The Shifu Tacto turns any tablet, Apple or Android, into a gaming platform.
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Each of the four announced game sets costs $22012, but Play Shifu will be releasing more.
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Play Shifu took to Kickstarter to get the Orboot started, and hit their $15,000 goal in four days.
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Meanwhile, in "Kung Fu Panda," Master Shifu ends Po's training session with a chopstick fight over a bowl of dumplings.
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The company that makes it is called Play Shifu, a startup from grads of Stanford and the Indian Institute of Technology.
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Paytm, the Indian mobile commerce company backed by Alibaba, announced today that it has acquired Shifu, a personal assistant app for smartphones.
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For example, if you told Shifu you had a certain amount of free time, it suggested a task from your task list you could complete.
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Launched in 2013, Shifu billed itself as "your smartphone sidekick" and analyzed how people used their devices so it could make personalized to-do list suggestions and reminders.
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Geely Chairman Li Shifu, who founded the group in 1986 as a refrigerator parts-maker with a loan from his father, sometimes visits the Swedish studio - an old shipbuilding warehouse.
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Shifu is a departure from Paytm's spending spree in e-commerce startups, but Vasireddy says artificial intelligence is an important focus for Paytm and other online commerce and financial technology startups.
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Shifu will shut down so its 20-member team—including founders Prashant Singh, Deepansh Jain, and Michael Massey—can join different departments at Paytm and work on integrating the app's technology into products like Paytm's mobile wallet and online marketplace.
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It ends up though that Shirong pretends to be kidnapped and Shifu goes to rescue him even though they have been estranged for a long time. Shifu acutely gets captured by Tong Fo in a trap that was meant for Po. Po and Tigress also went to rescue Shirong but they end up rescuing Shifu instead. Shirong comes back to help Shifu escape and he and his son and Po and Tigress defeat Tong Fo. After Tong Fo is defeated he leaves on good terms with his son, but he stole his son's money pouch. He later told his son years later that he left Shifu at the Palace because he himself was a jerk.
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When Fenghuang learns that Grand Master Oogway is dead, she flies off to the Jade Palace. Master Shifu and the Furious Five face her, but she easily defeats them. When Po returns, she convinces him to turn evil and orders him to kill Shifu. Po uses a trick knife to fool Fenghuang into thinking that he had actually killed Master Shifu and then placed Fenghuang into the owl-shaped cage.
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It is not known when Murong Shun was born, but it was known that he was the oldest son of the Busabo Khan Murong Fuyun and Sui Dynasty's Princess Guanghua, who had first married Murong Shun's uncle Murong Shifu in 596 when Murong Shifu was khan. In 597, after Murong Shifu was assassinated, Murong Fuyun became khan, and pursuant to Tuyuhun customs, married Princess Guanghua as his wife.
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Taotie then attempts to make a break for it only for the skirmish between him, Po, and Master Shifu to make it onto the nearest stage. With help from the festival attendees, Po and Master Shifu cornered Taotie who ended up being beaten up by the attendees while Bian Zao gives Master Mantis back to Po and Master Shifu. While Master Shifu undoes the paralysis on Master Mantis, Bian Zao carried his beaten-up father away. Taotie returned in "A Thousand and Twenty Questions," in which he approached Master Yao after failing to make his Sphere of Unerringly Accurate Acu-Pressure function properly.
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Master Chao (Chinese for "Super") is a desert monitor Kung Fu Master amongst the hierarchy of the Sacred Onyx Council. He appeared in the episode "Sight for Sore Eyes" where he and Master Junjie visited Shifu at the Jade Palace to determine his qualifications as Master of the Jade Palace. He, Shifu, and Junjie ended up doing their usual sparring with Po secretly watching under Junjie's request where Junjie used a Golden Lotus Clap which Shifu and Chao turned away which resulted in Po being blinded. After it was revealed that Po had watched the play after he botched up a group technique, making Shifu undo the effects of the Golden Lotus Clap, Master Chao was displeased that Po disobeyed Shifu's orders and ended up replacing Shifu with Junjie.
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Taotie (Chinese for "Glutton") is a sinister warthog exclusive to Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. He is a mechanic who built the training hall in which the Furious Five train. Taotie and Master Shifu trained in combat together when they were younger up to the point where Master Shifu broke the tip of his left tusk during combat. Shifu, who was a friend of Taotie's back then, is shown helping him up.
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During his fight against Tai Lung, Shifu was fighting himself as much as he was fighting Tai Lung, denying that he'd had any fault in Tai Lung's actions after he was refused the Dragon Scroll by Oogway. After enduring a brutal showdown against Tai Lung, Shifu finally acknowledges his own culpability. After Tai Lung's defeat, and having finally stopped lying to himself, Shifu gains inner peace, knowing that the valley is safe from Tai Lung's bitterness about being refused the Dragon Scroll. In the second film, Shifu is now much more relaxed and is therefore a much better master to Po and The Five than he used to be.
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Po gets help from Master Monkey and heads for the Palace. Tai Lung fights an defeats Shifu and demands he give up the Dragon Scroll. Shifu refuses, saying he'd rather die than give it to him. Po arrives in time and takes on Tai Lung himself.
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Shifu, at the request of the orphanage, came to teach her to control herself by playing dominoes, which required discipline, grace, and precision. After months of training, Tigress learned to control both her anger and her movements. However, she was still feared by all potential parents who visited the orphanage, and Shifu soon took her in as a foster daughter. However, Shifu still carried the emotional scars of previous events, and was strict and distant in her upbringing.
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Po rescues the eggs and the leader's grandchild after Crane saves him from the sergeant in a fierce chase. Po and Shifu head to Wudang Mountains to find some relics of Master Oogway, but they discover that Great Gorilla and his soldiers have got their first. Po grabs the relics and defeats Great Gorilla while Shifu defends the Wudang Temple. Back at Lotus Lake, Po and Shifu must save some villager geese from the Croc Gang, who returned despite Po's interference.
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After the Furious Five were defeated, only Master Shifu was left and Po saved him by clogging the gears of Taotie's machine enough for it to break. Taotie managed to get away. In "Fluttering Finger Mindslip," Taotie discovers that the Furious Five have lost their memory after being exposed to Po's move. While Po and Master Shifu are away, Taotie took the opportunity to use this to his advantage by having them attack Master Shifu and Po upon their return.
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In Secrets of the Scroll, It is further revealed that Shifu was very strict in her Kung Fu training, and did not approve of her natural aggression and immense strength emerging during practices. Shifu originally wanted her to become as much like him as possible; Tigress in turn aspired to have as much control and skill as he did, while at the same time believing she would never be like him, while Oogway agreed with her and believed that Tigress should be encouraged to grow into her own. When Shifu heard news of Boar, a dangerous warrior who had defeated several Kung Fu masters and was spreading terror through China, Tigress wanted to help, but he refused to let her. However, when Shifu fell ill due to a bad batch of food served by Po, Shifu sent Tigress to find four warriors to help fight Boar.
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Shifu decides that Po is ready to receive the Dragon Scroll, but the scroll reveals nothing but a blank, reflective surface. Believing the scroll to be useless, Shifu orders Po and the Five to evacuate the valley while he faces Tai Lung. As Tai Lung arrives and fights Shifu, a distraught Po finds Mr. Ping. In an attempt to console his son, Mr. Ping reveals that the secret ingredient to his famous "secret ingredient soup" is "nothing", explaining that things are special when believed to be.
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Two decades later, when Po is chosen as the Dragon Warrior, Tai Lung escapes and confronts all the guards before sending Zeng ahead with a message. Desperate for the Dragon Scroll, he returns to the Valley, defeating the Furious Five. By the time he reaches the temple, Shifu battles him while Po is supposedly evacuating with the rest of the villagers and the Furious Five. Tai Lung unleashes all his rage and hatred during the battle and gravely wounds Shifu, whom he blames for his incarceration and failure to become the Dragon Warrior, claiming that he only wanted to make Shifu proud of him and furiously demanding to know if Shifu was satisfied with turning him into the monster he had become.
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In addition, Ping establishes a friendship with the panda's other father figure and master, Shifu. He is extremely skilled at Chinese chess as shown when he outwits Shifu in a match. However, the Kung Fu Panda Holiday shows that Mr. Ping harbors a deep-seated anxiety of Po leaving him in his nightmares. In addition, Ping finds the conflict of his priorities with his son's responsibilities as the Dragon Warrior deeply upsetting, especially since Master Shifu is prone to imperiously draw Po away on these matters at will.
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When Kai attacks the Jade Palace, Shifu, Monkey, Viper, and Tigress try to fight, but are defeated, with Shifu watching in horror as Kai destroys the Jade Palace and Oogway's statue. Shifu is then turned into a jade soldier and utilized against the pandas when Kai attacks their village. He is returned to normal when Po destroys Kai in the Spirit Realm and celebrates with him and the other pandas afterwards. He has a strict sensible personality that makes Po dislike him when they meet, but he is kind and warm spirited.
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However, the goat refused to cooperate and found even death threats an entertaining novelty. Eventually, Shifu and Po managed to rescue him with his help of his magic to stun Temutai and his troops into stillness. In the episode "In With the Old," Temutai and his Qidan troops took advantage of the Furious Five's absence for a training session to invade the Jade Palace and capture Shifu in an inescapable death trap in order to force him to surrender the Helmet of the Invincible Thunder Kick. Shifu refused and Temutai searched the Palace himself.
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After building the training hall, he built a huge machine which included flame- throwers and throwing stars. He had a disagreement with Master Shifu and Grand Master Oogway about having machines surpass Kung Fu. Taotie left and vowed to get revenge on Master Shifu one day. Many years later in the episode "Sticky Situation," Po ended up seeking out Taotie to repair the training hall that he accidentally broke. Behind Po's back, Taotie reassembled the parts of the training hall into a machine that he uses in his revenge plot on Master Shifu.
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Po is demoralized because of his failure, but Shifu advises Po that instead of trying to be like Shifu, he should try to be himself. Po returns home where he meets a panda, Li Shan, whom they both realize is his long-lost biological father. They quickly bond with each other, much to the jealousy of Po's adoptive father Mr. Ping. After introducing Li to Shifu and his friends, Po and the Five defend the Valley of Peace from jade zombies that Kai has created from the chi of past kung fu masters.
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Overhearing this, the Five leave to stop Tai Lung themselves. However, Shifu discovers that Po is capable of impressive physical feats when motivated by food. Using food as positive reinforcement, Shifu successfully trains Po by incorporating these feats into an innovative kung fu style. Meanwhile, the Furious Five return after being defeated by Tai Lung's nerve strikes.
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However, after that, there was a time of peace between Tuyuhun and Sui. Indeed, in 596, Emperor Wen created the daughter of a clansman Princess Guanghua and married her to Murong Shifu. For reasons lost to history, there was a major disturbance in Tuyuhun in 597, and Murong Shifu was assassinated. The people supported Murong Fuyun as khan.
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After their victory, Shifu tells Po that the Furious 5 have gone to fight Tai Lung themselves and leaves Po to find his way back to the Palace. When Shifu arrives back at the Wudang Mountains, a Wolf Slasher tells him that Tai Lung has already defeated and captured the Five. Shifu fends off the Wolves and the Gorillas, rescues the Five and sends them back to the Palace. Po, wandering the Lands, is looking for his way back to the Palace, but not before stumbling upon Tai Lung's training grounds and finding the Lair of the Wu Sisters.
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It turns out that Shifu, the Furious Five, and Chao, knew about the shoes when they started to glow. When the shoes start to go out of control, Chao had to help Shifu and the Furious Five in order to get the shoes off of Po. After the panda got the shoes off and sliced them, the shoes multiplied and possessed everyone present. Po then uses the water to neutralize the shoe's effects. Shifu thanks Chao for his help as Chao states that this was the first time he has seen anyone perform the Three Needles Move.
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The two of them ran by Jong while on their way out. When Po returned to the Jade Palace, two representatives of Jong's guards were seen telling Master Shifu that Po had assisted Fung into breaking into Jong's castle. When Po states that he was just helping Fung save his brother, Master Shifu states that Fung doesn't have a brother and the person that he helped Fung abduct was Jong's son. Master Shifu had to reluctantly let Jong's Javan rhino guard and water buffalo guard arrest Po and bring him before Jong to face his crimes.
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He also holds a hatred towards Po, believing him to be unworthy of taking the title of Dragon Warrior, despite Po's success as the Dragon Warrior. Junjie plotted and succeeded into removing Master Shifu from his position by tricking Po into watching him and Shifu spar and use the Golden Lotus Clap, a move that renders the target blind. Junjie then fired the Furious Five and replaced them with a team of snow leopards. Because of this, the Furious Five turned their backs on Po. It was later revealed that Junjie had imprisoned Shifu and later did the same thing to Chao.
