Chinese martial arts is not flowery

It is a flowery style. Chinese martial arts actually originated from the late Qing Dynasty, and later pseudo-tokyo to some Taoist Buddhist priests or monks hundreds of years ago. Chinese martial arts are all one-man routines, or hard qigong performances. It was never a training of two-person fighting techniques.

Historically, Japanese kendo and jujitsu, and European boxing and fencing, were real two-person combat training. They seldom engaged in flowery maneuvers, they all applied fighting techniques.

In the 1980s, China saw the rise of Sanda, a combination of traditional martial arts and fighting techniques.