Chinese Kung Fu

 
 
Kung-Fu Wu-Su was advocated by the legendary Yellow Emperor, Huangdi, more than 4,000 years ago and has been perpetuated by practitioners in the Wudong, Kongtong, Kunlun, and Yellow Mountain regions, the Emei Mountain Monastery and the renowned warrior-monks of the Shaolin Temple for centuries.

Chinese Kung Fu is a large system of theory and practice. It combines techniques of self-defense and health-keeping. The theory of Kungfu is based upon classical Chinese philosophy, while the skills of Kungfu consist of various forms of fighting: fist fights, weapon fights, and other fighting routines (including such offence and defence acts as kicking, hitting, throwing, holding, chopping and thrusting) and unarmed combats.

It is estimated that Chinese Kung Fu can be dated back to primeval society. At that time men used clubs and sticks in their struggle against wild animals and in search for food. The tough conditions triggered much their continuing development of sophisticated weapons whose use required more skills. Gradually they accumulated experience of self defense. When Shang Dynasty (ca. 1750 BC - ca. 1045 BC) began, hunting was considered as an important measure of Kung Fu training, and martial arts evolved to be a kind of dancing. During Zhou Dynasty, martial-arts dancing was designated as a component of education. Till Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chinese Kung Fu achieved larger development and a lot of genres came into being and numerous books on martial arts were published.

Below are some most famous Chinese Kongfu includes:

Choy Li Fut: Choy Li Fut is one of the most powerful styles of Wushu. It relies on very powerful hand and arm techniques. Four main hand techniques are used, including the straight punch, the back fist, the uppercut and the hook punch. It is also the mixture of oriental medicine and philosophy.

Tai Chi Chuan One of the three orthodox "internal" styles of Chinese martial art. The term "Tai Chi" refers to the ancient Chinese cosmological concept of the interplay between two opposite yet complementary forces (Yin and Yang) as being the foundation of creation. "Chuan" literaly means "fist" and embodys an unarmed method of combat. Tai Chi Chuan as a martial art is based on the principle of the soft overcoming the hard.

WING CHUN One of the most popular forms of Kung Fu which is like Bruce Lee’s style. Wing Chun was an obscure and little known art until the mid twentieth century. While multiple histories of the art do exist, the generally accepted version is thus: The style can be traced back over 250 years ago to the Southern Shaolin Temple.