Chinese Kung Fu

Chinese Kung Fu

Chinese Kung Fu
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 5 to 7
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	8.67

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		ambiguous, cinematography, kung, meditation, pupils, recent, monk, showcase, essence, various, groundwork, series, spectacular, canopy, martial, solution
	content words:		Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Flying Daggers, But Chinese, Indian Buddhist, Da Mo, Ta Mo, Shaolin Temple, Henan Province, Zen Buddhism

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Chinese Kung Fu
By Vickie Chao

¹     In recent years, Chinese kung fu movies -- such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, and House of Flying Daggers -- have become immensely popular in the U.S. For all these three films, the directors used cinematography to showcase the Chinese martial art in such a spectacular way that the audience was bound to wonder, "Is Chinese kung fu for real?"

²     The answer to that question is an ambiguous one.

³     Chinese kung fu is definitely for real. It can trace its history back thousands of years. But Chinese kung fu masters don't jump several feet high. They don't skip across a lake. And they certainly don't fly over the canopy of a bamboo forest!

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