Editing History of martial arts (section)

====Antiquity (Zhou to Jin)====
A hand-to-hand combat theory, including the integration of notions of [[Hard and soft (martial arts)|"hard" and "soft"]] techniques, is expounded in the story of the ''Maiden of Yue'' in the [[Spring and Autumn Annals]] of Wu and Yue (5th century BCE).<ref>trans. and ed. Zhang Jue (1994), pp. 367-370, cited after Hennin (1999) p. 321 and note 8.</ref>

The ''[[Book of Han|Han History]] Bibliographies'' record that, by the [[Former Han]] (206 BC – 9 AD), there was a distinction between no-holds-barred weaponless fighting, which it calls ''shǒubó'' (手搏), for which "how-to" manuals had already been written, and sportive wrestling, then known as juélì or [[jiǎolì]] (角力).

Wrestling is also documented in the Shǐ Jì, ''[[Records of the Grand Historian]]'', written by [[Sima Qian]] (c. 100 BCE).<ref name=Henning>Henning, Stanley E. (Fall 1999). [http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/china_review_international/v006/6.2henning.pdf Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial arts]. ''China Review International'' '''6''' (2): 319–332. ISSN 1069-5834</ref>

Jiǎolì is also mentioned in the [[Classic of Rites]] (1st century BCE).<ref name=classicofrites>[[Classic of Rites]]. Chapter 6, Yuèlìng. Line 108.</ref>

In the 1st century, "Six Chapters of Hand Fighting", were included in the ''Han Shu'' (history of the Former Han Dynasty) written by [[Ban Gu]].
The [[Five Animals]] concept in Chinese martial arts is attributed to [[Hua Tuo]], a 3rd-century physician.<ref>Dingbo. Wu, Patrick D. Murphy (1994), "Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture", Greenwood Press, {{ISBN|0-313-27808-3}}</ref>