Wudang kung fu, one important school of Chinese Martial Arts, has a very long history. Wudang Kung fu, incorporating the ways to keep healthy and prolong the lifespan and collecting the skills to fight, is not only a special school of Martial Arts, but also a whole system of Martial Arts theory.

Wudang Kung fu, as a culture, taking root in the fertile soil of thousand-year long Chinese civilization, containing profound Chinese philosophical theories, has combined traditional notions of Taiji, Yinyang, Five-element, Eight-diagram into boxing theories, boxing skills, exercise and attack policies, tantamount to studying the laws of life activities. So we can say that Wudang Kung fu is the crystallization of Wudang Taoism in the process of studying life.

It is said that when Zhang-Sanfeng, the founder of Wudang Boxing, was self-cultivating in Wudang Mountain; he met a fight between a magpie and a snake. That the magpie was flying up and down to attack and the snake was shaking its body and raising its head to fight back gave him some inspiration and understood Taiji theory so that had created Wudang Boxing.

After many boxing masters' enrichment and development, Wudang Kung fu has many derivative schools and kinds, such as, Taiji Boxing, Form-and-will Boxing, and Eight-diagram Palm; Taiji Spear and Taiji Sword; Qingqong, Hard Kung fu, feats and some kinds of Qigong. From then on, Wudang Kung fu has walked out of the deep mountain and become an important school of Chinese Martial Arts.

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