Why traditional martial arts can't compete with Taekwondo?

Taekwondo

As a loyal traditional martial arts enthusiast, through the practice of traditional martial arts, both to sharpen the will, and physical exercise, so bent on their own children to join the ranks of the practice of martial arts, so that he suffered a little. But to the big surprise of the people around me, I sent my child to learn Taekwondo. Before sending my son to learn taekwondo, I considered the traditional martial arts hall (very rare, there are a few masters to teach are in the outdoor, poor conditions), to teach their own children (out of spoiling the child may not be very good), the modern combat hall (took the child to see, do not like). It is also in the entanglement of letting the child learn what time, the child a few classmates of the parents to meet a piece of the child to learn taekwondo, the child likes to lively, as soon as he heard it will be extremely demanding to learn, I know, his purpose is to play with their own classmates a piece of play is not to like.

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In my mind, I think taekwondo as martial arts training, too many fancy moves, practical things are few. For taekwondo hall in the country popular with parents attributed to the Chinese people worship foreigners, like fancy things, can not see the depth of Chinese martial arts, but when I walk with my child through a class, only to find that I was wrong, the reason why taekwondo can be so appealing to the Chinese people, is accompanied by a strong invasion of Korean culture.

Taekwondo training

China has always been known as a country of etiquette, but in recent years, the propaganda media for etiquette is much less publicized than before. Such a big country with a rich history, under the wash of the economic tide, the traditional martial arts has not been spared, the chaos of the traditional martial arts community is not the average person can imagine, the sects attack each other is commonplace, the master and disciple against the purpose of the case is too numerous to mention. Korea from ancient times to the present but in the accompanying children to learn taekwondo class, taekwondo instructor first taught the children to learn the commandments of taekwondo, I was most impressed by a sentence is not to casually use taekwondo, which is how similar to the concept of stopping for the martial arts, but nowadays people's view of the martial arts, confined to whether the fight can be completely ignored the cultural connotations of the martial arts. Then the coach led the children to salute to the national flag, although Taekwondo is an imported product, but the salute to the national flag is the five-star red flag, although some of the picture style does not match, but it cultivates the children from a young age love for the motherland (traditional martial arts this should be thought about). At the end of the course, the taekwondo coach let the children salute to the parents one by one to thank, this small move, let my heart for a move, the children salute, will be coaches and classmates will be applauded, the child may not know why there will be applause, but he knows that respect for the elders can be applauded and recognized. I was struck by the many details of such a lesson, details that our traditional martial arts lack.

The Rites of Passage, one of China's five classics, is dedicated to traditional etiquette and has been passed down for thousands of years. Of course many of the rituals in it are not used in today's society, but we can take the best and remove the dross and develop and apply them. If we have a complete set of etiquette order, it will help to promote the orderly development of all walks of life and increase national cohesion.