Jellyfish.com August 8 (Reporter Li Bo) This morning, the 2018 15th Yantai Martial Arts Festival and the "Wu Xie Cup" Yantai Martial Arts Conference grandly kicked off at the stadium of the Hongdagarli Lidu Hotel in the Development Zone. 106 teams and more than 1,900 athletes from 13 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, , Belgium, , Canada, Australia, Israel, etc. participated. Martial arts people from all over the world are all gathered together with amazing skills to experience and share the unique charm of "Chinese Kung Fu".
Yantai is the well-known "hometown of martial arts". It is the birthplace of Mantis Boxing and Wu's Tai Chi . It has a long history of martial arts development and many famous schools. Jingwu has produced many talents and a strong mass base. As an important business card of Yantai, Yantai International Martial Arts Festival is not only a festival for martial arts enthusiasts at home and abroad, but also carries the common dreams of Yantai martial arts people.
At 9 a.m., the opening ceremony of the Martial Arts Festival officially kicked off. Fushan Xiangrui Tai Chi enthusiasts brought Chen's Tai Chi . Following the rhythm of the music, their movements were coherent and coordinated, the virtual and the real were intertwined, and the hardness and softness were combined. Each move was very in place. Mouping The Mantis Boxing performed by the Wushu Association was clean and neat, with a rainbow of momentum, winning warm applause from the scene. The last one was the foreign students from the Kunyushan Martial Arts School. They showed a series of skilled Chinese martial arts routines , as quiet as a tiger and as moving as a dragon. The audience was impressed by the exquisite martial arts of foreign students and were amazed at the profoundness of Chinese martial arts , with cheers and applause one after another.
, Director of Yantai Sports Bureau, said in an interview that since the Yantai Martial Arts Festival was held in 2004, it has gone through 15 springs and autumns. The content of the Martial Arts Festival is compatible and has been continuously developed, and has received strong support from all walks of life and positive response from martial arts people at home and abroad. The number of participants is getting more than one year from the country. As national fitness has been elevated to a national strategy, Yantai martial arts has been further popularized and promoted, the scale of Yantai International Martial Arts Festival has become increasingly larger and larger, and has been rated as a "brand event" in Shandong Province by the Shandong Sports Industry. In the next step, we will make every effort to build the Martial Arts Festival into a nationally renowned event brand and enhance the brand influence of "Yantai Martial Arts".
As the name of the Martial Arts Festival becomes increasingly famous, many influential well-known events such as "Shandong Heroes", "Shangwu Jie", and "Taishan Jie" have settled in Yantai. To this day, the "Yantai Martial Arts Festival" has become a loud city business card in Yantai. It is not only a grand event for martial arts enthusiasts to exchange and display, but also carries the common dream of Yantai martial arts people. It conveys Yantai's enthusiasm to martial arts people around the world and adheres to the principle of traditional martial arts, making positive contributions to promoting the development of Yantai's sports and tourism.