Chinese traditional physical activity ¨C Chinese Kung Fu - By: venturiwang

With the most popular film Kung Fu Panda was shown in all over the world, more and more people could know more the Kung Fu of China.
Yes, Kung Fu is one of traditional physical activity with thousands of years of history. As a precious element of China's cultural heritage, Chinese Kung Fu has also won its name all around the world for its broad and deep meanings and its Oriental features, which cover it with a mysterious veil.
Chinese Kung Fu also called ¡°martial art¡±, is a sport item created by the Chinese people during a long time of historical development. It is combined with techniques of self ¨Cdefense and health-keeping. Chinese martial arts on the whole pursue the effect of wrestling and exercise with the use of one¡¯s arms, legs and various cold arms. It is estimated that the beginning of Chinese Kung Fu can be started long before history was recorded. During that time, there always had the conflicting between humanity and beasts, or between different tribes of humans themselves, they use the cudgels or other tools. In the ruthlessness and complexity of the struggle, people naturally developed some basic offensive and defensive movements like kicking, seizing, striking, rolling and jumping etc for survival. Later, people gradually learnt to make and use stone and wood tools as weapons. And some fighting and hunting skills with or without weapons were developed. This is the germination of Chinese Kung Fu. When Shang Dynasty began, hunting was considered as an important measure of Kung Fu training. During Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Kung Fu evolved to be a kind of dancing. Starting from Tang Dynasty, Kung Fu examination was proposed and implemented. Chinese Kung Fu achieved larger development in Ming and Qing Dynasties. With the development and heritage of Chinese Kung Fu, there come out many kinds of Chinese Kung Fu.
The variety styles of Chinese kung fu can be roughly divided into the northern and southern styles and the internal and external styles. It is said that "In external kung fu, you exercise your tendons, bones, and skin; in internal kung fu, you train your spirit of your qi, and your mind." Some of the more famous styles include Shaolin, Tai-chi-chuan, Eight Trigrams, Yung-ch'un-chuan, Tantric, Arhat and so forth. Within the Shaolin style of Kung Fu, there are dragon, tiger, panther, snake, and crane-chuan styles of fighting.

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