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Shirong is the father of Master Shifu, and is a con Man by trade. When Shifu was young Shirong left him at the Jade Palace. He appears in the episode "Father Crime". Years later, he was supposedly rescued by Po and Tigress, but actually it was a plan set up by Tong Fo to capture Po and hold him for ransom.
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In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Shifu is the Master of the Jade Palace while training Po and the Furious Five. It is revealed in "The Maltese Mantis" that Shifu, like Po, has a childish side to his demeanor and keeps several action figures of his favorite Kung Fu masters, and also like Po, is not above playing with them.
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Wang Shifu wrote the popular play Romance of the Western Chamber. Li Qianfu wrote Circle of Chalk. Ma Zhiyuan has seven extant zaju plays.
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First edition (publ. Arcade Publishing) Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh is a 2001 collection of novellas by Nobel prize-winning author Mo Yan.
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Master Snow Leopard is a snow leopard who appears in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. She was a member of the original Furious Five alongside Master Shifu, Fenghuang, Master Elephant, and Master Rooster. Master Snow Leopard appears in person in the episode "The First Five" where Po organizes a reunion of the original Furious Five as part of a party that Po throws for Master Shifu.
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Master Rooster is a chicken who appears in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. He was a member of the original Furious Five alongside Master Shifu, Fenghuang, Master Elephant, and Master Snow Leopard. Master Rooster appears in person in the episode "The First Five" where Po organizes a reunion of the original Furious Five as part of a party that Po throws for Master Shifu.
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This task is revealed to be the theft of the Crown of Heaven and when Shifu intends to steal the crown from the museum in order to protect Mei Ling from Jungjie, she sets a plan with Po and the Furious Five in order to apprehend Jungjie and save Shifu's honor, however Mei Ling turns herself to the Imperial Guards as Jungjie's conspirator in order to avoid Jungjie's revenge against her and Shifu. Upon seeing the sacrifice Mei Ling has done for him, Shifu realizes that she really loves him and they rekindle their romance and have a picnic in Mei Ling's cell in Chorh-Gom Prison.
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When Chao returned to check up on Junjie, he overheard Junjie's intentions in his talk with Po and caught Junjie in the act. Po and Chao were imprisoned in the same cell as Shifu by Junjie's Furious Five. After Po freed Shifu and Chao and defeated Junjie, Chao gave Shifu his job back and commended Po for doing the right thing despite the risk, while Junjie and his Furious Five are remanded to Chorh-Gom Prison. In "Kung Shoes," Chao is called to the Jade Palace when Po (who was wearing special shoes that enhance Kung Fu abilities) has accomplished the Three Needles move.
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As a voice actor, Ben Ari performed the Hebrew voice of Shifu in the Kung Fu Panda franchise as well as Don Lino in Shark Tale.
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Unknown to Po and the Five, two Komodo dragons plan to use the goons to distract Po and the Furious Five and take over Gongmen City. Po runs to tell Master Shifu, Master Storming Ox and Master Croc, who are having a meeting. Po accidentally interrupts them, and tells them about the news. Shifu and the two Master already know about the news, and have been discussing about it.
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Po has also improved his physical health when he runs alongside Shifu at an amazing pace and upon stopping, needs much less time than before to catch his breath. Shifu then assigns him to teach an introduction to kung fu to a group of rabbit children, to whom Po tries to explain the true meaning of kung fu, illustrating his point with the stories of the Furious Five's pasts.
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However, Ke-Pa later finds out that Shifu is not the host of the Hero's Chi, but Po is. Ke-Pa crushes Po close to death, extracting the Hero's Chi and breaking the seal, thus releasing the demons. Po's Life Force and Chi are restored by the Peach Tree sapling that Shifu planted in the Kung Fu Panda first movie. Po managed to defeat the demons and reseal the remaining ones.
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Ironically, Shifu discovered that Po can perform considerable physical feats when motivated by food and used this to train him with a custom training regimen. At the end of the training, during a chopstick-sparring match over dumplings, Po demonstrated not only considerable skill in combat, which includes innovative moves using his bulk to his advantage but also some emotional maturity that allowed him to somewhat reduce his emotional dependence on food. This was evident when Po eagerly gives the last dumpling back to Shifu after winning the sparring match, stating that he's not hungry. Now convinced of Po's worthiness, Shifu presented the legendary Dragon Scroll to Po, only to find that it is a blank reflective surface.
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Master Shifu (Chinese for "Master") is a wise, leucistic red panda Kung Fu Master who resides in the Jade Palace as its headmaster, known to have trained Po and the Furious Five in Kung Fu, as well as Tai Lung. Before the franchise, Shifu was used throughout his childhood as a shill by his father, Shirong, an incorrigible con artist and master thief who he accompanied to other villages to sell fake amulets. Eventually, Shirong left him at the Jade Palace, promising to return in five minutes, but never returned. Shirong did visit his son every ten years, but each visit always turned out to be a trick, and the deed he made emotionally scarred Shifu.
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However, he loses inner peace after he sees that Po is seemingly killed by one of Lord Shen's cannons. He does not regain inner peace until after Shen is killed. In the third film, Shifu retires from active teaching to focus on learning how to use chi, passing on the mantle of instructor to Po. When Po doubts his abilities, Shifu is the one to comfort him and give him advice, like Oogway did, and along with the Furious Five meets Po's father, Li Shan. When the kung fu masters have their chi taken and are turned into jade soldiers by the spirit warrior Kai, Shifu sends Crane and Mantis to investigate and find his hideout.
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Practitioners of the learned professions, such as physicians and lawyers, are rarely referred to as "shifu", and some members of such professions may indeed find such a term of address disrespectful. Likewise, academics and teachers are not generally addressed as shifu. In China especially, but also traditionally in Taiwan and elsewhere, the preferred term for academic and learned professionals without special titles (i.e., excluding physicians), is often laoshi (老師/老师).
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However, Lian managed to escape, and the Kung Fu Club members teamed up with Po and Shifu to defeat Tong Fo and his minions, with Peng and Po defeating Tong Fo.
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Po is praised by the Valley of Peace and earns the respect of the Furious Five, who fully acknowledge him as a true kung fu master, while Shifu finally attains peace.
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As Po grew into his teenage years with a lack of focus and of his father's skill in cooking, which later led to Shifu getting food poisoning after Po prepared a meal for the Jade Palace while his father was away on business. Afterward, Po began to consider other possible career paths, such as a cleaner, comedian, dancer, or doctor, and made a list of them on a scroll. This scroll later inadvertently ended up in the hands of Tigress, who mistook it for a list made by Shifu of four warriors she was to gather to face the villainous Boar. This led to her recruiting Crane, Monkey, Viper, and Mantis, who were quickly dismissed by Shifu who also ordered the evacuation of the valley.
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The antics of Peng's students ended up thwarting the robberies of criminals who were working for Tong Fo. Upon finding the location of the Kung Fu Fight Club, Tong Fo raided the place where his gorillas held Lian hostage so that Tong Fo can get Peng to do as he says. The next day, Po spars against Peng as Tong Fo's gang blended in with the crowd alongside a disguised Master Shifu. After figuring out that Tong Fo is secretly running the fights, Po helps Peng free Lian as the Kung Fu Fight Club members join in the fight against Tong Fo's gang with the help of Master Shifu. After Tong Fo and his gang are defeated, Master Shifu allows the Kung Fu Fight Club to remain.
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However, when she dropped the scroll containing Shifu's message, she inadvertently mixed it up with a scroll Po had thrown away; one with a list of things he could aspire to be: a cleaner, comedian, dancer, and doctor. Tigress sought out the ones fitting this description, in this way meeting Crane, Monkey, Viper, and Mantis for the first time and learning from them how to be herself. However, when Shifu saw those she had brought, Shifu told her that she had failed, and ordered the Valley of Peace evacuated. Tigress however, stayed to fight, pretending to be Shifu, and after initially being defeated, found herself aided by Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey, who had stayed out of loyalty to their friend.
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Po trains with Master Shifu after being chosen. Shifu receives word from Zheng, his messenger, that Tai Lung escaped from prison and is coming for the Dragon Scroll, the key to ultimate power. Po, after napping inside the Palace, stops the Black Hoof Boar Clan from stealing treasures. Po and Master Crane are sent to Lotus Lake and find that the Golden Croc Gang have taken over and are demanding the villagers give up their egg hatchlings.
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In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Po is shown to be defending the Valley of Peace, with assistance from Shifu and the Furious Five. All the while, Po learns lessons and more about the history of Kung Fu, as well as meeting famous Kung Fu masters like him. In the third film, Shifu leaves the role of teaching to Po, much to his shock. Po's first lesson ends up with the Furious Five getting injured.
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Master Junjie (Chinese for "Elite") is a red fox Kung Fu Master exclusive to Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. He is a member of the Sacred Onyx Council alongside Master Chao. He first appeared in "Sight for Sore Eyes," where he and Chao traveled to the Valley of Peace to evaluate Master Shifu's skills as the master of the Jade Palace. He held a grudge against Shifu when Grand Master Oogway chose Shifu to run the Jade Palace.
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Interactive Television Trials and Marketplace Experiences. In: Zhang, Shifu, Dimitris Anastassiou, Alexandros Eleftheriadis, and John V. Pavlik (eds.). Video on Demand Systems: Technology, Interoperability and Trials. Boston: Springer, 1997, pp. 93-102.
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It was the first anarchist newspaper in China. In the beginning, the information in its Chinese language part came mostly from the above-mentioned Internacia Socia Revuo. Liu Shifu died in 1915.
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He then took a flag and ended up engaging Po, Master Shifu, and the Furious Five. He was defeated by them and fell off a cliff. His fate after that was unknown.
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After Junjie and his forces were defeated, he and Mei Ling were both sent to prison, the latter to pay her debt to society so that she could eventually be reunited with Shifu.
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He gets overly excited at every little thing that surrounds him because of his long cut-off from the world. Po and Shifu had to protect him when Temutai and the Qidan Clan target Yao to learn the secrets of Kung Fu. Even though his physical strengths are weak, he is able to use Kung Fu with his mind. It was with this talent that he was able to free Po and Shifu and knock the entire Qidan Clan unconscious.
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Bian Zao (Chinese for "Invent") is the 13-year-old son of Taotie, who would reluctantly help his father in his revenge plots on Master Shifu. In "Big Bro Po," Bian Zao ends up staying at the Jade Palace when his father is in Chorh-Gom Prison. Master Shifu ends up appointing Po to watch of Bian Zao despite the suspicions of Bian Zao. Po tries to find common ground with Bian Zao until it came to Po baking with Mr. Ping.
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In Chinese culture, the term "shifu" is used as a respectful form of address for people of low class engaged in skilled trades, such as drivers, cooks, house decorators, as well as performing artists, and less commonly, for visual artists such as painters and calligraphers. The more usual term of address for those accomplished in the visual arts is dashi, which means "great master". While there is no clear delineation of trades to which the term shifu can be applied, traditionally it would be used to refer to traditional trades where training is by apprenticeship, as "master" (shīfu 師傅/师傅) corresponds with "apprentice" (túdì 徒弟). Likewise, since religious instruction involves a teacher-student relationship akin to apprenticeship, bhikkhu (Buddhist monks) and Taoist priests are also addressed as sīfu or shifu.
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"Ascension" (Stargate SG-1) Oma therefore only guides individuals, leaving the final decision to travel the great path to them."Meridian" (Stargate SG-1) SG-1 first encounters Oma Desala on their search for Shifu in season 3's "Maternal Instinct". Oma eventually guides Shifu to ascension in season 4's "Absolute Power". Oma is involved in Daniel Jackson's ascension in "Meridian" and forceful de-ascension in "Fallen", and also helps the entire Abydonian population ascend after Anubis's attack in season 6's "Full Circle".
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In the first film, Oogway is shown to be highly venerated for his wisdom, knowledge and experience, and considered a sage. Unlike Shifu, who is cold, abrasive and extremely strict, Oogway is kind, affectionate, caring and accepting. It is also apparent that he seemed to be reckoned as a god in the art of Kung Fu, as he was greatly respected by Shifu, the Furious Five, Po, the entire Valley of Peace, and all of China. He is wise and possesses considerable physical skill.
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Liu Shifu, who would go on to be one of the most significant figures in the anarchist movement in mainland China founded a group in Guangzhou later that same year, with an explicitly anarchist-communist platform.
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After she was defeated by Po and the Furious Five, Mei Ling was arrested and sent to Chorh-Gom Prison, only to escape while being escorted there. Her escape delighted Shifu to no end revealing that even after the events she put him through, he still is in love with Mei Ling. She reappears in "Crazy little ling called love" but this time as a redeemed villain. She starts the episode tricking Shifu into revealing the day when the Crown of Heaven was being transported to the Imperial Museum so that Master Jungjie could steal it along the way but she was only helping Jungjie because years ago he caught her stealing a silver sword from him and said that he would free her if someday she would help him complete a task or he would kill her and Shifu.
