中国武术一向“尚武崇德”，重礼仪、讲道德。武术谚语有“未曾学艺先学礼，未曾习武先习德”，充分显示了武德教化在武术传授过程中所表现出的“道德至上”的文化特征。中国武术始终把武德列为习武的先决条件。武德对习武者的心性修养、道德作风培养、精神境界提升等具有深刻影响，从而达到“德”与“艺”（武技）的统一。
Chinese Wushu has put great emphasis on the promotion of morality.As a Wushu proverb goes, “learn morality before Wushu is ever learned,acquire virtues before Wushu is ever acquired”.A message that's inherent in Wushu that the Wushu ethics is placed at a central position in Wushu training.Wushu ethics has a profound influence on developing a practitioner's mind, character, moral consciousness, and spiritual aspiration.An ideal state would be the unification of morality and skills since they are two closely related and inseparable qualities that characterize a great Wushu practitioner.
可见，武德是中国历代习武者的共同信仰和精神价值取向，也是调节、规范习武者行为的最基本手段。武德在长期的历史积淀、传承之中，已经同人们的生活方式、思维模式、行为准则、道德情操、审美情趣、处世态度和风俗习惯融为一体，成为中华民族伦理道德思想体系的重要组成部分。
It is obvious that wushu ethics is a common faith and a value orientation shared by Chinese Wushu practitioners from generation to generation.It is the most basic means to regulate practitioners’ behavior.In the long hisory that Wushu culture was passed down to the later generations, wushu ethics has fused with people's life style, mode of thinking, moral sentiments, aesthetic taste and custom.It has become an important integral part of Chinese ethics.