Which dynasty did the Chinese martial arts originate from?

According to the traditional theory, Chinese martial arts originated in ancient wars, and some combat skills mastered by soldiers in the wars during the Warring States period were slowly developed and evolved to form the later Chinese martial arts. However, there are also some views that Chinese martial arts originated in primitive society. At that time, human beings used sticks and other tools to fight with wild beasts, and people felt that wild beasts could fight with many people, so they began to imitate the movements of wild beasts, from the beginning of the bear, the wolf, to the crane, the snake, the praying mantis and so on. A lot of Shaolin Wushu is also a form of boxing, and this era is called the boxing era. The Shang Dynasty produced field hunting which was regarded as an important means of martial arts training. There is no definite time for the origin of martial arts. The ancestors mastered the fighting skills during hunting, which paved the way for the soldiers to apply the fighting skills on the battlefield later on. In addition to these two points of view, the book "Chinese Martial Arts - History and Culture" suggests that although martial arts partly came from military needs, most of them still came from private fights among the people. The requirements for military use of martial arts and civilian martial arts are different. These are the three main views on the origins of the Chinese martial arts. No matter which point of view have their own reasons, after all, the origin of Chinese martial arts can not be limited to a certain period of time on a certain activity.

The Chinese martial arts have been associated with combat since its inception, and have developed to varying degrees in various dynasties for military reasons. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the vassal states attached great importance to the use of fighting techniques on the battlefield. Duke Huan of Qi held the Spring and Autumn "Horn Trial" to select the world's heroes. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, martial arts were a form of dance. The "martial dance" was often used to train soldiers and inspire morale. The Zhou Dynasty set up a "sequence", "sequence" and other schools in the shooting, dance as one of the educational content. During the Warring States period, the manufacture of swords and kendo were developed unprecedentedly, generals, rangers, swordsmen, some emperors and doctors and above must be equipped with swords and Japan is a kind of etiquette. The sword originated in the period of the Yellow Emperor, and is a kind of short weapon, which is derived from the spear-shaped stabbing weapon and short dagger. According to the yellow emperor's book: "the emperor pick the first mountain of copper casting sword, to the ancient astronomical word inscription"; and according to the tube of the number of articles: "the former Ge Tianlu of the mountain hair and out of the gold, Chi You received and the system, thought the sword armor". Visible Yellow Emperor and Chi You have been casting sword as a soldier. The emergence of the bow and sword than the emergence of the arrow much earlier than the bow and arrow appeared at least 20,000 years ago, but until about 5,600 years ago, the Neolithic era only appeared to use the sword to kill instances.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, jousting and fencing were prevalent, and there was the custom of dancing and feasting. Hongmen Banquet, Xiangzhuang sword dance. Its form is closer to today's martial arts routines. The application of the gun reached its peak in the Han Dynasty, and various gun techniques began to appear. According to legend, Hua Tuo created the first "five bird play", which makes the Chinese martial arts have been widely promoted.

During the Three Kingdoms period, there were wars all over the world, and there was no major development of martial arts, but there was a great improvement in the fighting skills of the soldiers, which gradually evolved into the later martial arts styles.

The establishment of the Shaolin Temple in the Northern Wei Dynasty can be said to have far-reaching significance to the Chinese martial arts culture, Shaolin Temple monks practice martial arts has a long history, Shaolin Temple early, that is, there are armed monks to defend the temple property. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in chaos, the wars, Wang Shichong, who was the ruler of Luoyang, and Li Shimin, who occupied Guanzhong, fought in the area of Songshan Mountain. Shaolin Temple saw the situation and decided to side with Li Shimin. The monks of the temple led the crowd to reject the false division, which helped the generation of heroic masters. After the Li family world is stable, Shaolin Temple "repeatedly favored", but also be allowed to establish armed monks. From then on, Shaolin Temple formed the tradition of cultivating scriptures and worshiping Buddha and practicing martial arts. After that, the Shaolin Temple slowly became the Taishan Beidou of martial arts in the Central Plains. And there is a "north of Shaolin, south of Wudang" said, visible Shaolin Temple on China's great influence.

In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian set up a system of martial arts, and used the examination method to grant certain titles, which greatly promoted the development of martial arts. At this time, martial arts has become a form of culture, the election of this period of martial arts greatly stimulate the development of martial arts, and produced schools, major martial arts sects have been established. It was also during this period that Chinese martial arts began to influence Southeast Asian countries.

Song and Yuan dynasties, to folk associations of martial arts groups in the countryside to practice martial arts has become the trend, dart boards, clubs, factions, wandering the countryside, there is the practice of gun and stick "Yinglioshe", practice bow and arrow "bow and arrow" and so on. There were also "Luchi" who practiced martial arts and sold their skills to make a living. There were both single and sparring programs. The so-called martial arts emerged only after the Song and Yuan dynasties. The Central Plains martial arts should give you the deepest impression, the Central Plains refers to the area of present-day Henan Province; broadly speaking, the Central Plains refers to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, or the entire Yellow River Basin. The Central Plain was "from Shangdang in Hezhou in the north, Hongnong in Sizhou in the west, Huainan in Yangzhou in the east, and Xincai and Anfeng in the center." This range was mainly the present Henan Province, but also included the southwestern part of Shanxi Province, the western part of Jiangsu Province and a few places in the northwestern part of Anhui Province. "The source of the Hakka is in the entire ancient Central Plains, specifically the vast area south of the Great Wall and north of the Yangtze River." In this way, the above mentioned Central Plains, that is a "small Central Plains", the Hakka ancestors in more than 900 years of the three great migrations, "they passed through in addition to the River Luo region" other than the vast area. They were influenced by the diverse cultures of Qin and Long, Yan and Zhao, Jin and Zhao, Qilu, Jing and Chu, and Wu and Yue. It can be seen that the "ancient Central Plains" region how vast.