The history of the mother of Kung-fu Wushu.
(The most ancient martial Art)

Shuai-Chiao (pronounced Shuai-Jiao), can be defined the Everst mount of the Chinese martial art, is a famous style that kills in its sublimità of product of Kung-fu Wushu. This old technique includs a combination of every effective trick in soccer, taken, blows and projections known like: Shuai the projection projecting, Na to seize, Tien fatal point and to hit.

However the Shuai-Chiao has not been considered in the history until hat was not used from the yellow Emperor Huang-You (2690 a.c.), in order to defeat its enemy leggendario Chih-Yiu. The highest art from combat called Chiao-ti to that time, other names was given subsequently following the current dynasties.

The Chinese fighting between tribal invasions and wars have used this ancient system, in last the 2000 years, have created four greater local styles that are: Beijing, Paoting, Tienjin and Mongolia. Inside of these greater styles was been, previously, of the variations becoming the better system, in the body to body.

Subsequently with the Cheu dynasty (1134 a.c.), the technique to the famous hour like Chiao-Them, made an important run in the training of the soldiers. With passing of the time, it became very more popular around to the 264 a.c., not only the Shuai-Chiao exists like preponderant sport, is in the civil activity that in the military, but has been also assessed to be to regulate entertainment of the monarchy.

Towards the 140 a.c the Shuai-Chiao caught up new levels, Wu Emperor of the Han dynasty, therefore was gotten passion of this art that called "Permanent the Real Recreation". During its reign, it created around to it a such enthusiasm that people from every part made also 500 miles in order to see the tourament of Shuai-Chiao, to that time its name was Chiao-Ti.

Of generation in generation this Monarchic technique was exceeded. That laughed them to the Shuoi dynasty or Sui (610 d.c.). In the sixth year of the reign of Young Emperor, a national contest was held in the Tuan-Mon roads, the event lasted thirty days is the same Emperor was a frequent visitor.

It was therefore that the tradition was adopted annually, was a meeting or an international tournament every fifteen of the first month of the calendar, going ahead regularly this conventional art refers more and more in the ancient Chinese Art.

Kao-Tsu Emperor (618 d.c.) of the Tang dynasty, a great politician to those times, decided to move the tournament of Shuai-Chiao in warmer periods, and ordered that the games came carried out the fifteen of 17th the month of the Chinese calendar. The first books on the fight of the Shuai-Chiao, one of the more important happened in the period of the dynasty of Song (760 d.c.) was "Jiaoli-Ji", the book of the fight that of it introduces the history, the theories, the techniques, all was attributed to Dia-Luzi.

During the time of Kubla-Khan (1216 d.c.) this art was pushed to an other height. Other names came given to it like: Poh-Ho, Tsong-Chiao, Kuang-Chiao, Hsiang-Pu. The characters used for the Hsiang-Pu, are the same ones in Japan in order to denote the Sumo, that it is the Japanese traditional fight.

The Japanese arts were a lot influenced from the art of the Shuai-Chiao, especially the birth of the Ju-Jitzu, thanks to one great encyclopedia "Wanbao-Quanshu" written on Imperial order of the reign of Wali Emperor (1573 d.c.) of the dynasty of the Ming.

Arriving towards the end of the dynasty of the Ming (1644 d.c.) while the invaders of the Manchuria were spreading, native of That, called a Cheng kianng -Pin 52 years old , bond in the boxing and in the Shuai-Chiao, he was sent in Japan with its connects Chu Shum-Shei and Lee Mei-Shi. Under the political pressure that was in that period in China, was sheltered in temple Buddhist in which they taught to three Samurai students of name: Fukunoshiehilo-Wuemon, Mirulayosi-Wuemen and Isomizile-Saemon, the techniques of Shuai-Chiao that later on founded everyone an own school of Ju-Jitzu, of which the Kito-Ryu it was one of the origins of the modern Judo. Moreover the creator of the Yoshin-Ryu school was a Japanese doctor who had acquired its knowledge in China.

In the dynasty Qing or Ching (1644-1911 d.c.) this fantastic art became the most considered in the Monarchic activity, the new ones reigning of this poor Art on a field of good combatant that called Shan-Pu Ying where they had three hundred squares, these expert Young soldiers was calls "Young Tigris" of Shuai-Chiao, ready every time to you for entrateniment real, national foreign transfers and tournament. Tribali squares of Mongoli and Tibetani champions, and other districts you fight to you, often came sends to you to attend the field.

After that this Republic was established in 1911, the Shuai-Chiao was scattered is to the north that to the south of China, a governor of name Ma-Liang of the province of Shan-Tung, a battalion of Martial Artists organized and gave to Shuai-Chiao like name to this traditional technique and churches to its to teach it.

After the fall of the dynasty of Ching (1912 d.c.) a name general Chang Who in 1928, formed an Institute Centers them of Kuoshu to Nanking or Nanjing, and the Shuai-Chiao was a course asked the students, selects from every province local for training of hight level. Subsequently in the 1928 decided of giving a definitive name to this system, then the Shuai-Chiao name is known like such until the days ours. Anciently in the dialetti local they came used until 87 names for this ancient system.

Today the pure essence of the traditional art of the Shuai-Chiao, has been put from part, is known that is like taken Na-Shuai and projection, is on this base that athletes are moderate themselves in National and International tournament. The Shuai-Chiao miliarey stone in the development of the Chinese Martial arts, to data the bases to styles like the Shaolin Chuan and the Tai Chi Chuan for their applications.

Currently the style of the Shuai-Chiao is diffused in the Popular China and in the China Republican. Little masters exist still today who teach traditionally the art of the Shuai-Chiao, and are the directed descendants of the Paoting style. The others three branches of the Shuai-Chiao come mainly transmitted to sport level. In many university cities, schools, institutes standard this ancient style, integrating part of the Chinese traditions, remained pure in the passage of milleniums.