Archive for the 'Chinese Kung Fu' Category
Chinese Tai Chi and Kung Fu: Traditional Chinese silk clothing for Swordsmen
Traditional Chinese silk clothing has a long history, dating back to the 27th century BC.
Once the skill of spinning silk, or sericulture, was discovered, the Chinese made silk exclusively for 3,000 years without divulging the secret of the process and it was a valuable [...]
April 12th, 2008 | Posted in 1st Chinese Kung Fu Fashion Fair, Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Swordsman, Chinese Tai Chi, Kung Fu Fashion, Traditional Chinese silk clothing, martial artists, tai chi practice, traditional kung fu uniform, traditional taiji silk uniforms | No Comments
Chinese Kung Fu: External Styles Martial Arts of Shaolin Temple China
External Styles (Shaolin White Crane and Long Fist) (白鶴﹐長拳, Bai He, Changquan)
Shaolin White Crane specializes in hand techniques and short range fighting, while Shaolin Long Fist specializes in kicking and long range fighting. Both are trained in YMAA external styles training, and the techniques of [...]
April 12th, 2008 | Posted in Chin Na, Chinese Kung Fu, Dagger Defense, Fighting Forms, Qin Na, Shaolin Kung Fu, Shaolin Sparring, Shaolin Temple Address, Shaolin Temple Martial Arts, Short Defense | No Comments
Martial Morality Upon Chinese Kung Fu Exercise, First Class of the Chinese Martial Arts Society
Martial morality has always been a required discipline in Chinese martial arts society. Teachers have long considered martial morality to be the most important criterion for judging students, and they have made it the most important part of the training in [...]
April 11th, 2008 | Posted in Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Kung Fu Exercise, Chinese Kung Fu Master, Chinese Kungfu Master, Chinese Martial Arts Master, Chinese Martial Arts Society, Confucius, Martial Morality, Morality of deed, Morality of mind | 2 Comments
Chinese ancient Wushu on the philosophy that One Yin and one Yang forms Dao/Tao
Chinese ancient Wushu has been developing in thousands of years of simple weapon age on the basis of the philosophy of “One Yin and one Yang forms Dao”. In the middle age of Ming dynasty, the ancient Wushu reached its peak, yet [...]
March 16th, 2008 | Posted in Ancient Chinese Kung Fu, Ancient Chinese Kungfu, Ancient Chinese Wushu, Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Tai Chi, Chinese Wushu, Chinese ancient Wushu, Tai Chi, Tai Ji, Wushu practioners, Yin and Yang | 1 Comment
To exercise in accordance with Yin and Yang is basic principle for Chinese ancient Wushu
Wushu with its principle of “To exercise in accordance with Yin and Yang” firstly appeared in a literature of pre-Qin dynasties. Among which the most characterized ones were “A Yue Woman’s Exposition of Swordplay” in the end of the spring and [...]
March 16th, 2008 | Posted in Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Wushu, Chinese martial arts, Hsing I, Pa Kua, Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, Zhou Yi | No Comments
Yin and Yang dialectical principles in Tai Chi Diagrams for Tai Chi Devevelopment
The appearance of these Tai Chi Diagrams made the meaning of Tai Chi more intuitive and visualized.
With development of the ancients’ research on the theory and phase of Tai Chi, the had gradually been taken as the basic rules for understanding and solving [...]
March 16th, 2008 | Posted in Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Tai Chi, Chinese Wushu, Tai Chi Chuan, Tai Chi Diagrams, Tai Chi learning, Taiji, Taijiquan, Yin and Yang | No Comments
Relation between Tai Chi and Health or Long Life
It is said that Tai-Chi martial art was created by Master Zhang Sanfeng more than 800 hundred years ago. Master Zhang, a Taoist, was himself an expert Shao-Lin martial art practitioner. Later in life he retired in seclusion in Wu-Dang Mountains. One day he witnessed a fierce [...]
March 13th, 2008 | Posted in Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Wushu, Chinese martial arts, I Ching, Laozi, Qi Kung, Tai Chi, Tai Chi Song, Tai Chi kinematics, Tai Chi philosophy, Tai Ji, Taijiquan, Taoism, Wushu, Zhang Sanfeng, martial arts | 57 Comments
Relationship between Tai Chi and Chinese Kung Fu. Tai Chi is a thought method of Chinese people.
The word Tai Chi firstly appeared in “Zhou Yi or I Ching”, which was deemed as the best sutra by Chinese academia.
“Zhou Yi and Xi Ci Shang” stated that: “Yi has Tai Chi, it generates Two Elements, the Two [...]
March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Chinese Kung Fu, Chinese Wushu, Chinese martial arts, I Ching, Laozi, Qi Kung, Tai Chi, Tai Chi Song, Tai Chi kinematics, Tai Chi philosophy, Tai Ji, Taijiquan, Taoism, Wushu, Yin and Yang, Zhou Yi, martial arts | 1 Comment