You must pay attention to the following when watching Chinese Wuxia movies:
- Revenge whether the from the protagonist or antagonist point of view.
- The power to right what wrong has been done to the hero or villain .
- Magical sword or swords that can enable a character to become a powerful martial arts master and rule the world.
- Powerful martial art scroll or scrolls that can do the same - gives a character powerful secret martial art skills.
- Falling off, getting pushed off or jumping off cliff and survive, often learning a powerful martial art skill from a hermit/master or end up living in peace and seclusion, often involving a love couple.
- The dream to live in seclusion or exile.
- Orphaned characters often the heroes growing up without parents and later finding who and what happened to their parents, and if they're killed by an enemy the victim must get revenge.
- A grave-chronic injury of being poisoned or wounded by an powerful martial art skill (see the Jinx Palm in THSDS).
- A young and unskilled hero.
- A wise old man or Kung Fu master/teacher/mentor or multiple ones that hero encounters during his journey.
- Characters and conflicts often involve two of the most common religions in China, Shaolin (Buddhism) and Wudang (Daoism).
- Characters often use reverse psychology to trick their opponents.
- Betraying your school by learning the enemy's style of martial arts.
- A girl/woman disguised as a boy/man.
- An evil trickster.
- A fake ally opponent.
- The greed for power to ruler the world.
- A love triangle involving two male and one female character or one male and two female characters. If it's the former, the male character who loses the girl will try to seek revenge on the other male character (See Shin Kwon vs Xie Xuan in THSDS novel).
- Revenge whether the from the protagonist or antagonist point of view.
- The power to right what wrong has been done to the hero or villain .
- Magical sword or swords that can enable a character to become a powerful martial arts master and rule the world.
- Powerful martial art scroll or scrolls that can do the same - gives a character powerful secret martial art skills.
- Falling off, getting pushed off or jumping off cliff and survive, often learning a powerful martial art skill from a hermit/master or end up living in peace and seclusion, often involving a love couple.
- The dream to live in seclusion or exile.
- Orphaned characters often the heroes growing up without parents and later finding who and what happened to their parents, and if they're killed by an enemy the victim must get revenge.
- A grave-chronic injury of being poisoned or wounded by an powerful martial art skill (see the Jinx Palm in THSDS).
- A young and unskilled hero.
- A wise old man or Kung Fu master/teacher/mentor or multiple ones that hero encounters during his journey.
- Characters and conflicts often involve two of the most common religions in China, Shaolin (Buddhism) and Wudang (Daoism).
- Characters often use reverse psychology to trick their opponents.
- Betraying your school by learning the enemy's style of martial arts.
- A girl/woman disguised as a boy/man.
- An evil trickster.
- A fake ally opponent.
- The greed for power to ruler the world.
- A love triangle involving two male and one female character or one male and two female characters. If it's the former, the male character who loses the girl will try to seek revenge on the other male character (See Shin Kwon vs Xie Xuan in THSDS novel).