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Beijing Show Kongfu

Kongfu is also called national skill or feat, it is a kind of Chinese traditional sport item. It contains series of actions and many single action to fit kick, strike, tumble, hold, fall, cleave ... together in some certain rules. It has wide foundation during the mass, it is an precious and varied culture bequest which Chinese accumulate during the long social practice.

The beginning of Kongfu may come back to primitive society. At that time, men began to fight against the beasts with the primitive tools like sticks as weapons in order to protect themselves and get things living. Later they made weapons with more execution for getting others' fortune. So more weapons were made and the skills of the fight were also improved during the war.

In Yin and Shang Dynasty, some coppery weapons like spears, Daggers, halberds, axes, swords broadswords had come out. Meanwhile how to use these weapons appeared, too. Chunqiu in War and periods, with the development of ironware and the rising of footmen and cavalrymen, weapons' handles were changed into short ones, short ones into long ones in the war. Then there were so many kinds of weapons, and the attack was characteristic of more extrusive. And people also Importance attached to it.

Kongfu has developed through all the different dynasties, and Ming Dynasty was a period for developing Kongfu, different styles of genres came forth, especially in boxing and engineering. It gave the basic important for the generation late to research Kongfu.

Qing Dynasty in some kinds of boxing had formed such as Shadowboxing, the Eight Diagrams Boxing and the Form and Will Boxing After the PLA was founded, Kongfu is inherited, cleared up and improved as the bequest of an excellent people. And a large number of associations have been come into existence while our nation also has the special Departments to be in charge of the exercise of Kongful. People can enjoy it every night in Beijing.