Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jul 2023 15:04:57 UTC No. 154880

Sad if true

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jul 2023 16:55:46 UTC No. 154901

>>154880
I have my doubts. Kung fu, outside of the stuff that obviously works and is now called Sanda, was part of a tradition of Chinese scam artistry. In the same way we had medicine sellers and water finders and seer stone conmen in the west. The Chinese were early pioneers in martial arts bullshittery and used the same tactics that are still popular today. The cultural revolution story is hearsay from old, coping sifus who needed an excuse for why Chinese arts never saw success in any combat sport. No one who spouts this rumor ever has any sources for martial artists being targeted in particular and EVERYTHING being destroyed. We're supposed to believe that the ragtag witch hunting of the red guards managed to completely wipe out all effective chinese martial arts in such a thorough manner that they didn't manage to do with any other aspect of pre-revolution society. Rubbish. Traditional kung fu always sucked.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jul 2023 23:24:08 UTC No. 154944

>>154901
The implications of this theory are pretty hard to swallow, and overlooks the role of kung fu in Chinese society before the last century, or a century and a half. They were as likely to be practiced by villagers as they were by military officers, and the most poplar aspects of them today were often secondary to weapons like the spear or sword. They both absorbed foreign influences and spread outside China, and they were certainly used to fight other people. It seems pretty unbelievable, given the size e of the Chinese empire and the spread of these arts outside China itself, that they were without any value outside street performances.

Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jul 2023 00:27:12 UTC No. 154951

>>154880
It’s not though don’t worry, it was always dumb