On the value of taijiquan culture for social health

Taijiquan is one of the martial arts fitness programs characterized by Chinese traditional culture. As a fitness art, it is guided by the meridian doctrine of traditional Chinese medicine, focusing on spitting and guiding, internal and external cultivation; as a technique, it takes the theory of yin and yang and the five elements, and advocates the technical concepts of softness over strength, weakness over strength, and post-haste, reflecting the wisdom of ancient Chinese philosophy. The following is my introduction to you:. Welcome to read!

People practicing taijiquan can be physically strong, self-defense against insults, but also from the realization of the unity of man and heaven, the Taoist law of nature, the traditional Chinese culture of holding in the right. In a certain sense, society is a human ***, and human health is the most important factor of social health. The Taijiquan culture formed by people in the process of studying Taijiquan over a long period of time, such as routines, boxing theory, technical concepts, fitness ideas, behavioral patterns, values, etc., has the dual characteristics of conceptual and behavioral culture, which is of great value in promoting people's physical, mental, and spiritual health, nourishing the values of the times and the spirit of the nation, and promoting the health of the society.

I. Fitness value of taijiquan culture

Taijiquan culture in behavioral form is mainly a technical and fitness movement, and its fitness value is getting more and more attention. With the improvement of material living standards, modern people's physical health is facing many new problems. One is the problem of dietary imbalance and nutritional overload. With the change of people's dietary structure and the reduction of physical labor, many people's nutritional intake exceeds the level required by the human body and leads to obesity, inducing hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Take diabetes as an example, China's diabetic patients accounted for less than 1% of adults in 1980, 2.5% in 1994, and 5.5% in 2001, while diabetic patients reached 11.6% in 2010, and pre-diabetic patients reached 50% of adults, exceeding the prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in developed countries such as the U.S., Japan, and South Korea during the same period.

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With such a surge and such a large high-risk population, China faces the risk of a large-scale outbreak of diabetes and related complications if effective interventions are not taken. Secondly, there is the problem of population aging. According to international standards, China has entered an aging society since 2000, and in 2013, 14.8% of China's total population was over 60 years old. With the aging of the population becoming more and more serious, geriatric diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease are on the rise. In the case of Alzheimer's disease, for example, the total number of patients in the country is now over 8 million, and there are about 300,000 new patients every year. The health problems of the elderly in an aging society are directly related to the quality of life of the elderly in their later years and the burden on their families and society. Thirdly, there is the problem of sub-health. Relevant data from the Chinese Preventive Medical Association show that 75% of the people in China are in a state of sub-health, and most of the patients are between the ages of 15 and 49 years old, manifesting themselves in a decline in immunity, physical discomfort, psychological unhappiness, and some kind of social obstacles, etc. Although the state of sub-health is not yet a disease, it is not a social obstacle. Although the state of sub-health is not yet a disease state, but it is a great health risk. If not corrected in time is prone to serious health problems.

To cope with the health problems faced by modern society, comprehensive measures should be taken from health care, lifestyle, sports and fitness. Taijiquan culture as a fitness exercise, the action is loose, quiet, natural, soft, soothing, breathing uniformly fine and long, is a typical aerobic exercise. Taijiquan pays attention to the guidance of ideas on movements, the coordination of movements and breathing, relaxation, opening and closing, spitting and guiding, so as to make people's internal organs, limbs and bones, as well as respiration, circling, nerves, endocrine and other bodily system functions to be exercised. Especially taijiquan movement on the adjustment of the plant nervous system and endocrine system, on the prevention and treatment of obesity, diabetes, hypertension and a variety of geriatric diseases, to improve the state of sub-health has a very positive effect.

