How did the national traditional sports come into being?

Wushu is an excellent national traditional sport that has been created and gradually formed by the Chinese people in the process of long-term historical evolution.

In the primitive society, many animals and few people, the natural environment is very harsh, in the "natural selection, the survival of the fittest" in the harsh struggle, people naturally produced punches and kicks, finger scratching and palm striking, jumping and rolling a primary means of attack and defense. Later gradually learned to manufacture and use stone or wooden tools as weapons, and produced some unarmed and the use of equipment fighting and killing skills, which is the germ of martial arts.

Toward the end of primitive society, the frequent occurrence of tribal wars further promoted the development of martial arts. In tribal wars, any production tool that could be used for hunting and fighting became a weapon for fighting.

The practice of war in society put forward the requirements of military skills to people. So people constantly summarize the offensive and defensive skills and experience gained from the practice of war. And passed on from generation to generation.

Entering the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, due to the development of the bronze industry, the emergence of spears, gorges, halberds, axes, battle-axes, knives, swords and other fine weapons, as well as the competition to measure the level of martial arts. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, wars were very frequent as the lords were in strife and the seven powers were trying to dominate. The fighting skills of wushu were emphasized and rapidly developed ... in both the military and the civil society.

The Han Dynasty was a period of great development of the martial arts, in the court feasts often appeared in the martial arts of single, sparring or collective dance practiced routines. Unarmed martial arts performances and competitions were also highly valued by the rulers. Han Dynasty also through the "test abandoned" (boxing skills of the examination) selection of military personnel. Gan Yanshou, a famous general of the Later Han Dynasty, was selected for the military post of "Period Gate" through the "Test Abandonment". During the Sui and Tang dynasties, due to the economic development and prosperity of feudal society, compared with the stagnation of the two Jin and North and South Dynasties, martial arts can be said to have re-emerged. Tang Dynasty, the implementation of the "Wushu system" to the examination method of selection of outstanding martial arts talent, which from the policy and promote the civil and official martial arts activities The two Song Dynasty, internal and external problems, frequent wars, the majority of the people are often associations of martial arts for self-protection. At this time, martial arts in rural and remote areas focus on military utility; and in the city streets and alleys focus on routines, martial arts as performance content, collectively referred to as the "Hundred Plays". The term "eighteen martial arts" also appeared in the Song Dynasty canon. Yuan dynasty due to the national conflict is relatively sharp, the Mongolian rulers to limit the folk martial arts, a lot of martial artists anonymous, martial arts organizations also turned into a secret civil organizations, so that the development of martial arts by a great inhibition.

The Ming Dynasty was the era of comprehensive development of China's martial arts. Different styles, different schools of boxing schools, the great development of the Ming Dynasty martial arts and the Ming Emperor Xian Yuanzhang attach importance to the idea of civil and military all-rounders are inseparable. He advocated that "military officials learn etiquette, the literati learn riding and archery". In this way, the Ming Dynasty, not only numerous boxing, and equipment sets are more colorful, began to have the potential to have the law, there is a boxing recipe song. This shows that born from the military fighting technology of wushu, to the Ming Dynasty has gradually formed a set-based form of sports, and far more than the development of confrontational sports. The Qing dynasty reign due to the Manchu aristocracy to maintain their dominance, once restricted the practice of martial arts, so the Qing dynasty martial arts activities than the Ming dynasty. But because of the martial arts in the people have a broad mass base, coupled with the existence of many anti-Qing and Ming organizations, people practicing martial arts in order to overthrow the Qing dynasty rule of the wind instead of making a variety of schools of martial arts more diverse in the world. Wushu schools, symbolizing the prosperity of the cause of martial arts. But there is also a lack of communication between the schools can not make up for the shortcomings of each other's strengths and weaknesses.

Republic of China period, due to the development of society, the common use of firearms, martial arts fitness role is more clear, martial arts is more mainly in the form of sports in social life.

After the founding of New China, the inheritance and development of the excellent national cultural heritage was at first emphasized. The state not only held regular wushu performances, but also opened wushu majors in higher teacher training colleges and physical education colleges, and organized professionals to organize simplified taijiquan, intermediate long fist, primary long fist, and instrument sets based on the inheritance of traditional boxing, and the collection of the strengths of many schools. In order to promote national culture and develop sports, wushu associations have been set up all over the country to attract wushu enthusiasts to practise wushu and keep fit; the state has also set up a specialized agency in charge of carrying out wushu sports and listed wushu as an official competition item. These measures have greatly promoted the popularization and research of wushu, and have led to the significant development of wushu. Regardless of urban or rural areas, mass wushu sports were widely promoted. Later, starting in the late 1950s, wushu once entered the stage of set and performance, which played a great obstacle to the development and inheritance of wushu Since the 1980s, wushu has made great improvements and breakthroughs in its technical style, structural layout, quality and difficulty; and the sport of sparring has also received a new renaissance, which is an important landmark in the history of the development of wushu.

Chinese wushu has a long history, and in the process of its development and evolution, it is always full of people's wisdom. Long-term social practice, so that it has formed a unique national style and characteristics, containing profound philosophical thinking and moral concepts, wushu as a national art, cultural treasures, not only loved by our people, but also favored by international friends, and become the spread of friendship, improve health messenger.