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Wudang Gongfu, one important school of Chinese Martial
Arts, has a very long history. Wudang Gongfu, incorporating
the ways to keep healthy and prolong the lifespan and
collecting the skills to fight, is not only a special
school of Martial Arts, but also a whole system of Martial
Arts theory.
Wudang Gongfu, as a culture, taking root in the fertile
soil of thousand-year long Chinese civilization, containing
profound Chinese philosophical theories, has combined
traditional notions of Taiji, Yinyang, Five-element, Eight-diagram
into boxing theories, boxing skills, exercise and attack
policies, tantamount to studying the laws of life activities.
So we can say that Wudang Gongfu is the crystallization
of Wudang Taoism in the process of studying life.
It is said that when Zhang-Sanfeng, the founder of Wudang
Boxing, was self-cultivating in Wudang Mountain; he met
a fight between a magpie and a snake. That the magpie
was flying up and down to attack and the snake was shaking
its body and raising its head to fight back gave him some
inspiration and understood Taiji theory so that had created
Wudang Boxing.
The original legend of Wudang Gongfu and the pose of the
snake in the fighting have visually demonstrated the gist
of Wudang Gongfu: to overcome the strong in a gentle way
and to win by striking only after the enemy had struck;
to ascertain one's position and then defeat the enemy.
After many boxing masters' enrichment and development,
Wudang Gongfu has many derivative schools and kinds, such
as, Taiji Boxing, Form-and-will Boxing, and Eight-diagram
Palm; Taiji Spear and Taiji Sword; Qingqong, Hard Gongfu,
feats and some kinds of Qigong. From then on, Wudang Gongfu
has walked out of the deep mountain and become an important
school of Chinese Martial Arts. |
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