 The modern concepts of wushu emerge by the late Ming to early Qing dynasties (16th to 17th centuries).Between the 16th and 17th centuries there are at least forty extant sources which provided evidence that, not only did monks of Shaolin practice martial arts, but martial practice had become such an integral element of Shaolin monastic life that the monks felt the need to justify it by creating new Buddhist lore.References of martial practice in Shaolin appear in various literary genres of the late Ming