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.
Since in Song Moo Kwan a black belt takes approximately 2 to 4 years of training to achieve, a good intuitive analogy would be a 1st Dan Black Belt is equivalent to a college Bachelor's degree. The 1st Dan black belt is thus seen not so much as an end, but rather as a beginning, a doorway to advanced learning.