What was the first kung fu movie in Chinese history

The first kung fu movie in Chinese history was the 1928 version of "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple".

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The 1928 version of "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple" led to the first kung fu movie in the history of Chinese cinema, and since then kung fu movies have become the most Chinese movie genre in the world of cinema.

The story tells of Zhaojiaping, a place famous for armed battles in history, located at the border of Liuyang and Pingjiang counties in Hunan province. When Lu Fengyang, the local head of Liuyang County, suffers a loss in one of the armed fights, he asks someone to introduce his son, Lu Xiaoqing, to learn martial arts from a master of the Kunlun School.

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The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple was born in 1927 after the failure of the Revolution which was a sensational event in China's modern history, at which time the Kuomintang's massacre of yesterday's allies***producers' slaughtering knives filled the society with an atmosphere of bloodshed and defeat, and disappointment and shunning of the world also society.

The release of this movie had been regarded as a typical representative of satisfying people's escapism. But as far as the movie itself is concerned, Fire at the Red Lotus Temple also has special significance and influence. Its commercial success opened up a style of movie for Chinese films to gain a foothold in the market.

"The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple" was so popular after its release that the movie was a hit. Therefore, 18 episodes were made consecutively within three years thereafter. From 1928 to 1931, China **** released 227 martial arts, gods and monsters films. At the same time, some of the stunts in the film were full of innovative photography at the time also made it gained the name of "martial arts film".

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