Chapter 25: 【024】Lightweight Skill Overview
"Overview of Lightweight Skills, Brief Martial Arts":
A martial artist’s lifetime, is aimed at the two words ’martial arts’.
Martial is skill, arts is nourishment.
During the era of Pre-Qin alchemists, the thoughts and schools of various philosophers were mixed, and people insisted on the existence of techniques for immortality.
Thus, alchemy and qigong flourished, and alchemists pursued the methods of immortality.
The concept of nurturing health emerged from the divergence of immortality techniques, although it could not grant everlasting life, it greatly strengthened the physique and strength of the human body.
During the Pre-Qin time, what was the background, war and chaos coexisted, and nations needed to engage in battles.
Those who learned health preservation needed to participate in battlefield combat, needing to kill enemies, thus transforming the health-preserving techniques into battlefield killing skills.
The origin of martial arts was for killing, martial arts not meant for killing is not true martial arts.
Besides the killing techniques, another skill also emerged from health preservation.
The book "Wu Zi" has a record that in Pre-Qin times, military strategists, based on soldiers’ physical qualities, formed different armies, among them were those who ’leap high and far, light-footed and good at running’, who were the most special, could stand alone as a team, sharpening their skills for the army.