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Martial Arts, having begun in China, was it necessity since thir common enemies were Big people?

Orientals being of small stature, and Siberians, and Russians being the Largest people on Earth.

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1. I don't thing that was the motivation. Boddidarma started it as a means of discipline & excercise for his students.
2. People were small then, and asians being small stature because their food consumption lagged the est of the world in recent Century. Now that China's food output increased, the Chinese are getting bigger. People in ancient imes were all much smaller, except for the Chinese. Some of the military people were a lot larger. I read a diary exerpts of English encounter with Chinese pirates, and the pirates were larger than the ENglish sailor, even though the average Chinese was smaller than the English. Chinese war was not won by martial arts as much as war strategy,numbers and technology. Chinese had the crossbow over a millinia before the European. What good is Kung Fu if you get shot by an arrow before you reached your enemy.
3. As in all histories no one knows for sure, but one theory is that martial arts were developed by peasant farmers because the ruling class would not let them posses weapons.
4. Actually Martial Arts began in Africa (I know I'm going to catch so much flak for this sidebar.) There has been evidence to point that a cave mural (drawings) in Africa depicts what appears to be a primitive "text book" for fighting with spears and wrestling people one on one, all leading up the wall to where they over take a keep or fort seeming to be the first documented system of combat. Anyway, I've found that the Shaolin arts were actually liked to Indian monks who were traveling through China and has nothing to do with the need to defend themselves from a larger group of people.
5. Ta Mo created what we know today as the martial arts as a means for exercise (so the Buddhist monks were obviously healthier) and staying awake during meditation (he found that most of them would fall asleep during meditation). It was based on animal movements, which is where gongfu gets its animal system. It later became a self-defense art, since the Songshan (Song Mountain in Henan) Temple became a place thieves thought to be easy to plunder. Shaolin gongfu was the first incarnation of self defense in China, and it was other Chinese looters the monks needed to defend against.
6. No, I'm sure every peoples has some sort of self defense and fighting arts. In Ireland they like to box, in Thailand they do Muay Thai, in France they sword fight with baguettes, in Russia they oil each other up and wrastleetc..
7. Interesting, I never pondered upon this. Well lets look at the root of the question. Martial arts origins may be traced to several societies in the early 600 century. There have been many martial arts that have also been lost due to warring nations especially in China during the 1500-1600's. Now to actually state that martial arts started in China is really not so much true, BUT there was development of several different styles, and influences upon many martial arts that we find taught around the world today. In addition the Chinese mainly had the Mongolians roaming Siberians, and your typical road theives to worry about. So taking all these facts in account we can say this about martial arts. They have been developed over thousands of years and are still being taught in almost every country around the world today. lr http://www.pacificwingchunassociation.com
8. martial arts began in INDIA not china or africa(hahahaha) big ppl,small ppl? you dont take acid do you?