Wushu Kung Fu was started by Chinese Muslims (h*i people)!?

Question

How amazing is that?

Answer 1

AWESOME... i even saw it on the travel channel's china week

Answer 2

Bhodidharma a travelling Buddhist monk settled in at the Shao Lin temple and taught the monks there movements based upon the movements of animals, and that soon became a martial arts style. That happened before the time Mohammed invented his new religion, so it is wrong to say that Muslims started Chinese martial arts. Some existed long before Muslims came to China. TV shows are all too often wrong.

Answer 3

That's pretty cool.

Answer 4

There are Chinese people who have been Muslims for many generations.

They did not create Chinese martial arts, but thet did develop some forms of martial arts.

Tam Tui, Baji Quan, Pikua, Cha quan and Six Harmony Hsing I quan are some arts developed by them.

Wushu is a term that means martial arts. So it applies to all martial arts, and not only the Chinese arts.

The Muslim arts are Wushu just like the Shaolin, Taoist arts and the Secular arts.  

Answer 5

Not really that surprising... Martial arts tend to arise from oppressed or endangered groups of people as a last line of defense, and usually from folk dances, and are usually adopted (when they prove effective) by the dominating/invading force.

Though, technically, Islam in China can be dated back only as far 650, while early forms of Wushu predate the formation of the Shaolin Temple some 200 years earlier. The earliest reference to the term "Wushu" (though whether this is to imply Martial Arts, or simply Military Affairs is questionable) seems to be around the end of the 4th and beginning of the 5th century, in a poem by Yan Yanzhi.

Bajiquan, probably the most recognizable of the h*i developed forms of Wushu, has an earliest recorded teacher (Wu Zhong) of some time in the early 18th century.