The Study On Cutural Identity Of The Five Schools Taichi

Cultural identity is such a thing which seems to resonates with cultural tendency of mindand the Unity of Culture. Survival and development of humanity is a living impression aboutdifferent cultures, On state and national level, that is a national cultural ideology and culturalidentity, For individuals, it is a state of life or a guideline of life philosophy or a kind ofspiritual enjoyment. Taichi, the representative of the traditional culture of Chinese Wushu,which has experienced the bitter wind and rain through more than three hundred years hasbeen was widely spread in domestic and international society due to it is not affected by theinfluence of gender, age, race, language, culture, level, social status and wealth and otherfactors. Since Tai chi developed so much today, under such a background which with a rapiddevelopment in politics, economy and culture, people in the pursuit of health and leisure time,how do people think of Tai chi? Especially in the development process, Tai chi has formed thefive leading schools. people will be based on individual needs to choose which school to dopractice according to their own preferences. In that way, what kind of cultural identity dopeople form in practice?This article through the literature data method, questionnaire survey method, interviewmethod, logic analysis method and so on does a research, which based on the concept ofcultural identity and acts the movements of five schools of Taichi as a starting point.Research indicates that:The five all agree that the fertility value is number one.Chen style Tai Chi agrees that cultural identity is dominated main by combat sport, thenit reflects some kinds of virtures and morals, such as modest，self-sacrifice spirits etc.Meanwhile, it also shows the meaning of that only know well about oneself and others, thenwill get success, the beauty of fighting and the masculinity of chivalrous persons.Yang style Tai Chi agrees that cultural identity are health, beauty, elegant temperament. Itreflects a kind of nobility, modesty, and self-sacrifice. As well as Chen style, it contains thetactical thinking: know yourself as well as the enemy too.Wu style defines the cultural identity as health and education. This kind of traditionalculture and morality show the confucian culture obviously: good morality, modest and self-sacrifice.Wu style Tai Chi deem their culture identity to be healthy, educational, and a kind ofleisure culture. it focuses on soft and sensitive, aims to do self-cultivation and do everythingcarefully.Sun style Tai Chi actually combines three kinds of Taichi, its main characteristicconcludes health, education and combat culture. That is a kind of taoism which has acompromise attitude, just go with the flow and keep a state of peaceful in mind.