武术人类文明的一朵奇葩.docVIP

As an exotic flower of human civilization, martial arts is derived from ancient east with mysterious veil and develops towards sunny future with innocence, fun and joy. As a kind of sport, it is born with the accumulation of the essence from the sun and the moon so that every gesture, jump and extending in it is closely related with nature also in harmony with heaven, earth, mountains and rivers. Tai chi compromises dynamic and static, hardness and softness at the same time. In its flowing actions, it contains all the cognition, feeling and the understanding human beings have of the universe laws. Ba gua palm is based on yin and yang and full of unpredicatable changes and reflects humans research and sensibility of nature rules. In addition, these numerous self-defense boxings are connected with nature directly by imitating animals’ actions and postures, which shows the vivid picture that human’s are in harmony with nature and build the vision that humans and nature develop together. The multiplication and development of humans are filled with struggle and wars. However, martial arts keeps the unique “spirit of martial principle”--- universal love and peace that is different from other fighting skills and demonstrates the human civilization. It advocates the peace idea---“turning hostility into friendship” and “people in the world are all friends”. It pays attention to use martial arts to make friends. And even in fierce competition, practitioners mainly compete wisdom and courage with each other and share the pleasure in competitions. In normal practice, they respect each other, which shows the gentlemen’s courtesy and thus interprets harmony and peaceful martial life. Martial arts of extensive and long history, not only cultivates people’s temperament with its harmonious idea, but also exercises people’s bodies with its sports like nature. Several hundred million people all over the world, regardless of their skins colour and religions, including toddlers, teenage