Thursday, November 12, 2009

Did Chinese soilders learn martial arts like Samurai did?

If not, then how did they learn to use weapons in combat? The way i see it, Samurai were required to learn each weapons martial art and Jujitsu for had-to-hand, just like Shaolin Monks and Ninja, (Disregaurd that they're from different countries.). So what did Chinese cavalry learn? Kung-Fu teaches everything together.

Did Chinese soilders learn martial arts like Samurai did?
If you look at those Terra cotta figures that they unearthed a few years ago you can see that they were armed with a lot of different weapons.





The truth is that everything Japanese originated in China, and there are about 1.8 billion people on the mainland who would back me up on that. ;)
Reply:Yeperooo! they sure did!





kung-fu from what I understand was required of most- at hte very least most.
Reply:yep. The current Chinese army still learns kung fu and hand-to-hand combat. But pretty much every army around the world does it now.
Reply:The Chinese virtually invented war fare as we know it today.





Of course they were taught how to fight.





To the best of my knowledge usually war lord would hire people that were already skilled fighters such as Shaolin temple monks ect.





When it comes to training their armies, Kung Fu / Wu Shu is what they learned, they only had these weapons not guns...





Obviously if they had a specific role in the army they would be heavily trained for that role.
Reply:The use of weapons such as the sai, nunchucks and the bow staff were first used as a way to fight the samurai. The only people allowed to carry swords were samurai. Without weapons to combat the samurai the villagers were at the mercy of the samurai warriors. The villagers incorporated tools and items that they used everyday while performing their tasks. The sai is a tool that was used for planting rice in the paddies. Nunchuks were used as a yoke to lead their oxen and th bo staff was used to carry buckets of water.
Reply:I heard the samurais learned empty hand striking for when they broke or lost their swords, it was an after thought to the weapon skills taught. You lesser soldier pressed in to service by the samurai would use any tool to hand to fight what ever battle they found them selves in
Reply:Ninja is from Japan, so is Jiujitsu and samurai.


I like Shaolin better(the one taught in China) better than Kung Fu.
Reply:yes they did. Shaolin was partially incorporated into the chinese armies of yore. Shaolin monks even fought alongside soldiers in times of great peril. I'm pretty sure that the monks would offer training in dire situations and that the army would just keep records on what was learned and how to do it.
Reply:Actually the Chinese Military superceded the Shaolin Temple.


The Hand To Hand and weapons training in Chinese history has a long and rich past that influenced the Shaolin fighting arts and co-mingled during the revolutionary eras.


Chinese soldiers and Laymen shared fighting techniques with the monks and vice versa.


The Chinese Spear and Broadsword are old Chinese weapons that dated before the birth of Shaolin.


Damo The indian Monk introduced Yoga like postures to The Shaolin Monks which later became Chi Gong Forms and modified later for training purposes.
Reply:Samurai do not recuire martial arts, and why would the chinese soldiers learn martial arts and i had never heard of it and i am Chinese.


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