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Chinese Martial Arts

Wushu: Boxing and the use of weapons are traditional sports in China. Modern Chinese Dictionary Wushu, also known as Wushu or Wushu, is a traditional sport in China. Its content is to combine kicking, hitting, throwing, taking, falling, hitting, chopping, stabbing and other actions into various offensive and defensive fighting techniques, routines and unarmed equipment single-potential exercises according to certain rules. Wushu has an extremely broad mass base and is a valuable cultural heritage accumulated and enriched by the people of China in the long-term social practice. It is one of the outstanding cultural heritages in China.

China Wushu is an important part of China's traditional culture, one of the main contents of our national sports, and also a method used by our people to exercise and defend themselves for thousands of years. People in Guangdong and Guangxi called it Kung Fu, which was referred to as the martial arts in the early years of the Republic of China (later officially adopted by the Central Martial Arts Museum); It is regarded as the national quintessence of China culture, so it is also called the national quintessence. Due to historical development and geographical distribution, different sects have been derived. The main contents of China Wushu include fighting skills, fighting techniques, attack and defense strategies and weapon use. Divided into two categories: theory and practice. In practice, it has brought important functions of China Wushu, such as sports, fitness, qigong and health preservation. The theory has brought a lot of predecessors' experience and boxing spectrum records. The forms of exercise include routine and confrontation. Therefore, it reflects the Chinese nation's understanding of offensive and defensive techniques and strategies. Coupled with the accumulated experience, self-management with the goal of self-reliance and health preservation, routine sports include boxing, knife, gun, sword and stick. Show the graceful posture of body movements when practicing routines. China Wushu often has the cultural characteristics of ideological chain and the characteristics and significance of humanistic philosophy, which has a far-reaching impact on popular culture in China today.