In 2011, the Ranik Ultimate Fighting Federation ( RUFF ) hosted the first MMA event in Shanghai sanctioned by China's governing body for combat sports, the Wushu Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sport in China.

The IWUF has also been trying actively to push Wushu to become a demonstration sport or even a formal medal event at the summer Olympic Games since 1992.

The contemporary Wushu event Nanquan is a modern style created in 1960 derived from martial arts derived in the Chinese provinces south of the Yangtze River and predominantly those styles popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang.

( Wushu or Chinese martial arts was the ' cultural sport ' at this Olympics.

Wushu was introduced at both the high school and university level.

He has been a three-time captain of the United States teams that competed and was the U. S. team captain at the World Wushu Championships in 1997 ( Italy ) and 1999 ( Hong Kong ).

He wrote that Gaocang Wushu invented a " wind-driven carriage " which was able to carry thirty people at once.

* Wushu ( sport ), which also uses a floor.

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Since the 1950s, the People's Republic of China has organized Chinese martial arts as an exhibition and full-contact sport under the heading of Wushu.

The PRC promoted the committee-regulated sport of Wushu as a replacement to independent schools of martial arts.

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Yùndòng Sanda ( Mandarin Chinese, Sport Free Fighting ), or Jingzheng Sanda ( Mandarin Chinese, Competitive Free Fighting ): A modern fighting method, sport, and applicable component of Wushu / Kung Fu influenced by traditional Chinese Boxing, of which takedowns & throws are legal in competition, as well as all other sorts of striking ( use of arms & legs ).

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The International Wushu Federation ( IWUF ) () is an international sport organization established on October 3, 1990 in Beijing, China during the 11th Asian summer Games to promote competitive Wushu.

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File: 1 patti 060123 1Ds 7037. jpg | Master Hao Zhi Hua, the most accomplished female Wushu athlete in China's history.

In 1986, the Chinese National Research Institute of Wushu was established as the central authority for the research and administration of Wushu activities in the People's Republic of China.

As a result of these changing sociological factors within China, both traditional styles and modern Wushu approaches are being promoted by the Chinese government.

The Chinese Wushu Academy recognized Master Yang Zhen Duo in 1996 as one of the top 100 Wushu Masters in China.

* In Rope Dart Instructional Series ( 2007 ), Master Donald Hyun Kiolbassa ( Gold Medalist for the 2008 USA Wushu Team, China )

* Jiān ( 鶼 ; jian < sup > 1 </ sup >): mythical bird supposed to have only one eye and one wing ; 鶼鶼: a pair of such birds dependent on each other, inseparable, hence representing husband and wife

Another idiom that relates to the event is Xiang Zhuang wu jian, yi zai Pei Gong (), meaning that a person's actions were intended to be a veiled attack on another person.

* Thayet jian Wilima ( Later Thayet the Peerless or Thayet of Conte ): Later hailed, " the Peerless " as well as the " most beautiful woman in the world ," Thayet is a runaway princess from a country at war.

In China, the dao is known as one of the four major weapons, along with the gun ( staff ), qiang ( spear ), and the jian ( sword ), and referred to as " The General of All Weapons ".

* 585 BC — Zhou jian wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

* 572 BC — Death of Zhou jian wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.

The jian is a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2, 500 years in China.

Whilst many martial arts in China include training with both the dual-edged sword, or jian, and the single-bladed sword, or dao, ( as well as many variant weapons ), no well known Chinese martial art trains exclusively with the sword.

Jiànzi ( 毽子 ), ti jiànzi ( 踢毽子 ), ti jian ( 踢毽 ) or jiànqiú ( 毽球 ), also known by other names, is a traditional Asian game in which players aim to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock in the air using their feet and other parts of the body ( but not hands, unlike the similar games peteca and indiaca ).