Kung fu in motion: Where daily life meets martial art

When public parks become gyms, the horizontal bars serve as equipment for arm-strengthening exercises, the benches and steps as facilities for stretching hamstrings, and the open spaces as areas for relaxing the muscles. Chinese kung fu is thriving not only in sports venues, but also in the bending backs of morning exercisers, the gripped palms on metal bars and the rhythmic breath of daily effort. These everyday routines, honed over the course of many years, embody the essence of kung fu as a discipline where motion becomes meditation, and daily practice is the path to mastery. This is kung fu as life. Flexible, enduring and quietly powerful, it's woven into the fabric of ordinary moments.