hsunchen martial arts

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:56:14 +1300


Terra Incognita:

>Chinese nobility culture has distaste to Greek style gymnasions like Jews.
>while martial arts are lowbrow and foreign flavoured culture like overly
>Mahayana Buddhism and witch-doctorish Taoism Style.

The Kralori Mandarins have a similar ambivalence with respect to their martial artists (and the army ranks even lower).

>New Dragonring Rule has IMO, much similarity to 19th century european
>colonial Era or Mongol oppression, poor oppressed natives would rebel
>without sufficient supplies, and made secret societies and mafia style
>system, but Godunyan Era affords more than this.

The NDR, because they believed the first dragon people were hsunchen, would have formed alliances with the Shanshan hsunchen. Hence there wouldn't be many hsunchen schticks within the secret societies that later came to be the official martial arts discipline of Kralorela.

>so I think Hsunchen association to Martial artist sects has credibility for
>my sense of fun.

There are hsunchen forms of martial arts but they are too unclean for most Kralori to practice.

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