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The wuxia novel is a genre of Chinese literature, with the heroes of martial arts, for example, bullies and those associated with them, arguing devoted to the intricate relationships of honor, loyalty, love and hatred between people in the world of martial arts. Usually there is a thread of martial arts practice and demonstration that crosses the parcel.

In most cases, Wuxia novels set in ancient China. And these novels have their unique cultural background, with martial arts at the center, related to ancient Chinese medicine, Buddhism, Taoism, Yishu which is the art of living with the changes and different types of occultism, etc. Therefore, based on the concepts of character values of Wuxia novels and the main spirit of the whole work on the basic ideas of the martial arts.
"Martial arts" means "stop fighting" in ancient China, in other words, to end the conflict by force. This means that the goal of martial arts practice is to stop oppressing the weak by sheer force. Guided by this thought, Wuxia novels are created so that justice and evil are clear and defined.

The first literary work in the martial art or chivalrous characters was Records of the Grand Historian, a masterpiece by Sima Qian, the great historian Western Han Dynasty. In the book, the sections as Biographies of knights and biographies of the characters recorded murderers legendary Jing Ke, Zhu Jia and Guo Jie as historical biography.

It was not until the emergence of the romantic novel in the Tang Dynasty, when martial arts literature came into existence. The characters engraved on the legends of the Tang Dynasty were widespread in both the government and the public, such as the bearded warrior, Nie Yin Niang and slave Kunlun.

Besides the legends Tang Wushu related content are also commonly found in other styles, like the poem Song of Dagger-Dancing a student of Lady Gongsun by Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty. The "Legendary Weapons of China" is also frequently mentioned in the Yuan drama, martial arts and is described in the famous classic novels of Outlaws of the Marsh, Romance of Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West should be familiar to the ears of readers.

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