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Kung Fu has its roots in ancient China. There is indication that it got some of the basics from India.
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Kung fu is from China; however, it developed independently of South Asian Martial Arts. For more, see Chinese Martial Arts(2012) by Prof. Peter Lorge.
Kung Fu (Ch: Gong fu) is just a name for the indigenous fighting arts of China. Broken into its components, kungmeans "achievement" and fu means "husband" or "man," or "the achievement of man." The term can be applied to anything that requires practice, including painting or playing the piano. The term can also be applied to foreign martial arts like Brazilian Jujitsu. Anyways, the various martial arts that normally fall under the term were indeed created in China. The original martial arts of China were born on the battlefield. Proficiency with pole-arms, swords, and bows and arrows, as well as Wrestling, was more prized than knowing how to punch or kick. In fact, during the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 BCE), for example, punching and kicking exercises were used to prepare soldiers for weapons combat. Even during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE), the famous general Qi Jiguang felt boxing was only good for keeping his soldiers' bodies strong. Their real training was reserved for weapons. Many of today's popular styles like Taiji, Wing Chun, Eagle Claw etc. are not nearly as old as legends make them out to be. For instance, Eagle Claw is claimed to have been created by General Yue Fei during the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE). However, there is no proof for this. None of his family or state memoirs mention him creating a style of martial arts. In fact, the oldest reference to him creating a style comes from the general's 17th century folklore biography The Story of Yue Fei (ch. 63). This was influenced by his mention in a qigong manual published some forty years before this. For more on this manual, see my research paper "A Venerated Forgery: The Daoist Origins of Shaolin's Famous Yijin Jing Manual." For more about the verifiable history of martial arts, seek out any work by the martial arts historians Meir Shahar, Stan Henning, or Brian Kennedy.
Martial arts didn't originate in any one country. Virtually every culture that has ever existed has had an indigenous form of fighting. Any time someone had to fight, they quickly figured out what worked and what did not and taught that to the other folks in the village.
It came from different places of China simultaneously. There were different tribes of groups, as you may say.... and they all do kungfu. That is why there are different types of Kungfu. Perhaps the most popular one is shaolin kungfu.
Kung Fu is believed to originate from India, then China. Legend says the Bodhidharma created it to help the monks get physically fit.
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