Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
versed in the martial arts. The army itself did some public displays as part of their training, though it is unclear who was abl ...
Song Taizong used martial arts performances to intimidate his opponents– in this case, the Kitan and their clients the Northern ...
special section of the city that developed out of aflourishing merchant culture and the usual entertainment mainstay of brothels ...
sell medicine and could not use the spear or sword.^23 Martial arts perform- ances were thus a common and popular entertainment ...
that they wore some kind of g-string-like loincloth and shoes but were otherwise exposed. Male wrestlers were often bare-chested ...
similarly bewildering variety of names as well. At the very least, then, there were likely differences of practice in some respe ...
likelihood of killing their opponent. Killing, even in self-defense, would be a serious crime. Matters were quite different in t ...
learn these skills. Weapons and martial arts were widely available at all levels of society. At the same time, however, an elite ...
arts empowered the individual against the larger structures of power, at least infiction. Some articulation of this emerged in t ...
7 The Yuan Dynasty The rise of the Mongols under Chinggis Khan in the thirteenth century was a signal event in world history. Fo ...
Mongol Martial Arts Mongol martial arts were similar to those of other steppe groups, with the greatest emphasis on horse archer ...
though given the limitations of the Yuan government’s control of local society, this was probably only partially effective. More ...
success to appeal to the ethnic identity of the northern Chinese, inciting them to rise up against the Mongols in aid of Song mi ...
audience would understand that every Mongol could perform this martial art with basic competence. The Chinese historiographical ...
successful encounter with the enemy, the commanding general, or even the emperor, would shoot ghost arrows in four directions. S ...
blessed by a shaman. The Yuan imperial court retained its Mongolian and steppe practices even within a nominally Chinese context ...
to the government.^10 These edicts reflect a serious problem of recruitment and training for the Yuan army among the northern Ch ...
The remaining six weapons of the eighteen are not named. Not until a Yuan version ofThe Water Margindoes a full list of eighteen ...
of reality nor entirely separate from it. The requirements offiction–poetic license, if you will–took precedence over realism, s ...
but they may also have wanted to spike already prone opponents as they rode over them. This would have given them an efficient t ...
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