You are all wrong.
Gong fu means very simply, training. When westerners saw the chinese practicing martial arts they asked "what are they doing." The chinese replied "gong fu" (training). So gong fu is an american misinterpretation of what the chinese meant.
Wu(war) shu(arts). This is what the chinese use when speaking about martial arts with each other. They call kungfu wushu. The chinese standardized certain movements from traditional forms and added a certain flare(acrobatic martial movements). So to us it is just wushu. To chinese it is much more than that.
Gong fu means very simply, training. When westerners saw the chinese practicing martial arts they asked "what are they doing." The chinese replied "gong fu" (training). So gong fu is an american misinterpretation of what the chinese meant.
Wu(war) shu(arts). This is what the chinese use when speaking about martial arts with each other. They call kungfu wushu. The chinese standardized certain movements from traditional forms and added a certain flare(acrobatic martial movements). So to us it is just wushu. To chinese it is much more than that.
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