Is China's traditional Wushu an artistic performance or a competitive sport?

Is China's traditional Wushu an artistic performance or a competitive sport? In fact, traditional Wushu has both artistic performances and competitive sports. From ancient times to the present, the artistic performance of China traditional Wushu has a long history, and competitive sports is a manifestation of modern social sports. From this perspective, competitive sports is also a sublimation of China traditional martial arts. Traditional Wushu in China contains many contents. In fact, in ancient times, traditional Wushu was competitive, but this competitiveness was due to a high degree of self-protection technology.

So what is an artistic performance? Art performance refers to the direct visual and auditory experience of the performing artist, which generally means that a complete art form must be performed. From the perspective of artistic expression, the artistic form of China traditional Wushu is integrated with dance, because both Wushu and dance are the art of human movements. No matter ancient or modern, a good dance performance will have some martial arts elements. Dance is just an organized, rhythmic and beautified action of Wushu to express its meaning. The form of Wushu expressed through dance is another sublimation of Wushu action. So at this level. China traditional Wushu is also an artistic performance.

Now let's learn about competitive sports. Competitive sports refers to the process of sports activities that develop and exert people's physical strength, psychology and intelligence to the maximum extent on the basis of all-round physical development, with the main purpose of creating excellent results. This also reflects the competitiveness of China traditional Wushu. The basic knowledge of competitive sports in China is to pursue the maximization of sports performance, give full play to the human body's ability, constantly break through and create excellent results. Its main performance is winning or losing in sports competitions. Modern competitive sports include shooting, fishing, hunting and other recreational activities, and it is also the sublimation of the evolution of China traditional Wushu into competition.