Abstract: To examine the status quo of attack and defence function inheritance in school Wushu Education in China, and analyze the influencing factors including target positioning, consciousness of attack and defence, selection of teaching contents, combat methods based on the methods of oral history and literature. The findings indicate that the inheritance of attack and defence function in school Wushu education lacks target, students' inheritance consciousness is weak, selection criteria of teaching contents is single, and the instrumental inheritance is stressed while the development of attack and defence wisdom is ignored. The countermeasures include stressing the attack and defence function from the state and national level and strengthening the administrative intervention; transforming the attack and defence education to cultural education to enhance the cultural awareness of attack and defence, and advancing from single Wushu form to Wushu system to maintain the Wushu ecology; analyzing Wushu combating skills from multiple dimensions to inspire students' patterns of thinking; strengthening routine and highlighting attack and defence to consolidate the effect of attack and defence function inheritance.

Key words: Wushu, school Wushu education, attack and defence function, martial artists, oral history