董海川创造八卦掌之前,此掌形式一直被称为磨掌或转掌,因为形似推磨盘、走圆圈。在道家内部已有高人传承了,但招式很少,以炼气养生健体为主,但通过转掌练习以后,一般都会下盘力量陡增、气血充盈、步法轻灵、反应敏捷。董海川在九华山道观学习后,深谙该拳形式奥妙,再加上所学的少林拳法融合进去,遂成为自己独特的武术功 Before Dong Haichuan created the Bagua Zhang, this palm form has always been called the palm of your hand or the palm of your hand, because of the shape of pushing the disc and walking the circle. In the Taoist interior has been inherited by the Supreme, but the moves are few to refining health fitness-based, but after the practice by swung, the general will be under the power of a sharp increase in the filling of the blood, step Brisk, quick reaction . Dong Haichuan learned in the Jiuhua Road Taoism, well versed in the boxing form of mystery, coupled with the learned Shaolin boxing into it, then became his unique martial arts