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.
Very few styles use a belt system. Well, first of all, black belt isn't expert level in anything. It's the equivalent of a high school diploma, not a PhD. At any rate, in most legit martial arts places, it takes roughly 3-5 years to get to first-degree black belt (most martial arts have 10 degrees of black belt).