Written records of the history of China can be found from as early as 1500 BC[1][2] under the Shang dynasty (c. 1600â1046 BC).[3] Ancient historical texts such as the Records of the Grand Historian (ca. 100 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (before 296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070â1600 BC), which had no system of writing on a durable medium, before ...
There are, for the most part, 9 dans (or degrees) when it comes to a taekwondo black belt that can be achieved.
Colored belts represent a students progress toward black belt. Each belt represents a certain level of skill or a certain set of skills. Taekwondo does not have a uniform color order for student belts. Each school sets its own colors, color order and number of student grades. Each school also sets its own curriculum, so two students from different school with the same color belt might not know all the same kicks, blocks or forms.