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In Chinese martial art fictions set in Ming Dynasty, there is a recurring tropes of how the Yuan Dynasty ban Han Chinese from learning martial arts. Is this based on any real historical laws, edicts or policies?

by /u/GammaRhoKT in /r/AskHistorians

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