Abstract: The cultural space is where culture exists and continues. Scientific understanding and interpretation of the cultural space provide a new perspective and paradigm for the protection, inheritance and development of traditional culture. Analysis of the elements of cultural space indicates that the existence of the traditional martial arts depends on the core symbol of martial arts schools, the core value of the spirit of martial arts, the core main body of martial arts practicers as well as the cultural evidence and field provided by the correlations of such elements. The interpretation of the meaning of cultural space demonstrates that traditional martial arts takes it roots in masses and it is a kind of life art with the cultural vitality of "eliminating the old and intaking the new ". The community character of the existence is the collective memory of an era, which helps to improve people's cultural recognition. The theory and practice of the protection of "intangible cultural heritages ", is the present cultural consciousness, which ensures the active inheritance of traditional martial arts.

Key words: traditional martial arts, cultural space, existence pattern