Reason i want to know, is because the armour that chin bo was wearing as liutenant was awesome. I want to know what time period it was from and whether it was samurai or whatever so i can get my own custom made :p It's the black armour i'm talking about and i don't know why but i think it looks awesome. If you ever see someone walking around on the streets with that suit on, it'll probably be me.
shareThis is a movie about Chinese warriors.
Samurai are strictly Japanese.
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Probably around the time of the boxer rebellion in China, given the fascist government and rebels, so probably around 1895-1900 sorta time.
shareEnd of Ming dynasty, should be around 1680. Zhang San Feng, AKA, Zhang Jun Bao, who Jet Li acted in this movie, is the inventor of Tai-Chi martial arts, based on the acient Chinese philosophy of Ying and Yang, AKA, the Eight Diagrams
shareThe time is set to the near end of Yuan's dynasty, one of the darkest era in Chinese history, in the movie the time should be around 1300 or so.
shareWrong Wrong WRONG ~~~
Young Zhang JunBao aka Zhang San Feng , was born in the era during the condor heroes , that was in the end of the Song Dynasty .
It was somewhat a decade or two after so then it was to be the Yuan Dynasty .
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The "Zhang Sanfeng" geskhan refers to is the one popularized by Jin Yong, the author of the condor heroes that geskhan mentioned. In Jin Yong's version, Zhang Sanfeng was born in 1247. He got kicked out of shaolin when he was about 10 year old. The story then flashes forward to his 100th birthday. Then the story then moved forward another 5 years or so and Zhang Sanfeng was still alive. The Yuan Dynasty lasted from 1279 to 1368 A.D. So if Jin Yong version is correct, Zhang Sanfeng might had lived through 3 dynasties. But to the OP's question, the story probably takes place near the end of the Song Dynasty since he was recently kicked out of Shaolin.
Anyway, back to the topic, there are many legends/folklores surround Zhang Sanfeng. No one actually knows for sure. Some sources say he lived from 1314~1320 to 1417, which is in the Yuan Dynasty (*1). Other source claims that he lived from 1247-1447AD, which means he lived in the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties (*2). Other source claimed that Taichi was attributed to Zhang Sanfeng because some martial art master wanted to mythify his technique by creating the legend (*3, *4). Keep in mind that he is a folklore, so there is no way of knowing for sure. Some stories say that he lived for more than 150 years, 7 ft tall.
*1 http://www.eng.taoism.org.hk/general-daoism/eminent-philosophers&accomplished-daoists/pg1-4-29.asp
*2 Jou, Tsung Hwa's "The Tao of Tai-Chi Chuan: Way to Rejuvenation"
*3 The Shambhala Guide to Taoism. Wong, Eva. Boston, Shambhala, 1997. ISBN: 1570621691
*4 Lost T'ai-chi Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty. By Douglas Wile. State University of New York Press, 1996. ISBN: 079142653X
the eunuch was a real historical figure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Jin
he died in the year 1510, though not at the hands of chin bo of course.