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  1. 1. Opening the scroll The scroll 0:45
  2. 2. Chiyou's horns Zhuolu 1:21
  3. 3. The bow and the sword Qufu · Shaoxing 1:16
  4. 4. Needle and fire Mawangdui 1:10
  5. 5. Five animals Qiao 1:11
  6. 6. Help in time Guangzhou 1:13
  7. 7. The mountain at the centre Song Shan 0:54
  8. 8. Thirteen staffs Song Shan · Luoyang 0:55
  9. 9. The monks and the pirates Song Shan · east coast 1:15

Mind

  1. 10. The archer, the rooster and the knife Liezi · Zhuangzi 1:31
  2. 11. The wall Song Shan · Luoyang 1:31
  3. 12. The snow Song Shan 1:18

Spirit

  1. 13. Chen Village Chenjiagou 1:03
  2. 14. The southern temple Fujian · King Mui 1:16
  3. 15. Jingwu Tianjin · Shanghai · Nanjing 1:22
  4. 16. The northern tigers Funing · Nanjing · Guangzhou 2:06
  5. 17. The house in Hong Kong Taishan · Hong Kong 2:12
  6. 18. The crossing Hong Kong · São Paulo 1:09
  7. 19. The grandmaster São Paulo · Tianjin · Vancouver 1:17
  8. 20. The student São Paulo 1:32
  9. 21. The backyard São Paulo 1:22
  10. 22. The boy São Paulo 2:02
  11. 23. The Si-Fu São Paulo 1:04
  12. 24. The heir Chenjiagou 1:19
  13. 25. The master São Paulo 1:04
  14. 26. Stopping the spear Everywhere 1:25
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Two archers bow, climb, shoot and drink; in a bamboo forest a young woman defeats an old man who turns into a white ape; bamboo slips list the books on fighting.

二 · 射 · Body · 5th c. BCE – 1st c. · 1:16

The bow and the sword

  1. Confucius said: the noble person does not compete. Except, perhaps, in archery.

    Quotation Wikisource: 八佾第三

  2. “He bows as he goes up, and drinks when he comes down. Even his contest is noble.”

    Quotation Wikisource: 八佾第三

  3. And: in archery, piercing the leather is not what counts, for each man's strength differs.

    Quotation Wikisource: 八佾第三Wikisource: 卷下

  4. It is told that a young woman of Yue's southern forest taught the king's army the sword.

    Legend Wikipedia: YuenüWikisource: 勾踐陰謀外傳

  5. On the way an old man tested her with a bamboo. She struck him; he became a white ape.

    Legend Wikipedia: YuenüWikisource: 勾踐陰謀外傳

  6. In the 1st century the Han imperial library listed six chapters of shoubo, hand combat.

    History Wikisource: 卷030

  7. In the same list: 38 chapters on the sword and 25 on cuju, the leather-ball game.

    History Wikisource: 卷030