On Taijiquan Culture And The Harmonious Society

To seek harmony is the everlasting theme in the course of human development, which shows people's ideal pursue for social life; it is also people's long-term goal and our nation's ideal hope and ever-lasting struggling target. The harmonious thinking deeply influences Chinese People's ways of thoughts and deeds, mental structure and value choice, which is the essence of the thoughts of the Chinese traditional culture.At present, our country puts forward the great strategic task of construing harmonious society for socialist; and Taijiquan culture should play its special functions for the development of our country and the welfare of people. We know that Taijiquan culture is rooted from Chinese civilized history of five thousand years, which absorbs a lot of culture's nourishment and delegates the basic spirit and the dominant tendency of Chinese traditional excellent culture. It is an excellent culture system with fertile foundation and clear purport. As the carrier of the Taijiquan culture, Taijiquan requires the unity of shape, spirit, meaning and breath, the unity of self-accomplishment and techniques, the unity of the human and nature. It embodies the harmonious idea of the unity of body and soul, personal relationship and the unity of humans and nature. Harmony, as the core of the Taijiquan culture, is the main motive power of underlined Taijiquan. To dig, sort out and explain the rich harmonious thinking contained in Chinese traditional Taijiquan culture and to build the spiritual connections of the culture in realizing socialist harmony are beneficial to spread Taijiquan culture's harmonious ideas. It is also helpful for Taijiquan to create the value for the modern society and improve the human's overall improvement. The research of Taijiquan culture corresponds with the needs of the times, and meets the needs of"construing a harmonious society". What's more, it makes the people have deeper understanding about Taijiquan, develops the Taijiquan culture's function of cultivation, and provides a strong cultural base and beneficial theoretical foundation for the establishment of a harmonious society The harmony of the body and soul, of the people, of the human and society, of the human and nature make up important parts of a harmonious society. In the paper, the documentary-material analyzing method, interviewing experts method and logic analyzing method are used to have a comprehensive study on Taijiquan culture, which combines strengthening, defending and accomplishing the body and can realize the people's harmony of the body and soul from body enginery and personal mentality. The writer gives a clear illustration about the definition and implication of Taijiquan culture according to its specialties. The writer holds that it can also realize personal harmony from the aspect of martial virtue, and realize the harmony of the people and nature from the philosophical ideas implied in Taijiquan culture. Finally the writer points out that the development of the harmonious ideas of the Taijiquan culture has important theoretical and practical meanings not only in realizing the harmonious unity of people's body and soul, human and nature, but also in promoting the establishment of new relationships among people, society and nature; as a result it has a profound meaning for construing the socialist harmonious society.