武术是一种文化现象，它的形成与物质文明、精神文明的发展紧密相关，是人们在劳动和军事生活中逐渐形成的对社会观念、信仰的反映。所有不同历史时期的文化特征会在武术中得以遗存，以相对稳定的形式流传下来，并在社会的许多方面发挥其特有的功能。
Wushu is a culture phenomenon.It evolves alongside the development of material and spiritual civilizations and mirrors social concepts and beliefs as they are gradually formed in people's work and military life.The cultures of different periods have left their marks in Wushu and thus these culture traits were preserved and passed down from generation to generation in a relative stable form.Throughout history Chinese Wushu has been functioning in various distinctive ways in the society.