The role of taijiquan culture on mental and spiritual health

Taijiquan culture in behavioral and conceptual forms has an important value in adjusting the psychology and delighting the spirit. People's various psychological contradictions and psychological pressure can not be in time to get rid of the wrong and relieve, easy to induce a variety of psychological and mental disorders. 2009 Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Center for Mental Health released information shows that China's psychological problems and mental illnesses of the population is 7%, the total number of people in more than 100 million people, more than 16 million patients with severe mental illness. Due to the obstacles in perception, thinking, emotion and behavior of people with psychological and mental illnesses, it brings a heavy burden to both families and society. Studies have shown that the practice of taijiquan requires physical and mental relaxation, concentration and quietness, abandon distractions, return to the internal illumination, focusing on the implementation of the will, gas, God, the pursuit of the two things, the unity of man and nature, that is, the so-called "to the virtual pole, keep the stillness and certainty", which is a very good conservation of the human nervous system, can be brain-healthy and intellectual. Relevant research found that: long-term practice of taijiquan people's brain waves in the alpha wave awakening wave occupies a clearly dominant position, the main peak is prominent, the alpha wave frequency synchronization, orderly, the brain function into a good state of awakening, which is very beneficial to improve the psychological condition of people. Relevant research also found that: practicing taijiquan can promote the pituitary gland to secrete "happy hormones" - endorphins, endorphins can make people produce pain and pleasure with morphine, opiates ***, so that people's body and mind feel relaxed and happy, active thinking, Memory and creative energy enhancement, willing to communicate with people around, so as to effectively resolve anxiety, depression, mania and other bad emotions. In addition, the "neutral and comfortable" emphasized in the theory of Taijiquan is not only a kind of boxing method, but also a kind of mentality and wisdom of life, and it is said that "emptiness is interjection, neutrality is righteousness, and fullness is overruling".

Three, Taijiquan culture on the nourishment of the national spirit

Taijiquan culture in conceptual form originates from I Ching, Tao Te Ching, Huang Di Nei Jing and other classics and Confucian traditions, and contains the "genes" of the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The principles of Taijiquan, such as "neutralization and comfort, surrendering oneself to others, softness overcoming rigidity, and pre-empting after the attack", reflect the character of Chinese nation, which is elegant and self-disciplined, soft and unyielding, and it is very useful for nourishing the spirit of the Chinese nation, which is self-reliant, virtuous, upwardly mobile, and righteous.

Taijiquan's boxing theory of "neutral and peaceful, self-sacrifice" embodies Confucianism's ideological sentiments of self-cultivation and self-discipline, mediocrity and courtesy, self-reliance and self-confidence, and invincibility, etc. In particular, the technical concept of "self-sacrifice" is not only tactical wisdom, but also powerful and self-confident performance. It is also a manifestation of strength and self-confidence. Taijiquan's concepts of "subduing strength with softness and overcoming strength with weakness" are the wisdom of Taoist scholars. The boxing theory of Taijiquan on the transformation of yin and yang, such as movement and stillness, emptiness and reality, opening and closing, and rigidity and softness, embodies the idea that yin and yang are complementary to each other, are the roots of each other, are harmonized***sheng, and are different from each other, that is, the so-called "everything is negative to the yin and embraces the yang, and the impulse to think that it is the same as the qi," Chapter 42 of the Tao Te Ching. Practicing Taijiquan takes into account the orientation of heaven and earth, the five elements, the interplay of yin and yang, and the execution of the four seasons, etc., which reflects the ancient people's understanding of the relationship between heaven and man; heaven is the natural world, man is the product of nature, and man and heaven have a unified origin, attributes, structure and laws, which helps people establish the concept of respecting nature and protecting the environment. Taijiquan emphasizes on pre-emptive action, courtesy and deterrence, and there is no active attack on each other in its routines, which is to dissolve each other's attack and then make use of the force, that is to say, "He is not moving, I am not moving, he is moving slightly, I am moving first". If this concept is internalized into people's way of thinking, behavioral patterns and the art of dealing with things, can reduce and avoid many unnecessary social conflicts and social costs.

As a behavioral form of taijiquan culture, its martial arts nature helps to cultivate people's human attitudes of defying the enemy, fighting bravely, self-improvement, and being aggressive. Its body conditioning, breathing and heart conditioning, avoiding noise and impatience, and focusing on ideas and perception help people internalize the culture of taijiquan and the interaction between concepts and behaviors. Relevant surveys show that most of the taijiquan enthusiasts have good living and behavioral habits, few of them are addicted to smoking, alcoholism and other bad hobbies, and they tend to cherish health, modesty and self-discipline, and have a good spiritual outlook with external softness and internal rigidity. In addition, there are tens of millions of taijiquan enthusiasts in China, and their group practice form promotes the dissemination and promotion of taijiquan culture.

All in all, Taijiquan carries the way by art and spreads the way by art, and Taijiquan culture, as an organic part of the excellent traditional culture, can promote people's physical, mental and spiritual health and at the same time, cultivate the concepts of unity of mankind and heaven, the law of nature, and the concepts of keeping the center and keeping the right, pass on the national spirit, values, and aesthetic tastes characteristic of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and cultivate the consciousness of health and harmony and green environment protection, and play an active role in promoting the health of the society. Promote the health of society to play a positive role.