Kung Fu and Wushu: What's the Difference?
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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Think you know kung fu? Christopher Pei, president of the U.S. Wushu Academy and presenter at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, explains how the very term has been misused all over the world.
Videography: Andrea Curran, John Shutika
Interview and editing: Shiyu Wang
[Catalog No. CFV10689; Copyright 2014 Smithsonian Institution]
I was today years old when I learned this. 😬 It's good to learn.
I only take this guys word up to a point.
I think his opinion is very regional and differs from other regions.
Don't forget, China is massive !
very perceptive
Northern and Southern interpret " martial arts " terms in differently , base on old generation or today generation , We also called Wushu/ Kung Fu as " Kowk Shu " 国术. The martial of national . AS long as base on our ancestor culture is fine !
I needed to hear that. Thank you a lot !
Wushu is for show and Kung Fu for actual fighting
Kung Fu can also be beautiful tho but I get u
you have it backward. Gung-fu is for breaking bones, maiming and taking life. The ban on gung-fu in Cali. bc of Bruce Lee and in Hollywood has never been lifted and that is why no one in Hollywood knows martial arts. they just say it bc Bruce Lee said it 1st who didn't know martial arts.) Gung-fu is Martial Art in mandarin.
It is Wu Shu in Cantonese. In America, it is martial arts. But when you say "Gung-fu" to English it is "kung-fu". It must lose all of its essence bc all the essence of Martial Art was taken out of Shaolin after its many destructions to prevent it from being destroyed like it had been a few times in the past.
So kung-fu is what they left at Shaolin its last rebuild. (and removal of the 36 chambers) It actually represents the first two forms that was made before they reverted to making forms after their weaponary training from the lotus sutra in an effect to overcome any weaponary training offered in the lotus sutra.
This is how they discovered martial arts at Shaolin. It is zen that produced chi. Now you know what no one in Hollywood knows about true martial arts. When they put the weapons down and created forms of the movements of the weapons (to defend with the Hand ie 'kuntao' way of the hand') that they discovered the hard (zen) element where the soft element ("chi') originates from zen. Its true cover is yin and yang that is disguised with the I-Hsieng and I-Chieng.
From the latter comes I-chin & I-Chin which is basically saying two females changes or soft. The primary examples of this is the accepting of it as self-defense is wing chun. (female from "Beautiful Springtime" who was Yip Man's great grandmother 4th generation who invented it. She learned from another female who created sil lum. This is why their forms are practically just alike. Two females creating two female forms of expression. This is why Bruce had a problem with it. bC it is designed for the female built and emotions. But it is not martial arts.
Totally wrong😂. Wushu is the name of the martial art. Kung fu means skill
None of its for fighting
You got it backward. Wu Shu is Cantonese for Martial Art. Its full title (upon discovery was called) Chu'uan Fa Wu Shu. (do you know what "Wu Shu" means?)
In Mandarin its Ken Fat Gung-fu. Its creation was and is strictly for breaking bones, maiming and taking life. It is still held in secret.
However, "kung-fu" was left at Shaolin to avoid it being destroyed by its enemies who were seeking revenge thinking Shaolin were secretly Assassins.
When they found out that the Southern China Royal Families were responsible for the deaths they banned the Southern China Royal and Martial Arts from China.
The Chinese Boxer's Rebellion brought it back to Southern China and domiciled it at Harvest Studios. But before all this, they left 'kung-fu" at Shaolin as a system of self-defense and exercise to practice. But like all others, it will not build the force of Chi.
So Gung-fu is for killing, and kung-fu (like karate is for self-defense and exhibition)
Well, I can see where he is speaking in contradictory terms so he really does not know what he is talking about. (just like Bruce Lee) Here's the thing where everyone is missing it. None of these guys know "Gung-fu". (which is Mandarin for Wu Shu which is Cantonese and means 'Martial Art" (singular) ok?
In the true Marital Arts (plural as to another level existing in secret out of Shaolin "DAYS") world that is 90% composed of S. China Triads/Tongs - (American version) and mainly blacks for 5% in the midwest) "Wu" means "Martial" which means "Primary" Art(Shu)form.
The primary artform is Shaolin. Everything else is a corruption of the true Martial arts which is another reason why they had the infamous Chinese Boxer's Rebellion. To rid China of other Asians. Forty years later in Japan karate appears and that is a long time since it took only 7 years to develop Chu'uan fa (Ken Fat in Mandarin) Wu Shu. With the aid of the Lotus Sutra, the I-Hsieng and the I-Chieng from Buhhda who did not leave Shaolin as an Martial Artists.
