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What are the categories of traditional martial arts?

Traditional Wushu is divided into boxing, equipment practice, sparring, attack and defense techniques and collective performance.

1. Boxing: It consists of several or even a dozen basic movements of Wushu, and it is composed of unarmed exercises according to the structure, action rules and styles of different boxing types. Boxing mainly includes Changquan, Nanquan, Tai Ji Chuan, Xingyiquan, Bagua Boxing, Tongguan Boxing and Shaolin Boxing.

2. Instrument practice: based on boxing, with various instruments, combined according to the characteristics of boxing and instrument movements. Instruments include short instruments (knives, swords, etc. ), long instruments (guns, sticks, etc. ), double instruments (double knives, double swords, double guns, double hooks, etc. ) and soft musical instruments (nine-fingered whip, meteor hammer, rope tag, etc. ).

3, sparring: sparring is based on boxing and equipment. Two or more people perform offensive and defensive exercises or performances in accordance with the prescribed action sequence. Sparring includes unarmed sparring, equipment sparring and unarmed sparring with equipment.

4. Offensive and defensive techniques: The two men fought according to certain rules, including Sanshou, Pushing Hands, Short Soldiers and Long Soldiers. These actions are of practical significance.

5. Collective performance: more than 6 people perform unarmed or instrumental collective performances. The movements should be uniform, accompanied by music and wearing ancient costumes.

Traditional Wushu has the following characteristics:

1, emphasizing Wushu: Traditional Wushu pays attention to Wushu cultivation, emphasizes the balanced development of moral cultivation and Wushu technology, and pursues both martial arts and morality.

2. Pay attention to basic skills: Traditional Wushu pays attention to the practice of basic skills, and thinks that the solidity of basic skills is the basis for improving technical level.

3. Let a hundred flowers blossom: There are many schools of traditional Wushu, each with its unique technical characteristics and practice methods.

4. Have both form and spirit: Traditional Wushu not only pays attention to technical study and practice, but also emphasizes spiritual cultivation and physical exercise, and pursues both form and spirit, both internal and external cultivation.

5. Pay attention to actual combat: Traditional Wushu emphasizes the application of actual combat and pays attention to cultivating the application ability and adaptability of technology in actual combat.