Study On Wushu Gongfa Training Theory

Culture is the spiritual home for a nation and the blood connection for the nation’s development. To inherit Chinese traditional culture, the exploration and development of Chinese Wushu is a must. Gongfa is the core of Wushu. There is a proverb, no practicing of Gong, no gain in the end. Therefore, the study and development of Gongfa is the most important part in the development of Wushu. In the new era, the study of Gongfa is of great significance both theoretically and practically for the inheriting of Chinese traditional culture, the promoting Chinese culture internationally, the developing Chinese traditional Wushu full-roundly, the setting up of the training system of Chinese traditional Gongfa and the improving of the sports training and practicing development in China.The dissertation makes deep study to Wushu Gongfa training from seven aspects-the definition, the theory origin, the methods, the targets, the doctrines, the values and and the future perspectives of Gongfa, with the methodology of documentation, logical analysis, experts interview and comparative analysis. The conclusions are following:Wushu Gongfa is the physical practicing forms and methods to improve and develop physical abilities in order to acquire and enhance Wushu skills. It includes not only methods serving for Wushu routines and Sanda training and those independent from them, but also Wushu routines and Sanda themselves.Gongfa has a long history and it has rich theoretical resources, including classic philosophy theories of Zhouyi, Taiji, Five Elements Theory, Dao Form and Qi theory, traditional medical theories like Jing, Shen, Qi, interior & outer physical phenomenon theory, physical channel theory, injury and medicine theory, religion theory of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and other folk religions, and traditional Qigong theory.Under the influence of three major thinking models of intuition, unity and Yinyang changes, Wushu Gongfa training has developed 9 methodological features which are theory of comparing, theory of spontaneous feeling, theory of unity of form and spirit, combination of interior and outer of the body, connection of heaven and human, culturing of Qi and blood, combination of softness and hardness, mutual birth of peace and activity and the circulation of physical fluid. And under the instruction of such methodology, there are seven practicing features of the training of Wushu Gongfa, which are the selecting of natural open places when training, ordinary life style of training methods, practicality of the methods, vagueness of training burdens, imitation of creatures, the whole of all movements and the individualism of the practitioner.The targets of Gongfa training include mainly the pursuit of special strength for a certain Wushu school, the pursuit of Gongfu for different Wushu schools and the pursuit of physical health for both. On target stages, Gongfa for a certain school corresponds with target stages of the the school; Gongfa out of the school can be further divided into physical mastering stage, art stage and mystery stage with different pursuit of each stage. Generally speaking,the training targets of Gongfa are practical, instructive, effective and comprehensive.The training doctrines of Gongfa mainly follows the systematic principle of combining the interior with the outer and combining practicing with culturing the principle of persisting for long time and accumulating quantity to make quality change and the practicing principle of the combination of form and content and the combination of knowledge and practice.The value of Gongfa training is mainly reflected on the following five aspects:1. For traditional Wushu, Gongfa training can help enrich its theory, improve and check fighting ability, enhance the quality and save boxing movements; 2.For sports traning, it is instructive theoretically and can help understand in training; 3. For public heath keeping, it offers various health keeping approaches, raises the efficiency of living and producing and helps keep the faith of life-long exercise; 4. For education aesthetics, it helps people foster strong spirit and willpower, culture moral quality, chase harmony in life and experience more in life; 5. For culture spreading, it has the value of inheriting Wushu culture and popularizing human spirits.There are some approaches suggested by the dissertation to help better develop Wushu Gongfa training in the long run. Firstly, we should focus on the theory construction and improvement-to strengthen the study of concepts and improve the concept system of Gongfa, to unify the technical terms and improve the classification of Gongfa, to put more attention on scientific research of Gongfa to explore and enhance the scientific value of Gongfa, to combine Gongfa with modern health keeping spirits and form modern Gongfa training system. Secondly, the training content of Gongfa should be innovated, which mainly includes the excavation of traditional Gongfa training, the modernization of it in modern time, and the research and innovation of the training tools of Gongfa. Thirdly, we should put forward the popularization of Gongfa training in Wushu field and police and army systems, and explore the application of Gongfa training in the field of sports training, public health-keeping exercises and school sports.