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However, remnants of Shen's Wolf and gorillas arrive, create chaos, and capture various villagers. Unknown to Po, the Five and the Villagers, two Komodo dragon mercenaries planned to use Shen's thugs to distract Po and the Five, and with them out of the way, they plan to take over Gongmen City. Shifu holds a meeting with Master Storming Ox and Master Croc. Master Storming Ox says that they can't let the thugs take over the city, so Shifu, Storming Ox and Croc decide to split up and go around the city to stop the thugs.
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Liu Shifu. Liu Shifu (; 1884 – 27 March 1915) was an influential figure in the Chinese revolutionary movement in the early twentieth century, and in the Chinese Anarchist movement in particular. He was a key figure in the movement, particularly in Canton province, and one of the most important organizers in the Chinese Anarchist tradition. He began his radical career as a member of the China Assassination Corps, an anti-colonial movement which was strongly influenced by the tactics of the Russian Nihilist movement and advocated revolutionary terrorism and the assassination of criminal elites.
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Po gave into this every night until Master Shifu and the Furious Five caught on to this. After a stern talking to from Master Shifu, Po visited Madame Zhou where he ended up discovering that Madame Zhou was a silent partner to the Lao Shu. She then traps Po and Lao Shu in an underground room while she works to sell the stolen food to other markets. Po and Lao Shu got out where Madame Zhou wielded an iron whip in battle (she considers herself as the "Master of the Iron Whip").
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He blames Mr. Ping for making him a failure, but Po tells him that he isn't a failure but instead lost his balance. Yet instead of regaining his balance, he let his imbalance control his life. Engraged, Kuo then throws numerous knives at Po, but the panda (remembering his lessons from Master Shifu) leaps on top of the knives and kicks Kuo in the chest. While Po checks on his father, Kuo tries to flee the scene only to be intercepted by Master Shifu and is knocked out.
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When Master Shifu hears from Po that he was only helping Fung rescue his brother from Jong, Master Shifu states that Fung doesn't have a brother and that the person he helped him abduct was Jong's son. Fung later meets up with the other bandits where he learns that Po had been apprehended by Jong's guards. Fung feels remorse for what had happened to Po and decides to return the box containing Jong's son. Upon Fung entering Jong's torture room disguised as a water buffalo guard, Fung freed Po and gave Jong his son back.
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While his Furious Five fought the actual Furious Five, Master Junjie fought against Master Po and was defeated. Master Shifu and the Furious Five were rehired while Junjie and his henchmen were apprehended to Chorh-Gom-Prison. It can also be implied that Junjie was also ousted from the Sacred Onyx Council for his actions. In "Ghost of Oogway," Master Junjie posed as the ghost of Oogway in order to fool Master Po into letting his guard down by doing nothing in combat training and turn him and Shifu against each other.
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Once Po and Shifu were out of the palace, Junjie used his disguise to enter the Jade Palace and subdued the Furious Five. When Po returned, he found the Furious Five tied up as Junjie sheds his disguise. Junjie then unleashes his henchmen on Po. Things weren't looking good for the panda, but in the nick of time, Master Shifu arrived and fooled Junjie by assuming the form of Oogway. While the Furious Five fought Master Junjie's henchmen, Master Po managed to successfully use the Tae Bow Chow to knock out Master Junjie.
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During this time, Po learns that Shifu's cold and distant behavior stems from his own shame over Tai Lung's betrayal, having raised him from infancy. Meanwhile, Tai Lung escapes from prison by picking his locks with one of Zeng's feathers. Shifu learns of Tai Lung's escape from Zeng and informs Oogway, who extracts a promise from Shifu to believe in Po, and then passes on to the heavens in a stream of peach blossoms. Still unable to grasp the basics of kung fu, Po despairingly admits that he has no chance of defeating Tai Lung.
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Duke Xiang was not the eldest son of his father Duke Zhuang of Qin. Duke Zhuang had three sons, and Shifu (世父) was the eldest and therefore the legal heir. However, Shifu refused the throne, and would rather devote his life to campaigning against the Rong tribes in order to avenge the death of his grandfather Qin Zhong, who was killed in battle against the Rong in 822 BC. Duke Xiang was then made the Crown Prince, and succeeded his father when Duke Zhuang died in 778 BC.
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In 1911, Yamaga was introduced to anarchist Sakae Osugi. Yamaga became an assistant to anarchist Osugi. At Osugi's request, Yamaga visited Chinese anarchist Liu Shifu and his comrades in Shanghai. He stayed at Shifu's HQ for several weeks.
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Afterwards, he goes to the Memorial Garden, where he finds out Shifu set him up to fail. Eventually, when he turns to Mr. Ping's restaurant, his biological father Li Shan appears and takes him to his secret panda village.
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Junjie's Furious Five were a bunch of snow leopards that are trained in Kung Fu by Master Junjie. They serve as Master Junjie's students and henchmen when he succeeded in removing Master Shifu and the Furious Five from the Jade Palace.
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He is able to invade the Lair and defeat the Wu Sisters and finds a map back to the Palace At the Palace, Shifu fends off the Wolves and confronts Tai Lung himself. Po, who learns about this from his dad upon his arrival in the village, goes to the palace to stop Tai Lung and save Shifu. His Dad tells him that his secret ingredient soup is nothing and says to make something special, you have to believe it is. Po realizes that the same implies with the Dragon Scroll and that he has to believe he's the Dragon Warrior.
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Traditionally, in Chinese martial arts shifu was used as a familial term and sign of respect as in the general usage. A shifu was deemed a "father", therefore his disciples would address each other as "brothers" or "sisters", particularly "big brothers" (shīxiōng 師兄), "little brothers" (shīdì 師弟), "big sisters" (shījiě 師姐) and "little sisters" (shīmèi 師妹). More specific familial prefixes could also be used, for example as in "biggest brother" (dàshīxiōng 大師兄), "second biggest (big) sister" (èrshījiě 二師姐), "third biggest (little) sister" (sānshīmèi 三師妹). Unlike actual familial prefixes however, dà-, èr-, sān-, etc.
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In "The Most Dangerous Po," Bao is among the villains that were hunted by General Tsin and subjected to stiffening Zu Chao Powder. He is later rescued by Po, but escapes upon being repelled by Po. In "Shifu's Back," Bao, Lao, and Tsao captured Superintendent Woo after his inspection of the Jade Palace. When Po, Master Shifu, and Constable Hu arrived, Superintendent Woo had to reinstate Constable Hu and reopen the Jade Palace to get them to rescue him from Bao, Lao, and Tsao. Po, Master Shifu, and Constable Hu were able to rescue Superintendent Woo and fend off Bao, Lao, and Tsao.
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Meng Tao is the diplomat of the Emperor of China. He accompanied the Emperor's grandson Lu Kang to the Kung Fu camp where Master Shifu and the Furious Five were counseling. Meng Tao left Lu Kang to Master Shifu and the Furious Five in order to learn Kung Fu. When Po, the Dragon Warrior and master in charge of Lu Kang's training, rashly makes a vow to fully train Lu Kang, Meng Tao informs him that breaking that vow would result in beheading for every master of the Jade Palace. Meng Tao then left the horrified masters to continue with training.
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Master Elephant is an Indian elephant who appears in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. He was a member of the original Furious Five alongside Master Shifu, Fenghuang, Master Snow Leopard, and Master Rooster. Master Elephant appears in person in the episode "The First Five" where Po organizes a reunion of the original Furious Five as part of a party that Po throws for Master Shifu. During a mission where Po teams up with the original five to retrieve the Sword of Xi'an, a demon that had been beaten by the original five in the past.
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Boar was an enormous anthropomorphic wild boar that appeared in Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Scroll and starred as its main antagonist. Boar was a terrifying Kung Fu warrior that terrorized a vast swathe of China. He attacked many villages and defeated many powerful Kung Fu masters, to the point where he was deemed unstoppable and invincible. When word spread that he intended to defeat Shifu and attack the Valley of Peace, Shifu intended to stop him, but was thwarted from this due to accidentally being poisoned by the food Po had made for him.
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Tigress was an orphan whose status as an apex predator and her destructive lack of control of her strength left her feared and isolated in the rest of the orphanage where she lived. Master Shifu came to kindly teach her the discipline she desperately needed to control her movements until she could perform delicate tasks with ease enough to allay the concerns of the orphanage and the kids that lived there. When she was again rejected for adoption by the adults who were still scared of her, Master Shifu took her in as his student and foster daughter.
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He also has a special nerve attack taught to him by Shifu which completely paralyzes the victim. However, Po, being too fat for the strikes to reach the correct points, is resistant to the technique, finding it very ticklish when it was used.
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Shifu invited Yamaga to help him publish the journal Minsheng. Yamaga returned to Japan to help with the publication of the Heimin Shimbun. In 1922, Yamaga was able secure Osugi a false passport. Beginning in 1939, he lived in Shanghai, Kaohsiung, Taipei, and Manila.
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Moved by Po's loyalty to his family, the Furious Five and the other masters participate in the festivities with the townsfolk. Po is additionally able to restore Wo Hop's honor by presenting him with the Golden Ladle originally intended for the chef selected to cook for the masters' banquet. Shifu is initially mortified that everyone abandoned the feast, but upon seeing the merry time everyone is having at the noodle shop, he realizes Po did the right thing, creating a truly perfect event with his father. Although Shifu turns to leave, Po persuades him to join them, firmly asserting Shifu's place with his family.
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Peng decides to stop trying to avenge his uncle and states that kung fu is over for him and leaves out of fear of the darkness inside him and his fear of not being able to control or defeat it, leaving Shifu, the Furious Five, and especially Po greatly saddened.Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness: Master and the Panda In "Kung Fu Fight Club," Peng returns where he starts a Kung Fu Fight Club as a way for the defenseless to defend themselves. He even befriends Lian who helps him. Po ended up learning about this and had to keep this info private from Master Shifu.
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Though Bian Zao was very doubtful that people would buy figurines of his father, Taotie was confident that he would make a fortune once the fans saw the power of his figurines Bian Zao eventually asked his father for some money so he could go and buy something that wasn't "lame." Bian Zao would eventually discover the paralyzed Mantis and became intrigued when he spotted the "figure's" eyes moving. Po and Master Shifu learned from Bian Zao about where they can find Taotie. Po and Master Shifu confronted Taotie who refused to give Mantis up...especially after Po unwisely revealed that Mantis would become permanently paralyzed in a matter of minutes.
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Instead, they turned to individual action, the propaganda of the deed, in the form of assassination. This was deeply inspired by roughly contemporary groups like the Russian People's Will, a left-wing terrorist group most well known for killing Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and the Black Hand, a Serbian pan-Slavic nationalist organization which would later go on to trigger World War I by assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. These first members included people like Ch'en Chiung-ming, Kao Chien-fu, Xie Yingbo, and Liu Shifu. Liu Shifu (1884–1915) especially would go on to become prominent within the Chinese anarchist milieu.
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Exit 4 Station concourse The station is situated under Xinyi Road, near Shifu Road. The two-level, underground station structure with one island platform and five exits. The northeast exit directly connects to the basement of Taipei 101. Originally, the station was to be named just "World Trade Center".
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Many of the rooms feature period furniture, paintings and calligraphy, and the extensive Shifu Garden. Part of the complex has been turned into the Yangliuqing Museum, which includes displays focused on symbolic aspects of the courtyards' construction, local folk art and customs, and traditional period furnishings and crafts.
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Ju-Long is a rat who is exclusive to Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Ju-Long is the leader of the Lao Shu. Ju-Long is described by Master Shifu as "deadly and unbalanced". He is crazy, and likes to inflict suffering and chaos simply for fun.
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Refusing to believe that Po can be the Dragon Warrior, Shifu subjects Po to torturous training exercises in order to discourage him into quitting. Determined to change himself into someone he can respect, Po perseveres in his training and befriends the Furious Five, who had previously mocked Po for his lack of skill in kung fu. Po soon learns that Tai Lung is approaching the Valley, an evil kung fu warrior who has escaped from prison to take revenge for being denied the Dragon Scroll, and despairs he will be unable to defeat him. However, Shifu discovers that Po is capable of martial arts when motivated by food, and successfully trains him to learn kung fu.
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In Kung Fu Panda 3, Po is promoted to be a teacher when Shifu decides to retire from active duty to focus on honing chi. However, in his first lesson, Po's attempts to train the Furious Five ends disastrously, with the Five injured as a result. Po, demoralized and full of doubt, goes to Shifu for advice, who reveals that he'd deliberately set Po up to fail to help teach him a lesson, and advises him that he must be himself. When Po also tries talking about his problems with his father, Mr. Ping, they are interrupted by the arrival of Li Shan, Po's biological father, who breaks Po's dumpling- eating record at the restaurant.
