The Development Situation Of Gymnastic Qigong And Research Of The Popularization Strategy In Dengfeng City

Gymnastic Qigong,one of the excellent traditional sports from Chinese Nation, which has distinctive characteristics of the Oriental Culture. From the origin to now, it has been existed for a few thousands years and its style is totally different from the Western Competitive sports.It takes body movements, breathing and psychological adjustment combined successfully. Modern science has proved that Gymnastic Qigong not only could improve people’s physical condition, but also good for treating and preventing chronic diseases. Therefore, many people start to practice Gymnastic Qigong. The state general administration of sports has began to popularize Gymnastic Qigong in nationwide since 2003.In recent years, Henan Province has achieved satisfactory results in the aspect of popularizing Gymnastic Qigong. Baofeng County of Henan Province was rated as the national advanced unit in popularizing Gymnastic Qigong in 2013. On the other hand, Dengfeng City of Henan Province is a famous resort of martial arts and it is famous for Shaolin Temple and Shaolin Kung Fu in the world. However, the development of Gymnastic Qigong is not good in Dengfeng City. The study of this paper uses the method of literature material, expert interview,questionary survey, mathematical statistics and logic analysis. I investigated several practicers of Gymnastic Qigong in 9 public places in Dengfeng City and drew the following conclusions:1. In this investigation, most of the people who participate in Gymnastic Qigong activities are middle and old aged people, and the amount of female is more than male’s, a majority of these people are retired personnel and their cultural level are not high.2. Many practicers of Gymnastic Qigong who joined this investigation have clear purposes, they hope they can be more healthy, meanwhile diseases can be treated and prevented, all of the practicers like to take the park and square as practice places.3. In this investigation, most of the practicers of Gymnastic Qigong often exercise in early morning and the duration is from 30 minutes to 1 hour, they usually have 3 or 4 times training in a week.4. In this investigation, a majority of the participants know about Gymnastic Qigong by the introduction from others, most of them like Baduanjin among the several Gymnastic Qigong which have been generalized by government.5. The practicers who joined this investigation know very few things about Gymnastic Qigong theory, only a little people had been taken part in communication activities of Gymnastic Qigong.6. In this investigation, the 9 counselors of Gymnastic Qigong are middle and old aged people, they have low degree and practiced not so long, none of them have been passed the exam of Social Sports Instructor, they also never taken part in competition and train activities of Gymnastic Qigong.7. The factors which influenced the development of Gymnastic Qigong In Dengfeng City: the sports management department were not take Gymnastic Qigong seriously; the number of professional counselors are not enough; propagation and popularization are not in place; there are hardly training, competition and exchange activities; there are hardly young people in the main part of Gymnastic Qigong activities.