What are the characteristics and functions of Wushu?

1, combining martial arts with sports

Wushu, as a sport, is technically characterized by attack and defense, but it is only integrated with fighting and routine sports, while fighting embodies the characteristics of martial arts attack and defense, which is basically the same as actual combat, but from the sports point of view, it is restricted by the rules of the game to avoid hurting the other side.

Sanshou, for example, restricts some traditional practical methods in martial arts, strictly stipulates the hitting position and protective gear, and the instruments used by short soldiers are changed accordingly, while the pushers compete under the provisions of special techniques. Therefore, it can be said that martial arts fighting action has strong offensive and defensive skills, but it is different from practical skills.

2. The national style of internal and external integration and both form and spirit.

We should not only learn physical norms, but also seek spiritual communication. The holistic view of internal and external integration is a major feature of China Wushu. The so-called interior refers to the spiritual activities such as mind and mind, and the overall movement of qi; The so-called watch refers to physical activities such as hands, eyes, body and steps. Inside and outside, form and god are interrelated and unified whole.

For example, Wuqinxi is a wonderful effort to imitate five animals: tiger, deer, bear, ape and bird. Its essence is: "seeking the outside while moving, seeking quietness while moving, combining dynamic and static, combining rigidity with softness, and practicing both inside and outside." Shen Baofeng, a famous scholar, summed up the Five-Animal Play with a cross: "Fitness Five-Animal Play, tiger, deer, bear, ape, bird, shape and shape.

3. Wide adaptability

The forms and contents of Wushu practice are varied, including competitive and antagonistic Sanshou, pushing hands and short soldiers, various boxing methods and equipment suitable for practice, and various training methods suitable for it. Different kinds of boxing and equipment have different action structures, technical requirements, exercise methods and exercise amount, which meet the needs of people of different ages, genders and physiques.

Wushu is also limited by time and season. Compared with many sports, Wushu has wider adaptability, and its long-term decline among the general public is not unrelated to this feature. Using this feature can provide convenience for modern mass sports activities and further socialize Wushu.

The role of Wushu:

1, improve the quality, fitness and self-defense.

Wushu routine movements include flexion and extension, loop, balance, jumping, tumbling, falling, etc. Almost all parts of the human body should participate in the movements. Wushu can benefit joints, strengthen bones and muscles, and strengthen physical fitness; It is good for regulating internal organs, dredging meridians and regulating the mind. Wushu pays attention to regulating breath, activating qi and nourishing the mind, which is very beneficial to regulating the internal environment balance, regulating qi and blood, improving human function and strengthening the body.

2. Exercise will and cultivate moral character.

Practicing martial arts tests the quality of will in many aspects. To practice basic skills, we should constantly overcome the pain and hone the will quality of "practicing three or nine in winter and three volts in summer", which will remain unchanged all the year round and persevere. Routine exercises should overcome boredom and cultivate the qualities of hard work, perseverance and never complacency. When you meet a strong player, you can overcome passive avoidance and exercise your fearless and indomitable fighting will. After long-term exercise, we can cultivate people's good habits and will and morality of diligence, hard work, courage, tenacity, openness and eagerness to learn.

3. Competitive viewing

Wushu enriches life. Wushu has high ornamental value. Whether it is routine performance or Sanshou competition, it has always been loved by people. Cui Zongzi, a good friend of Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, praised him for "making swords with knives, and all four of them looked askance". In Du Fu's famous poem "Watch Gong Sundaniang's Disciples Dance Sword", there is a poem "Many years ago, there lived a beautiful Gongsun, who danced with her dagger and drew it from all directions.

The audience is like a mountain lost between them, the world moves back and forth and follows her movements. " The hero of the Han dynasty, "see it within 300 miles." It shows that whether it is a competition performance routine to show Wushu skills and skills or an antagonistic Sanshou competition with wits and wits, it will be fascinating, give people beautiful enjoyment and have high ornamental value. Through watching, it gives people enlightenment, education and fun.

4. Exchange skills and enhance friendship.

Wushu is rich in connotation, technology and theory are interlinked, and there will be a feeling of "endless art" after entry. Mass Wushu activities have become a good means for people to learn skills, exchange ideas and enhance friendship. With the wide spread of martial arts in the world, it can also promote exchanges with foreign martial arts lovers.

Extended data:

The difference between Wushu and performance, sports, competition and fighting;

1, Wushu is different from dance.

Dancing is not martial arts, just like setting off fireworks instead of throwing bombs. Although dance extracts the corresponding similarities and differences from martial arts, it is an aesthetic technique that lacks the lethality in martial arts and cannot be confused.

2. Wushu is different from sports.

Physical education is an art of self-cultivation, a physical exercise based on physical anatomy, and an art of tempering the will. However, it lacks awareness training to solve the enemy, so physical training does not have actual combat ability.

In actual combat, only by destroying the opponent's consciousness, thoughts and intentions can we achieve the effect of attacking him unprepared and defeating the strong with the weak. Intermediate Wushu is geared to practicing this point. This kind of training is not a tangible anatomy category, but an intangible consciousness training category.

3. Wushu is different from competition.

Competition is an act of learning and thinking, aiming at improving the skills of participants. Therefore, the same level of competition can achieve this effect; Different doors and different levels of competition will only miss their skills and generate hatred, which is not desirable.

Martial arts is different from fighting.

Fighting is a behavior between competitive and simulated real fighting, which violates Wu's purpose of "not taking the initiative to fight" and has three disadvantages:

Actively participate in and expose its technical loopholes; Regardless of victory or defeat, they all lost to fame and fortune; Fighting is to participate in violence, not to stop it, which violates the goodness of Wushu and runs counter to the purpose of "practicing personal perfection through Wushu", and belongs to the category of "fighting" rather than "stopping fighting".

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