In the era of cold weapons, the strongest surface fighting capacity is riding and shooting, fast horse machete, which is also Wu's assessment project. Martial arts is only the entertainment of the bottom peasant class, because you can't beat the cavalry who are good at riding, even if you count Bo Qiu and Siti at the peak, guess what it is now. Cavalry can carry more weapons, with long-handled weapons on their backs, and Ma Kui carries bows and arrows and sabres. When charging, you can directly stab the infantry with a spear from a long distance, bow and shoot arrows, and the sabre at close range can quickly draw a sword and chop it, especially with the help of a fast horse, which can directly kill and trample the infantry. No matter how hard your infantry is, you will be exhausted after a few detours. Therefore, in those days, Wushu was neither officially recognized nor had obvious development prospects, and the chivalrous people only took pleasure in giving grudges, and the way to settle grudges was not the current commercial competition, but an industry.
Traditional Wushu is a unique product of the peasant class of the Han nationality, because the people at the bottom can't own war horses, but there are always fights and quarrels. Wushu comes from people who can play better than ordinary people. When people ask him why he is so powerful and brag about what he has practiced, all this boxing and that boxing are actually just a name, because they come from the bottom and come from poor families, and often point to accepting apprentices to make money. Could he possibly tell you that I am strong and my fist is faster than the average person? Therefore, in order to survive, in the actual development of martial arts, folk acrobatic performances are combined with folk dances, performing brick-breaking and stone-breaking, arranging martial arts routines similar to dances, and opening museums to collect disciples. Because it is the bottom movement, all the people involved are the poor. Wushu has no financial support, because actual combat is really not good, and the government does not support Wushu. Therefore, the development of Wushu is gradually intertwined with feudal superstition, Machamp confusion and martial arts novels, among which the Boxer Movement is one of the typical examples, and its official name is the Boxer Movement. In particular, the golden bell jar and the iron cloth shirt are some tricks of folk acrobatics, which were over-mythologized by the master of martial arts as dark strength, internal strength, true qi and strength, which together made martial arts mysterious. The most typical contemporary is He Daojun of Sichuan.
In modern fighting, except wrestling, boxing and Muay Thai, other schools only appeared in the 20th century. For example, real karate appeared in the 1950s, Russian Sambo appeared in the 1920s, Gracie Jiu Jitsu appeared in the 1930s, Taekwondo appeared in the 1960s, Sanda appeared in the 1980s, and modern MMA officially appeared in Dou Xiu and Pride in the 1990s. Later, UFC gained pride with the broken capital chain and achieved its present glory.
In ancient China, equestrian was the first-class kungfu. There is a horse in my family who has been practicing equestrian for half a year, which is not as good as your kung fu for decades. Wrestling has always been a compulsory course in the army and martial arts, so wrestling has a long history. However, Beijing-China wrestling is an exotic product, which originated from Mongolian wrestling and is the main training program for soldiers. Western boxing is a fighting school in Europe, and Muay Thai is a way to train troops, because horses are basically not produced in Southeast Asia. Therefore, modern fighting with a long history is basically a project promoted by the ruling class in China, and the modern fighting schools in the last century developed through modern commercial operation.