The Research On The ShaoLin Monastery And ShaoLin Martial Arts In The Ming-qing Dynasty

The Ming-qing dynasty are the important period that ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Kung Fu gradually changed from flourish to dwindling,and occupied prominent role in the developmental history of ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Martied Arts,the importance of knowing the developmental condition of the ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Martied Arts in this period is conspicuous.The paper adopt the way of pushing forword and delaying back.to describe the developmental history of the ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Kung Fu,and use the cooperative means of words and form.to delineate the deeds of ShaoLin Monastery's chiefs in the Ming Dynasty and the construction to the Monastery in the Qing Dynasty. most important of all,for the first time,this paper deeply study the reasons for frequent constructing the ShaoLin Monastery in the Ming Dynasty and the lords' delicate changing policy to the ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Kung Fu in the Qing Dynasty, and attempt to find it's special existing and developmental law by delineating the flourishing and dwindling condition of the ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Kung Fu, and study these profound reasons.The paper can be divided three parts:The first part,simply delineate the developmental footprint of the ShaoLin Monastery of the Mount Song before The Ming Dynasty.The ShaoLin Monastery of Mount Song began to be founded in the TaiHe twentieth year,namely 496,When xiwen,the monarch of Beiwei Dynasty,dominated China.since it was founded,The Monastery was intimatly connected with Martial Arts, it's Kung Fu was named after the ShaoLin monastery.At the same time,the monastery was famous for It's ShaoLin Martial Arts.and it's flourish and dwindling often changed. The second part,delicately describe the flourish of the ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Kung Fu in The Ming Dynasty,and research the profound reasons.the rulers of Ming Dynasty applied the Buddhism policy that support was major, refining was incidental,as far as ShaoLin Monastery of mount song was concemed,the contaction between the government and ShaoLin Monastery was compact,the construction to it was frequent,the supportive colour was especially apparent,besides, the folk powers also greately support the monastery's construction,so the ShaoLin Monastery greatly developed to get the flourishing summit.At the same time,the ShaoLin Martial Arts had greatly developed in the Ming Dynasty,too.there were many apparent national and international contradictions in the middle and last period of the Ming Dynasty,all of these gave the opportunities to use ShaoLin Kung Fu.in this period,the commerce gradually prospered,and merchants were active very much,too.those dangerous factors which existed in the frequent commercial activities also greatly prompted the need to ShaoLin Martial Arts.so it could rapidly develop in the spacious space where ShaoLin Kung Fu devoted itself to country and served for folk,and ShaoLin Martial Arts was Communicated to Japan and get the flourishing summit in this period,at the same time,the people improved their realization to the ShaoLin Martial Arts from intinctive standard to theoretical one.those books which refine and sum up ShaoLin Martial Arts sprang up like mushrooms,so we can say the Ming Dynasty is the golden period when ShaoLin Martial Arts communicated and developed.The third part,summarize the dwindling of the ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Kung Fu,analyse their profound reasons,especially study the delicate change of the Qing Dynasty lords' attitude to the ShaoLinMonastery.Because the ShaoLin Monastery contained those persons who were honest to the former Ming Dynastry and connected with folk secret anti-qing force from time to time. all of these angered the rulers of Qing Dynasty and resulted in their enmity,suspection and preventment,not only seldom constructed ShaoLin Monastery at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty,but also refrained from the activies of ShaoLin Martial Arts in the whole Qing Dynasty,and cut off the political way of ShaoLin Kung Fu to exist and develop,although at last the rulers of Qing Dynasty changed their cold attitude to ShaoLin Monastery,they didn't change the suspective preventmental policy principle; and there were fewer theretical books that can prompt ShaoLin Martial Arts to develop than those ones in the Ming Dynasty.finally,being affected by Chinese modernizational factors,especially,with people's mind standard and cultural quality improving,the social functions of the ShaoLin Kung Fu were more and more fainter,and it gradually dwindled with the important existing and developmental folk space becoming narrower and narrower.Finally,sum up the major conclusions of the whole paper.Point out ShaoLin Monastery was intimately connected with the politics,economy and social factors of every dynasty,and often changed between flourish and dwindling Since being founded,it's flourish and dwindling is a mirror of reflectting social change. from the different existing and developmental condition in Ming-qing dynasty,we can say the Ming Dynasty was the flourishing period that ShaoLin Martial Arts existed and developed;however,the Qing Dynasty was it's dwindling period,the flourishing and dwindling of ShaoLin Monastery and ShaoLin Kung Fu was intimately connected with the politics,economy and social factors of that times,And reflected the social change in the period.