<P> The term Shifu is a combination of the characters "teacher" and "father" (師父) or a combination of the characters "teacher" and "mentor" (師傅). The traditional Chinese martial arts school, or kwoon (館, guǎn) is an extended family headed by the Shifu . The Shifu's teacher is the "師公 honorable master" or Shigong . Similarly the Shifu's wife is the Shimu "teacher mother" and the grandmaster's wife is known as: 師 姥 shi lao; or 師 婆 shi po . Male and female students who began training before you and are thus senior, are Shixing "teacher older brothers" and 師姐 shi jie "teacher's sisters". Women in traditional society did not have the same status as males (despite what modern movies depict). Students junior to you are your Shidi and Shimei . The pattern extends to uncles, aunts, cousins, great uncles, and so forth (see above for a complete list of relational terms). </P> <P> Such titles may be, to some extent, aligned to the elderly martial arts master stock character in fiction . In Oriental martial arts, traditional titular systems vary between nations and arts, but terms such as "teacher" were more common than "master ." The modern use came from Eastern to Western society in the 1950s with stories of martial feats seen in Asia . </P>

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