanxi Province, and was named after it. On the basis of heart-linked boxing, Li Laoneng imitated the fine movements of everything in the world and combined with years of martial arts practice to change "heart" into "form and meaning".