Differences In Combat Between Wuxia vs. Xianxia???

[Dark_Phoenix_Zaetyk]

What i can say is that wuxia is only for physical peak humans with martial prowess and nothing more while xanxian is those of supernatural bullshit where people break human limit and more supernatural things are involved like ghosts,divine beasts etc

 

[cabbag3]

Xianxia doesn't always mean Dragonball level, world destroying fights or scenes. If Ghostbusters was Chinese, it would be Xianxia.
It's not always about cultivation. A Chinese Ghost Story is a good example for Xianxia but not just cultivation.
Cultivation just so happens to be their method of "Leveling-up". For example, in Western Fantasy we have 1-Circle Mages, 2-Circle Mages, 3-Circle Mages and so on.
It's basically just Chinese fantasy that's influenced by Chinese mythology, along with some Taoism, Buddhism, TCM, and other Chinese culture stuff.
You can write Xianxia fights the same way as Wuxia fights if you want to, the main difference between them is that Xianxia is more metaphysical / supernatural.

 

[BigBadBoi]

Wuxia - OG Dragonball
Xianxia - Dragonball Z

 

[Puji-Maki]

Wuxia - OG Dragonball
Xianxia - Dragonball Z

... Yeah, sort of I guess. But OG Dragon Ball has the Kamehameha and other beam-like techniques. Although I could be wrong, haven't watched that old anime since a long time ago.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Wuxia is low fantasy, Xianxia is high fantasy. Just like low and high fantasy, you can stretch definitions a long way.

 

[RepresentingPride]

You can write it however you like, it doesn't mean anything to be honest, that not how you write your fight scene that will put your story into Wuxia or Xianxia.
Wuxia and Xianxia are a genre. Like @SailusGebel said,It's like fantasy, you can do everything with it.
The two genre can have character destroying planet, it depend of the setting of their own story.

Xianxia is chinese fantasy with a setting related to their myth and legends, the cultivation path are often related toward budhism, taoism or confucianism.
Wuxia is chinese fantasy with a "Hero" fighting against evil.
Xuanhuan is chinese fantasy with another setting, often a western setting.

 

[Alfir]

This is how I understand it:
Wuxia: the setting is set in a Martial World where martial arts is king! In korea, the murim genre is its counterpart and a good interpretation of wuxia.
Xianxia: the setting is set in the Immortal World where cultivation is the way of life!
Sometimes, xianxia and wuxia exist at the same time. However, the Martial World would most often be belittled and seen as an inferior world or the mortal world. It was easy to confuse them considering how often they appear as a co-existing genre in the same novel, most commonly seen in Chinese novels.

 

[BigBadBoi]

... Yeah, sort of I guess. But OG Dragon Ball has the Kamehameha and other beam-like techniques. Although I could be wrong, haven't watched that old anime since a long time ago.

Wuxia had beam attacks stil but it's from magic artifacts and such. Rare but it exists.

 

[BearlyAlive]

Wuxia is pretty much the Asian equivalent of idolizing the Middle Ages for us Westerners. You got a fairly realistic, albeit idolized, setting, still believable deeds, if you take them as the boasting of a drunken braggart. And at its core were stories about morals or some other snippet of wisdom.

Now Xianxia is pretty much Asian myth and fairytale world on steroids. Everything goes there.


Not sure when or where the racist murder hobos came into the whole equation, but those originally weren't part of either setting/genre.

 

[SwallowForm]

You can write it however you like, it doesn't mean anything to be honest, that not how you write your fight scene that will put your story into Wuxia or Xianxia.
Wuxia and Xianxia are a genre. Like @SailusGebel said,It's like fantasy, you can do everything with it.
The two genre can have character destroying planet, it depend of the setting of their own story.

Xianxia is chinese fantasy with a setting related to their myth and legends, the cultivation path are often related toward budhism, taoism or shintoism.
Wuxia is chinese fantasy with a "Hero" fighting against evil.
Xuanhuan is chinese fantasy with another setting, often a western setting.

I've never read a xianxia that uses Shintoism.
At best I've seen Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

 

[OokamiKasumi]

Anyway, if I'm right, Wuxia is more focus on Martial Arts and Kung Fu while Xianxa is supernatural heavy.

This is how I see the difference between the two as well, or more simply:

Xanxia = Magic + supernatural enemies​

Wuxia = No Magic + human enemies​

 

[Tsuru]

WUXIA

Xianxia

 

[Gray_Mann]

Thanks for the replies everybody.

 

[Tsuru]

Thanks for the replies everybody.

Ty for reading.

 

[RepresentingPride]

I've never read a xianxia that uses Shintoism.
At best I've seen Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

Yes, I wrote the wrong one here, was going for the three Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

Thanks for pointing it out!