What is the best age for kids to learn martial arts

The best age for a child to learn martial arts is around 6~7 years old.

Wushu is certainly the essence of our Chinese culture, but learning also depends on the child's body and character, if the child's physique is weak, it can be appropriate to practise wushu to strengthen the body, and it also depends on the child's character, if the child's character is introverted, it can also allow the child to go to learn.

What is not recommended is that if the child is extroverted, and usually used to beat their peers then it is best not to learn, because now the children are the best time to develop interpersonal skills, if the child will not be able to correctly deal with the contradiction between the companions, it is very likely to use the martial arts to attack their peers, which will be counterproductive.

Chinese martial arts is the Chinese people in the long-term production of labor and nature of the fight and the Cold War era of war gradually formed and developed a sports program, with fitness, body protection, defense, victory role. The origin of Chinese martial arts can be traced back to the primitive society.

The above data is from Baidu Encyclopedia.

Wushu source role:

1, personal self-protection.

Primitive society: the strong and the weak fight, one side of the movement of the Go, followed by the emergence of martial arts. Wushu, stopping the war for Wushu, stopping the war came. Wushu, the technology to stop the fighting. Chinese martial arts, Chinese traditional martial arts, through the martial arts transmission, to "stop the invasion" as the technical orientation, leading practitioners into the understanding of man and nature, the objective laws of society, the traditional way of education. It is the guide and guarantee of human material civilization.

2. The course is about strengthening the nation and the people.

State, community: King Zhuang of Chu said: "Fu Wen stops the Go for the Wu. Also said: the Fu Wu, banning violence and ji soldiers to protect Dading Gong, Anmin and wealth also." -- "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals - Xuan Gong 12 Years". King Zhuang of Chu (楚庄王), son of King Mu of Chu (楚穆王), ruler of the state of Chu (楚國) during the Spring and Autumn Period (春秋期), reigned from 613 B.C. to 591 B.C., one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Toward the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius visited the state of Chu and claimed that King Zhuang of Chu's political ideology was in line with Confucianism's idea of "benevolence". Before King Zhuang of Chu, the state of Chu had been excluded from the Chinese culture; since King Zhuang of Chu, the state of Chu has been powerful, and has played a great role in the spread of Chinese culture and the formation of the national spirit, and has become famous.