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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