Abstract: Objective: The survival of Wushu has always been a tough question. According to the philosophy of determinism, Wushu is a natural outcome of private combat or military war, and its survival seems to go beyond human control. Facing the survival crisis, Wushu has always been evolving from unconscious physical activity to conscious physical behavior. In its long process of fighting against various kinds of crises, Wushu has developed a set of survival wisdom including: a complex and highly technical system; the increasing awareness of practicing Wushu, the dominant principle of humane-and-heaven harmony, the transformation of its technical movements, the fusion of inheritance by family line and the change in its purpose. Facing the impact of new things in modern society and in the future society, the survival wisdom featuring mutability, will surely adapt to new cultures through human’s free will, and enable Wushu to extend culturally from life impulse to life shaping.

Key words: Determinism , Theory of Free Will, Wushu, Mutability, Survival Wisdom, Cultural Extension