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Po pridefully tries to stop him, but Ke-Pa has proven himself more than a match for him. When the tree dies, Ke-Pa regains his full powers and because he learned that Po was the Dragon Warrior, Ke-Pa decides the most appropriate to take to defeat him would be an actual beast and assumes his true form of a huge, colorful Dragon. Ke-Pa tells Po and Shifu that if they don't surrender the Hero's Chi so he can release the demons, he will devour the villagers. Shifu tells him that he has the Hero's Chi and he harshly sends Po off for letting his selfishness get the best of him and forgetting to warn the villagers.
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When he died in 778 BC, his eldest son Shifu wanted to stay fighting the Xirong and avenge their grandfather, turning down the succession, so his second son Duke Xiang ascended as the clan leader. Soon afterwards in 777 BC, Duke Xiang married his younger sister Mu Ying to a Rong leader called King Feng (豐王), in an apparent attempt to make peace. The following year he moved the Qin capital eastward from Quanqiu to Qian (汧, in present-day Long County, Shaanxi), but Quanqiu soon fell to the Rong again after he left. His older brother Shifu, who led the defence of Quanqiu, was captured by the Rong but was released a year later.
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Various dialects of the Chinese language use different terms. "Sifu" is a common romanization, although the term and pronunciation are also used in other southern languages. In Mandarin Chinese, it is spelled "shifu" in pinyin. Using non-rhotic British English pronunciation, in Mandarin it would sound something similar to "sure foo".
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The Croc Bandits are a group of crocodiles who are the recurring but rather ineffectual antagonists in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Although their group was never referred to by an official name by its members, Po, Master Shifu, and the Furious Five often referred to them as Croc Bandits.
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Wang Shifu (), courtesy name of Wang Dexin (1250-1337?),Tres dramas chinos Gredos, 2002 . Several dates are given for his death. The Britannica establishes it in 1337 was a successful Chinese playwright of the Yuan dynasty. He was born in Dadu (present-day Beijing), the capital of the Yuan dynasty.
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There are no public teachers in North America or Europe. Shifu Jason Baaht taught this style along with Wudang styles in Indianapolis, but he died in 1997 and left no clear successor. Jason Baaht (Ba Yexing)'s senior disciple was named Damien Baaht (Ba Demen). Both names are Taoist names.
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Kung Fu Panda Holiday (also known as Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special) is a 2010 television special that premiered on NBC on November 24, 2010. It tells a story of Po, who is assigned to host the annual Winter Feast by Master Shifu, despite his wishes to spend the holiday with Mr. Ping.
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The Jombies are Kai's jade minions in Kung Fu Panda 3, created from the Chi of Masters Porcupine, Gorilla, Boar(s), Croc, Bear, Chicken, and later Shifu, as well as the Badger Twins and most of the Furious Five; it is also implied that Masters Lizard, Ox, and Eagle also met this fate.
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Apparently, by accident, he was dubbed the Dragon Warrior by Master Oogway (who proclaims that "there are no accidents"), over Po's and his fellow masters' protests. During the subsequent training, Master Shifu and the Furious Five made no secret of their disdain for him, making their rough physical activities with him to torture to discourage him. However, with Master Oogway's encouragement, Po endured their abuse without complaint in the personal hope that they could eventually change him into someone he can respect. This display of indomitable tenacity, although frustrating to Shifu, soon impressed most of the Furious Five, who began to warm up to the affable panda whom they also found, to their delight at mealtime, is an excellent cook.
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The following chart, created by Shifu Jonathan Bluestein and Shifu Nitzan Oren, demonstrates the historical connections between most known lineages of Xing Yi Quan, and related martial arts. The chart is a collaborative project between Mr. Bluestein, who created the bulk of it, and several dozen Xing Yi Quan teachers from the West, who contributed information on their lineages and those of others. The chart project is well known in the Xing Yi Quan community, and the information contained in it has never been disputed (further contributions, suggestions and objections may be made by directly contacting Mr. Bluestein, at: jonathan.bluesteingmail.com). An attempt was made to include as many notable teachers as possible, but due to the obvious constraints of space, not all could have been included.
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However, as Tai Lung's fighting skills developed, his pride and thirst for power grew overwhelming due to believing that he was to become the Dragon Warrior, thus alerting Grand Master Oogway of darkness in his heart and leading him to refuse Tai Lung the title. Shocked, Tai Lung looked to Shifu for support, but the latter was too reluctant to protest. Embittered and outraged by Shifu and Oogway's perceived betrayal, Tai Lung's pride turned into corruption as he rampaged throughout the valley, taking out his rage against the villagers. He then fought his way back to the Jade Palace, seeking to take the Dragon Scroll, the item that was said to grant the chosen Dragon Warrior limitless power, by force.
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It is then Shifu tells Tai Lung that he was always proud of him, too proud in fact as Shifu's pride in him blinded the master to see what his adopted son was becoming, and apologizes. Although Tai Lung's demeanor softens for a moment and he shows some concern for him, he is still only interested in gaining the Dragon Scroll. When he finally sees that it is missing, he nearly destroys Shifu until Po comes in and stops him. After a protracted battle throughout the village, he finally manages to obtain the Dragon Scroll, but his impatience causes him to not understand its symbolism: the scroll is actually a blank reflective foil, meaning the power had always been buried deep within the person.
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Scene from the film. Romance of the Western Chamber (), also known as Way Down West, is a 1927 silent Chinese film drama directed by Hou Yao. The film is an adaption of the classic Chinese dramatic work Romance of the Western Chamber by Wang Shifu. Originally consisting of ten film reels, only five have survived.
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Gao Shaoyi was the third son of Emperor Wenxuan, Northern Qi's first emperor. His mother was Emperor Wenxuan's concubine Consort Feng, who carried the title of Shifu (世婦), a title for third class imperial consorts. It is not known when he was born. In 559, Emperor Wenxuan created him the Prince of Guangyang.
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He is notable for having dubbed actors like Aldo Ray in The Green Berets, R. Lee Ermey in Full Metal Jacket and Christopher Lee in Gremlins 2: The New Batch and animated characters such as Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Master Shifu in the Kung Fu Panda film series.
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Temutai then attacks the Jade Palace and takes out Master Shifu and the Furious Five. Po even tries to fight Temutai only to be sent flying out of the Jade Palace. Po returns and fights Temutai in order to get the Gong Lu Medallion off him. Peng joins the fight and removes the Gong Lu Medallion from Temutai.
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A book unearthed from Mogao Caves named Paizi Yun (排字韻) implies that the system was already widely circulated at the time. Both works have since been lost. In Yuan Dynasty, Yunfu Qunyu by Yin Shifu (陰時夫) first named the 106-category version as Pingshui Yun. Origin of the name "Pingshui" is unclear.
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King You ordered his men to light the beacon tower, and put his minister Guo Shifu in charge of his infantry and Guogong in charge of his chariots and sent them ahead to hold on the enemy. Seeing his numerical disadvantage, Guo Shifu ordered Guogong to tease the enemies and ordered his own regiment to run back to the capital. Guogong was left alone and desperately led his 200 chariots to try to stop the attack, but failed and was killed. Upon seeing that not a single ally would come to his aid, Duke Huan of Zheng, King You's uncle, summoned his own guard and merged it with the remnants of the royal army, called along all the court ministers and their families and fled the capital with the King through the east gate.
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Bao is a pig who is exclusive to Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Bao first appeared in "Master Ping" where he and his accomplices Lao and Tsao attacked Mr. Ping's noodle shop only to be defeated by Po. When Bao decides that he, Lao, and Tsao want to learn Kung Fu, they decide to abduct Master Shifu and force him to teach them Kung Fu. Unfortunately, they mistook Mr. Ping as Master Shifu as Mr. Ping only knew of the Chao Wa Punch Kick move which causes immobilization on whoever is hit by it. Bao and his followers decide to use it on Po when he comes to rescue Mr. Ping. With help from Po, Mr. Ping manages to use the Chao Wa Punch Kick on Bao and his followers.
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But when her father fought against a gorilla bandit who attacked the village and used venom-proof armor to shatter the Great Master's poison fangs, Viper, seeing him in trouble, mustered the courage she needed to defeat the gorilla by confusing him with her dancing skills and tying him up with her ribbon. Thus her father's legacy was secure with his daughter becoming a mighty warrior on her own terms. In Secrets of the Scroll, Viper was asked by Tigress to appear at the Jade Palace (where she thought she was to be asked to perform for Master Shifu and Oogway). However, Shifu, displeased with her not being a warrior, sent her and her companions, Crane, Monkey and Mantis away to safety when Boar threatened the Valley of Peace.
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In "Father Crime," Tong Fo enlisted Fung and his Croc Bandits in a plot to capture Master Shifu. This plot was thwarted by Po, Master Shifu, and Master Shifu's dad Shirong; the latter originally worked with Tong Fo to help him capture Po so that Tong Fo would forgive his debt, but later had a change of heart after his own son was taken captive. He would eventually return in "Mind Over Manners," which would expand on his family history: his grandfather Tong Lo once ruled China with the magical ability to read minds, but was driven insane by this talent. Tong Fo attempted to gain the same powers by capturing a lightning bolt with a magical sapphire, only for the sapphire to be destroyed and for Po to gain the powers instead.
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Says Jarmusch, "I love his contradictions. He's so playful and yet he has the potential for incredible physical ferocity." The RZA, producer of and Shi's co-star in the urban kung fu film Z Chronicles, says of Shi, "When I looked at the dailies, he just exploded on the camera. "I'd say, 'Damn Shifu, you're a real live movie star.
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In the jianghu, martial artists are expected to be loyal to their master (Shifu). This gives rise to the formation of several complex trees of master-apprentice relations as well as the various sects such as Shaolin and Wudang. If there are any disputes between fighters, they will choose the honourable way of settling their issues through fighting in duels.
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Jackie Chan as Mr. Han Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) - A Chinese maintenance man who becomes Dre's Shifu. He is based on Mr. Miyagi from the original films. The film follows the same storyline as the original, and several lines and actions are repeated from the original. Unlike Miyagi, he lacks his sense of humor and lightheartedness and appears more conflicted and depressed.
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The following year he moved the Qin capital eastward from Quanqiu (犬丘, also called Xichui, in present-day Li County, Gansu) to Qian (汧, in present-day Long County, Shaanxi). Soon afterwards Quanqiu fell to the Rong. Shifu, Duke Xiang's older brother who led the defence of Quanqiu, was captured by the Rong, but was released a year later.
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Tigress realized during the fight through their actions and Boar's words that she was not Shifu and never would be, and unleashed her true power; together with her companions, Boar was defeated. Upon returning, Shifu admitted that he was proud of her, and despite saying her style of fighting was unfocused and undisciplined, agreed to help her and the others develop their skills, eventually leading to them becoming the Furious Five. Tigress' finding the other members of the future Furious Five was due in part to the actions of Po, and their defeat of Boar in turn inspired his love of Kung Fu and led to his eventual destiny as the Dragon Warrior. In spite of her temperate, stoic, and sarcastic attitude, Tigress is probably the most loyal of the Five, extremely dedicated to the well-being of the Valley of Peace.
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Pai Mei is a rogue Kung Fu Master who is exclusive to Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Pai Mei was a Kung Fu Master who was the most evil and abusive of all time. He was defeated by Master Shifu and exiled after attempting to overpower the Emperor. He first appeared in "Five is Enough" where he destroyed two guards and took down Master Chao.
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In despair, Shifu ordered Po and the Furious Five to help the villagers escape while Shifu bought some time for them to escape by engaging the snow leopard Tai Lung, who escaped from Chorh-Gom Prison, in a fight to the death. As Po helped his father escape, Mr. Ping revealed that the secret ingredient of his Secret Ingredient Soup is nothing; people only had to believe it was special. With this advice, Po realized the scroll's true empowering symbolic value: the power lay within the knowledge that whatever someone turned themselves into with enough dedication made them the best version of themselves they could be. Encouraged, Po was then able to challenge Tai Lung in a climactic battle and defeat him with an improvised combat style, using his body fat not only to shield his nerves from chi strikes but also for deflecting attacks.
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Po has wanted to be friends with her since he was five, and often tries to encourage his friendship with her. While she is distant, and often violent towards others, she shows a genuine, deep caring for Po and Shifu, expressing joy and relief when they are revealed alive in different episodes, hugging Po and spinning Shifu around, (though she quickly recovers) to the intense embarrassment of others nearby. She also shows signs of romantic feelings for the Midnight Stranger (actually Po, who was secretly defying the kung fu ban in place at the time), being sappy and girly, in defiance of her normal surly characteristics. When she discovers that Po is the Midnight Stranger, then she is disappointed and says she is 'going to go throw up', to the disappointment and possible offending of Po, who had been excited for her to discover his identity.
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Master Storming Ox implies that the goons will ruin the spirits of the villagers, and the three Master agree to split up and drive away the thugs, with Shifu going uptown, Ox going North, and Croc going to the Docks at the South. Po, with nothing to do, decides to go with one of the Masters. Unlike the Kinect version, the player can choose which Master to go with.
