Confucian social ladder...

DavidM · Post by **DavidM** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:04 am

One of the times Scott Rodell was over here (in Australia) he mentioned that martial artists (such as Yang Luchan) were, in the Confucian scale of things quite low in social status.

I am wondering if anyone knows if this was martial artists specifically, or were they grouped with other similar 'professions' like soldiers and mercenaries ?

Tashi James · Post by **Tashi James** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:36 pm

Laoshi has described that martial artists were generally held in the same regard as musicians and prostitutes

DavidM · Post by **DavidM** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:23 am

Yes, but I'm wondering if that was just martial artists, and that maybe soldiers were at another point in the 'scale', or were they all lumped together ?