社会变迁;武术门派;失序;重塑
The patriarchal order of the Ming-Qing period provided martial-arts schools with a closed “protective shell”, which enabled the proliferation and refined stylization of boxing styles. However, it confined techniques to single-line blood inheritance and lacked trans-regional upgrading channels. During the Republic, of China era, with the rise of the nation-state, public education, the Central Guoshu Institute and mass media jointly promoted the first cross-regional integration of martial-arts schools, allowing them to share political premiums. Nevertheless, the de-lineageization of organizations not only led to the personalization of authority but also weakened the diversity of boxing styles through standardized routines. In the early years of the People’s Republic of China, the overall reorganization integrated boxing styles into the national competition and cultural tourism system. While this brought capital flows, it also resulted in multiple dilutions of master-disciple ethics and authentic techniques due to political labels, competitive aesthetics and consumer contracts. Currently, martial-arts schools are confronted with various disorders: the fading of traditional school concepts, the chaotic emergence and disorganization of new schools, overcommercialization driven by the market economy, and the vacuum in school governance structures. In response, this paper proposes countermeasures: reconstructing school identity through inheritance narratives, implementing supervision over the registration of new schools, resisting the excessive commercialization of martial-arts schools, and promoting the transformation of internal governance of schools.
Authors
- Li Wan
- Wenke Guo
- Kunhan Li
Publication Details
- Journal
- Leisure Sports and Health
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.35534/lsh.0502011
- Primary Topic
- Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00