What is the fundamental difference between China Wushu and foreign Wushu?

China's martial arts include both martial arts and routines, while most foreign martial arts only include martial arts.

Human's defense consciousness and the principle of human kinematics determine that martial arts are almost the same at the beginning, but in the later development, different geographical environments, different economic cultures and different national personalities have created a variety of colorful martial arts, such as boxing, wrestling, fencing, judo, taekwondo, Aikido, Muay Thai, free fighting, kendo, sumo, Sambo and so on. For a long time, the people of China have experienced the tempering and tempering of generations of masters with their own lifestyles, codes of conduct, values and aesthetic tastes, and formed a martial art with national characteristics-Chinese Wushu.

The traditional cultural background of China determines the emergence of Wushu routines. Broadly speaking, Wushu is a kind of self-defense Wushu. Technically, Wushu routines are produced for the convenience of teaching, memory and training. Why didn't other nations, especially western nations, produce such a complete and rich routine of China Wushu, which has been passed down to this day? This is obviously related to the traditional cultural background of China. Wushu routine is a highly stylized form of exercise, and various forms of China traditional culture are no exception. First of all, the pursuit of "Tao" is the ideological basis of Wushu routines. China people pursue Tao, which has principles, methods, ways and ways. To some extent, this pursuit of Tao is manifested in the pursuit of form, and Wushu routines appear in the form of Wushu technology. Secondly, the sacrificial ceremony is the ethical basis of Wushu routines. China people advocate "ceremony", which refers to the laws and regulations in a certain period, including people's behavior norms, rules and rituals. It affects China people's politics, ethics, morality, etiquette, folk customs and people's living habits, and then affects people's way of thinking. In this way, China people should have certain specifications and procedures from the national ceremony to the small ceremony of people's life, which makes people's every move highly stylized, which also promotes the emergence of routine sports forms in Wushu drills. Finally, China people attach importance to inheritance, respect teachers and emphasize Taoism, and stylized routines are easy to inherit, which makes Wushu routines more convenient to continue and develop.