Nanzhi Quan is a particularly outstanding type of Nanquan. It is a powerful and hard-working boxing style of outsiders. It is an advanced type of actual combat with outstanding self-defense. It is very famous in the Chaoshan area and is well-known overseas. According to the oral tradition of Nanzhi boxing masters in the past, this boxing came from the Southern Shaolin Temple in Fujian and was created by Hong Xiguan, a lay disciple of the temple who was both talented in both civil and military skills. Its formation has a history of about three hundred years. At that time, there was a young monk He Yan (later known as Shuangchan) in the temple who once learned this boxing. When the Shaolin Temple was burned down during the Hongli and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty, He Yan left Guangdong and went to Hailu Fengjieshi. He heard that there was a master in the Xuanwu Mountain Temple who had killed a tiger. He wanted to watch his martial arts, but he was dead, so he had to walk. Suddenly he saw a crowd of people. There was a big man who was butchering pigs and selling meat. He had a big rake stuck in front of the meat basket. He claimed that anyone who could pull it out could cut and eat the pork freely without having to pay back. He Yan walked in and stretched out his hand to pick it up. With just one rub, the head of the rake immediately rose up to ten feet high. Descending immediately, he calmly spread his middle index fingers, gently supported them, and slid them back to their original positions. The big man who butchered pigs and sold meat used to love martial arts and often practiced martial arts with several friends. Now that he saw that He Yan was unusual, he was extremely happy and immediately asked Master He Yan to stay and teach his skills. Master He saw that he was very sincere and sincere, so he stayed and taught the martial arts.
There was a local man named Chen Nanzhi (also known as Jianshan, born in 1847, died in 1925), who was the most accomplished and most powerful disciple of He Yan's boxing sect. When he was young, he ran away to avenge his father and beat someone to death. Later, he was adopted as a stepson by an old man from Deng Village, Nanshan, Hakka District, Jieyang County (now part of Jiexi). From then on, he made his career teaching boxing, practicing traumatology and Feng Shui.