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Shifu () in Mandarin, or sifu in Cantonese, is a title for, and the role of, a skillful person or a master. The character 師/师 means "skilled person" or "teacher," while 傅 means "tutor" and 父 means "father." 傅 and 父 are pronounced with the same tones in both Cantonese (f6) and Mandarin (fù). Though pronounced identically and bearing similar meanings, the two terms are distinct, and their usage is different.
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The Great Gorilla is a villain who is hired by Tai Lung to destroy the Dragon Warrior. When Po is fighting the gorillas, Great Gorilla threw boulders at Po. When preventing the gorillas from destroying a temple, Master Shifu ends up having to protect the relics as well. Great Gorilla is ultimately defeated by Po; however, the remnants of his minions are later seen as members of the Lang Shadow Army.
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Tsin attacks a rice farm because evil Alien Rice Weevils were using it to take over minds and conquer the Earth. The Furious Five defeated Tsin, and planned to use the Zu Chao Powder on him. Po freed him after he found out the Weevils were real, and infected the Five and Shifu. However, the entire town except Mr. Ping was infected, and Tsin quickly joined the ranks of the infected.
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Arriving at Camelback Mountain, Tong Fo ran into Po as Master Tigress and Master Monkey arrived unaware that Sheng is actually Po in disguise. Tong Fo managed to obtain the Sacred Hammer of Lei Lang as the Croc Bandits arrived. In the ensuing conflict, the Sacred Hammer of Lei Lang was taken by a Croc Bandit that was actually Master Shifu in disguise. Tong Fo and the Croc Bandits were defeated.
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Fenghuang (Chinese for "Phoenix") is a Eurasian eagle-owl exclusive to Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. She was a member of the original Furious Five alongside Master Shifu, Master Snow Leopard, Master Rooster, and Master Elephant. Fenghuang became the strongest member of the Furious Five through a lot of training and even invented the Thundering Wind Hammer. As a result of being the strongest, she became power-hungry and evil.
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Hàn-Yīng 漢英 means "Chinese-English" and yùnfǔ 韻府 (lit. "rime storehouse") means "rime dictionary". For example, the Yuan dynasty (c. 1280) Yunfu qunyu 韻府群玉 "Assembled Jade-tablets Rime Dictionary" compiled by Yin Shifu 陰時夫, the Qing dynasty (1711) Peiwen yunfu, and especially Morrison's A Dictionary of the Chinese Language Part II or Wuche yunfu 五車韻府 "Erudite Rime Dictionary".
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Duke Zhuang had three sons. The eldest, Shifu (世父), refused the throne, preferring to campaign against the Rong tribes who killed his grandfather, Qin Zhong. Duke Zhuang died in 778 BC after a reign of 44 years and was succeeded by his second eldest son Duke Xiang of Qin. Duke Zhuang's daughter, Mu Ying (缪嬴), entered a political marriage with Rong leader King Feng (豐王) in 777 BC.
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However, he roundly criticises all of Jia's essays, prompting Jia to compose new ones using clichés and awkward phrases from his old writings. To his surprise, Lang tells him to memorise them and inscribes a fu on his back. During the actual examination, Jia regurgitates the substandard writing and becomes the top scorer. Disillusioned by the experience, Jia professes to become an ascetic, whereupon Lang takes him to his shifu, an elderly cave dwelling sage.
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That group published the book Etiko by Kropotkin, the Anarkiismo by Borovoi and other works for international reading in Esperanto. Anarchist Esperantists focused their work at the time in East Asia, China, and Japan. In those countries, Esperanto was soon made a popular thing between anarchists. They published many newspapers, most often in two languages. For example, from 1913, Liu Shifu, who wrote as Sifo, published the newspaper La Voĉo de l'Popolo.
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Before giving in to Kai, Oogway warned him that he had set Po on the path to defeat him. Using Oogway's chi, Kai returned to the Mortal World to hunt down Po and the Furious Five, sending several of his Jombies to find them. When their task was completed, he began hunting down and stealing the chi of every Kung Fu Master in China. This caused Master Shifu to send Crane and Mantis to investigate.
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Temutai learns that Po wasn't also invited and plans to crash the banquet. Temutai has his soldiers surround the building where the banquet is being held. Temutai then begins his attack on the banquet and immobilizes the Furious Five and Master Shifu with the bolos thrown by the Qidan warriors. When Po sneaks into the party, he runs into Temutai and attacks the Qidan warriors with Kung Fu, good manners, and etiquette.
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After Mr. Han's interference, Dre began to learn kung fu from Han when Cheng's Shifu, Master Li, challenged them to a fight, which forced Dre to compete in the upcoming 'Open Kung Fu Tournament.' At the tournament, Dre managed to defeat Master Li's students and ultimately Cheng himself. After his victory, Dre had earned the respect of Cheng and his friends. Like Johnny in the original movie, Cheng personally presented the trophy to Dre.
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It also acquired Delhi-based consumer behaviour prediction platform Shifu and local services startup Near.in. In 2016, Paytm invested in logistics startups LogiNext and XpressBees. In April 2017, Paytm invested in healthcare startup QorQL which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to help doctors improve their productivity and quality of care, and enable patients to manage their health better. In July 2017, it acquired a majority stake in online ticketing and events platform Insider.
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A number of foreign travelers including Giovanni di Monte Corvino, Odoric of Pordenone, Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta left written accounts of visits to the city. Some of the most famous writers of the Yuan era including Ma Zhiyuan, Guan Hanqing and Wang Shifu, lived in Dadu. The Mongols commissioned the building of an Islamic observatory and Islamic academy. The White Stupa Temple near Fuchengmen was commissioned by Kublai Khan in 1271.
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His main interest lies in Kung Fu. He developed an encyclopedic knowledge of the lore of warriors, famous combat moves, dates and historic artifacts. His deep appreciation of the martial arts extends into its philosophical aspects, enabling him to sometimes achieve insights of which even deeply respected masters like Shifu cannot conceive. He was popular with all his friends and they all loved him as a kid. He is an excellent cook, but has terrible table manners.
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Bates was formally invited to begin the study of xiangsheng (a traditional form of "crosstalk" comedy) by famous Chinese comedian Ding Guangquan after his success in the Chinese Bridge contest. In February 2012, in a traditional ceremony at the Confucius Institute, University of Hawaii, he was formally accepted into the xiangsheng hierarchy when he took Ding Guangquan to be his Shifu. Today xiangsheng is still a large part of Bates' work, and he performs regularly on China Central Television.
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He appears in Little Fockers, the critically panned yet financially successful 2010 sequel to Meet the Fockers. However, his character plays a significantly smaller role than in the previous installment. In 2011, Hoffman reprised his role as Master Shifu in the commercially and critically successful animated film Kung Fu Panda 2. On the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 81% based on 169 reviews, and an average rating of 6.9/10.
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Shifu led the defense of Quanqiu against the Rong who subsequently invaded. Overcome, he was captured and lived among the Rong for a year before being released. When the Quanrong overcame Hao in 771 and ended the Western period of the Zhou, Xiang was granted a promotion by King Ping and no longer suffered subordinate status. Under the Qin and Han dynasties, it was part of Longxi Commandery, headquartered at Didao (present- day Taoyang in Lintao County).
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Constable Hu tells Po that he wasn't invited and admitted that Po doesn't have good table manners. When Po begs to Constable Hu to let him come, Constable Hu says "no." When it comes time for the banquet, Constable Hu is nervous at what Superintendent Chang will think of the banquet. When Superintendent Chang gets bored, Constable Hu has Master Shifu and the Furious Five perform something that Superintendent Chang hasn't seen until the banquet was crashed by Temutai.
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Master Yao (Chinese for "Brilliant") is a blackbuck Kung Fu Master renowned for his outstanding intellect. Shifu idolizes him and commented that Yao is known for being "the greatest Kung Fu mind this world has ever known." He was credited as the first person to unlock the mystery of the Secret Scroll at the age of 5. At age 6, he invented pruning and was one of the few people who know how an abacus works.
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When it came to the favor, Po had to meet with Fung alone where Fung mentions that Jong Sung Jai Kai Chow had captured his brother. Po and Fung had to infiltrate Jong's castle with Po having to pull off a diversion. When Po runs into Fung, he states that he has his brother in a box as both of them flee. When Po returned to the Jade Palace, Master Shifu was waiting with two of Jong's guards.
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A major mythological structure developed around the topic of the mythology of the imperial exams. Trades and crafts were usually taught by a shifu. The female historian Ban Zhao wrote the Lessons for Women in the Han dynasty and outlined the four virtues women must abide to, while scholars such as Zhu Xi and Cheng Yi would expand upon this. Chinese marriage and Taoist sexual practices are some of the rituals and customs found in society.
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Shi Xing Zheng, whom Duan addressed as "Shigong" ("Grandmaster") or "Shifu Shifu" ("master's master"), looked at the young Duan and accepted him into the temple, where his parents were happy to leave him. As soon as he was accepted in the temple, which was populated by about 16 or 17 monks, all of them older than Duan (most of them in their seventies), his name was changed to Shi Yan Ming. The name is derived from "Shi", as in Shakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, a family name that Buddhist monks of this tradition take in order to denote that they follow Buddha, "Yan", which denotes the "34th generation" at the Shaolin Temple, and "Ming", which means "perpetual", as in the infinite cycle of the Dharma wheel. Shi says that his "kung fu uncles" at the temple were very loving, and took care of him as his own parents would, though they did not live there all the time, for fear of marauding gangs of Mao's Red Guard, and therefore, Shi saw his parents often.
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Cowell, M. R., Cribb J., and Ushi city. Xinjiang coins of the Qianlong era had reverse inscriptions in both Manchu and Turkic scripts. Even after the death of the Qianlong Emperor the Jiaqing Emperor ruled that 1 in 5 coins produced in Xinjiang should bear the inscription Qián Lóng Tōng Bǎo (乾隆通寶) to honour Qianlong, and celebrate his conquest of the region, this rule stayed in place even until the end of the Qing dynasty.Tang, Shifu: Zhongguo gu qianbi.
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Jin feels that the play shows a great degree of unity and tightness in its structure. This opinion can be seen explicitly in his comments, as well as in the fact that he does not make structural alterations to the play to nearly the degree as in his version of Water Margin. Jin does, however, comment on Part V of the play. This part has been thought by some commentators to be a continuation added by an author other than Wang Shifu.
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Not to be confused with the female snow leopard of the same name, Mei Ling is a female fox and an antagonist exclusive to Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. A rogue Kung Fu master with skills that rival Shifu's, Mei Ling was also Shifu's love interest for an unspecified amount of time. Falling in love after their first confrontation, they quickly entered a relationship. However, Shifu broke off the relationship after Mei Ling refused to stop using her Kung Fu to steal.
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In the first film, Shifu is quite often shown to be angered, frustrated, despairing or worried, at first for an unknown reason. However, it is later revealed that Tai Lung is Shifu's adoptive son, whom he had trained, loved, and raised as if he were his own. This extends to Po who was dubbed the Dragon Warrior against all logic from Shifu's point of view. Shifu's initial hostility to the giant panda fades upon learning his considerable latent talent for the martial arts.
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Po manages to break up the fight upon telling Peng the truth. Po then does the ceremonial Tai Chi with Peng and Temutai. In "My Favorite Yao," Temutai and his Qidan troops set out to capture Master Yao to interrogate him for his secrets. The abduction proved easier than anticipated owing to Yao, being impulsively released from his box by Shifu, began to run amok through the village with childish delight at all the sensations he denied himself for 65 years.
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Po (Jack Black) is assigned by Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) to teach an introduction to Kung Fu class for a group of rambunctious bunny children. Po tries to explain to the kids that combat is not the only part of what Kung Fu is about, while its true meaning is "excellence of self." To illustrate his point, he uses the stories of the Furious Five's individual pasts and the basic philosophical concepts they learned that enabled them to be great Kung Fu masters.
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She studied the business from the shifus her father brought on. One shifu was an expert in how to handle snakes while a second was an expert in how to make snake soup. In her first three months at the restaurant, she would only slice snake meat as she was too fearful to actually kill the snake. After witnessing the daughter of the owner of snake restaurant Sher Wong Yip on Nam Cheong Street kill snakes, she summoned enough courage to begin killing snakes herself.
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Ge (2003), p. 3. At the same time, Jin believed that authorial intention is less important than the commentator's reading of a story. In his Romance of the Western Chamber commentary, he writes, "Xixiang Ji is not a work written by an individual named Wang Shifu alone; If I read it carefully, it will also be a work of my own creation, because all the words in Xixiang Ji happen to be the words that I want to say and that I want to write down".
