| （School of Physical Education，Huzhou Teachers College，Huzhou 313000，China） Abstract: According to the basic principles of formal logic for the classification of things, the author examined a “folk custom” Wushu “dichotomy” existing in Wushu event management and academic study, and put forward the following opinions: the method to classify Wushu into traditional Wushu and competitive Wushu is not in confor-mity with the classification rules of formal logic; it not only theoretically denies competitive components in tradi-tional Wushu and lets competitive Wushu become a pool of water without source or a tree without root, but also places competitive Wushu and traditional Wushu on two contradictive and opposite incompatible platforms, be-coming the catalyst to escalate the contradiction between traditional Wushu and competitive Wushu, and producing potential hidden dangers for Wushu development in the future.
Key words: traditional Wushu；modern Wushu；competitive Wushu |
