College Martial Arts Lessons And Gymnastics Classes Students' National Spirit

To develop Chinese national spirits is a topic greatly concerned nowadays.The paper states that Chinese national spirits are the essence which has been selected,deposited and gathered by all the Chinese nationalities through the long histroy of Chinese civilization,and are a collective spirit.There are seven parts of Chinese national spirits:loving Motherland,friendly,sedulous,being constantly striving, selfless,respectful to eldership,being honest and faithful.National spirits attribute a a lot to individual spirit,as well as individual personalities.Individual personalities at the meantime relate closely to education.Undergraduate study period is the key period for the formation of individual personalities.Therefore,moral education during this period is vital.The paper also illustrates the importance of martial art in the carrying forward process of Chinese national spirits.As a core course of physical education in colleges, martial art course plays an essential role in the spirit education for undergraduate students.Nevertheless,the real status is that most teachers regard martial art as an average education subject.They focus on the routine practice of martial art and ignore the moral education aspect.This leads to the ignorance of students on moral part of martial art,and students have no awareness of the real purpose of learning it,so the quality is ever-decreasing and lot of problems are brought out.This will result in great damage to the heritage and development of Chinese martial arts.The author has done numerous literature study,visited expects,carried out an experiment,worked with questionnairs and processed data with SPPS software.All of these efforts are to discuss what qualities could be cultivated through martial art course, how to cultivate the moral endurance of student,how to perfect the good characteristics,and all in all how to develop the brilliant Chinese national spirit.The result of the discussion is that martial art course has achieved distinguished effect on cultivation of students personalities in aspect of loving Motherland,sedulous,being constantly striving,selfless,respectful to eldership,being honest and faithful.However, it does little in helping students learn to be friendly,compared with football and basketball course.This is a problem which we college teachers should pay attention to. The suggestion is that martial art teachers in colleges should put Chinese national spirits to the top while teaching,so as to cultivate good qualities of students and achieve the educational aim of "people first".