Why do foreigners always think that Chinese know martial arts?

Because one of the impressions that Chinese give to foreigners is the country of martial arts. China is an ancient civilization, and martial arts have been passed down for thousands of years, so foreigners think that we Chinese know kung fu in generalizations. In fact, there is also a kind of misleading film and television drama.

Many of our film dramas have scenes of martial arts, which have gone out of the door with Chinese movies.

More and more people have seen Chinese movie dramas, so martial arts have been mythologized.

Moreover, martial arts are very broad and profound, and the more foreigners do not understand them, the more they feel that our martial arts are magical, so the impression of us Chinese is also more focused on martial arts. Martial arts are mythical in the eyes of foreigners, so they are naturally impressed. With the hometown of Chinese martial arts.

The fame spreads farther and farther, and foreigners naturally think that we Chinese all know martial arts. In their opinion, martial arts are very powerful and fantasy skills. Only we Chinese will be so powerful in martial arts, and under this wrong cognition, foreigners think that we Chinese can do martial arts.

Foreigners always think that Chinese can do martial arts, just as southerners always think that northeasterners will dance social shaking. Foreigners living in their own countries have limited access to Chinese, more through film and television works. China's famous movie stars abroad are basically martial arts stars like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, so they think that Chinese will do kung fu, which is very normal.

Just like when we are in China, watching Korean dramas, we will feel that Koreans will make kimchi at home. I didn't live in that environment, I had limited channels to understand, and I had to rely on my brain to make up a lot of things. At the same time, Chinese kung fu is a very important part of China's foreign culture.

In the same way, foreigners will think that there are many pandas in China, and they can even be domesticated, and there are some things that they have to see for themselves to believe.

In fact, this kind of misunderstanding is not a big deal, perhaps it is still a way to open the door to cultural exchanges, so that foreigners are interested in China, like China, fall in love with China, and when they really come to China, they will find that China and Chinese people are more lovely than they imagined.

The main reason is because Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and other kung fu superstars broke the concept that Chinese would only tie pigtails during the Qing Dynasty, such as many of Bruce Lee's movies.

SinceBruce LeeAfter becoming famous, kung fu movies have been well received by foreign audiences. I once heard that in the eyes of foreigners, Chinese people can do kung fu, and they are particularly powerful. There are even rumors that not only Chinese are good at kung fu, but even Chinese animals can, so don't mess with Chinese or things, they will knock you flying.

Look at my flying cat legs.

After listening to these rumors, I really went to check it out, in the hearts of foreigners, is kung fu really so powerful?

The first foreign netizen is called John Cornes, who has practiced Baguazhang for 13 years, he said

A true traditional Chinese martial art.

They are very capable of fighting, they have a history of 4,000 years and have accumulated a lot of actual combat experience. Most of the other East Asian martial arts are actually just variations of traditional Chinese martial arts. For example, Japanese Aikido uses Chinese martial arts.

The principles of joint technique and Tai Chi, while karate.

It's actually a shrunken version of White Crane Fist, and so on.

Film and television is a channel for foreigners to understand Chinese. Action movies are one of the movies that all mankind loves, human beings are inseparable from the needs of martial arts, and martial arts are Chinese culture.

With a history of 5,000 years, there are countless boxing materials to choose from as the subject matter for filming film and television works. Moreover, kung fu materials were the lowest cost and more fruitful works in Hong Kong film and television works at that time, so a large number of film and television works were shot in the mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. A large number of these works flowed into foreign countries, forming their belief that Chinese people can work hard.

<> broadcast gymnastics. For us Chinese is very familiar, can only be regarded as a basic fitness exercise, but many foreign friends feel very strange, many foreigners see our school students, every morning to do radio gymnastics, mistakenly think that students are practicing martial arts every day, so they fantasize that we Chinese are not everyone like Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li.

They all know martial arts, which is a big misunderstanding.

I remember there is such a joke, saying that when a principal goes to the United States for inspection, the other party has to see Chinese kung fu.

As a result, our clever principal did a set of radio gymnastics for primary and secondary school students, which attracted bursts of applause and said: We seem to feel a mysterious force from the East.

Yes, they think that Chinese will do kung fu, as long as the Chinese old man plays tai chi, they are terrified, many foreigners like Chinese kung fu very much, they are very admired.

For foreigners, Chinese are all kung fu. Because Chinese Kung Fu has a very big reputation in foreign countries, foreigners feel that Chinese Kung Fu is very powerful.

For foreigners, Chinese know kung fu, because in foreign movies, there are many Chinese who know kung fu, which leaves a stereotype for them.

Yes. Since foreigners often watch Chinese kung fu movies, they all think that Chinese know kung fu.

1. Chinese kung fu is rumored to be like a myth abroad, which makes foreigners feel very magical, and there are always people who like to break myths and challenge the limit.

2. China's martial arts are famous all over the world, foreigners think they are very strong and want to challenge them, and foreigners are more confident and challenge new heights.

Therefore, foreigners love Chinese kung fu.

A few days ago, I chatted with a friend who had just gone to the United States to study and asked him what his biggest feelings were. He replied that he felt that Americans did not know much about China, and where he studied, those "old Americans" were still in the Bruce Lee stage, thinking that it was a Chinese who babbled and screamed like Mr. Li and kept catching and beating whom. He tried to explain to them the dramatic changes that China is currently making, but with little success.

Friends complained, who said that Americans are civilized, one by one also"Shaft "Hell.

This reminds me of another thing, a friend recently complacently showed us a trophy at a film festival that he had just won. Last year, a small-budget film he screened won a good box office and word of mouth, and it is understandable that he won the award. But when he chats with us, he often avoids talking about ** itself, not modestly, but we all know that his ** copycat of an American comedy in the 80s just changed the story to be more in line with China's national conditions.

Although it has won the market, it is really not unique as a work.

Bruce Lee, national image propaganda films, and small-budget films seem to be unrelated, but they actually talk about the same thing cultural export.

Everyone knows that foreigners love Chinese kung fu, and we are all proud of it, but few people ask why.

In fact, this is inseparable from Mr. Bruce Lee, and it is precisely because of his great success in films such as "Tangshan Big Brother" and "Jingwumen" in the sixties and seventies of the last century, as well as "Raptors Across the River" and "Dragon Fight" that swept the world, that a Chinese kung fu wind blew in the overseas world.

Many martial artists, including Bruce Lee himself, took advantage of this to vigorously promote it, so that Chinese kung fu has a good reputation and reputation in the world, leaving a valuable wealth for our later Chinese sons and daughters.

While we are grateful to Mr. Bruce Lee, we can't help but be ashamed: nearly half a century after him, so many Chinese films have more influence in the world than Mr. Li alone?

Everyone knows that after Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, including Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and others have successfully entered Hollywood, but they are far from reaching the height of influencing the world.

Therefore, although Chinese kung fu is loved by people all over the world, it is far less popular in the world than judo in Japan and taekwondo in South Korea, and we feel uncomfortable.

But here's the truth: judo and taekwondo have become popular fitness programs in many countries around the world, but martial arts are still only in people's impression of kung fu movies.