IT'S COMING HOME

To understand the origins of MMA, one needs to go further back than Brazil and jiu-jitsu and further back than Japan and judo, all influenced by one place: China.

The lineage of many martial arts all over the world can be traced back to China, and many styles in MMA is no different.

Currently, in the UFC, one of the most common and successful styles that is used is Brazilian jiu-jitsu, the style that has its origins in Japanese jiu-jitsu and judo. While jiu-jitsu and judo, as old as they are, have their roots firmly in ancient China.

For more than 3,000 years, China had been the home of martial arts, from the control of Wushu to power of Mongolian wrestling to commanding modern style of Sanda. For as long as there have been martial arts, people have been competing in it.

In fact, the earliest contemporary records of people competing in martial arts appear in the Spring and Autumn Annals in the 5th Century BC, while records from Han Dynasty (202 BC-220 AD) had reference to martial arts in the Zhou Dynasty and even earlier in the Shang Dynasty, a thousand years before the Spring and Autumn Annals were written.

Many of these traditional Chinese martial arts have remained in situ for centuries while some have been developed and exported around the world.

Today, the martial arts that were exported globally are returning home to China, updated and refreshed. China could perhaps be about to head into a renaissance of martial arts.

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