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After Po defeated Temutai, Constable Hu told Po to skedaddle until Superintendent Chang invited Po to sit by him. Superintendent Chang tells Constable Hu that the banquet was boring until Po arrived. When Master Shifu hoped that Superintendent Chang would promote Constable Hu and reassign him, Superintendent Chang instead renews Constable Hu's position for another 10 years. In "Shifu's Back", Po and the others are left waiting for a very long time when it is decided that they need a licence to use their kung fu.
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Paddle-wheel ships operated with treadmills were constructed continuously in various sizes between 1132 and 1183. The engineer Gao Xuan devised a ship outfitted with up to eleven paddle wheels on each side, and Qin Shifu, another engineer, designed the iron plating for armoring the ships in 1203. All these advances supported a rapid increase in the size of the force; according to Joseph Needham, "From a total of 11 squadrons and 3,000 men [the Song navy] rose in one century to 20 squadrons totalling 52,000 men".
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However, Master Storming Ox refuses to join them saying that if he does, Lord Shen will use the Weapon on the city and kill everyone and that Kung Fu is dead. He later changes his mind and joins them for the last battle saying that "their friend (Master Shifu) is very persuasive." After Lord Shen's death at the hands of Po, and with Master Thundering Rhino dead, Master Storming Ox became the new leader of the Masters' Council, and therefore the new king of Gongmen City.
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Unfortunately, Fung and his cohorts turned to using their position for their own benefit, and became complacent about keeping up their training to stay in shape. They were thus defeated in a battle with the heroes, and Shifu then revealed the truth behind his ruse. In "Apocalypse Yao," Fung and Gahri were part of a group of villains who gathered to bid on Kung Fu secrets stolen from Master Yao by Taotie, but were defeated despite gaining two of the secrets for their own use.
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In order to defeat Kai, Po must learn to master the use of chi himself. Li offers to teach him by taking him to his secret panda village. While Shifu and the Furious Five stay behind to deal with Kai, Po and Li travel to the village. Mr. Ping comes along as a stowaway, worried that he will lose Po's affections to Li. Although Po is eager to learn chi, Li tells him he must first learn the relaxed life of a panda in the village.
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Simon Marcus utilized elbows and knees heavily as he outpointed Damian Bujan en route to a split decision win at Ultra Elite Fighters V: Argentina vs. The World in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 15 December 2013 in a fight where the referee was often quick to break up the clinch. The match was also briefly halted during the fifth round after both fighters fell through the ropes. He was expected to fight Shifu Yanzi at Hero Legends in Jinan, China, on 3 December 2014.
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He crash-lands in front of Oogway as he points towards the Dragon Warrior. To the astonishment of everyone present, Oogway proclaims Po as the chosen warrior. Believing Oogway's decision to be an accident, Shifu tries to dispose of Po with a harsh training regime, while the Furious Five berate Po as an enthusiast with no potential in martial arts. Po considers resigning, but after receiving encouragement from Oogway, he endures his training and gradually befriends the Five with his resilience, culinary skill, and good humor.
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Shaolin Temple UK is most well known for Gong Fu (or Kung Fu), and participates in national and international fighting competitions, as well as interclub fights with Muay Thai fighters. Gong Fu classes focus on Sanshou training - one to one hand-to-hand combat - which can be considered to be China's form of kickboxing. This is the style of fighting which the temple's students use in competition. The temple's founder and main teacher Shifu Yanzi was Chinese National Champion for 15 years in the art.
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When he no longer found the doctrines of anarchism persuasive, he conducted an extensive public debate with anarchist intellectuals such as Liu Shifu which clarified their points of difference. His views influenced contemporary Chinese who later became major political figures in China. After he became estranged from them, Chinese anarchists accused Jiang of being "hopelessly confused." This confusion was not apparent to Mao Zedong, who later stated that, as a student, Jiang's writings had been a major influence on the development of his own political, social, and economic theories.
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For speakers of alphabetic languages who are familiar with easy dictionary lookup, using a Chinese dictionary based on the Yunhai jingyuan system is very user-unfriendly. Three later dictionaries of literary allusions followed the 106-rime arrangement of the Yunhai jingyuan. First were the Yuan dynasty (c. 1280) Yunfu qunyu 韻府群玉 "Assembly of Jade Tablets, a Word-Store arranged by Rhymes" compiled by Yin Shifu 陰時夫 and the Ming dynasty (1592) Wuche yunrui 五車韻瑞 "Five Cartloads of Rhyme-inscribed Jade Tablets" by Ling Zhilong 淩稚隆.
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SG-1 meets Shifu again as a much older boy in season 4's "Absolute Power". In the penultimate season 5 episode "Meridian", Daniel is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while attempting to fix a naqahdriah reactor on the planet Langara in the Nation State known as Kelowna. The Ancient, Oma Desala, guides Daniel to ascend to a higher plane of existence. The Kelownan scientist Jonas Quinn takes Daniel's place on SG-1 during season 6, although the rest of the team find it hard to get over Daniel's absence.
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Although the temple has been maintained throughout the ages, much of it suffered great damage and has been in a state of disrepair for much time. In 1995, Master Li Shifu came to practice as an Abbot here and to train disciples in the arts of Daoism. Since he has arrived, the restoration project has begun. It has been a slow and challenging process due to the state of dilapidation but improvement and development has been consistent over the last two decades and the temple is gradually increasing its capacity to host more students.
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In response, Po falsely claimed to Peng that Shifu rejected him. Unfortunately, Peng in a rage decided to prove himself by killing Temutai and immediately attacked the water buffalo in his tent. Po, alarmed at his mistake and the cub's murderous overreaction, attempted to intervene, but the fight drifted into the festivities and provoked a riot. Eventually, Po is finally able to confess his deception and apologize to Peng, who immediately calmed down and similarly apologized for losing his temper, allowing the unwitting rivals to reconcile along with Temutai in the spirit of the occasion.
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Mrs. Gow is an elderly goat who was once a Kung Fu Master that was known back then as "Gow of the Hundred Stars" and was a companion of Mr. Yeung. Her nickname comes from the fact she could throw razor sharp stars into her opponents. She first appeared in the episode "In With the Old" where she and Mr. Yeung play mahjong with Mr. Ping. When Mr. Ping suggests that she and Mr. Yeung help Po save Shifu and defend the Jade Palace, Po dismisses them because of their age, remarking that Mrs.
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Temutai wants to have Peng to train with the Qidan Clan opposed to Po wanting Peng to train at the Jade Palace. Po's argument with Temutai ends up disrupting the Peace Jubilee causing Master Shifu to break it up. Temutai gets angered at the fact that Peng wants to train with Po. After Po tells Peng that he is no longer needed, Peng decides to prove himself by destroying Temutai. Peng ends up fighting Temutai until Po arrived where their fight ends up causing the crowd to get out of control.
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Fenghuag later returned in "The First Five" when her former teammates came together for a reunion at Po's invitation. It is revealed that prior to her departure from the group they defeated the demon Xi'an, but Shifu dropped the demon's mighty sword into the volcano before they could claim it. When the sword reappears years later, Fenghuang is released from prison-though manacled-by her former teammates to help them recover it in exchange for her freedom. Fenghuang later destroys the sword, and is freed after Po convinces the former Five to honor their agreement.
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Murong Fuyun (慕容伏允) (597–635), formal title Busabo Khan (步薩鉢可汗), was a ruler of the Xianbei state Tuyuhun. He first became ruler when his brother Murong Shifu was assassinated in 597, and became one of the longest-ruling monarchs in Tuyuhun history. During his reign, he had major conflicts with China's Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, and in 635, during a Tang invasion, he was assassinated due to the people's resentment of his hostile attitude toward Emperor Taizong of Tang that led to the invasion.
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Liu Shipei and He Zhen The Tokyo group drew on the same influences but in a different order of preference. While the Paris group was enamored of western science and western civilization, leaders such as Liu Shifu rooted their anarchism in political traditions native to Asia. In practical terms this meant the Paris group studied Esperanto, advocated anarcho-syndicalism, and drew heavily upon the works of Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin. The Tokyo group advocated an agrarian society built around democratically run villages organized into a free federation for mutual aid and defense.
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The most common Zhan Zhuang among all Xing Yi schools is San Ti Shi (it is the stance demonstrated by Sun Lutang in the picture at the beginning of the article). Other common stances are: Hun Yuan Zhuang, Wu Ji Zhuang, Fu Hu Zhuang, Xiang Long Zhuang and their many variants. There are many reasons for training Zhan Zhuang. Among them are, in general: Shifu Nitzan Oren, demonstrating a Zhan Zhuang posture which combines the San Ti stance and a Hun Yuan hand variation \- It is the simplest method to work on the training of one's Intent (Yi).
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The Imperial Golden Croc Gang are a group of crocodiles who work for the Queen Crocodile and the Crocodile Sergeant. They were recruited by Tai Lung to serve him after he escaped from Chor-Gom Prison. Po and Master Crane fight them when they attack the Tortoise Village in the Lake of Tears where the Imperial Golden Croc Gang ends up tormenting the Tortoises and stealing their eggs. The Imperial Golden Croc Gang shortly returns when Po and Shifu are steering a boat to try and escape; the minions slow them down by throwing bombs at them.
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He takes the opportunity to take part in the Dragon Warrior Challenge where he manages to defeat Po. After using the knock-out arrows on Shifu, Hundun ended up going on a rampage in the village until Po defeated him. In "Royal Pain," Meng Tao freed Hundun from Chorh-Gom Prison to help him make Lu Kang fail in exchange for his freedom. Although Hundun managed to incapacitate Po, he and Meng Tao were defeated by Lu Kang and returned to Chorh-Gom Prison. In "The Most Dangerous Po," Hundun approaches General Tsin's property looking for a bakery.
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In "Shifu's Ex", she returns to the Jade Palace, much to Shifu's dismay, causing him to panic hysterically and resort to hiding in a closet. Mei Ling though is wise to these avoidance tricks and easily finds him. She later uses the Zhou Deng Soul Gem to swap bodies with him during a kiss in order to manipulate Po and the Furious Five to rob an imperial convoy of precious jewels. However, this failed when Shifu (still in Mei Ling's body) revealed the deception and used the Soul Gem to swap back their respective bodies while they embraced in another kiss.
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Grand Master Oogway (Chinese for "Tortoise") was an elderly Galápagos tortoise known to have been the previous senior headmaster of the Jade Palace and the founder of Kung Fu itself. He is known to be the most wise and epic Kung Fu Master known in the Kung Fu Panda universe. While others often confuse him to be dead, the great Grand Master Ooogway did not die, and instead ascended to the Spirit Realm to grow peaches and have fun with lady tortoises. Also because of this, he keeps the Grand Master title, and Master Shifu never acquires this title.
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However, when Tigress faced Boar, she and the others came to her aid, helping to defeat him. Shifu then offered to help them develop their skills into Kung Fu styles of their own, eventually creating the Furious Five. In Kung Fu Panda Holiday, it is revealed that Viper has sisters whom she loved to cook with during the Winter Feast, but in Secrets of the Furious Five, she is shown as an only child. It may be possible that Viper is merely the firstborn in her family and her sisters could all be younger siblings, though this remains unconfirmed.
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Tai Lung (Chinese for "Great Dragon") is the main antagonist of Kung Fu Panda. He is a muscular snow leopard with supernatural strength. Before the franchise, Tai Lung was the adoptive son and first devoted pupil of Master Shifu, who found him abandoned on the doorstep of the Jade Palace training ground and taught him skills in Kung Fu that he never shared with any other of his students, even the Furious Five. In fact, Tai Lung was the only one to know the Nerve Attack, and believed that he was destined to become the Dragon Warrior, making it his aim in life.
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With that, Shen eventually captures the Furious Five and plans to kill them once his fleet reached open water as a demonstration of his power. However, Po returns to confront him again, having survived the blast and being nursed back to health by the Soothsayer, gaining his inner peace. Now even more formidable, the panda frees his comrades and were joined by their fellow masters, including Storming Ox, Ferocious Croc and Shifu in a furious melee to stop the fleet's departure. Shen's increasing rage drives him to fire on his own troops to kill the masters.
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Korean and Japanese anarchism developed in close connection to each other. While Korea was under Japanese occupation, Korean radicals were first introduced to anarchism in China and Japan. Due to the development of Japanese left-wing thought and translations of major works, Koreans in Japan often had greater access to both socialist and anarchist materials, bolstering the spread of these ideologies. For instance, Korean anarchist Yi Yongjun was attracted to anarchism through Ōsugi Sakae's translations of the works of anarchist theorist Peter Kropotkin, and was influenced by both Kōtoku Shūsui and the Chinese anarchist Liu Shifu.
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Kai takes the chi of nearly every kung fu master in China, including Shifu and the Furious Five except Tigress, who escapes to warn Po and the other pandas that Kai is coming. Afraid, Li and the pandas prepare to run away. When Po demands that Li teach him how to use chi immediately, Li confesses that he lied to him about chi mastery and that he only brought Po to their village because he was afraid of losing him again. Furious and hurt over his father's misdirection, Po isolates himself to train vigorously in preparation for fighting Kai.
