Difference between Chinese martial arts and foreign martial arts

Chinese martial arts contain both techniques and routines, while most foreign martial arts have only techniques.

Man's sense of defense and the principle of human kinesiology determines that the techniques are nearly the same at the beginning of the origin, only in the later development, different geographic environments, different economic and cultural, different national character created a colorful variety of techniques, such as boxing, jousting, fencing, judo, taekwondo, hapkido, muay thai, free sparring, kendo, sumo wrestling, sambo and so on, to name just a few. The list goes on and on. For a long time the Chinese people with their own way of life, code of conduct, values, aesthetic interests, by successive generations of masters of the sharpening of the speculation, a thousand hammers, the formation of a national character of the art of combat - Chinese martial arts.

The traditional Chinese cultural background determines the production of wushu sets from a broad view of wushu is a kind of self-defense techniques, as far as technology is concerned, wushu sets are to facilitate the teaching, memorization and training and produced. Why is it that in other nations, especially in the West, there are no complete and abundant routines like the Chinese martial arts, which have been passed down to the present day? This is obviously related to China's traditional cultural background. Wushu routines are a highly programmed form of exercise, and all forms of traditional Chinese culture, without exception, first of all, the pursuit of "Tao" is the ideological basis for the emergence of Wushu routines. The Chinese pursue the Tao, and the Tao has the meaning of principle, method, way, and number of routes. This pursuit of the road to a certain extent expressed in the pursuit of the program, to the form of martial arts technology is expressed in the form of wushu routines. Secondly, respect for propriety is the ethical and moral basis for the emergence of Wushu routines. The Chinese respect "rituals", rituals refer to a certain period of time, including people's behavioral norms, rules, etiquette, which affects the Chinese people's politics, ethics, morality, etiquette, folklore and people's habits, and then affects people's way of thinking. This makes the Chinese people up to the national ceremony, down to the people's life small rituals have to have certain specifications and procedures, so that people's every move is highly programmed, which also prompted the martial arts exercises appeared in the form of sets of sports. Finally, the Chinese people attach importance to inheritance, respect for teachers and ancestors, and programmed routines and easy to inherit, which makes it easier to continue and develop the martial arts routines.