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What is the actual combat of traditional Wushu in China?

Many people may not understand a common sense: what we call "traditional martial arts" has no long history at all. It is absolutely certain that an ancient martial arts master in China was the famous anti-Japanese fighter Qi Jiguang. The martial arts he promoted are really useful on the battlefield-his Qi Jiajun often meets fierce enemies hundreds of times. Qi Jiguang's martial arts is not unarmed combat, but the skill of using weapons. Let's recall these classic literary works, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Legend of the Tang Dynasty. How many famous artists play unarmed combat? Maybe Song Wu was the only one, but even Song Wu only punched the tiger with a stick, and his heroic deeds of "catching Fang La with a broken arm" depended on the monk's knife. Why? Because in ancient times, people said "martial arts" or "martial arts" was not unarmed combat at all. The so-called "eighteen martial arts" refers to the skills of using eighteen kinds of weapons.

In fact, a little common sense can understand that "Kung Fu" was developed on the battlefield after all. Who would want to fight the enemy unarmed on the battlefield? In fact, the development of unarmed combat was in the Qing Dynasty, because Manchu people were afraid of Han people rising up and forbidding to practice weapons, so people who practiced martial arts at that time could only practice unarmed, but "moves" were also weapon moves, which means "practicing boxing" refers to drunkenness, not alcohol. It's just that it's been circulating for a long time, and sometimes it's rumored, so some people will mistakenly think that these "martial arts" are really boxing or palm art. In the Qing dynasty, most martial arts practitioners worked in places like escort agencies, and the safety was the best. Moreover, on the one hand, Wushu has long been far away from the battlefield. On the other hand, the power of interpersonal relationship or Jianghu rules has gradually surpassed that of individual force, so martial arts began to go out of shape. But at least I'm capable of fighting.