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Shifu was replaced by Li Bei, however, and Marcus defeated him by TKO in round one, scoring two official knockdowns. Marcus won the -80 kg/176 lb tournament at Wu Ling Feng: Kunlun Fight 2 in Zhengzhou, China, on 16 February 2014. His semi-final match with Israel Adesanya was scored a draw after the regulation three rounds and so it went into an extension round to decide the victor, after which Marcus was given the nod by the judges. He then stopped Vehas TopKing with a knee to the body just over two minutes into the first round in the final.
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In the Valley of Peace, a land in Ancient China inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, Po the giant panda is a fan of kung fu. He idolizes the Furious Five – Tigress, Monkey, Crane, Viper, and Mantis – a quintet of kung fu masters trained by Master Shifu the red panda. However, Po is unable to pursue his dream of learning kung fu while he helps his adoptive father, Mr. Ping the goose, in his noodle restaurant. Grand Master Oogway, an old Galápagos tortoise and Shifu's mentor, has a vision that Shifu's former protégé, the evil snow leopard Tai Lung, will escape from prison.
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Cheng Tinhung (Zheng Tianxiong, 鄭天熊; 1930–2005). As a young boy he studied Southern Boxing (南拳) from his father Cheng Minchueng (鄭綿彰), which was a family style, learnt from his father Cheng Lin (鄭麟) who was a professional martial artist. As Cheng Tinhung grew older his uncle Cheng Wingkwong (鄭榮光) took an interest in teaching him Wu-style t'ai chi ch'uan. Cheng Wingkwong was a formal disciple of Wu Jianquan, who eventually held the rank of Shifu (師父, or Sifu in Cantonese) in the Wu family's Hong Kong school.
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In 604, Emperor Wen of Sui, who had initially married Princess Guanghua to Murong Shifu and who had later approved her marriage to Murong Fuyun, died, and was succeeded by his son Yang Guang (as Emperor Yang). In 607, Emperor Yang started considering conquering Tuyuhun, after his official Pei Ju convinced him that it would be easy to do so. When, on one occasion, Murong Fuyun sent Murong Shun as an emissary to Sui, Emperor Yang detained him as a hostage. In 608 and 609, Emperor Yang launched major attacks on Tuyuhun, taking over its lands and forcing Murong Fuyun to flee.
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After collecting a number of coins at the end of each level, the player has the option to buy upgrades to Po's moves and health, as well as a different set of new outfits. Eventually, as the player progresses through the game, they'll be able to unlock other characters, including Master Shifu and the members of the Furious Five (a team of elite fighters each with their own fighting styles and mini-games). In addition, the player will be able to use objects and weapons when fighting. Furthermore, before each new level, Po narrates the continuing story, while the words are being scrolled up on the screen.
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At some point during Spring and Autumn period, barley and wheat were introduced into the area in addition to its traditional millet. Created a duke over Xichui, Zhuang moved his family's capital to the site, establishing the city of Quanqiu. When Zhuang died in 778 , his eldest son Shifu () refused to inherit official duties but chose instead to live a life on his chariot, fighting the Rong in revenge for his grandfather's death. His younger brother Xiang opted to marry his sister Mu Ying to King Feng of the Rong () and, the next year in 776 , he moved his capital from Quanqiu to Qian (, present-day Longxian in Shaanxi).
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The Undertaker is the property caretaker of the Valley of Peace's cemetery. He appeared in "The Po Who Cried Ghost" where it is shown that the Undertaker has been using a mystical staff to raise an army of Jiangshi in a plot to take over all of China. It is shown that Master Shifu has been converted into a Jiang Shi as the Undertaker unleashes the Jiangshi on Po, Master Tigress, and Master Monkey. Upon the three of them being pinned down by the Jiangshi, Po snatches the mystical staff from the Undertaker and orders the Jiangshi to return to the Earth to be at peace forever.
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He is shown to be good with children, having adopted two: Tai Lung and Tigress. However, Shifu's care was flawed considering Tai Lung grew to become an arrogant warrior under his instruction who went on a destructive rampage when Oogway denied him the status of Dragon Warrior, and Tigress felt too often unloved by her embittered adopted father who wanted to prevent her from sharing Tai Lung's fate. He learns to nurture his students as the films go on. Shifu knows the art of nerve strikes, although he is never shown to use it and he also knows how to heal the aftermath of a nerve strike.
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Tigress faced Boar in his place, masquerading as Shifu. Boar initially gained the upper hand in their fight, as her mimicry of Shifu's style was no match for Boar, but when Mantis, Crane, Viper and Monkey intervened and came to her aid, Tigress gave up Shifu's style of Kung Fu to use her own, and the five quickly gained the upper hand against Boar, swiftly defeating him and putting an end to his rampage. Boar was also the catalyst for the formation of the Furious Five, and their defeat of the villain in turn inspired Po's love of Kung Fu, leading to his eventual destiny as the Dragon Warrior.
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Taotie ends up attacking the Jade Palace stating to Bian Zao that they will do a sporting activity afterwards. After firing the chains at the Furious Five and Master Shifu, Taotie ends up fighting Po. When it came to a stalemate between Po and Taotie, Bian Zao ends up using a flying contraption to pick up Taotie and ends up knocking off the lubrication hose. Both of them managed to get away again as Po claims that he brought Taotie and Bian Zao's family back together. In "The Most Dangerous Po," Taotie is among the villains that were hunted by General Tsin and subjected to stiffening Zu Chao Powder.
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Oogway fortells that Tai Lung will return to the valley to exact his revenge for being denied the Dragon Scroll, which is said to hold the secret to boundless power. Panicked, Shifu sends his messenger, Zeng the goose, with a request for the prison to tighten its security. He then holds a tournament for the Furious Five so that Oogway can identify the Dragon Warrior, the one kung fu master worthy of receiving the Dragon Scroll. Po arrives too late to enter the arena; desperate to see the Dragon Warrior, Po straps himself to a set of fireworks and launches himself into the middle of the arena.
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Liu Shifu, a member of the Guangzhou group. The main base of anarchist activity in mainland China during this phase was in Guangzhou, and the Paris and Tokyo groups continued to have significant influence. The Pure Socialists were also strongly involved, but because they were Buddhists as much as they were anarchists, were more concerned with promoting virtue and less focused on immediate revolution. By this time the Paris group had rendered their anarchism into a genuine philosophy that was more concerned with the place of the peaceful individual within society than with the day-to-day grind of government coercion against working people.
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The Chikuzen biwa was used by Buddhist monks visiting private residences to perform memorial services, not only for Buddhist rites, but also for telling entertaining stories and news while accompanying themselves on the biwa, and this form of storytelling was thought to be spread in this way. Not much seems to have been written about biwas from roughly the 16th century to the mid-19th century. What is known is that three main streams of biwa emerged during that time: zato (the lowest level of the state-controlled guild of blind biwa players), shifu (samurai style), and chofu (urban style). These styles emphasized ()—vocalization with biwa accompaniment—and formed the foundation for () styles such as shinnai and kota.
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Heilang is the leader of the Lin Kuei who is blind in one eye. He first appeared in "The Secret Museum of Kung Fu" where he led the Lin Kuei into going after the Phantom Orb (an artifact that can make anyone intangible) which was located in the Secret Museum of Kung Fu. Heilang and the Lin Kuei were repelled by Po, Master Shifu, and the Furious Five. In "Mama Told Me Not to Kung Fu," Heilang and the Lin Kuei go after the Shadow Crown which would enable its wearer to become invisible. At that time, Master Crane's mother Yan Fan thought that Heilang and the Lin Kuei were employees at the Jade Palace.
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Shortly after he tells Monkey and Crane of Peng's relation to Tai Lung and, despite Crane's insistence that he shouldn't judge him based on his uncle, is unwilling to risk being near Peng if he knows the truth. When Monkey and Crane brought Peng back to the Jade Palace, the other masters were overjoyed to see him. Po attempted to hide by disguising himself as Zeng via a shift-stone, and was revealed by Shifu. Po was forced to reveal that he had vanquished Tai Lung to Peng in private and also trying to show that Tai Lung is evil, and Peng attacked and defeated Po in a rage as an attempt to avenge his uncle, sending him fleeing.
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At the order of Shifu, Tigress and the rest of the Five evacuated the Valley without question. When Po defeats Tai Lung, Tigress is the first to acknowledge him as a master of kung fu, giving him a smile and bowing to him in respect, with the rest of the Five following suit. In Secrets of the Furious Five, Tigress was revealed to be an orphan living in the Bao Gu Orphanage where she was greatly feared by the other children and the matron due to her destructive temper and strength. Isolated in her room for the safety of the other children, she began to see herself as a monster, as everyone else did.
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Junjie later returned in "Bride of Po," kidnapping the brother of a young goat maiden to force her into a marriage with Po intended to bring an end to Po's status as the Dragon Warrior so that Junjie could take over the Jade Palace. This plan was thwarted, however, and Po saved both siblings from Junjie and defeated him. In "Crazy Little Ling Called Love," it was revealed that Shifu's ex-girlfriend Mei Ling attempted to steal from Junjie but was captured, and Junjie threatened to kill her and Shifu unless she stole the Crown of Heaven for him. This was later discovered by Po, who convinced Mei Ling to go along with the plan.
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In the spirit realm, Oogway fights against his bull old comrade turned adversary, Kai, a spirit warrior, who has defeated all the other kung fu masters in the realm and taken their chi. Oogway too is ensnared and has his chi stolen, but not before he warns Kai that the Dragon Warrior will stop him. Kai takes this as a challenge to steal the Dragon Warrior's chi and returns to the mortal realm. Meanwhile, Master Shifu announces his retirement from teaching and passes the role of teacher to the Dragon Warrior, Po. An initially excited Po realizes that teaching kung fu is not as easy as anticipated, and the Furious Five are injured as a result.
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A scene from a multi-colored woodblock printing album depicting scenes from the play Romance of the Western Chamber (), also translated as The Story of the Western Wing, The West Chamber, Romance of the Western Bower and similar titles, is one of the most famous Chinese dramatic works. It was written by the Yuan dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (王實甫), and set during the Tang dynasty. Known as "China's most popular love comedy,", p. 3. it is the story of a young couple consummating their love without parental approval, and has been seen both as a "lover's bible" and "potentially lethal," as readers were in danger of pining away under its influence.
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Chen Jiongming's village comrades and revolutionaries gathered at his house to receive arms and ammunition, but the fierce gunfight that ensued on the way to the Big East Gate killed leaders on both sides.Zhang Lucun 1981, 26Huazi ribao, March 12, 1910Chen 1981, 35-37 On February 9, when the first clashes were starting, Chen Jiongming told the revolutionaries in Haifeng to send his mother to Hong Kong for safety and to alert East River revolutionaries. After one of the leaders of the revolutionary army, Ni Yingdian, was killed in battle, Chen Jiongming secretly left to Hong Kong.NP 1957, 13 While in Hong Kong in February 1910, Chen Jiongming and 10 others organized the Chinese Assassination Corps with Liu Shifu.
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Peng is the nephew of Tai Lung, who left his life as an assistant potter and took to traveling as a self-taught prodigy in the martial arts. He first appeared in "The Kung Fu Kid", where he visited the Valley of Peace during its Peace Jubilee and was forced into a confrontation with Temutai's nephew, Jing Mei. When the leopard quickly defeated the young water buffalo, the deeply impressed Po persuaded Master Shifu to consider taking him in as a student. Unfortunately, the combination of the cub's likably humble character and his considerable skill drew him so much favor with Jade Palace's residents that Po grew threatened and a little jealous, especially when the cub mused of becoming the Dragon Warrior himself.
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Shifu could not bring himself to harm his adoptive son, whereas Tai Lung felt no such hesitation and smashed aside his mentor and father figure without mercy. However, the leopard was no match for Oogway, who hit him with a lighting fast series of nerve attacks, paralyzing and defeating him. Following his defeat, Tai Lung was sent to Chorh-Gom Prison for his crimes against the valley and kept restrained by a body-device shaped like a turtle shell. Despite Tai Lung's imprisonment, this left a hole in Shifu's soul due to the fact that the love he gave Tai Lung went to waste, and as a result, he started training the Furious Five with a more harsh and critical manner.
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"The Break Up" saw Gahri temporarily resign from Fung's gang due to Fung's mistreatment of him, but Fung and Po teamed up to try to get Gahri back and Gahri later realized that he preferred being a bandit-though he wanted Fung to work on his temper. In "Croc You Like a Hurricane," Fung and his bandits had gained such a reputation for ineptitude that even the townspeople didn't take them seriously anymore. They were then approached by Shifu and trained in the art of Kung Fu, which they ended up using to help people out. As part of an effort to get the Furious Five and Po to take training more seriously, the Croc Bandits were revealed to have been trained as the heroes' replacements.
