Many traditional Chinese martial arts, why now have started to lose?

Traditional Chinese martial arts have a history of thousands of years, in the era of cold weapons, martial arts has been born, only the earliest martial arts is just a prototype, just some loose strokes, and then continue to summarize the experience, and continue to improve up, under the penetration of some of the theory, the formation of a complete system. Whether it is Xingyiquan, Mantis Boxing, Taijiquan, etc. are so. The real martial arts is for actual combat, the reason why this kind of martial arts is rare now is because of the change of times.

Under the current era, stability and development is the mainstream, if you leave martial arts alone, there will be many more unstable factors in society. Because of this, when the country develops wushu, it focuses on the development of competitive wushu, which is mainly a set performance. The routine competitions can show the beauty of wushu, and it is also a way to promote wushu. Jet Li, who has won five consecutive all-around wushu championships, once said that competitive wushu is just flowery.

The times they are a-changin', and to meet the needs of the real-world aspect of the fight, the concept of sanshou combat has been introduced. Top athletes were selected to specialize in practicing moves and actions selected from the martial arts, and to engage in real-world combat against each other in a ring with rules. This is how the older generation of Sanda athletes was born.

The sport of Sanda originated from martial arts, is an important part of martial arts, can not be divided between the two. Only the two are different again. Traditional martial arts also have Sanshou, but the main purpose of Sanshou is to engage in unruly confrontation, which is mainly applicable to the usual confrontation with the enemy, rather than the ring confrontation.

Ring combat sports continue to develop, the most adapted to the rules of ring combat is boxing, Muay Thai, karate, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu in no-limit fighting, the traditional martial arts because of its uniqueness, not adapted to the ring combat, in the ring less, so many people will think that the martial arts are lost, or that they can not be fought.

The kind of people who are bent on fame and fortune, for the flow of all kinds of propaganda naturally can not fight, after all, whether practicing martial arts or other sports, the usual amount of training is the key, if you can not guarantee the amount of training, there is no power, and there is no real combat.

The real transmission of martial arts has always existed, just a small number. Those obscure inheritors, care only about the inheritance, will not care about the outside world of all kinds of arguments, in fact, many famous combat athletes is the transmission of martial arts origin. In the current era, many people practicing traditional martial arts are just to strengthen the body, have a good body, more important than anything else.