What is the course of China's short soldiers?

China's "short weapons" refer to China's short weapons represented by knives and swords.

China Wushu Short Soldiers is an antagonistic competitive sport that uses short weapons such as knives, swords, mallets and whips in China traditional Wushu. According to certain rules, two people fight or compete in actual combat. Short soldier sport originated from the fighting and competitive sport of short weapons in traditional martial arts in China, and it is also a new competitive event with distinctive characteristics and styles of traditional sports in China.

The Central Wushu Museum, established in old China 1927, once set short-term Wushu as a teaching subject and held short-term Wushu competitions in the national Wushu examinations held in 1928 and 1933.

After the founding of New China, the State Sports Commission attached great importance to Wushu, and Wushu short soldiers were also listed as the competition item of 1952 "Tianjin National Sports Performance Competition Conference". Since then, Wushu short soldiers have been regarded as a course rather than a competitive event in physical education colleges.

It was not until 1979 that the national Wushu excavation and arrangement work was carried out that the state paid attention to it again, and carried out experiments, public performances, internal exchanges and research competitions, further improving the competition rules and referees, etiquette of short soldiers, venue facilities and protective gear, laying a preliminary framework for the further development of short soldiers. ?

The development of Wushu short soldier movement lasted for nearly a hundred years, but due to insufficient publicity, few open competitions at all levels, competition rules, short soldier equipment and materials, the development of short soldier movement was ups and downs.

At present, the public's cognition and participation in Wushu short soldier movement is not enough, and it needs to be publicized and popularized with great efforts. Therefore, this study analyzes and discusses the characteristics and functions of Wushu short soldier movement, aiming at improving people's cognitive level of Wushu short soldier movement and serving for actively promoting the development of Wushu short soldier movement.