Wudang Kung Fu features a uniqueness in adhering to the principles of overcoming the hard with the soft. The ancient Taoist book Tao Te Ching carries the following messages: Beneath heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. for attacking the solid and strong, nothing can take its place. Therefore the soft can overcome the hard, The weak can overwhelm the strong, under heaven everyone knows this, Yet no one puts it into practice. Wudang Kung Fu is well known for its unfathomed fighting theory, special internal strength training approaches and handling skills when facing very unfavorable circumstances. The routine form sets and the weapon manipulation system often convey to people the intangible force which in many cases scare the enemy a lots before the start of fight.

what is wudang kung fu ?

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.

The original legend of Wudang Kung fu and the pose of the snake in the fighting have visually demonstrated the gist of Wudang Kung fu: to overcome the strong in a gentle way and to win by striking only after the enemy had struck; to ascertain one's position and then defeat the enemy.

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.
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.

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