The influence of Taoist thought on Chinese traditional culture

1 The influence of Taoist thought on traditional Chinese martial arts culture

1.1 The integration of martial arts on Taoist thought

China's ancient combat arts is the initial origin of martial arts, at first this also exists as a means of offense, without any religious ideas or connotations, however, the influence of martial arts is getting bigger and bigger, and slowly evolved into a means of attacking or strengthening the body and health, and also Gradually, it has taken on some religious philosophical ideas. However, current research on martial arts suggests that the cultural meaning of Chinese martial arts only includes Taoist ideas, not Buddhist teachings. The Chinese martial arts advocate internal and external cultivation, integrating the cultivation of the body as well as the nourishment of the sex, and these ideas are a reflection of Taoist thought, and it is obvious that the journey of such a thought did not happen overnight. The basic idea of Taoism in China is to explore the nature of the universe and find the meaning of life, which is obviously inconsistent with the basic idea of martial arts. Therefore, for a long time after their respective births, martial arts as well as Taoist thought developed independently and did not intersect. History has turned to the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chinese martial arts and Taoist thought finally appeared to intersect, these are from some familiar with the LaoZhuang way of martial arts practitioners, they use the "Tao Te Ching" and "South China Classic" and other writings to interpret the way of martial arts, thus laying a theoretical basis for the development of martial arts.

1.2 Influence of Taoist dialectical thinking on traditional martial arts culture

The traditional martial arts of attack and defense, attack and defense, static and static, and the martial arts routines of Yin, soft, and real, as well as the tactical principles of static in motion, and the use of softness to overcome hardness, and the use of softness and softness, are organized by the law of the unity of opposites, and so the movement of wushu is a concrete embodiment of the theory of the unity of opposites. In Taoist thought, the opposites of contradictions should be transformed into each other when they interact with each other to a certain extent. Traditional martial arts culture, "the opposite of the Tao of movement" proposition in this idea is significantly embodied.

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