Recently I watched a TV opera named <<The Legend of Bruce Lee>>. bruce Lee is really the King of Chinese Kungfu. His Kungfu spirit gave me deep impression. Are there any body in Fodors like Kungfu or know some of them? Kung fu, (also known as wushu or martial arts) is one of the most well known examples of traditional Chinese culture. It is probably one of the earliest and longest lasting sports which utilize both brawn and brain. The theory of Kung Fu is based upon classical Chinese philosophy. Over its long history it has developed as a unique combination of exercise, practical self-defense, self-discipline and art. In sports like track and field, ball sports, weightlifting, and boxing, an athlete typically has to retire from full participation in his 30s. Injuries sustained during years of active sport participation at a young age can that affect our health in later life. In Chinese Kung fu, however, a distinction is made between "external" and "internal" kung fu. It is said that "In external kung fu, you exercise your tendons, bones, and skin; in internal kung fu, you train your spirit your qi, and your mind."

Feng Shui, Kung Fu... what's next?

Gosh - I wonder if there could be a connection...

www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/kungfu/

By the look of it we still have Chinese Art
Chinese Food
Chinese Tea Culture
Chinese Architecture
Festivals & Activities
Chinese Traditional Medicine Chinese Language
to look forward to.

Here's some praise for our phantom company:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic...y-Beijing.html

I love this first paragraph.

'I would like to discourage anyone from using the online travel agency, China Highlights, to book any private tour guides within China. We had terrible experiences with several of their guides (to be fair, we had two very good guides out of the five private guides we had around China that we booked through China Highlights). Most of China Highlights guides were very young, very inexperienced (even to the point of not ever having been to some of the places that they were taking us to tour!), sometimes un-understandable in their English, underpaid (even though China Highlights' website indicates that they pay their guides "fairly&quot, and some guides were obviously hungry, as lunch was the highlight of their day (they ate free if we ate). One guide was obviously angry after slipping in a "tea factory tour" where we didn't buy the $50 small tin of tea!...'

hi, people have different definitions on Chinese Kungfu or Martial Arts. Maybe you can find something different from here

http://www.china-tour.cn/Chinese-Leg...rtial-Arts.htm

what I'm going to say only slightly concern about Kung-fu. I'm Chinese and am now working on Songshan Mountain of Central China, for Shaolin Monastery, which is the only thing in this message that slightly concern about Kung-fu.
What happened this morning was that, my boss found a Dutch girl around the temple and called for me to help her (for I'm the only one who speak decent English). It turned out that this girl was looking for a place called FARMHOUSE FRAGRANT HOTEL, as how Rough Guides describes it.
But when I interpreted the question to the local people, all of them claimed that they've never heard of the place, that they've only heard of Shaolin International Something and another Shaolin Village Something, that there're only two hotels around, so if these two are not what she's looking for, then probably she's looking for something that doesn't exist.
I was almost persuaded by their certainty, and on the other hand, confused by the information on the Rough Guides, so I decide to accompany her to look for the mystic FARMHOUSE FRAGRANT HOTEL.
And we found it... in the end.
It turned out that the people were merely lying because they want the tourists live in these two expensive hotels, that they do know there're other hotels around but they just don't tell until you show them that you're sure it exists.
(even then, sometimes they would deny it. So better be sure about the rough direction so you can point...)
And the Rough Guides guide is reliable, only that it's NOT enough helpful, if I may say.
And I suggest everyone who's coming to China make a thorough research or a Chinese friend first.
People lie...