What is the relationship between martial arts and culture?

Wushu has been on the Chinese soil for thousands of years, and because it is rooted in the fertile soil of traditional Chinese culture, wushu is the most philosophical sport among the many sports in the world today, with its colorful cultural connotations. From the point of view of the development process of wushu and the form of cultural patterns, it is mainly manifested in the following aspects.

Philosophy is the ideological source of Wushu

Chinese classical philosophy has a large scope, encompassing many schools of traditional thought and doctrine, and the more influential ones are Taoist philosophy, the doctrine of Zhou Yi, the doctrine of the Five Elements, the philosophy of taiji, and the philosophy of Sun Tzu, etc. We will look at the ontology of classical philosophy from the point of view of the philosophy of Wushu. We will explore the ideological origins of martial arts from three aspects of classical philosophy: ontology, epistemology and methodology.

1. The epistemological foundation of martial arts. "The unity of knowledge and action" is the epistemological foundation of wushu, which is an important mechanism for the development of wushu. The so-called "unity of knowledge and action" means that in daily life, the knowledge of things is first of all personal realization, which then guides the practice, and the cognition and practice are unified and consistent. This theory is often expressed in martial arts as "learning by applying" and "intuitive realization". Chinese Wushu was created under a certain social need, and the purpose of practicing Wushu is to utilize what one has learned. It is difficult to express the meaning and charm of martial arts in words, which requires scholars to use their intuition to realize and experience, and then grasp. This is also a characteristic of our traditional thinking.

2. The basic principle of martial arts strategic thinking. The methodology of "the opposite is the movement of the Tao" constitutes the basic principle of martial arts strategic thinking. It means that the transformation of opposites to their opposite is the law of movement. In other words, the strong can overcome the soft and the soft can overcome the hard, the strong can overcome the weak and the weak can overcome the strong. As a result, Chinese martial arts require that the techniques must conform to the principles of harmony between the strong and the soft, and between the yin and the yang.

The influence of Chinese classical philosophy on wushu is far-reaching, others, such as the concept of yin and yang based on the philosophy of zhouyi, the concept of yin and yang eight trigrams as the theoretical basis for the bagua palms, the doctrine of five elements as the theoretical principle of ideology of shangyiquan, the philosophical philosophy of taiji for the essence of taijiquan, as well as the philosophy of Sun Zi as the guiding ideology of wushu techniques tactical view, etc., are strong evidence of the classical philosophy of the Chinese is a wushu ideology. source.