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Kung Fu (Chinese: Originally meaning "Hard
Work" now generic term for especially non-mainland China martial art
types), a martial art, both a form of exercise with a spiritual
dimension stemming from concentration and self-discipline and a
primarily unarmed mode of personal combat often equated with Karate or
Tae Kwon Do. As martial art, kung fu can be traced to the Chou dynasty
(1111-255 BC) and even earlier. As exercise it was practiced by the
Taoists in the 5th century BC. Its prescribed stances and actions are
based on keen observations of human skeletal and muscular anatomy and
physiology, and it employs great muscular coordination. The various
movements in kung fu, most of which are imitations of the fighting
styles of animals, are initiated from one of five basic foot positions:
normal upright posture and the four stances called dragon, frog, horse
riding, and snake. There are hundreds of styles of kung fu, and armed as
well as unarmed techniques have been developed. Kung fu performed as
exercise resembles T'ai Chi ch'uan
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