Research On The Actuality And Countermeasure Of Wushu In Meishan District

Meishan wushu has a long history in China. It is one of the most important branches among Chinese native martial arts, and preserves the ancient mass and essence part of wushu. In addition, it also presents the geographical and cultural characteristics of Xinhua Country, where it is originated from. As a result, it is an urgent and important task to study how to protect and glorify the primitive culture– Meishan wushu from the point of intangible cultural heritage protection.This thesis is focused mainly on the wushu teacher, practitioners and non- practitioners from the villages of Menggong, Hongxin, Etang and the wushu training schools in Xinhua, such as Nanbei, Dongfang wushu Training School. Literature searching, questionnaire, site investigation, expert interviewing and logical analysis are taken as the main methodologies in this thesis. During the research period, more than 200 articles were studied, over 700 questionnaires were sent out and 654 valid copies were gathered to analyze with mathematical methods, several traditional wushu experts and scholars were visited and discussed with.Conclusions: (1) Imbalance development is presented in the age, gender, occupation, education level of Meishan wushu practitioners. (2) Different exercise time and frequency are corresponded to the different age, sex, occupation of Meishan wushu practitioners in Xinhua. (3)School playground and private yard are taken as the main training places among the practitioners in Xinhua. (4) Wushu Training Schools become the main source where most practitioners choose to learn Meishan wushu from, while the traditional apprentice gradually disappeared from the stage of history. (5) The first aim to learn Meishan wushu among practitioners is fitness nowadays. Most practitioners are confident about the future of Meishan wushu. (6) Meishan wushu Training Schools make a great contribution to local people's recreational fitness activities and also make Meishan wushu become widespread, however, the fashion become less popular in recent years. (7) Meishan wushu is in a certain scale among the local main schools of Xinhua Country. The education level of teachers in the majority of Meishan wushu Training School is relatively poor; meanwhile, the quantity in the non-wushu Training School is few. (8) The government's efforts and policies are the main factors that affect the development of Meishan wushu. Other factors to affect the development of Meishan wush are as follows: the development format of Meishan wushu is monotonous; people's knowledge to Meishan wushu is not enough and they are not enthusiasm to take part in; the change of the living and working condition; the change of conception came from economic development; the limitation of development in the spirit of Meishan wushu itself; the limitation of the quantity and quality of MeiShan wushu teachers.Solutions: (1) Macro control by government, develop scientifically and technically and increase the input; (2) With the help of cultural industries, enhance the level of development and expand social impact; (3) Develop in the form of wushu industry, serve the local economy; (4) Improve teacher team training, optimize the management mechanism of local wushu training school; (5) Collaborate Meishan wushu with the local education organization closely.