edededed wrote:Most Southern arts do have a Buddhist background, being derived from some sort of Shaolin - but perhaps as an "extraction" from the huge corpus that Shaolin is (e.g. no one person could master/know it all, plus all the religious stuff), maybe they were happy to concentrate on a part.
Subitai wrote: ... it wasn't until 1979 or 80 that a young JET LEI having won his WUSHU titles and then made the Movie " Shaolin Temple". I have been told that it wasn't until after THAT movie that it pretty much had a similar effect on China as to what Star Wars did for the kids here in the USA. Prior to that movie, Shaolin was run down and only had a small group of true indigenous Chan Buddhism Monks.
Bao wrote:The Shaolin myth was heavily marketed by the Japanese in a period of a very strong, racist anti-chinese movement.
the baduanjin and yijinjing are more modern versions of exercises that have existed for thousands of years, not "18th century inventions".
GrahamB wrote:I've never heard that before.. seems unlikely they'd want an Indian origin either. Much more likely a nationalistic Japanese movement would go for Japanese origin.
Bao wrote:Prestige of course. They regard Karate as a national art and they wanted it to have Indian origin instead of Chinese.
Trick wrote:Bao wrote:Prestige of course. They regard Karate as a national art and they wanted it to have Indian origin instead of Chinese.
??Ok,many (karate)schools refere to the "usual"bodhidharma story, but are you saying that story did not exist in China before the Japanese occupation?....
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