Is Sanda a traditional Chinese martial art? What is the history of its development?

Sparring fighting, also known as sparring, has been called by many names throughout the ages in China, such as phase fighting, hand fighting, white fighting, sparring, and technical fighting. Because many confrontations are in the form of a ring, it is also known in Chinese folklore as "fighting in the ring". However, there is a fundamental difference between the current sparring and the traditional sparring.

The current Sanda is a modern sports competition in which two people fight unarmed against each other according to certain rules, using kicking, hitting, wrestling and defending methods in wushu, which is an important part of Chinese wushu. Chinese Wushu has two forms of expression, one is the form of set rehearsal, and the other is the form of fighting confrontation. Sanda is one of the forms of fighting confrontation.

In 1979, with the re-emergence of China's martial arts fever, the Chinese Sports Commission in accordance with the model of competitive sports, first in the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Commission, the Beijing Institute of Physical Education and Wuhan Institute of Physical Education for the pilot training in martial arts confrontation program, and in May of the same year in Nanning, Guangxi, held in the National Wushu Observatory exchange meeting to make the first report on the performance. In the same year, several competitions were held, and in 1982, "Sanda Competition Rules" was formulated, and in 1987, Sanda was approved by the State Sports Commission as an official competition item, and "Team Championship" and "Individual Championship" were set up. Now the wushu sparring on the traditional techniques of induction, organization, abandon their specific form, to find out which with **** law, that is, the Chinese boxing schools of boxing, leg through the regularization, summed up their basic forms of movement, after a high degree of abstraction, to establish the offensive technology has two forms of movement: one is a linear approach, the other is an arc-type approach. Boxing to punch, fling, copy, whip, leg to stomp, kick, sweep, swing, hook for the content, wrestling according to the "fast fall" requirements and "no handle" characteristics, mainly grasp the "destruction of the center of gravity" and "swing circle". According to the requirements of "fast wrestling" and the characteristics of "no handle", it mainly grasps the key points of "destroying the center of gravity" and "swinging circle", and creates the methods of "catching wrestling" and "clamping and wrestling". At the same time, the defense techniques are also divided into "contact defense" and "non-contact defense". Sanda adopts the traditional Chinese method of "fighting in the ring" in the form of competition, and the loser is the one who falls out of the ring and leaves the game. In the competition method using two out of three games system, the first two games that is the winner. 2000 the first Chinese Wushu Sanshou King Competition was held in Changsha City, Hunan Province, Hunan TV made a full report on the event, which is a milestone in the history of the development of the Chinese Wushu Sanshou, Chinese Wushu Sanshou entered the period of the professional system of the tournament. Numerous Sanshou masters competed on the stage, and the Sanshou King of that year was "King of Splitting Legs" Liu Hailong from the People's Liberation Army Physical Education Institute. on March 27, 2001, the Chinese Wushu Sanshou King Competition kicked off in the Sanshou Hall of the China Wushu Association of the National Olympic Sports Center, and the live broadcasting of the competition was carried out by Hunan Satellite Television in 2000, on the basis of which, the competition was broadcasted by Hunan Satellite Television. , to take the form of domestic local and foreign television stations synchronized live broadcast. From February 15, 2001, the People's Daily, China Youth Daily, China Sports Daily, Beijing TV, Beijing Cable TV, the Central People's Broadcasting Station, more than 180 media outlets across the country followed up the preparations for the tournament, which aroused widespread attention from all walks of life to the 2001 Sanda King Competition.

Through the one-year competition in 2000, the Sanda King Competition has been generally recognized in the sports and wushu circles, especially among the professional teams of Sanda, and the enthusiasm of the coaches and athletes to take part in the Sanda King Competition has been unprecedentedly high. More than one, the number of enrollment from 117 increased to more than 200, many of which are domestic and international competitions. Due to the significant increase in enrollment, the tournament is being held on a single-elimination basis.

The 2001 Sanshou King Competition was held in Beijing as the main tournament area, and the competition was held in the form of round robin tournament in major cities across the country, which brought new surprises to more and more people. 2001 China Wushu Sanshou King Competition was more wonderful and more ornamental and entertaining than 2000 in terms of overall lighting, sound, stage packaging, and martial arts and dance performances, which was a perfect combination of competitive sports, fashion culture and film and art. This is a perfect combination of competitive sports, fashion culture and film art, and a new milestone in the development of China's sports industry. 2001 China Wushu Sanshou Da King Competition is the biggest breakthrough in competition organization, which is to invite foreign players to form a team to participate in the regular competition. This marked the turning of the internationalization concept of the 2001 China Wushu Sanda King Competition from a vision to a reality. 2001 China Wushu Sanda King Competition will be divided into six stages of competition: qualification advancement tournament, the top eight rounds, semi-finals, finals (all levels of championships), finals (King Competition), and the Super Sanda King Competition. The year's loose king is from the North Physical Education University of the "White Eyebrow Warrior" "whip leg king" Yuan Yubao.