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Wudang Kungfu refers explicitly to the boxing school with the Taoism inner alchemic exercises created by the famous Wudang Taoist ancestor Zhang Sanfeng. It was created on Wudang Mountain in south China by integrating the folk culture and Taoist ideas. Attributing to the Taoist disciples, the martial art was brought to ordinary people and, because it originated in Wudang Mountain, people call it the Wudang Kungfu. Later, Wudang Kungfu grew to be very famous, even comparing to Shaolin Kungfu in north China. Therefore, people refer to those two kinds of martial arts together as Southern Wudang and Northern Shaolin.
Static exercise refers to the Kungfu practiced in a meditating style, including breathing exercises, internal qigong, the trance of convalescence, and meditation. As the first step for Taoism practice, the static exercise emphasizes strengthening people’s physical fitness, preventing and curing diseases, and developing potentials by adjusting their breath, physical activity, consciousness, and mind. It is essential in every Chinese martial art.
Tai Chi Quan, a Chinese national-level intangible cultural heritage, is a kind of gentle, slow, light, and flexible traditional Han national boxing that integrates thinking of the changes of Yin and Yang and five elements in Yi-Ching, the meridian science, guiding technique, and the expiration and inspiration in traditional Chinese medicine in the basis of the core concepts of traditional Chinese Confucianism, Taiji Philosophy in Taoism, and the dialectical theory of Yin and Yang to achieve the results of edifying temperament, keeping healthy, and self-defense.
Chinese Martial Arts usually refers to the Shaolin Martial Arts, a traditional Chinese cultural system that stems from the specific Buddhism environment of Shaolin Temple of Mount Songshan.
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