The Who, What and Why of Chinese Martial Arts

In the mid-1980s, a film Shaolin Temple introduced Chinese martial art to the world; a Song of Herding Sheep told us the heroic and tenderness of Shaolin kids. Chinese martial art, also known as kung fu, has developed for thousands of years and deeply rooted in the folk. It is a valuable cultural heritage of Chinese nation featuring diversified forms, contents and profound annotations accumulated in such a long history. By fusing prime theories of Taoism, Buddhism with the balance in Confucian p