Who was the martial emperor in ancient china?

Answer 1

All the characters in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" novel. Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Shao Yung, Tsao Tsao, and the infamous but "dreadfully strong" Lu Bu. In China it is said, there was only one master of the lunar spear, and his name was Lu Bu.

In China, the term "Martial Arts" is largely dependent on the historical context. In ancient China, if you traveled back in time and spoke with a Chinese of that era if you said "martial arts" they would immediately think of someone skillful with a spear or sword, if you traveld to after 600 A.D., if you said "martial art" obviously they would think of the Shaolin temple, or Wudang mountain. Although Tai Chi Chuan did not yet exist just after the 600's, one thing Daoist monks WERE known for, was their skill with a sword. In fact, the skill known as "Tai Chi sword" is in fact even older, than any of the sword arts taught at Shaolin. It is the straight sword.

The sword techniques practiced in Tai Chi Chuan, are even older than Tai Chi Chuan itself, part of the reason that in China a person's training is not considered complete unless they have mastered the Tai Chi sword, if Tai Chi is what they do, is because they hold the straight sword in high reverence due to its age. If something has been around for a long time, then the Chinese respect it. There are many others, and some traditions even hold that, because his father was a warlord, and a noble, even though Kong Fu Tze, also known as Confucius, was poor and penniless, in his time in China family name had some degree of worth. Because of his background, he studied the sword art, that is why sometimes Confucius is shown wielding a sword. In addition to being a philosopher, he was also a sword master in his own right. His scholarship was so high, it out shone his martial arts. Remember that Confucius traveled the very dangerous countryside of ancient China alone; the sword, was for personal defense.