Kung fu is also a name used for the elaborate Fujian tea ceremony ( Kung-fu cha ).

Kung was a 75th generation descendant of Confucius, as indicated by the generation name 祥 ( Hsiang ; pinyin: Xiáng ).

Chinese martial arts are collectively given the name Kung Fu (( gong ) " achievement " or " merit ", and ( fu ) " man ", thus " human achievement ") or ( previously and in some modern contexts ) Wushu (" martial arts " or " military arts ").

Some of the most memorable sketches included Gina Riley, Jane Turner and Magda Szubanski's Kath and Kim, which would later give rise to the spin – off series of the same name ; Dumb Street, a parody of Home and Away and Neighbours ; a lampoon of Skippy ; Moon and Vizard breaking up in their parody of Kung Fu ;

However, it is first mentioned specifically by name in the Thien Kung Khai Wu of circa 1637:

Statues and tapestry images of the god can be found in a number of historical California joss houses ( a local term for Taoist temples ), where his name may be given with various Anglicized spellings, including Kwan Dai, Kwan Tai, Kuan Ti, Kuan Kung, Wu Ti, Mo Dai, Guan Di, Kuan Yu, Kwan Yu, or Quan Yu.

The name works in two ways: " ka " (" long life "), " ju " (" happiness "), " ken " (" fist "), " bo " (" style ") or " ka " (" karate "), " ju " (" judo "/" jujutsu "), " ken " (" kenpo "), " bo " ( Boxing and / or Chinese Boxing Kung Fu ), leading to the art's philosophical meaning: " Through this fist style, one gains long life and happiness.

In a sense, the name " Systema " ( the system ) can be thought of as a generic title comparable to " Kung Fu " (" one who is highly skilled " or " time " and " effort ").

Composers who made a name for themselves with their software include Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Koji Kondo ( Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda ), Koichi Sugiyama ( Dragon Quest ), Miki Higashino ( Gradius, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ), Hiroshi Miyauchi ( Space Harrier, Hang-On, Out Run ), Rob Hubbard ( Monty On the Run, International Karate ), Hirokazu Tanaka ( Metroid, Kid Icarus, EarthBound ), Martin Galway ( Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Stryker's Run, Times of Lore ), Yuzo Koshiro ( Dragon Slayer, Ys, Shinobi, ActRaiser, Streets of Rage ), Mieko Ishikawa ( Dragon Slayer, Ys ), and Ryu Umemoto ( visual novels, shoot ' em ups ).

After mastering Da Sheng Kung Fu and combining it with Pi Gua Kung Fu, out of respect for Kou Si's friendship, in naming the new technique Geng De Hai placed Da Sheng at the beginning followed by Pi Gua hence the name Da Sheng Pi Gua Kung Fu.

A Kung literally means maternal grandfather or old man in Cantonese while Ngam means rock, but in the case of this place name, " A Kung " refers to Tam Kung, a sea deity who the quarry workers believed in.

ǃʼOǃKung (" Forest! Kung ", also spelled! ʼO! uŋ ), also known as Sekele or Vasekela ( the Angolan Bantu name ) and Maligo ( Sekele Maligo ), is the northern variety of the! Kung dialect continuum.

It was also sold as " Kung Fu Superkicks " when the license for the use of the name ' Chuck Norris ' expired. The game was produced for the Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, Atari 2600, and Colecovision as part of Xonox's double-ender cartridge line ( cartridges with two games and two connectors that were flipped over depending on which one the user wanted to play ).

Po's name was announced by actor Jack Black in 2011 ; Po was named after Black's character in the DreamWorks films Kung Fu Panda and Kung Fu Panda 2.

His name is a reference to Kung Pao chicken.

* Kung, alternate name of Kong, Iran, city on the Persian Gulf

* Kung, an older transliteration of the common Chinese surname 孔, clan name of Confucius ( Kong in pinyin )

Its name comes from Sai Kung Town in the central southern area of the peninsula.

Beran returns to Pao under the name Ercolo Paraio and works for a few years as a translator at several locations.

Not only was the name changed, but also it was relocated to its present place from the old location near Chai Wan pier / Ming Pao Industrial Centre.

The Hong Kong Economic Journal was founded by Lam Shan-muk ( 林山木 ) ( brother-in-law of Felix Lok Ying-kwan ( 駱應鈞 pinyin: Luò YìngJūn )), commonly known by his pen name 林行止 ( Lam Hang Chi ), who first worked as a data collector for Hong Kong Ming Pao during the 1960s and later as an assistant editor for the evening version of Ming Pao -- and Law Chi-Ping ( 羅治平 pinyin: Luó ZhìPíng ) -- who withdrew his shares later.

The name of his column in Ming Pao, ' The Golden Venture ' () ( a. k. a. by the Chinese press ), derives from the name of a vessel that took Chinese illegal immigrants to the United States in 1993.

