Why do martial arts become more complex with practice?
There is a famous saying in martial arts that says, “Fear not a thousand moves, but fear one move.” The meaning behind this saying profoundly reflects the simplicity of martial arts. When we talk about the long history and profoundness of martial arts, it shows not only the long history of martial arts but also the vastness and complexity of the content of martial arts.
Diversity of Martial Arts
Wushu’s content is very complex, and it is something that every martial arts practitioner laments, because it is difficult to learn one or two elements of a martial art in one’s lifetime. From the content point of view, there is a misunderstanding of our understanding of wushu, in the category of sports that wushu is a single project, in fact, not, wushu when equated with sports, not sports under the sub-projects.
If we take it as a program, how should we count the 129 styles of wushu? From this point of view, martial arts do not count as a single program, in terms of Shaolin Quan itself, there are more than 700 routines, how long does a person need to learn to be proficient?
The History and Culture of Martial Arts
The most direct reason for the complexity of the Chinese martial arts as mentioned above its long history, time is the accumulation of all things from quantitative to qualitative changes in the basis of China’s 5,000 years of civilization, for the continued evolution of the martial arts to provide the most basic basic security.
The demand for martial arts is the premise of quantitative change to qualitative change, martial arts as the only means of being able to settle down and protect property is also a reality.
The large number of practitioners is another factor in the multiplicity of martial arts. Wushu as an important means to protect the survival of property naturally caused a lot of people to practice, different people have different body structure, also has a different way of thinking, naturally for the understanding of wushu is different, in the process of inheritance and development also created a large number of content system.
Moreover, China is a vast country with a wide range of landscapes, and different regions, customs and climates provide different thinking and innovations for the differences in martial arts. This also provides many possibilities for the creation and innovation of wushu, and is the reason why wushu is able to produce differences.
Development of Wushu
In the continuous evolution of wushu, the different values of wushu have also provided a continuous output for the innovation of wushu content. When wushu is to meet the needs of survival, the emergence of professional wushu training institutions, such as the prototype of certain “sects”, “gangs”, “dart boards” in the traditional society, in the process of becoming the teaching of boxing for a living. In the process of becoming a teaching profession, wushu cannot only be a simple trick or two, according to the understanding of the form of “taiji ten years do not go out”, the master in the process of teaching students, even if for a single technical practice must constantly create new ways of practice, and new technical means to really meet the master’s teaching life, but also for the wushu At the same time, it also provides a continuous output of content for the creation of content for the martial arts.
Summary
The complexity of wushu is a process of continuous output, and this continuous content creation shows on the one hand the vigorous vitality of wushu, and on the other hand, it also highlights the emergence of the diversified values of wushu. As for the complexity of wushu, it is not the more complex the better, but it is the complexity that truly reflects the multicultural characteristics of wushu and the harmony and progress of human civilization.
