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Does Kung Fu Really Exist

Kung Fu is real.

Kung fu, also known as Chinese kung fu and traditional Chinese martial arts, is an alternative name for "martial arts" in late Qing Dynasty China. In traditional Chinese culture, wushu has a long history as a combat technique. Kung fu is mainly reflected in the personal application and attainments in martial arts, more philosophical, to "stop the invasion" as the technical orientation, into the understanding of man and nature, the objective laws of society, the traditional way of education and personal cultivation.

Kungfu is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, the embodiment of traditional Chinese culture, and a unique "martial arts" in the world. It is a unique "martial art" in the world. It emphasizes the combination of rigidity and flexibility, internal and external cultivation, and has the appearance of robustness and majesty, as well as the connotation of elegance and profundity, which contains the enlightenment of the philosophers on life and the universe, and is the valuable cultural heritage accumulated by the Chinese working people over a long period of time.

Chinese Kung Fu has a wide influence in the world, not only has there been a large number of Chinese and foreign movie and television productions with Chinese Kung Fu themes, but also Chinese Kung Fu, such as Shaolin, Taiji, Wing Chun, etc., has been widely spread all over the world. Traditional Chinese Kung Fu that has been more fully preserved and promoted throughout the country.

Development of Chinese martial arts

Hua Tuo in the Three Kingdoms period drew on the Xiong Jing and Bird Stretch compiled the Five-Animal Play, the Five-Animal Play than the Xiong Jing and Bird Stretch action is much more rigorous, every move has a clear requirement, it should be a martial arts in the body of the work of art routines. With the later generations of the five birds of the five birds of the theater of development, physical art routine also gradually become rich.

Chinese martial arts were also gradually divided into two categories: ornamental and practical. Two people deserve special mention for their contribution to the development of Chinese martial arts as an ornamental art. One is the Dharma Master, who came from Tianzhu during the Northern Wei Dynasty and brought the primitive yoga of Tianzhu to China. The combination of this primitive yoga with the ancient Chinese physical arts greatly increased their spectacle and made them more complex, thus creating more schools and routines.

The other was Gongsun Daniang in the Sheng Tang Dynasty, who maximized the ornamental aspect of the instrumental martial arts, which greatly contributed to the development of later generations of instrumental martial arts routines.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Kung Fu for the above