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Chinese Tai Chi and Kung Fu: Traditional Chinese silk clothing for Swordsmen

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 [...]

Chinese Kung Fu: External Styles Martial Arts of Shaolin Temple China

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 [...]

Martial Morality Upon Chinese Kung Fu Exercise, First Class of the Chinese Martial Arts Society

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 [...]

Chinese ancient Wushu on the philosophy that One Yin and one Yang forms Tao

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 [...]

To exercise in accordance with Yin and Yang is basic principle of Chinese ancient Wushu

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 [...]

Yin and Yang dialectical principles in Tai Chi Diagrams for Tai Chi Devevelopment

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 [...]

Relation between Tai Chi and Health or Long Life

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 [...]

Tai Chi and Chinese Kung Fu: Close Relationship

 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 [...]