Research On The Relations Of The Chinese Martial Arts And Military Arts

As a special national cultural heritage, the martial arts have been developed from the performance permeating with many other culture forms such as the military affairs and arts into the aggregation of various values and functions of attack and defense, health-building and artistry in more than 2000 years of the development process. Studying the military martial arts and the performance martial arts as the main clues in martial arts' development, we work at not only the relation and amalgamation of the martial arts and the military, but also the relation and the amalgamation of the martial arts and their sister art forms as dance, acrobatics and drama.In the cold weapon ages, as one of soldier's technical abilities, martial arts are the decided factors of the troops fighting strength, and also the important means of the ancient war. Because the military war serves in politic, many ancient rulers thought much of the military skills. The military martial arts are the main clues of the ancient Chinese martial arts development, and used for an important function that cannot be replaced.The governmental order is the main factor that promotes the ancient martial arts' development. In the past, almost all dynasties, there are so many army supply systems such as the Fubing system in Sui and Tang periods and the Wuju system established since Tang Dynasty which gathered the folks hero to be army, and than passed by strict training or selection to increase the military skill and tactics of the privates.The military demands and the technology development promote the weapons evolvement. The close relationship between martial arts and ancient war outstanding in that all kinds of weapons are evolved mainly from what is used in ancient wars. Along with the cold weapon development, the weapons that have many kinds of forms turn into today's big cluster during the ancient war.The strategy books are the theory foundation of the Chinese martial arts development. In the history of the ancient strategy, many strategy books take important function to the development of Wushu culture. The development of the future martial arts is contributed to many books of strategy.The intercourse between the folk martial arts and military martial arts promotes the martial arts' development. The drastic peasant wars are the far-ranging social base of martial arts. The far-ranging folk martial artsactivities not only establish the foundation in material and spirited, but also promote the exchanges and development between the military skills in martial arts and folk martial arts with each other.The long-term's called "wu" and also called arts reflects that Chinese are always take the martial arts as a special cultural culture art and a quintessence of the country. Its sport values of health-building, amusement and appreciation and shaping the thoughts and feelings are far ahead its brawl boxing value and its sport value far and far unable generalizes the east and classic philosophy, traditional ethics, and the special development process that permeated with such performence arts as dance, acrobatics and drama. As the twin of the east human body culture, martial arts amalgamate each other with dance, acrobatics, and drama which not only makes the nourishing of Wushu, but also affects the development of the other technical skills.A main factor that the martial arts are still booming up to now and spreading to the world contributes to the performing form of dance practice of routine formatted in the development process with the dance in the way of permeating with each other. The dance part in martial arts proceeds with dance, and mutual influence and the dance part in martial arts also promote the development of the dance.The amalgamation between acrobatics and drama mutually not only enriches the contents of the martial arts theories and techniques, but also accelerates the development in the way of performance, and benefits to enhance the performance of martial arts. It's the inevitable trend for the martial arts to develop to...