What are the health preserving functions of Wushu?
Wushu is characterized by combining Wushu with physical and mental skills in sports and has a wide range of national styles. The role of Wushu is to improve and strengthen physical fitness, improve self-defense ability, hone will, cultivate moral sentiment, entertain and enrich cultural life. Wushu has many functions, such as fitness, self-defense, self-cultivation, entertainment, etc. It is a good means for people to strengthen their physique and cheer up their spirits. Wushu is rich in content, which can be divided into two categories according to the form of exercise: routine exercise and fighting exercise. Routine exercise is a set of practice forms compiled by Wushu according to the changing laws of contradictory movements such as offensive and defensive advance and retreat, disorderly movement and combining rigidity with softness. It mainly includes boxing, equipment, sparring and collective performance. Boxing: Changquan, Tai Ji Chuan, Nanquan, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Tongbei Boxing and Xingyiquan. Second, equipment; Knife, sword, spear, stick. Third, sparring: unarmed sparring, equipment sparring, unarmed sparring with equipment. 4. Group performance: It is a group exercise conducted by more than six people with bare hands or equipment. The formation and pattern can be changed and accompanied by music. The formation is neat and the movements are coordinated. Fighting is a form of confrontation in which two people compete for wisdom and strength according to certain rules under certain conditions. At present, there are three kinds of Wushu competitions: Sanda, Pushing Hands and Short Soldiers. 1. Sanda: It is a competitive event in which two people beat each other by kicking, hitting, throwing and taking according to certain rules. 2. Pushing hands: It is an athletic event in which two people abide by certain rules, stick together by means of shed, shoes, squeezing, pressing, row and elbow, judge the strength of both sides through muscle feeling, and then push each other out with strength to decide the outcome. Short soldier: It is a short stick-shaped instrument made of rattan, leather and cotton held by two people. According to certain rules, in a circular field with a diameter of 16 square feet, it uses chopping, chopping, stabbing, collapsing, hitting and chopping.