Study On The Current Situation And Development Countermeasures Of Traditional Martial Arts In Lvliang City

Shanxi is the birthplace of the Chinese nation, conceived the rich culture of the Yellow River, and has created a splendid civilization river. Shanxi is the birthplace of Chinese martial arts. For 2000 years, nomadic civilization and farming civilization had conflicted and interpretation of a feudal separatist conflicts of interest. All of these cultivated the Shanxi martial arts culture. Lvliang city has a long history and rich cultural these gave the social atmosphere of civilian as well as military, so that the development of Lvliang’s martial arts have commonness and also have regional characteristics, both the original, also introduced after digesting. This study’s research object was Lvliang’s martial arts and historical figures,literature data method, expert interview method, questionnaire survey method, logic analysis method, statistical analysis and other research methods all were used. The research contents include 4 aspects: an analysis about the origin of Shanxi’s martial arts, overview about the origin and development of the traditional martial arts in Luliang City, an analysis about the traditional martial arts figures contribution and causes, investigation and analysis on Lvliang’s traditional martial arts practitioners status.The findings of study:1. There are 65 martial arts, 753 martial arts routines in Shanxi Province, including: 42 species martial arts, 324 barehand routines, 319 equipment routines, and 110 sparring routines.Shanxi’s martial arts is widely inherited, and the reason can be summarized as: Shanxi long martial arts and cultural tradition adopts and inherits a variety of foreign martial arts, Shanxi’s local martial arts can be inherited and gradually flourished, Shanxi, Shanxi’s Jinshang culture promotes martial arts culture’s development, Shanxi’s long religious culture promotes the formation and development of the Shanxi’s martial arts.2. There are mainly 15 popular martial arts in Luliang City, respectively: Shaolin boxing,Bagua palm, Form and Will boxing, Xin boxing, Tongbei boxing, Taiji boxing, Zidwu-Taiji boxing(Fu boxing), Liuhe boxing, Weituo-Liuhe boxing, Hong boxing, Red boxing,Bafanshou boxing, Hua boxing, Mianzhang boxing and Tantui boxing. Combined with thecharacteristics of the regional culture in Lvliang City, the study further analysis the original and propagation factors, and we found the influence factors as fallow: Jinshang culture is the economic factors of martial arts in Lvliang city, and it is an important prerequisite that the boxing is lightweight and practical. It is an internal cause that the boxing is not only an unity of form and spirit but also a good physique and improve one’s health. An important reason for the spread of the outbreak is outstanding record figures in the early spread.3. The main characteristics of martial arts historical figures in Lvliang are as follow: The leading idea of martial arts of martial arts historical figures is the patriotic ideology. Figures of different ages indirect reflect the evolution of Chinese martial arts. Shanxi local martial arts,such as Xingyi boxing, have a huge impact on the Lvliang martial arts historical figures. At the same time, this study briefly discussed the historical contribution of Lvliang martial arts figures on two aspects, one is the inheritance and development of martial arts contribution, the other is the contribution to the country.4. The results about Lvliang martial arts:(1) Practicing Taiji boxing is the most among167 subjects, accounted for 41.3%, and according to the number of practitioners proportion,followed by Changquan(36.5%), Tongbei boxing(13.8%), Xingyi boxing(9.6%), Cha boxing(5.4%), Bagua palm(4.2%), Shaolin boxing(3.6%). Practice appliance arts are 70,accounted for 41.9%.(2) Martial arts practitioners overall evaluate the development level of martial arts in Lvliang is "general"(40.12%), and they think the factors restricting the development of martial arts are in many aspects in Lvliang.(3) Martial arts practitioners with the purpose of practicing "physical exercise" are majority(48.53%), the way "teach" is the majority(51.50%), think of practicing martial arts role in “building up a good physique and improve one’s health” is the majority(76.05%), the place “in the park / field” is the majority(70.06%), and they practice every day is the majority(68.26%).(4) Only 3.59% martial arts practitioners "unwilling" pass on and learn knowledge and skill among kinsfolks, and the other 96.41% of the practitioners had different degree of "willing".(5) Only 16.17% martial arts practitioners never participate in the competition, 65.87% of the practitioners occasionally participate in, and another 17.96% often participate in. The aim of they participating competition basically is "to make friends by martial arts", "to love martial arts", or " to learn martial arts”, each accounted for about 1/3 respectively.(6) Only 1.80% martial arts practitioners think of physical exercise guidance "not essential", and that 98.20%" need" or"very need". They were satisfied with the teaching quality of martial arts coach. The martialarts instructor’s teaching level can meet the basic needs of daily contact, and think "not satisfied" accounted for 7.78%.