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in the mid Ming dynasty, about 1500s, boxing got much popularity. many manuals were written at those times. so, that may delude people to think of mid Ming dynasty as the starting point of boxing.
bear in mind, even many of those manuals track back the styles generation to generation to the Song dynasty (500 years before those times) or even before. even if they've been wrong, that means those styles have at least been a few generations, something like some hundreds of years, older than those times.
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Well, a major factor here is that print publishing became more readily available during this period. Prior to this, books were predominantly handwritten and literacy was very limited. But China had a renaissance akin to Europe, and suddenly, books - and more importantly gazettes - became accessible to more of the common folk. We don't really know when Kung Fu got formalized. Our opinion is based on evidence in the literature. But it may well be that it was the expansion in literature availability that grew to encompass Kung Fu and that it had been present all along. What we may be seeing is the advancement in records, not the birth of Kung Fu.
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Did I ever mention that I am the only know living Grandmaster of Caveasaurus Combat? It's humanities very first martial art.
Of course, back then there were not many techniques. You only had
1. The "Prehistoric Punch"
2. The Cave Man Kick
3. The Predatorial pounce
4. Pterodactyl toss
and the weapons
1. Cave Man Club
2. Pointy stick
The above bit was first used by me in the mid 1990's on the "Martial arts TOC" BBS board.
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there's a story from the Records of the Grand Historian. It's said that during the Chu-Han Contention in the late Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu met each other in Hongmen. At the banquet, Fan Zeng, an advisor to Xiang Yu, ordered Xiang Zhuang (Xiang Yu’s cousin) to do a sword dance as part of the entertainment and to stab Liu Bang to death during the dance....
only about 1700ish years older lol
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