Chinese Martial Arts and its spirit

1. Chapter Eleven
Chinese Martial Arts and its spirit

2. From where did you get to know Chinese
martial arts?
For your understanding, why people like to
watch, or even practice the martial arts?

3. Wǔ Xiá
Chinese
martial arts
culture

4. Wǔ → Skill/technics of action → Kung Fu

5. Zhou
Han
Tang

6. Wrestling in Zhou Dynasty
sword dance at a banquet

7. Archery contest
Horse race
five-animal boxing
Imperial Examination in Tang
Dynasty

8. Apart from fists and feet, Chinese martial arts also includes
arms/weapons. Generally understanding, there is eighteen
kinds of traditional arms/weapons in Chinese martial arts,
with unique technique of usage to each of them.

11. Your comments:
What’s difference
between Kungfu
and Kungfu
movie?

13. In China, there are many types of martial
arts, the following two are most popular:
Wudang grouping
– the arts applied
with internal power,
or neijia ("internal
arts")
Shaolin grouping
-waijia ("hard" or
"external") martial
art styles.
↑Taiji quan is categorized under
this grouping

14. Buddhism

15. Taoism

17. Xiá → Chinese chivalry & hero→
inherent spirit

18. righteousness

19. Jin Ke attempting to kill
the King of Qin
---“Records of the Grand
Historian”

20. And all those Wu Xia, that become well-
known in the world nowadays, was just
kept in Chinese literature, especially Wu
Xia Novels about history.
Water Margin
Three Xia and Five
Righteousness

21. Famous Wu Xia novelists
Jin Yong
Liang
Yusheng
Gu Long

22. All his novels were
produced to be TV
dramas and popular
among Chinese people
in the world.

23. Magic martial arts +
Traditional Chinese thoughts +
Beautiful love stories+
Charming chivalrous characters+
elegant written style

24. Also called in English “sword of destiny”,
the movie explained thoroughly about what
is the spirit of Xia(Chinese chivalry& hero)

26. Practice of Tai Chi Boxing
→Containing another importent
though/spirit of Chinses martial arts
太 极

27. The term "Tia Chi quan" translates
as ："supreme ultimate fist", "grand
supreme fist", "boundless fist",
"supreme ultimate boxing" or "great
extremes boxing".

28. The concept of the taiji ("supreme
ultimate"), appears in both Taoist and
Confucian Chinese philosophy, where it
represents the fusion or mother of Yin and
Yang into a single ultimate.
The essence of Tai Chi is to balance yourself
and use the “chi（气）” in your body.
Concentrating on correct posture and breathing
control, TaiChi’s movements are fluid, graceful
and balanced.