1. Introduction: From Rags to Revered—The Myth of the Beggar’s Sect In the intricate and highly symbolic world of Chinese Wuxia, where sects, clans, and secret societies dominate the martial arts landscape, few organizations have sustained such enduring mystique and cultural weight as the Beggar’s Sect (丐帮 Gàibāng). Far from being a marginal or comic-relief […]
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The sixth place is the Kongtong School, which has a long history and has been recorded in the ancient dictionary Erya of Qin and Han Dynasties. Today’s Kongtong School of Wushu is a combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism who has been practicing in the past dynasties and are good at fighting outside the Western […]