What exactly is "Wushu?"?

When I read that people trained in Wushu, is there a specific style they are talking about? Does it encompass all or is it just easier than saying %26quot;BaQua, Wing Chun, Hsing, etc?%26quot;|||Simply put..





It%26#039;s the Chinese term for martial arts.





Best wishes :)***|||wushu is chinese acrobatics its more for show than actual fighting there are fighting applications that wushu originally had but the communists watered wushu down to just a preformance art more than an actual fighting style





Baqua wing chun and xingyinquan are not as fancy as wushu there is less acrobatics in it but these styles are purely for fighting and have not been watered down to preforming art by the chinese communists because they were maintained in cities that the communists did not govern





wing chun for example was banned from china as were most chinese kung fu and the reason for this is because the government did not want their soldiers fighting styles to be overwhelmed by styles far more superior so they banned the superior styles in fear of there soldiers loosing fights. so most wing chun masters including the late great yip man left china and moved to cities like hong kong to practice the fighting art freely these cities that the chinese didnt govern became the evolutionary spots where there exiled arts would flourish and continue to grow and evolve|||Wushu is a generic term for martial arts. People who train in Wushu do it as a performance art. The forms are pretty but have no martial intent.|||Wushu is just the Chinese term for martial arts.