Research On The Development Of Chinese Wrestle Culture

Wrestle is one of the oldest form of sport in the history of human beings. It grows with human history and developed into many branches. Because is has been influenced by the ways of producing, habits of lining, customs all over the world and so on. Chinese wrestle is the product of wrestling technic and experience which has been accumulate for hundred and thousand years. It is also a manifestation of cultural mix of our mutiracialism. In the previous Qin Dynasty, Wrestle was named as Jiao Li, Xiangbol(to struggle), shoubo( to struggle with hands), and was mainly used as a bind of military training. While in the Qin Dynasty, wrestle was officially given a name of JiaoDi and began to exist as a Entertaining program in performance. When Han dynasty replaced Qin, JiaoDi became professionalized and formed three kinds of fixed style. It had more name in the NanBei Dynasty, such as Xiangpu(it is also a name of a Japanese game),ChiYou drama (ChiYou is an acient dynast), ZhengJiao and so on. You could find a variety of forms and contents in Suidynasty and the Tang dynasty. Take the Tang for example, Wrestle was not only one of the entertaining programs when there were feasts in the palace, but also was performed among the civilians. There even were prosperious while in Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty, it was called Buku, LiaoJiao, LiaoJiao or GuanJiao, entering a phase of civilian development.Taking a whole look at the development of Chinese wrestle, we can see clearly that it stems from ancient military training, and has a developing process of professional performances, the prospdr of dntertainment, and the popularization among civilians. Chinese wrestle has two cultural features; First, it is a perfect combination of athletics and entertainment. Second, it is the sufficient manifestation of individual struggle spirit. It's rich and simple in form, oppositional and entertainment. Besides, The struggle spirit it embodies is a reaction and inheritance of the strong spirit that advocates matial art which is the basic spirit of Chinese cutture. It is one of the most effective ways to inspire the spirit of individual struggle, meanwhile, it likes a synthetic bout between intelligence and thew and is a presentation of the spirit that highlights the whole for equilibria. All the above demonstrates the reason why Chinese wrestle can exist full of vitality.While NaoYang wrestle, Which has a local feature of Xinzhou city, Shanxi province, was developed on a basis of longtime accumulated historical tradition. It can be seen as a celebrating culture of folk festiuals, or a historical product that contains many cultural factors after the coliving and melting of many races. In some sense, it is a sport culture that is nearly pure natural and ecological. The culture of NaoYang wrestle is a kind of human legacy with an active culture. Besides, the special strategical position of Xinzhou is the fundamental, reason for its development. The aduantages of distinct commercial geography arts as an economic spur to promote it. And the colorful human atmosphere in the history of Xinzhou is the social cultural, element for the existion of NaoYang wrestle. Nowadays, there are civil bases made of abundant people in YuanPing ,DingXiang (both are cities in Shanxi), besides XingZhou, Wrestle not only becomes favorite and supported among civilians, but also turns out large groups of wrestlers for various provinces as well as our country. Thus, a deep study on NaoYang wrestle of XingZhou is good for us to reagnize the wrestle history of our country, at the same time, it can aid the development and prosperity of our Chinese wrestle.