Wushu Cultural Inheritance Since Modern Times

As a way of our ancestores’life, Wushu culture concentrated a large number of Chinese traditional cultural content. However, social change produces an inevitable impact on Wushu rooted in the traditional culture. Therefore, Wushu cultural inheritance over the years has been academic attention. The current points of Inheritance are mostly restricted to theoretical thinking instead of real in-depth actual investigation. So with the light of anthropology and folklore research methods Peixian, known as Hometown of Wushu, is selected to be an empirical case study. In line with the principles of bold vision and careful gathering of evidence, the case study is carried out from macro thoughts to micro-cut and further into the big and small in hand. Through fieldwork, oral history and literature and so on, the writer combs the development context of Peixian Wushu by the combination of history and logic. The whole study also cuts separately from different levels of Wushu culture, including Wushu activities, Wushu crowd characteristics, forms of organization activities, processes, motivations etc. In addition, to explore the law of Peixian Wushu’s development and changes in modern social changes, the paper takes history on behalf of the theory, gives the deep description of related matters of Wushu activities in different periods and finally sums up the Path of Inheritance. On the whole, through the use of social change theory to analyze the influencing factors and taking it as a warning, the writer seeks inspiration from the perspective of philosophy of culture to read the current state of Wushu Development and explore the way of Wushu cultural inheritance derived from agricultural civilization.Since modern times, there are different variations of Peixian Wushu activities at different stages of social change. In the late Qing dynasty, the shape of modern Wushuquanzhong began to emerge under the influence of social and natural environment change in Peixian which then had Martial folk customs. In Republic of China, there was a brief climax of Wushu during the turbulent social change. After New China was founded, sports-oriented transformation was ushered in the continuation of schema based on the traditional Wushu and the elite martial arts activities emerged. During the Reform and Opening up, driven by the economic tide, a rapid change among Wushu activities occurred. Since the new century, with the modernization process apparent Lost Tradition of Peixian Wushu arose.Since modern times, a series of Peixian Wushu activities’change came from the different aspects of social change. That is, it’s the combined result of survival and traffic environment, population structure, employment structure, urbanization, social class and social organizations etc. regime change, legal policy, people’s lifestyles change, people’s living standards and industrial, education, culture media, cultural conflicts and integration, social values and life styles.Since modern times, cultural changes of Peixian Wushu have shown that Wushu is a kind of life culture. Wushu activities’change is due to people’s demands’change, that is, people’s survival, living, make a living, health and hygiene etc. The loss of tradition is a modern necessity. The rise of Tai jiquan as well as other Wushu fitness activities and the development of competitive Wushu reflects the innovation and development of Wushu cultural inheritance. Traditional Wushu cultural inheritance approach will continue to exist in relatively small daily life. Wushu sports, education, industry and other non-life world’s Wushu activities become an alternative way of Wushu cultural inheritance. Therefore, Wushu "community" activities which are able to provide life and non-life mutual penetration will be the main schema of Wushu cultural inheritance.