{"id":10934,"date":"2019-11-20T23:54:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T23:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/cangzhou-kungfu\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T23:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T23:54:20","slug":"cangzhou-kungfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/cangzhou-kungfu\/","title":{"rendered":"Cangzhou Kungfu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Cangzhou is located in the southeast of Hebei  Province. Historically, it was a must-have stro<em><\/em>nghold for military  strategy. The local people usually had to learn striking and defending  skills in order to survive; hence the practice of kungfu was prevailing  in Cangzhou. According to statistics, Cangzhou had given birth to 1937  military officers during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it became an  im<em><\/em>portant town of martial arts in north China during the reign of  Emperor Qianlong. In 1992, Cangzhou was officially listed among the  first batch of &quot;hometown of martial arts&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Cangzhou Kungfu enjoys a time-ho<em><\/em>nored history. It was initiated in  the Spring and Autumn Period, popularized in the Ming Dynasty, prospered  in the Qing Dynasty, and prevailed during the late Qing Dynasty and  early Republic of China. The Cangzhou kungfu is varied in schools,  including 53 kinds of boxing schools, which account for 40.3% of a total  of 129 o<em><\/em>nes across China. Over the past hundreds of years, Cangzhou has  given birth to a large amount of kungfu masters, such as Ding Faxiang,  Huo Yuanjia, Wang Ziping etc, who made great co<em><\/em>ntributions in fighting  against foreign invasion and defending natio<em><\/em>nal dignity.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of Cangzhou kungfu is beneficial in improving one&#8217;s  health, cultivating one&#8217;s personality, promoting the overall development  of a person, and enriching and perfecting the martial arts culture of  China and the world as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3497026272\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cangzhou is located in the southeast of Hebei  Province. Historically, it was a must-have stronghold for military  strategy. The local people usually had to learn striking and defending  skills in order to survive; hence the practice of kungfu was prevailing  in Cangzhou. According to statistics, Cangzhou had given birth to 1937  military officers during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and it became an  important town of martial arts in north China during the reign of  Emperor Qianlong. In 1992, Cangzhou was officially listed among the  first batch of &quot;hometown of martial arts&quot;.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2858],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-kung-fu","tag-culture"],"views":258,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}