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What is the essence of martial arts?

Chinese Wushu The essence of Wushu is practical, fitness and performance.

As far as the technical layer of wushu is concerned, it is divided into three layers due to the different ways of thinking, values and aesthetic interests of the fighters;

The innermost layer is the simplest and most practical layer of primitive techniques, which is not very different from one country to another, and this is also the case with Chinese kung fu;

The second layer is the technical layer of the techniques of the strokes under a certain scenario, and most of the techniques of many fighters in traditional wushu are at this level;

The third layer is the exercises created from an aesthetic point of view, which is the technical expansion layer.

The third layer is the aesthetically-created maneuvers, which belong to the technical expansion layer.