Talk:Void Fist/@comment-2001:5B0:2A66:3DF0:280:AEFF:FED6:2C1B-20171220024519/@comment-32.212.121.9-20190711134353

In East Asian martial arts, the word "fist" (Mandarin:quan/Cantonese:kuen/Japanese:ken, though it's less common in Japanese martial arts) can be used for any unarmed martial art. Snake style is mostly finger jabbing techniques but called Shequan. Pigua strikes with the wrist, palm, or back of the hand, but is called Piguaquan. Baji uses the fists, shoulders, hips and knees, but is called Bajiquan. It doesn't mean they only use their fists. It's because Chinese martial arts tend to have names that have nothing to do with fighting- like animals, philosophical ideas or natural phenomena. Taiji, for example, means the ultimate truth of the universe. If someone said "I use the Ultimate Truth of the Universe", no one would know what that means. They use "fist" the way we use "style"- what they call Heihuquan means Tiger Fist, but we would just say Tiger Style.