In China, can people make new styles easily?
No, it can be very hard to make new styles. Since any style is not only some movements, but also other important aspects too, such as theory, applications, weapon forms. Any style in China is about certain system. Only making one or two new routine or new forms can not make up a whole package of a system. More important, they have to pass many different level of challenges to be accepted by martial art community. Let’s look back to last century, there is only one new style of martial art has come out, it is Yi Quan, the style created by Wang Xiangzhai based on Xing Yi. Beside that, there have been no other styles can be considered as a new system. This is why there are not so many new “do” in Chinese system like in the west.
