The Spread And Development Of Tongbei Wushu In Gansu Province

It is impossible for any nation who cuts off his history or leave away its own traditions to do its cultural study. He must take the traditions as the start of the way to the future. Just as Marx has said: " people create their history, but they don't create it at their pleasure, they create it in the conditions which they encountered, and be inherited establishedly." The traditional Wushu is the Chinese cultural offspring of the long development. So in such a research, we must respect the social history, and obey the objective rules of its changing and evaluation. We should take Wushu back into its history, and try to catch its nature and value from a multidimensional point of view.Tongbei Wushu is a unique, rich and restrictive system with a long-period development. Many predecessors devote their intelligence and heart to this course, such as Pan Wenxue and Li Linbiao, who are the most outstanding founders of Tongbei Wushu. They pointed out the major idea of Tongbei, that is: assimilation(Tong) and incorporation (Bei), only by this way can Tongbei Wushu learn from others' strong points to offset its own weakness, couple hardness with softness, and break down the barriers to create a much wider Wushu horizon. Huang Linbiao and Yu Baolin are the followers of them, they inherited and developed Pan and Li's Theory, and became the important scholars in the Tongbei Wushu research.After Huang and Yu, Ma Fengtu and Ma Yingtu also played an important role in the development and spread, and their efforts made the Tongbei Wushu which has been under grounded for so long time more completed and systemic, Tongbei Wushu began to be well known in China Wushu history as well as abroad, which is also make up the second period of Tongbei Wushu development. They actively watch and seize the sportinglization of modern Wushu, join in the construction movement of Wushu culture. What they do offer us many valuable Tongbei spirits and tempers, as well as the rich technical resources, which afford us a charming food for contemplations.This paper mainly takes the origins and development of Tongbei Wushu which is one of a branch of Chinese traditional Wushu as the study subject. The much attention is paid on the researching and trimming work on the second period development of the Tongbei Wushu. At the same time, this paper also sees the analysis of its radiant development encircled Gansu province and the study on the contributions which are made by Ma Fengtu. And along with these studies, the expectation on the contemporary development of Tongbei Wushu will be formed. The main methods in this paper are literature reviews and specialists interviews. As a single cell in Chinese Wushu culture, Tongbei Wushu is also a miniature of Chinese Wushu, it is the treasure, also the appreciated heritage from our forefathers. The research on Tongbei can give us some models for the further study on the Modern Chinese Wushu.