artThe fifteen, standing in a courtyard
รูปปั้นแม่ไม้ วัดบางกุ้ง · rup pan mae mai wat bang kung
The techniques as statues, at a temple inside a tree.
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What it is
Wat Bang Kung in Samut Songkhram — an Ayutthaya-period temple wrapped in the roots of a banyan — has the mae mai and luk mai set up in its grounds as figures.
The long version
The temple's own history is a war. In 1765 Burmese troops overran the camp built around it; in 1767 Taksin restored the kingdom and put a Chinese guard here; in 1768 the Burmese besieged it again and Taksin and Maha Sura Singhanat drove them off.
Inference — a courtyard of boxing statues at a battle site reads as continuous with all of that, and the reading is the point of building them there.
For anyone trying to learn the names: this is the fastest way. Fourteen of the fifteen mae mai are pictures, and here the pictures are three-dimensional and labelled.
Connected to
- The fifteen mother techniques What is standing there.
- The crocodile lashes its tail The one on the right of the row.
Named here by
- The fifteen mother techniques The fifteen, standing up, in a courtyard.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Wat Bang Kung — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Wat Bang Kung — Wikipedia (en)
- แม่ไม้มวยไทย — the fifteen and the fifteen, at revision 13177866 — Wikipedia (th)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there