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After doing so, he used the sphere to force Po, Shifu, and all the members of the Furious Five except Tigress act like puppets, but was defeated after Tigress approached Yao for a means of destroying the weapon. In "Apocalypse Yao," he created a machine capable of extracting information from the minds of others and turning it into cookies which, upon consumption, would grant that knowledge to the eater. He and Bian Zao used this to steal Master Yao's five greatest Kung Fu secrets, which they then endeavored to sell to the highest bidder. Taotie briefly employed one of the secrets himself, but later became repulsed with himself for employing Kung Fu when he had dedicated his life to proving the superiority of technology.
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Zhang Yimou at the Hawaii International Film Festival in 2005 Happy Times, a relatively unknown film by Zhang, was based loosely on the short story Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh, by Mo Yan. Starring popular Chinese actor Zhao Benshan and actress Dong Jie, it was an official selection for the Berlin International Film Festival in 2002. Zhang's next major project was the ambitious wuxia drama Hero, released in China in 2002. With an impressive lineup of Asian stars, including Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Zhang Ziyi, and Donnie Yen, Hero told a fictional tale about Ying Zheng, the King of the State of Qin (later to become the first Emperor of China), and his would-be assassins.
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The Pure Socialists revised platform included the complete abolition of property and an anarchist-communist economic system. Shifu criticized them for retaining the name "Socialist" but their platform was clearly anarchist so the two groups generally considered each other comrades. The emphasis on the importance of the Peasant struggle, which had been pioneered earlier by the Tokyo group, would also become a major subject of discussion and organizing among Chinese anarchists from both the Pure Socialists and the Guangzhou group in this period. It was anarchists who first pointed to the crucial role that the peasants must play in any serious revolutionary attempt in China, and anarchists were the first to engage in any serious attempts to organize the Peasants.
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Oogway then banished Kai to the Spirit Realm after Kai tried to take the pandas' powers of chi for himself. As Kai can only be defeated by a master of chi, Po decides to learn the power of chi on Li's suggestions as it was an innate ability of the inhabitants of the panda village. Po is told however that he must learn to live like a panda, which he takes to upon arriving in the village and is glad to be a part of. Later on, Tigress arrives at the Panda Village, revealing that Kai has taken the chi of all the kung fu masters including Shifu, Crane, Mantis, Viper, and Monkey, (she is the only one to escape) and that Kai has destroyed the Jade Palace.
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Thirty years prior to the events of the first film, the peacock rulers of Gongmen City are forced to exile their only son Lord Shen, after he kills all pandas in the area to avert a prophecy of a panda being his doom. In the present, Lord Shen and his wolf army start to raid villages for scrap metal. Meanwhile, Po is enjoying his new role as a Kung Fu Master alongside the Furious Five, though Master Shifu warns him he has not yet achieved true inner peace and tries to train him accordingly. When the Wolf Boss raids the Musicians' Village, Po and the Five intercept him; however, he manages to escape with the metal when Po is distracted by a symbol on his armor, causing Po to have a flashback of his mother.
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The monks slept on a piece of wood with a blanket on it, sometimes using their clothes for pillows, which Shi says is good for the back, compared to American beds, which he says are too comfortable. Although Shi met his Buddhism Shifu, Shi Yong Qian, almost immediately after entering the temple, he did not begin seriously studying with him until he was about 14 or 15. Because the temple did not have running water, the monks had to transport it from mountain rivers just outside the temple, draw it from a well, and collect rainwater. When the temple acquired running water in 1986, the monks were dissatisfied, because under the system of feng shui, digging up the ground and laying in pipes was, as Shi puts it, akin to "cutting your veins out".
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Doorways inside the mansion Shi Family Grand Courtyard (Tiānjīn Shí Jiā Dà Yuàn, 天津石家大院) is situated in Yangliuqing, Xiqing District, which is the former residence of wealthy merchant Shi Yuanshi – the 4th son of Shi Wancheng, one of the eight great masters in Tianjin. First built in 1875, it covers over 6,000 square meters, including large and small yards and over 200 folk houses, a theater and over 275 rooms that served as apartments and places of business and worship for this powerful family. Shifu Garden, which finished its expansion in October 2003, covers 1,200 square meters, incorporates the elegance of imperial garden and delicacy of south garden. Now the courtyard of Shi family covers about 10,000 square meters, which is called the first mansion in North China.
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Upon managing to steal them and grow her own Shuyong seeds, Fenghuang started going back in time to prevent the birth of Master Shifu and the Furious Five. When she planned to go back in time to prevent Po's birth, Po grabbed onto Fenghuang with the resulting battle causing the Shuyong seeds to fall and send both of them back to the beginning of time where they find themselves before the Shuyong Tree. Upon the Shuyong Tree judging Po and Fenghuang even after they bested the Shuyong Tree's guardians, the Shuyong Tree deemed Po worthy of using its fruit and the Shuyong Tree used its powers to send Fenghuang into oblivion. Afterwards, Po restored time to the way it was and burned the Shuyong seeds except for one that he didn't notice.
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By 1914 anarchism had become a genuine popular movement in China as increasing numbers of people from peasants and factory workers to intellectuals and students became disillusioned with the Nationalist government and its inability to realize the peace and prosperity it had promised. A major liability that the movement had picked up along the way, however, was the extreme diffusion of anarchist idea to the point where it was becoming difficult to define exactly who was and who was not an anarchist. Liu Shifu set out to remedy that situation in a series of articles in Peoples Voice, which attacked Jiang Kanghu, Sun Yat-Sen, and the Pure Socialists. The debates that ensued served for the first time to really crystallize what exactly was meant by anarchism in the broad sense.
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Po, a clumsy panda, is a kung fu fanatic who lives in the Valley of Peace and works in his goose father Mr. Ping's noodle shop, unable to realize his dream of learning kung fu. One day, a kung fu tournament is held for the elderly spiritual leader of the valley, Grand Master Oogway, to determine the identity of the Dragon Warrior, the one kung fu master capable of understanding the secret of the Dragon Scroll, which is said to contain the key to limitless power. Everyone in the valley expects the Dragon Warrior to be one of the Furious Five—Tigress, Monkey, Mantis, Viper, and Crane—a quintet of kung fu warriors trained by Master Shifu to protect the valley. To everyone's surprise, Oogway chooses Po, who had accidentally stumbled into the tournament arena after arriving late via fireworks explosion.
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Shortly after the events of the second film, Shifu relinquishes his duties as master of the Jade Palace to Po, claiming that the next step of his own apprenticeship is to oversee the Furious Five's training. While struggling with this new responsibility, Po rejoices upon reuniting with his biological father, Li, though Mr. Ping is less enthusiastic. However, news arrives that the spirit warrior General Kai has returned to the mortal realm and is 'collecting' Kung Fu masters from all over China, both living and dead, to serve in his army of Jade Zombies. Po and the others discover from a scroll left by Oogway that Kai can only be defeated by the power of Chi, a technique known only by the panda colonies; thus, Po and Li set to the secret Panda Valley in order to have Po learn it.
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Zeng is a palace goose, who acts in the first movie as Master Shifu's messenger and is specifically given the mission to try to double the amount of guards at Chorh-Gom Prison where Tai Lung is held captive, under the orders of Shifu, based on Oogway's vision that Tai Lung will escape. The irony is that, while visiting the prison, one of Zeng's feathers falls near Tai Lung, who uses it to pick the lock on his restraints and escape, echoing one of Oogway's statements that "one often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it". In the resulting carnage, Zeng is spared and forced to return to the valley and herald Tai Lung's escape. He is extremely nervous and pessimistic, but is nonetheless willing to fulfill the assignment given to him.
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Late in 594, Yang Guang submitted a petition that Emperor Wen carry out the ancient ceremonies of worshipping the heaven and earth gods at Mount Tai. Emperor Wen declined to carry out a full set of ceremonies due to its costs, but in spring 595 carried out an abbreviated version to seek blessings from the gods due to the ongoing drought. Also in spring 595, Emperor Wen ordered that no weapons be held by private individuals and that all of them be collected and destroyed, although he exempted the border provinces from this edict. In 596, Emperor Wen created a daughter of a clansman the Princess Guanghua and married her to Murong Shifu, to cement the peaceful relations with Tuyuhun. In 597, Cuan Wan (), the chief of the Nanning Tribe (南寧夷, located in modern Qujing, Yunnan), rebelled.
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Their tendency toward peace was somewhat surprising given the relatively wealthy backgrounds of most of the Paris group, but it would lead to increased friction between them and those comrades supportive of government coercion in Guangzhou. The Guangzhou group is usually described as being "led" by Liu Shifu, and this is generally accurate insofar as we understand it as leadership by example since he was never granted any formal position or coercive authority by the group. Their most significant contributions at this stage were the foundation of "an alliance between intellectuals and workers" and their propaganda work which set out to differentiate anarchism from all the other socialisms that were gaining in popularity; and in so doing crystallized for the first time exactly what anarchism was. Where the Paris group had preferred to outline their ideal in terms of negative freedoms, i.e.
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When Po started to question Tsin's motives and mentality, Tsin ended up hunting Po. Po managed to evade Tsin, but doubled back following a vision revolving around Hundun speaking to him. During the fight with Po in his collection room, Tsin trapped Po in the Zu Chao Powder chamber where it was discovered that Po had reversed the powder's effects freeing the villains who then vowed to have General Tsin pay for what he did to them and they begin attacking him. Tsin fought the villains and proves to be more of a match to them until they start to win and are then repelled by Po. Although Tsin is sent to Chorh-Gom Prison, Shifu wasn't pleased that one of the Jade Palace's benefactors ended up incarcerated because of his actions. Po then states that now they can go after the villains that escaped from Tsin's palace.
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Murong Fuyun's father Murong Kualü's reign (r. 540-591) as khan had been a turbulent one, particularly late in his reign, when even his crown princes were said to have been fearful for their deaths. As for his relations with China, then divided between Sui Dynasty (under the reign of Emperor Wen) and Chen Dynasty (under the reign of Chen Shubao), he was constantly attacking the provinces of Sui that were on the border of Tuyuhun, although after Sui destroyed Chen in 589, Murong Kualü was fearful and vacated the border region. He died in 591 and was succeeded by Murong Fuyun's older brother Murong Shifu, who offered to submit to Emperor Wen and further to offer a daughter to serve as Emperor Wen's concubine—which Emperor Wen (who had very few, if any, concubines, due to his love for his wife Empress Dugu) declined.
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Master Shifu (Dustin Hoffman) assigns Po (Jack Black) to host the annual Winter Feast at the Jade Palace, a highly ritualized formal occasion where all the Kung Fu masters of China attend, insisting on the perfection of the event. Although excited, Po also wishes to spend the holiday with his father Mr. Ping (James Hong), and rejects the finest chefs in China in an attempt to have him cater the event. However, Mr. Ping believes Po is more concerned with his duties as the Dragon Warrior, and adamantly remains at his restaurant to feed the townsfolk who have nowhere else to eat for the holiday. Guilt-ridden, Po tries to cook the banquet by himself, but is quickly overwhelmed by the various responsibilities that come with it, further complicated by the interference of Wo Hop (Jack McBrayer), a rabbit chef he had accidentally disgraced earlier and is desperate to die at the hands of the Dragon Warrior to redeem his honor.
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Secrets of the Furious Five (also known as Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five) is a 2008 American animated short film produced by DreamWorks Animation, which serves as a semi-sequel or spin-off to the animated feature film Kung Fu Panda and appears on a companion disc of the original film's deluxe DVD release. It was later broadcast on NBC on February 26, 2009 and is now available as a separate DVD as of March 24, 2009. The film has a framing story of Po the Dragon Warrior (in computer animation) telling the stories of his comrades in arms, the Furious Five, which are depicted in 2D cel animation, similar to the opening and end credits of the original film. The only actors from the film to reprise their roles in this short were Jack Black as Po, Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu, David Cross as Crane, and Randall Duk Kim as Master Oogway.
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Emperor Wen sent Yang Su to quell the rebellions, and the rebels were no match for Yang Su; within the year, the rebellions were put down. In 591, Tuyuhun sought peace and, as per custom, its khan Murong Shifu () offered his daughter to be a concubine for Emperor Wen. Emperor Wen accepted the peace offer but declined the offer of Murong Shifu's daughter. (It was, however, around this time that he did take Chen Shubao's sister and another woman from Jiankang, Consort Cai, as concubines, although it appeared likely that Consort Cai was never able to have sexual relations with Emperor Wen while Empress Dugu was alive; Consort Chen, as the sister of a submissive former sovereign, might have had sexual relations with Emperor Wen on an infrequent basis, but it is not clear.) In spring 592, the official He Tuo (), who, despite his senior status over Su Wei's son Su Kui (), was losing out against Su Kui over a debate as to the designation of official music styles for Sui.
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