Issue 3 Taijiquan-Lilun Q Journal of the Theory of Wu Style Taijiquan Focus: The cultural (wen) and the martial (wu) aspect of Taijiquan Forum for Traditional Wu Tai Chi Chuan Imprint For Freya Boedicker 1970-2010 Taijiquan-Lilun Copyright 2009 by Freya and Martin Boedicker Original Issue published 2003 in German In this journal (also in the citations) the official short characters and the pinyin of the PR of China are used. Characters on the cover: above wen‚ below wu Cover photo:
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Crouching Tiger‚ Hidden Dragon is a multi award winning martial arts film. The film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors. This movie was made on a $17 million budget and was a huge international success‚ grossing $213.5 million and is a very worthy candidate for inclusion in the film festival. Characterisation: The movie opens with the return of Li Mu Bai from the Green Mountain where he reunites with his friend‚ Yu Shu Lien‚ a female warrior. Both
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of Asian martial arts as they are known today is thought to have originated around 500 A.D.‚ when an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. Legend has it that he taught Indian fighting exercises to the Chinese monks in order to improve their physical condition. All kung-fu is thought to have evolved from this beginning‚ and from kung-fu came karate. The Bodhidharma legend has been examined in detail by Michael Spiesbach (“Bodhidharma: meditating monk‚ martial arts master or make-believe
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a little difficult and at times I was unsure what exactly I was supposed to do. Prior to my weekly sessions‚ I had no knowledge of martial arts. I’ve never even heard of Tai Chi. Attending all my Tai Chi classes‚ reading Master C.K Chu’s book Why Tai Chi? Questions & Answers‚ and my own research on the internet has helped me better understand the martial art. To understand Tai Chi‚ you must first know what exactly Tai Chi is. On the first day of class‚ I went in thinking this would be a class where
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martial art of wushu (kungfu). Translation from the Chinese: Shaolin means "little forest" that characterizes a monastery‚ which located in the landscape. Today‚ under the influence of popular culture‚ mainly cinema: people know Shaolin Temple only as a place of training wushu masters. But actually the fact is that first of all monastery focus of Buddhists religious life. And martial art - it ’s just one of the practices used by the monks in their spiritual path. Along with martial arts monks dedicated
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my short story. Ip Man and his family move to Hong Kong in the early 1950s after their escape from Fushun. There‚ Ip desires to open a school to propagate his art‚ as well as to make his living‚ but he has difficulty attracting students due to his lack of reputation in the city. One day‚ a young man named Leung Sheung appears and promptly challenges Ip to a fight‚ but is easily defeated. Leung leaves humiliated‚ only to return with some friends to gang up on him. Ip beats them as well. Stunned and
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not dead. His name has been linked in people’s words‚ and his image has been etched in people’s minds. From the hills and shores‚ we still listen to Bruce Lee’s battle call. Childhood Bruce Lee was born on the 27th of November‚ 1940 (the Chinese year of the Dragon) in the city of San Francisco. The reason that he was born there was because his father (a minor star of the Cantonese Opera Company) was touring the area at that
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famous persons in the world has changed the way society perceives the use martial arts are of course Bruce Lee. Were we no longer limit ourselves to one style but multiple styles for various situations‚ and today we use these fighting styles in various action films. Bruce Lee is the most influential martial artist and action film star of the twentieth century. Now days we have a sport called MMA‚ mixed martial arts‚ if it wasn’t for Bruce Lee this might have would never existed as far as we know
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can also be a means of expressing ones thoughts and feelings (Snook. B‚ 2004‚ p47-49). This essay will prove that the ritual function is most predominant in Shamis: Way to Shaolin. The ancient collection of Chinese martial arts referred to as Shaolin
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Hong Kong cinema has unquestionably founded their filmic reputation out of the 1950’s martial-arts action films produced by the Shaw Brothers. This can be reaffirmed through the statement in Film Art that‚ "Shaws made films in many genres‚ but among its biggest successes were dynamic‚ gory sword fighting films (wuxia pian‚ or ‘tales of martial chivalry’)" (493). Such films eventually lead to the endorsement of classic martial artists from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan‚ ultimately establishing a sort of
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