Wudang Wushu

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: Wudang Wushu

Applicant: Shiyan City, Hubei Province

Project No.: 290

Project No.: VI - 8

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics

Region: Hubei Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Shiyan City, Hubei Province

Protection unit: Shiyan Mass Art Museum

Introduction to Wudang Wushu

Applicant: Shiyan City, Hubei Province

Wudang Wushu originated in Wudang Mountain, Hubei Province. Its founder was Zhang Sanfeng, a Taoist of Wudang in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty. Zhang Sanfeng skillfully integrated the essence of Yijing and Daodejing with martial arts, and created Wudang martial arts with important health and fitness value, with Taijiquan, Xingyiquan and baguazhang as the main body.

Wudang Wushu has distinct Taoist cultural characteristics, which is a natural combination of martial arts and health preserving methods. It not only has profound traditional Wushu culture, but also contains exquisite scientific principles. Taijiquan emphasizes "making the body with the heart first" and then "making the body from the heart". Xingyiquan stresses "the intention is not strong, the meaning is to the Qi, and the Qi is to the strength", and baguazhang requires to walk around "to change the mind". All these reflect the fitness purpose of Taoism "hiding to the Tao" in order to "push the intention, and prolong the life" The sports concept of training outside.

The theoretical system and technical system of Wudang martial arts are complete. It takes "the view of the universe as a whole" and "the view of harmony between man and nature" as its purpose, takes "virtue and nature" as its principle, and takes "the combination of movement and stillness" and "both internal and external cultivation" as its method. It forms many unique boxing and sword techniques, which not only have merit theory and skill, but also have routine operation and gist Sanfeng's "Taijiquan general", "Taijiquan song" and "Taijiquan thirteen forms" are among the three classics.

Wudang Wushu originally took Wudang Mountain as its cultural space. In history, there are countless hermits and professional practitioners in Wudang Mountain. Through their cultivation and dissemination, Wudang martial arts skills become more and more excellent, and its reputation grows day by day, and finally spread all over China.

However, with the development of modern society, there are some obstacles in the inheritance of Wudang Wushu. First of all, Wudang Wushu was bound by the Taoist idea of "secret biography" in its early stage, and its spread was narrow; second, most of the present successors are old and scattered all over the country, so the exploitation and utilization of Wudang Wushu resources are limited; third, the theoretical research of Wudang Wushu is not enough, and its cultural significance needs to be further explored. In this situation, it is necessary to quickly formulate reasonable and feasible measures to rescue, protect, organize and develop Wudang Wushu.