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Wudang kungfu: what is it? Introduction

 

Loriano Belluomini e Fabio Sandonà: Laoseng tuobo

 

What is 
the purpose of this site? 
Kungfu, or gongfu, means more correctly in Chinese "ability acquired through a hard exercise" and it cannot only be reported to the Martial Arts (more correctly Wushu) but also to other fields; however also in China, people, when currently saying "gongfu" , they generally intend to refer to the martial ability. 
The term has been made to know in west in the years around 1970, particularly with the movies of Bruce Lee, Alexander Seng, Wang Wei and others. 
Returning to "Wudang", it is necessary to thank " Tiger and the Dragon" to have made to know this great martial tradition. Already from many years we call us "Wudang quan yuan", that is "Center of Kungfu Wudang".   

Cristiano Tori of Fu school while performing Baguazhang

But what is Wudang? 
Wudangshan is the name of a famous mountain in the center of China, famous from millennia for its martial arts and particularly for the use of the sword. The wudang sword is the most famous sword in Chinese Kungfu. For example, up to the beginnings of 1900 it didn't exist a " taiji sword" that was simply created by the 13 principal techniques of the wudang sword. Then the taiji sword is really the wudang sword! 
Wudang, besides the sword, has numerous barehanded martial arts. The most famous are: 1) Taijiquan(The maximum point boxing), of which five principal schools exist with a further series of subschools 2) Baguazhang ( Eight Diagrams Palms ), whose principal schools are two, Cheng and Yin, with the usual succession of subschools 3) Xingyiquan(Form and Intention Boxing) with 3-4 principal schools. 
The purpose of this site is to introduce information on the three principal schools of the wudang tradition and that is on the Baguazhang (the Eight Diagrams Kungfu), on the Xingyiquan and on the Taijiquan. You have to know that we will use the pinyin system of transcript for the Chinese names, the system today in use in popular China and not the old and by now obsolete system Wade-Giles (what wrote Pa-kua Chang, Hsing-i ch'uan and T'ai-chi ch'uan). 

Loriano Belluomini and Maurizio Mazzei: Yin Fu's ye zhang use.

Loriano Belluomini 
and Fabio Sandonà 
are available 
for stages, seminars etc. to spread 
this school. 

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