Is boxing the most practical technique in China Wushu?

China's martial arts culture is extensive and profound, which can be seen from Jin Yong's martial arts novels and film and television dramas, but martial arts is different from actual combat. Most of the audience and readers were misled by Jin Yong's novels and TV dramas. They think that actual combat should be posturing and fighting gracefully. In fact, Jin Yong himself did not understand actual combat, but was slightly different from Taiji Chuan. Jin Yong built his martial arts world with his rich imagination.

Those martial arts classes that can only be seen in novels or film and television dramas, such as the eighteen palms of the dragon, the true classics of the nine Yang, and the lightness skill, simply do not exist in real life. Shaolin seventy-two arts, iron cloth shirts and iron sand palms all exist, but they are only exercises of martial arts routines and hard qigong, which is far from actual combat. There are many schools of martial arts in China. Judging from their actual combat achievements, Xingyiquan, Wing Chun, Bajiquan and Tai Ji Chuan are the best. During the Republic of China, the Hangzhou Wushu Congress held a tournament. Martial arts experts from all walks of life came to discuss, among which Xingyiquan was the best. Xingyiquan is mainly a single practice, with no routine, outstanding skills, simplicity and practicality, and is suitable for actual combat.

Octupole boxing is also very practical, playing slowly and steadily, with powerful movements and simple and practical moves. The earliest military boxing was octupole boxing. Both Tai Ji Chuan and Wing Chun Boxing have the training form of semi-pushing hands, which promotes the improvement of actual combat confrontation ability. A relatively small boxing method suitable for actual combat, there is a natural gate of Shaolin King Kong Zen, which few people know. There is also Dacheng Boxing, which is known as the first boxing method in actual combat, but whether this boxing method can really withstand actual combat remains to be tested later. Practitioners of this kind of boxing have not seen any outstanding performance in the current ring, but it is said that they have achieved good results in street fighting.

Many people think that all the martial arts experts in China have been defeated by foreign second-rate actual combat experts, and that China Wushu is an empty shelf and not suitable for actual combat. This statement is also wrong. The key point is that all the martial arts experts in China spend most of their time practicing routines, bones and muscles, skins and spirits. The main purpose is to keep fit, not to knock others down. If these martial arts experts spend more time fighting with others, these second-rate fighters are no match for them at all.