The Chinese name     "Shayuquan" is the official Chinese "pinyin" transcription and is pronounced "Sha-Yü-Chuän". Literally translated, it means "The shark Fist", and in a wider sense "Shark Style martial art". The Chinese name is a hommage to the Taoists, fathers of the "internal martial arts", who had understood the intelligence of nature and integrated it in their teachings. A genius of the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, pioneered this way of acquiring knowledge and solving technical problems in the west, which today, is known as Bionics.   Shayuquan in archaic seal characters >>>   sha (up) : water and sand, wet sand: hints at the typical rough surface of shark skin. yu (middle): a fish. quan (down) : to make a fist, gather cereals, but also, to track down a wild animal. The Quan ideogramm, by the way, hints at a precise, selective and careful use of the hand.