[Note: had the Boxer's Rebellion not occurred during Bruce Lee's lifetime he would not have been ran out of Southern China by triads children to America for not being full-blooded Chinese. He even attempt to disown China when he got to America by signing up for the US Armed Services which you must denounce dual citizenship. Had Bruce Lee not been a seriously sick person the American Army would have accepted him. His secret illness contributed to his death. All bc he was a fake Martial Artist and Chinese to certain Chinese]
Anyway, (I wrote the first book on what really happen to Jun Fun Li with that title) This is where "Chi" comes in. Unless you are practicing true Gung-fu forms whatever you practice will never ever produce 'chi'. Most of these clowns don't know it but "Chi" comes from "Zen". These are the true yin (soft) and yang (hard) bound up in reserve for only those who learn Gung-fu from a bonafide Gung-fu Instructor belonging to the Golden Royal Guyng-fu federation. There is none larger. You pay your fee for lessons and membership. It gives you protection for life! Its in da' buk!
Nothing even looks like Gung-fu! But here is the pedigree of Shaolin WuShu. Like I said it was first called 'Shaolin Boxing" before Gung-fu was discovered or kung-fu mentioned. It was really "kickboxing" What these clowns are calling MMA with wrestling they call grabbling which Martial Artists never ever do. Martial Artists strictly break bones, maim and take life. And BC it was taken out of Shaolin Temple in Henan Province is the ONLY reason it is standing today. Remember it was first destroyed around 574 AD and not rebuilt until 618 AD.
Do you practice martial arts/kung fu in any format by any chance? What do you study?
You wrote the first book on Bruce lees death and you can’t even spell his name Chinese name right? Also he was rejected by the army for reasons that had nothing to do with his “secret illness”
@@KidxChaos01 What are you talking about, clown. Bruce Chinese name is Jun Gun Li. Is your bumda## disputing this? You worse than he was with your ambiguity. You NTHF are you anyway?
He had no secret! What secret other than he was a sicka** bastard and died foolishly at 32 and when to hell. Tell min hello when you get there
@@akungfujourney4383 I have knowledge of and practice both. I first learned goshen ryu and judo for 6 mos. (@15) I then transition to Southern China kung-fu (kenpo 1st gen. Instructors under Chow @18).
I then meet James Cook who taught me Shaolin aka "Old Fashion Gung-fu" although it was not Gung-fu inside Shaolin (but outside Shaolin walls @19) where Wing Chun came indirectly from, thru Sil Lim.
I then met my Gung-fu Instructor (1st gen. who made Master in 10 yrs instead of 12 under the grandmaster trained him from 6-18) who instructed me in PaQua Kuntao Style from the L.S. Gofden Royal Gung-fu Federation (E.Cleveland, Ohio) the only Real Martial Art in this world (you cannot publicize and so Bruce was banned from learning it from anyone who knew it)
I moved to California to go to University and learned the following from various Practitioners of self-defense. (understand me when I say Gung-fu I am excluding everything else)
Just like when I say karate, kung-fu, Judo, aikido, barr none I exclude Gung-fu. These were fashioned by "Experts" who are Practitioners, not Martial Aritsts.
None of these are Kuntao except PenChak Silat and that is bc it was derived directly from PaQua when the Southern China Royal Families were banned from China and (martial Arts) exiled in Indonesia when it was discovered they had become the progenitors of Martial Arts from Shaolin. Its just that the Britsh did to Pa Qua what other Asians and Caucasians did to Kung-fu by turning it into karate which is ridget. Ex. Dr, Chow and Ed Parker.
Once in California I hooked up with the Chinese in L.A. Chinatown and was learning "Southern China Kung-fu My Jung Longhorn" from Peter Wong.
But bc I was only a (1 yr) disciple (student , then Maser after 12 years) I would just show them where certain moves came from in Gung-fu they were 1/2 doing. Kung-fu defenses but Gung-fu maim, break bones and take life.
I then trained with June Mateo in aikido. Roy Bushudo(?) in Judo. I trained with Thai Boxing, Wing chun, Choy lay Fut SC kung-fu, and Pen Chal Silat.
These were over a 5 year period while practicing Kung-fu. And I started going back to Ohio to learn again from my Gung-fu Instructor. (over a 10 year period)
I realize he was teaching me not from a Student but as a Master. So he taught me things from the top down. He is the only one of everyone that actually exuded "chi" from his body.
I then had moved to Santa Barabara California where I learned the two original Tai Chi Chuans Style forms (1st was Kings and the 2nd Jung Styles - from Rick Peterson) So I was learning Gung-fu from 18-34. The 2nd secret to Martial Arts is to practice it. What have you studied?
well said ..(..thanks gor.enlightening and educating us -(all the best)'...)
I love Martial Arts
Very Good!👍
This is going to be a setup for the next Disney sport movie where America beats the Chinese Kung Fu team in the Olympics
I love wushu
Centre
Wushu was always designed to fight.
What does "Wu Shu" mean? And do you know it?
Kungfu & wushu very different practice
true, how so?
W😮w thanks a lot
Those who do not know or understand what the translation or definition of the terms and implications of the ideogram of kungfu and wushu never really researched practiced learned or investigated the language and linguistics from which they spring from. Because they have the capacity to create yet their own make beliefs,those individuals should continue to do so. Believe it or believe that. 🫡🙏🤙😉