Impact Factors Of Chen-style Shadowboxing Development Since The Republic Of China

Chen-style Shadowboxing was founded in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, which has been of 400 years up to date. From the point of view of main inheritors and characteristics of its development process, Chen-style Shadowboxing has gone through seven stages:the foundation-building stage before the Qing Dynasty, the primary development stage of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty to the mid Qing Dynasty, the summery and improvement with limited open stage of the mid-Qing to the late Qing Dynasty, internal wide spread stage during the period of the Republic of China, the short period of development between new China was founded and before the "Cultural Revolution", the stagnation stage during the "Cultural Revohition",the rapid development stage after the "Cultural Revolution".With the passage of time, Chen-style Shadowboxing gradually spread out the four style Shadowboxing:Yang-style, Wu-style, Wu-styk and Sun-style. The creation of Chen-style Shadowboxing is based on absorbed the essence of traditional culture and has very high value in strike technique, body building and cuhre implication.Make the development of Chen-style Shadowboxing's impact factors since the Republic of China as the clue, through the literature and field investigation method, the author sum up inside and outside aspects of influence factors of the Chen-style Shadowboxing's development since the Republic of China. The internal causes are the basis for the development of Chen-style Shadowboxing, external factors have an important impact on the development of Chen-style Shadowboxing. Specifically internal factors include four aspects:inheritance, innovation, discipline and sense of mission, external factors include four aspects:the effect caused by war and famine during the Republic of China, the national policies since the founding of the People's Republic of China, media propaganda and economic factors.From the internal cause perspective, firstly, the inheritance is the basis for the development of Chen-style Shadowboxing. Through the gens, mentoring and open way of inheritance, Chen-style Shadowboxing is continued in aspects of successors boxing routine and inheritance responsibility, to lay a good foundation for the increased number of people who learn Chen-style Shadowboxing, the spread of its distribution area and its increased routines.Secondly, innovation is the driving force for its development. There are three ways of Chen-style Shadowboxing's innovation:increase trick and transform style; simplification> integration and re-arranging; transplanting and innovative forms. New frame routine of the Chen-style Shadowboxing, new routines and competition routines had been created through these ways. These promoted the development of Chen-style Shadowboxing in boxing and weapons system, popularization and competition strength.Moreover, discipline is the guarantee of its development. The discipline of Chen-style Shadowboxing mainly contains Twelve Strict Regulations, Twenty Preparation Compliances, Twelve Ban Chapters, Two Rules, Five Notes. These contents can be divided into four aspects: industry, praising virtue and punishing vice, advocating Kung fu spirit, learning boxing theory. By abide these disciplines the Chen-style Shadowboxing's inheritors are excellent in both performing skills and moral integrity, purity of the team, good image, which provide a guarantee for the good development of Chen-style Shadowboxing.Finally, the mission consciousness is the key to its development. The sense of these inheritors's mission manifest such as:Pin san Chen determined to write books, Liqing Chen found back Chang-quan, ZhaopiChen had risked his life to teach Shadowboxing, Zhenglei Chen taught Shadowboxing all over the world. These made the Chen-Style Shadowboxing not only be passed from generation to generation and widely spread, theoretical books continued to emerge and got systematically comprehensively summarized and continued to develop, but also to make ancestral boxing routine found back which played a key role in the development of Chen-style Shadowboxing.The external influence factor, firstly,is the war and famine during the Republic of China. During this period the man-made and natural disasters were very frequent. The negative influence was the number of people who learn Shadowboxing in Chen Jia Gou have been dropped markedly and the danger to meet blank. While it also have four aspects of positive effect which were to maintain regional order, enter the Anti-Japanese war, extend distribution area, help Chen-style Shadowboxing spread within the school. These made the Chen-style Shadowboxing to spread from the clan region to the general public and promoted its development in domestic.Secondly, the influence of the national policies since the Founding of New China. Such policies of wushu mainly included the competition martial arts?social martial arts and school martial arts. These policies which state promulgated promoted the Chen-style Shadowboxing to develop rapidly at home and abroad. In addition the state recognition or default of Chen-style Shadowboxing as the origin of Chinese Shadowboxing strengthen its position in the martial arts.Thirdly, the impact of media-sens itization. The author mainly discuss from the two aspects: the print media (newspapers, journals, books) and electronic media (television, movies, the Internet). These reports related to the Chen-style Shadowboxing not only greatly expanded its audience and improved its visibility,but also were easy to its's study exchange which promoted its diffusion and development. In addition these also recorded the results of its development which implemented effective protection of Chen-style Shadowboxing's relevant information.Fourthly, the impact of economic factors. The author discuss mainly from the cultural industry ? the annual meeting and events aspects. With the development of shadowboxing cultural industry?the annual meeting and events held, the positive impacts were to improve the Chen-style Shadowboxing's visibility, promote its wide spread at home and abroad, unity other schools of Tai Chi, highlight its "mother boxing" status of Tai Chi schools. The negative effects were the destruction of its original space, lack of joint force between the inheritors, interests and rights of its trademark have been damaged by others, which had detrimental impact on the development of Chen-style Shadowboxing.Through the discussion of the factors which influence Chen-style Shadowboxing's development since the beginning of the Republic of China, which can provide a new perspective to understand the rise and fall of Chen Shadowboxing since the Republic of China, can help people deeper understand the law of the development of Chen-style Shadowboxing, can offer a reference for Chen-style Shadowboxing's devlopment, can serve as a trigger to promote the relevant research of Chen-style Shadowboxing, and can make people have a further understanding of Chen-style Shadowboxing as a typical representative of Chinese tradittonal culture.