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Wudang Kungfu has a long history and enjoys high reputation around
the country. Zhang Sanfeng, a well-known Taoist priest in the last
years of Yuan Dynasty and the first years of Ming Dynasty, was respectfully
named as the founder of Wudang Kungfu. The martial arts masters through
the ages have brought forth new ideas in the arts and enriched the
skills of them, as a result of which Wudang Gongfu has become an eminent
important sect of Chinese martial arts.
Wudang Gongfu is also called Neijia gongfu, a kind of which are
“being flexible in order to overcome toughness” and
“ being motionless in order to overcome quick movements”
People do exercises in Wudang gongfu in the purpose of building
up good physiques and prolonging life. There has been a saying that
in North China Shaolin gongfu is held in esteem and in South China
Wudang gongfu is respected and revered” Now Wudang gongfu
has been spread for and wide in the country and abroad, and more
and more people are doing exercises in Wudang gongfu to improve
the physique and to stave off an illness.
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