The 8th World Traditional Wushu Championship Will be Held in Emeishan City, Sichuan Province in June

From June 14 to 18, 2019, the 8th World Traditional Wushu Championship will be held in Emeishan City, Sichuan Province. Since the 7th World Traditional Wushu Championship was successfully held in 2017, this is the second time that Emeishan City has held the event.

It is understood that the world traditional Wushu championship is the highest standard of traditional Wushu international competition, known as the "Olympic Games of Wushu". The traditional Wushu competition of the 8th World Traditional Wushu Championship has three items: individual, pair and collective, in addition to competitions, matching activities such as martial arts forum, champion show, sports commodity exhibition and cultural tourism experience will also be held in the event.

Emei Kungfu Team Show [Photo by Propaganda Department of Emeishan Municipal Committee]

Emeishan City is the site of world cultural and natural heritage, as well as the home of Chinese Wushu. Emei Wushu has a history of 3,000 years. It combines the essence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism and folk Wushu, and it covers a variety of boxing, apparatus and body-preserving skills. There are hundreds of kinds of boxing and many schools. It forms a broad and profound Emei Wushu system, Emei, Shaolin and Wudang are the three major schools of martial arts in China. They are affirmed and loved by many martial arts fans.

Foreign students were learning Emei Wushu [Photo by Wang Yiping]