The show's name was inspired by a dish on the menu at a West Hollywood Chinese restaurant, Kung Pao Bistro, where Green and Senreich had dined, although the series originally was intended to be called " Junk in the Trunk ".

Historical: If we, people of today, were to believed what generation-age legend and old folks historical narration accounts to support the claims on the use of these known historical facts and records, the municipality of Talipao derived its names accordingly as to have been taken after the names of the couple, “ Tal ” and “ Pao ”, that of the husband ’ s and wife ’ s name respectively.

" However, the lineages of Wing Chun that descend from Pan Nam, Nguyễn Tế-Công, Way Yan, the Wang family of Saiquan, and Pao Fa Lien use the yǒng / wing " 永 " character, making the name of their martial art identical with the name of the town.

Outside the Red Boat Opera Company, a monk who had taken the name " Dai Dong Fung " ( 大東風 ) is named as its ancestor by the Pao Fa Lien ( 刨花蓮 ) lineage of Wing Chun.

This use of " chicken " survives in the phrase " Hen and Chickens ", sometimes used as a British public house or theatre name, and to name groups of one large and many small rocks or islands in the sea ( see for example Hen and Chicken Islands ).

* Referring to a person by an animal name, such as pig, cow, snake, chicken, donkey, ass, or bitch.

While the chicken noodle soup, as the name suggests, has some noodles in it, quite often Baeksuk does not contain any noodles.

In the United States and Canada, chicken soup often has noodles or rice in it, thus giving it its common name of " chicken noodle soup.

The significance of the original name of Mohenjo-daro inferring that the city was " the city of the cock " takes on great significance if taking into account that it has been claimed that the chicken was domesticated in southern China in 6000 BC.

Sponsored by the town itself, the centerpiece event is exactly what the name suggests: free corn-on-the-cob prepared and served in large quantities with BBQ chicken on an open pit grill.

Although Belgian gastronomy is connected to French cuisine, some recipes were reputedly invented there as e. g. French-fried potatoes ( despite the name ), stoofkarbonnaden ( or carbonade flamande in French, a beef stew with beer, mustard and bay laurel ), speculaas ( a sort of cinnamon and ginger-flavoured cookie ), Brussels waffles ( and their variant, Belgian waffles ), waterzooi ( a broth made with chicken or fish, cream and vegetables ), endive with bechamel sauce, Brussels sprouts, Belgian pralines ( Belgium has some of the most renowned chocolate houses ), charcuterie ( deli meats ) and Paling in't groen ( river eels in a sauce of green herbs ).

Knight's son Shanga owns a chain of chicken and waffles restaurants based in Atlanta, bearing her name.

As far as male names are concerned, there is of course the chicken and the egg question, of when a name specifically appeared but some names are tied to events that happened during the initiation.

" Pasty " has always been a generic name for the shape and can contain a variety of fillings, including stilton, vegetarian and even chicken tikka.

The name of the dish is a poetic reflection of the fact that both chicken and egg are used in the dish.

The leghorn variety of chicken was named after the city. The city also lent its name to a kind of fine plaited straw produced there and, by extension, to the leghorn hats made from the material.

Burgerville ( originally Burgerville USA ) is a privately held American restaurant chain in Oregon and southwest Washington, owned by The Holland Inc. As the chain's name suggests, Burgerville's sandwich menu consists mostly of hamburgers, though it also offers chicken and turkey sandwiches, vegetarian burgers, and halibut fish and chips.

The scientific name Gallinula chloropus comes from the Latin Gallinula ( a small hen or chicken ) and the Greek chloropus ( khloros χλωρός green or yellow, pous πούς foot ).

It can also mean " chicken talons " in the name of any Chinese dish cooked with it.

Its name may be due to its similarity in preparation to fried chicken.

The name " chicken of the woods " is not to be confused with the edible polypore, Maitake ( Grifola frondosa ) known as " hen of the woods ", or with Lyophyllum decastes, known as the " fried chicken mushroom ".

As early as 1916, a Chicago-based anarchist going by the assumed name of Jean Crones poisoned some 100 distinguished guests of industry, business, finance, and law at a banquet in 1916 to honor the Archbishop when he laced their chicken soup with arsenic.

He takes his name, " Nite-Wing ", from an all-night deli specializing in chicken wings.

The ancestors of the modern Araucana chicken were purportedly first bred by the Araucanian Indians of Chile — hence the name " Araucana.

At a local television station, however, a chicken costume was available which was donated for use at the festival, giving the " Chicken Dance " its name.

The name " chicken " has its origins in a game in which two drivers drive towards each other on a collision course: one must swerve, or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a " chicken ," meaning a coward ; this terminology is most prevalent in political science and economics.