Korean History #3.
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The system of the great Korean kicking art of the Hwa Rang Warrior Knights combat fighting, and training with extensive mountain running up large mountains in this region of Shilla for greater endurance for their legs muscles that were developed to exceptional high levels of human strength in their kicking art of power which was incorporated into the system of hand-to-hand combat techniques which had greater influence of the Chinese martial art soft/hard hand techniques from China, the Hwa Rang Warrior Knights trained in very advance kicking techniques that were developed within the Shilla Dynasty for the warrior riding high on a large war horse during this period of time in open warfare. The art, and science of Korean kicking within Hwa Rang Mul Sul has become part of all other Korean martial arts around the World, and other martial systems of today.
Within the heads of the Court of hierarchy of the Hwa Rang were women warrior knight leaders known as, "Won Hwa"(Original Flower). The Court of the Hwa Rang Warrior Knights were directed, and followed by a very strict code of ethics put forth by the Supreme Buddhist Monk Wong Wang, just as King Author did for the Knights of the Round Table in England.
The Old Code of the Court of Hwarang
1. Serve the King with loyalty.
2. Be obedient to your parents.
3. Be honorable to a friend.
4. Never retreat in battle.
5. Kill justly.
Within a unit of Hwa Rang Warrior Knights comprised of a large number of men and women, these knights were commanded by a high level Hwa Rang Warrior Knights of noble birth, and by several warrior monks. The Hwa Rang Warrior Knight commander, after completing the high level Hwa Rang leaders training would proceed into the countryside of Shilla, and gather young men from many of the villages into clan group levels of Hwa Rang, and train them in the Buddhism believes, martial arts, combat weapons, and the secret arts of the Hwa Rang Warrior Knights. These clans of Hwa Rang Warrior Knights were lead into battles against other kingdoms in Korea, and the T'ang Dynasty, these warriors were willing to lay down their lives for the King, and the Kingdom of Shilla. With all the battles won against the Kingdoms of Koguryo, Paekche armies, and the forces of the T'ang Dynasty became the unification of Korea. Within the unification of Korea, and defeating the T'ang Dynasty within Korea, the Korean people's mind became more of a philosophical process of thought than a confrontational one. The Hwa Rang Warrior Knights fell in total decline at the end of the 7th century, and the warrior became known as a society of men specializing in the healing arts, Buddhist philosophy, poetry, and the art of dance, other than the Court of Hwa Rang Warrior Knights, until they became non-existent as warrior knights, except for the very few old masters still holding onto the old ways of the teachings of the Hwa Rang Mul Sul System that has been passed on from ancestry of generations in family members then later on to outsiders to keep the old Korean Shadow Warrior martial arts system (Sul-sa Knights of the Night) of Hwa Rang Mul Sul alive, which has been a hidden art, and almost a lost art of the old Traditional Korean Shadow Warrior martial arts system (Sul-sa called Knights of the Night) of combat fighting art.
During the 17th Century of the Korean history Korea became a great vassal state for the Empire of China, and ultimately had all ties, and contacts cut off from the outside world until the end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894-1895. After the Japanese won victory over the war, Korea was granted final independence from China.
In 1910, the country of Korea had been annexed by the country of Japan, which the Japanese developed the country, but the Japanese would never win over the Korean Nationalists who would continuely agitate the Japanese Government for total independence of Korea, and their people. During this period of time in 1910, the Japanese Government dismantled the Korean Royal Court armies during their occupation in Korea. The total band on all Korean martial arts, folklore games, the National Korean Language, and the process of thought, Korean customs, and cultures, and the use of any Korean family names were total prohibited, all military, and martial arts weapons were confiscated by the Japanese colonial government, and thousands of the young men of Korea were arrested, taken prisoner, and then shipped off to Japan to be re-educated in the Japanese way, brain washed, and indoctrinated into the Japanese Army, and taught the way of the Japanese martial arts, then returned to Korea as part of the Japanese Colonial Army and becoming a violent force against their own people, family, and country.
Many of the great Korean masters of the old traditional Korean Shadow Warrior martial arts system (Sul-sa - Knights of the Night) went into hiding throughout South Korea, holding onto the old ways. During many of the occupations by the Japanese into Korea, many of the Japanese did train in many of the old traditional martial arts of Korea, and many of the old master of Korean martial arts had traveled to Japan passing on their teachings to the Japanese including the Korean martial arts system (Sul-sa) of Hwa Rang Mul Sul, which was passed from China through many of it's martial arts system into Korea, then into Japanese system of martial arts. Many of the old Hwa Rang Mul Sul Masters passed this system secretly through their families of generations, and ancestry as did Master "Hud's Master, Master 'Kim' family in South Korea did in the same in the past right back to the Shilla Dynasty through Master 'Kim" family ancestry of generations of Hwarang Warrior Knights.
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