Korean martial arts
Korean Martial Arts is the umbrella term for all martial arts that come from Korea . Martial arts developed by Koreans outside of Korea are usually not included. An example of such a martial art is Kyokushin Karate , which was developed in Japan by the Korean Choi Yeong-ui .
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Korean alphabet : | 무예 |
| Hanja : | 武藝 |
| Revised Romanization : | Muye |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Muye |
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Korean alphabet : | 무술 |
| Hanja : | 武術 |
| Revised Romanization : | Musul |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Musul |
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Korean alphabet : | 무도 |
| Hanja : | 武 道 |
| Revised Romanization : | Mudo |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Mudo |
A common Anglicism for this is Korean Martial Arts , or KMA for short . In German, a distinction is sometimes made between martial arts and martial arts , but the term KMA is used for both.
According to H. Rubbeling, the KMA are divided into two main groups: Traditional and Neo-Korean.
Traditional KMA are those martial arts that have developed in Korea over several centuries. There are only three traditional KMA that have been handed down to this day without interruption: Taekgyeon , Ssireum and Guk Gung .
The neo-Korean KMA encompasses the martial arts that were developed in the 20th or 21st century and often arose from non-Korean martial arts. After scratching, the largest subgroup of this KMA are the Japano-Korean KMA, which include the best-known Korean styles Taekwondo , Tang Soo Do and Hapkido .
An example of an extinct traditional KMA, which has been reconstructed, is the Gwon Beop (often also written Kwon Bop ), which is described in the Muye Dobo Tongji from the 18th century.
In Korea, the terms mu-ye , mu-sul and mu-do are used for “martial arts” , where mu means “fight”. For martial arts that do not end in -do, the terms mu-ye or mu-sul are usually used, whereby these are approximately synonymous.
Mu-ye is Korean for "Martial Art", where Ye art in the sense of "talent" or "skill" means. This term is also used in the most famous historical martial arts document in Korea, the Muye Dobo Tongji . In the Korean Wikipedia, Muye is the generic term for martial arts (Mu-sul and Mu-do are explained there).
Mu-sul is also translated as "combat art", whereby Sul rather means art in the sense of "skill" or "method". Sul is also often translated as "technology". For example, Bal Gi Sul means “foot technique”. The Japanese reading of Hanja for Mu-sul is Bujutsu , the Chinese one is Wushu .
The two terms Ye and Sul overlap in their meaning, just as art in German can mean “beautiful art” (for example in “poetry”) or “artistry” (for example in “war art”).
Mu-do (Korean for fighting way ) is the collective term for those Korean martial arts which, in addition to fighting technique, also contain a philosophy in the sense of the term Do , which means “spiritual path” in German. This includes all martial arts in which the word "Do" occurs. Examples are Taekwondo , Hapkido and Kumdo . The Japanese translation of mudo is budo . No genuine Korean martial art belongs to the Mu-do, however, Do is part of the name of many KMA today.
literature
- Hendrik Rubbeling: Taekkyon - Like water and wind. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2017, ISBN 978-3744896818 .
- Muye Dobo Tongji: Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of Martial Arts of Ancient Korea . English translation by Sang H. Kim. Rockville: Turtle Press 2001. ISBN 18-8033-648-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hendrik Rubbeling: Taekkyon - Like water and wind . Ed .: Self-published. 1st edition. Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047111-7 , pp. 189-190 .