Wushu

Wǔshù (武術 in Chinese) literally means martial arts.

In current parlance word "wushu" is often used as a synonym for kungfu. More specifically, it frequently refers to the modernized kung fu as a performance sport promoted by People's Republic of China.

In full historical perspective, "wushu" means all aspects of person-to-person combat. It is not used to refer to troop movements, fighting army against army, etc. But it does include swordsmanship, the use of hafted weapons, the use of "flying knives" (biao), wrestling, locking techniques (qin na, akin to Japanese aikido), and so forth.

Wushu, the arts used in personal combat

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Wushu as public performance

This article will discuss wushu as the modern performance sport. See kung fu as an martial art.

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this is a wikipedia stub. Any one know the official wushu as promoted by China please add. For example, what are the main competitions, when did China start to promote wushu, is it being introdoced into Olympics, exactly what type of competitions are there in wushu, does wushu actually have fighting competitions like boxing or takendo or is it just coreographed fight? ...