With vigorous, graceful and somewhat laborious movements, Chinese martial arts provide the exercisers with 
beauty and strength. The persistent exercises will build up their body and strength . Martial arts involve methods and skills for fighting. They incorporate highly practical consecutive movements including jumping , falling , passing through , somersaulting ,retreating , shaking , turning , kicking , hitting , wrestling , seizing , etc .
The consecutive movements should be done in close sequences so as to overcome the movements of the opponent. Any slight neglect in the gestures of hands , legs and body and in the timing will result in favoring the opponent . So, the Chinese martial arts emphasize the gestures and timing.
To attain the true essence, the Chinese martial arts stress guidance by masters, and conscientious practice. The exerciser should practice diligently until he can carry out the movements unhesitatingly and very naturally.
The Chinese martial arts stress perfection . From the angle of the art of attack and defense, there are three grades of martial arts: The inferior-grade exerciser does not master the arts at all. The middle-grade exerciser is skilled in the art, and concentrates his attentions in fighting. The senior-grade exerciser has a high degree of dexterity and carries out 
his movements very naturally to beat the opponent . His arts attain perfection .
All Chinese martial arts exercisers must learn shadow boxing . There are now 192 boxing schools with detailed historical origins , comparatively complete theoretical grounds and technical 
systems .They were categorized either according to the different mountains where they originated (e.g. Shaoling School from Shaoling Temple on Mount Song and Wudang School from Mount Wudang) ,or according to the different river basins where they originated (e.g. the Yangtze River Basin School and the Yellow River Basin School) , or according to whether the boxing exercises were intended to train internal vitality or external dexterity , etc. Mainly there are the following schools : Long Boxing , Taiji Boxing, South Boxing , Form Boxing , Eight-Trigram Boxing , Backbone Boxing ,Somersault Boxing, Trotting Boxing , Chopping Snatching Boxing, Grasshopper Boxing , Eight-Extreme Boxing , Monkey Boxing ,Drunkard Boxing , Showy Boxing, Fancy Boxing , Hawk-Claw Boxing , Sponge Boxing , Six-Harmony Boxing ,Snake Boxing , Intention Boxing , Teenager Boxing , Zha Boxing , etc .
