Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
performance during the event. In short, an aristocrat was expected to be a violent person. Our modern standards of violence are ...
archery from a chariot that set him apart from the commoners on the battlefield. Third, I emphasized the significance of martial ...
2 The Warring States Period A villager from Daxiang remarked sarcastically,“How great is Confucius! He is so broadly learned, an ...
political order, discussed in the following chapter. Chinese culture, partic- ularly in the area of thought or philosophy,flouri ...
disciples as defensive experts to states under attack. While the primary skill they offered was in defensive siege craft, their ...
fight when he was told to do so by his ruler. This notion progressed even further as army discipline and coordination increased. ...
The place of the martial arts changed in the Warring States period from a skill exclusively of the elite to an instrument of the ...
for swords, apart from their ability to stab, was their portability. A sheathed sword could be hung from a warrior’s belt or gir ...
as it was adopted across China. At this early stage we hear of places famed for their swords, but no famous swordsmen. Most famo ...
weapon, the crossbow, which appeared in the late Spring and Autumn period.^9 The crossbow was slower than the bow but easier for ...
practice of shooting to pierce the target came to an end,”refers precisely to this. Once the Zhou declined and ritual fell into ...
The gentleman Confucius referred to was not in a struggle with other gentlemen to win the contest; at most this was secondary. T ...
directly attacked the warlike emphasis on archery that was probably practiced during the Warring States period. Minus the questi ...
Liezi was already trembling when he saw his friend walk toward the edge of the cliff. Now, at the thought of standing with his b ...
purely because of tradition. It is hard tofind other armies in any time or place with a similar weapon. Even Swiss halberds soon ...
Halberds and spears marked the rise of mass warfare and the departure of aristocratic dominance of the battlefield. War became t ...
of texts (Lüshi Chunqiu,Liezi,Huainanzi,Lunheng) as able in his youth to single-handedly raise the door bar on a city’sgate. The ...
Xinxu, records the same incident in more detail:“Wan got angry, so he struck Duke Min in the jaw, teeth fell from his mouth, his ...
carrying out their duty and some did not. But it is perfectly clear that they had all determined upon the deed. They were not fa ...
course, but they are indicative of a conception of the heroic martial artist. Unlike a dismissed government official, the exempl ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf