Do all the kung fu styles have their own special moves?

I'm really confused right now. Okay, so I know what kung fu is... It's a Chinese fighting style. But I understand that there are also different sub-styles of kung fu, like tiger, mantis, crane, snake, monkey and leopard. So, does each style use their own different moves, or does all the styles have the same? Is the "style" just the way the person does the kung-fu moves?|||All Quan Fa have their owm methods. Some do the animal forms while others rely on principles and certain techniques. Quan Fa are specialized by their forms. To understand the movement from one style to the other you would have to study the history of the form itself, the style and the founder.





The techniques in a form is acquired through principle and adopted or created for the purpose of the development of the style as a whole. Key principles of technique is what defines the moves.


Some forms are very similar with a slight difference here and there, while others look almost like completely different forms.





Animal forms are rarely taught out from the style, save a few. Mantis and Monkey are ones you mentioned that are taught as an entire system. Even they have different styles below them. Most Quan Fa use the animals in correlation with the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine (Such as Hung Gar, Shaolin, etc.), or in relation to not only the 5 elements but also the 12 meridians in 12 animal forms (Xingyi for example). They're not only for technique, but they also have internal properties as well.





Moves will vary from style to style, school to school, branch to branch, and principle to principle. Unless the forms are the same, then the styles aren't going to be. That is for certain.|||yes, each kung fu style has their own special moves. however, the different styles share many fundamental moves that just slightly vary between each style. for example, in kung fu [wushu], there is a standard 'palm position' that you maintain for almost all moves aside from fist moves. in the different styles, the move may be the same, but the palm position may be different.


but yes, there will be moves that are entirely for a certain style, and that dont exist in other styles.