Survey And Research On Taijiquan Practitioners And Their Taijiquan Practice In Beijing Urban Communities

Since the reform and opening up,the rapid development of productive force pushed up the process of urbanization of our society.During this period, urban community sport came up silently and developed gradually.As an important branch of Chinese martial arts,Taijiquan helps blood go smoothly and regulate the actions of internal organs with it' s slow and swift movements to be benefit to physical and spiritual health,which is the classic value of Taijiquan since its coming into being.It is not limited by practicing grounds,instruments,dresses and facilities and it is not influenced by weathers.Therefore,Taijiquan takes a very important position in the practice of urban community sports.As a capital city,Beijing has already mad great achievement in the work of community sports,but it needs to do more in the items of traditional sports,so to promote the overall situation nationally and show the fascination of our national traditional sports.Based on the methods of questionnaire,statistics,analysis and interviewing,by surveying and researching,it is concluded by this paper as following:There is an unbalance in the sex proportion of the Taijiquan practitioners with females 2 times as many as males;From the view of age,most practitioners are aged people while the young attended very little;Most Taijiquan practitioners in the urban communities in Beijing are working class,workers in academic,teaching and culture fields,and workers in managing departments,such people have deeper understanding of the inner culture of Taijiquan,but not in direct proportion;The drives for most Taijiquan practitioners in Beijing urban communities are to improve physical health and spiritual life while they don' t have deeper understanding of the diversification of its values and functions. Generally speaking,most practitioners in Beijing urban communities believes that they made obvious progress in physical and spiritual health, recreation and social communication;But they don' t do enough on the aspects of improving Taijiquan level and attending competitions.The spreading of Taijiquan by media is weak.The content of Taijiquan practicing is too simplex.The general income level of the Taijiquan practitioners in Beijing urban communities is not high and they are not active in the.consumption on the aspects of Taijiquan practicing and the consumption is not in direct proportion with their income.The building of the social sport instructor teams in the urban communities in Beijing is not systematic and is backward in general sense.The practices of Taijiquan in the urban communities in Beijing are mostly self-organized; The practicing time is mainly early morning and before nightfall,and there is quite a proportion of practitioners in the morning time.The practicing places are mostly public gardens and free grounds in the communities,and the practitioners are quite satisfied with such places while there are aspects unsatisfying;The relative departments of Beijing Municipal Government has more organization and administration to Taijiquan practitioners in urban communities than other sport items, nevertheless,the practices are still mainly organized by the practitioners themselves.The fee the practitioners in the urban communities pay for the organization and administration of their practices is low.