What are the eighteen martial arts in Wushu?

A traditional term of China Wushu, also known as "eighteen weapons" and "eighteen weapons", is commonly found in ancient China operas and novels, and refers to the skills and techniques of using various martial arts instruments. The contents and forms of eighteen kinds of martial arts are very rich, which largely reflect the development of martial arts in that era. Modern people's understanding of "eighteen martial arts" refers to various weapons or skills.

Since the Qing Dynasty, there are four main theories about the Eighteen Martial Arts:

1. refers to "knives, guns, swords, halberds, shovels, sticks, forks, rakes, whips, maces, hammers, axes, hooks, sickles, rakes, crutches, bows and arrows, rattan cards".

2. It's the same as arrangement, except that the last three items become: generation, judgment, bow and arrow.

It means "nine long and nine short". Nine are guns, halberds, sticks, cymbals, forks, spears, hooks, shackles and rings; Nine short ones are knives, swords, crutches, axes, whips, mallets, hammers, clubs and pestles. In this arrangement, the bows and arrows of long-range weapons and the cards or rattan cards of defensive weapons disappear, which is also a reflection that modern martial arts practitioners are not good at learning bows and arrows and only teach routines.

4. Refers to 18 kinds of weapons, which are called knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, cymbals, hooks, forks, whips, mallets, hammers, grasping, boring, clubs, sticks, crutches and meteor hammers in modern drama circles. This is also an arrangement accepted by most people today.