Does anyone know the beginning of the development of martial arts in the Ming and Qing dynasties?

The Qing dynasty reign due to the Manchu aristocracy to maintain their dominance, once restricted the practice of martial arts, so the Qing dynasty martial arts activities than the Ming dynasty. But because of the martial arts in the people have a broad mass base, coupled with the existence of many anti-Qing and Ming organizations, people practicing martial arts in order to overthrow the Qing dynasty rule of the wind instead of making a variety of schools of martial arts more diverse in the world. To the regional division of the South School, North School, to the mountains and rivers, Shaolin School, Wudang School, to the religious division of Buddhist external, Taoist internal, in order to classify Taiji, Xingyi, Bagua, Mizuno door, and long fist class and short fight class. Wushu schools, symbolizing the prosperity of the martial arts cause. But there is also a lack of communication between the schools can not make up for each other's strengths and weaknesses of the shortcomings.

The reason why wushu can be reproduced to date and the growing development, is because it has the dual role of fitness and self-defense. Wushu in ordinary times to meet the public fitness, temperament needs, encountered oppression or violence will become a means of resistance to violence, resistance to foreign invasion. Therefore, in our country's long feudal society, much bullying and persecution of the common people have a deep affection for martial arts, thus promoting the spread and development, and make our country's martial arts formed a unique national style.

Ming and Qing dynasties is the maturity of the development of ancient Chinese martial arts

Ming and Qing martial arts writings of the achievements of the main focus on the collection of martial arts, finishing, learning, both summarize the experience of the previous Bojiao the length of the family, but also quite their own insights and characteristics of the collection of ancient martial arts; at the same time by the impact of the military science, the Ming and Qing martial arts writings of the theory of the military science of the explanation of martial arts, which contributed to the rise of the theory of martial arts, and the development of martial arts, and the development of martial arts. Contributed to the sublimation of the theory of martial arts; nourished by traditional culture, such as "internal and external cultivation", "form and gas practice" and other ideas, and gradually formed a new form of ancient Chinese martial arts culture.