History Of Xinyiquan In Zhoukou

Wulin personalities, their behavior and skills form the history of martial arts. In available information, information incomplete, even fake inheritance and fake techniques are still exist, which can cause a great deal of discomfort on martial arts research. If you ignore the people who practice martial arts, just limited to available information, then the umbrella term of martial arts history is inadequate. It is very necessary with a new paradigm of oral history to write history of martial arts and research on it.The author choose Xinyiquan in Zhoukou as the research subject, do a host of oral history assignments in Zhoukou, Zhengzhou of Henan and Shanghai, interviewing 19 successors in different ages, different generations, different regions and different inheritance by methods of fieldwork, records, photos, videos, sound recordings and telephone interviews. Make records and contrast in details for the inheritance situation and technology system in the west and south of the river and collect valuable information. On the basis of integration on available information, to identify bias and deficiencies in three aspects------same strain and cross apprenticeship, biased orientation in traditional ideas, converge and unified orientation in the core of system, then analysis and explore these problems. While reproducing interview scenario and processes, confirmed, mutatis mutandis, supplement and enrich the existing data, as well as response the problems, to fully clarify the history of Zhoukou Xinyi, make people have a real understanding about people's lifestyle of inheritance, practice, atmosphere, deeper interpretation of the meaning of the martial arts.History of martial arts needs to be enriched and completed badly through the approach of public multi-angle to account it. Oral information not only has a unique value, but also confirmed with the literature and archeology physical to some extent. Sometimes permit true, sometimes falsify. An oral history comb of Zhoukou Xinyi will provide a new idea to the research on martial arts that is author's explorment and attempt, also to be author's original intention and significance to research Zhoukou Xinyi by a new paradigm based on oral history.