The Modern Social Factors Of Xingyiquan’s Development In Shanxi

The martial art is an important part of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and it’s the essence of Chinese culture. Dating back to the ancient wars in Shang and Zhou Dynasty, Chinese martial art has formed schools in Qin and Han Dynasty, which is recorded in historical books. After thousands of year’s development, modern martial art has become a sports event with Chinese characteristics. During its whole development, the martial art absorbs the essence of Oriental culture and is deeply influenced by Chinese social factors Xingyiquan began in Shanxi and it is one of the excellent traditional Wushu styles. Its birth time is relatively short but it also has the unique historical characteristics and cultural background. Xingyiquan witnessed the development of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, so Chinese culture is an important carrier of traditional martial arts. In the development of Xingyiquan, it’s easy to find that its developments in different social background are different. In this paper, we mainly study the influence of special social factors on Xingyiquan’s development in Shanxi.This paper, from the perspective of national traditional sports, is based on the literature review, expert interviews and interdisciplinary research. It uses formation and development of Shanxi Xingyiquan as nodes. It is divided in lengthways into three stages of formation, development and reform. And in lateral ways, it studies the Xingyiquan’s development from human geography,economic factors, political factors, and regional cultural factors. Combining vertical analysis with horizontal aspects, this paper analyses the development of Shanxi Xingyiquan, digs social factors that influence on its development,and summarize the logics between modern social factors and its development.This research not only digs and consolidates its development, but also studies the social factors of its development on the basis of previous studies. Seeking the consistency of the martial development from specific boxing styles, andbased on the perspective of national traditional sports, the paper researches social factors of the development of modern Xingyiquan in Shanxi, and provides some advice for its development.From these analyses about social factors, we can know it isn’t an accident for Xingyiquan’s development in Shanxi. Instead, it is influenced by all kinds of social factors in special social background. In the beginning,special human geography in Shanxi is the basis of Xingyiquan’s formation.And Shanxi merchants provided strong material support for it. Regional culture and traditional philosophy is the ideological support of Xingyiquan theory. In the stage of its development, Shanxi business’ s boom greatly drives Xingyiquan’s development in Shanxi, while security background is the supporter of its dissemination and development. In its reform period, special political environment in modern time changed its inheritance pattern and mode of transmission. To sum up, human geography environment is the foundation of Xingyiquan’s formation and development in Shanxi. Shanxi merchants gave the great support and help to its development. In addition,regional culture and traditional philosophy is the strong guarantee for its development. Special political background has provided an opportunity for its development. What’s more, the social demands are its inspiration of spreading and developing for Shanxi Xingyiquan.