Chinese Kungfu

Chinese Kungfu is a very important and unique form of Chinese culture. It can be viewed as both a popular and a classical art, today it is very common and widespread. On the other hand, it has had a very long developed history. Not only did it not decline and disappear as many other facets of pre-modern Chinese culture, it even seems to be gaining much recognition, both in its actual practice and in its relative literature, thetics, philosophy, psychology, etc. it is becoming more and more intriguing. Chinese Kungfu possesses an important and extensive cross-cultural significance. Western culture has, of course, a great influence on the path of Chinese modernization. Meanwhile Chinese culture is also making an impact on Western culture; the popularity of Chinese Kungfu, including Taijiquan, Qigong, etc., is not limited to China but has become a worldwide phenomenon; it thus is a typical example of this reverse impact. As it includes different aspects such as fighting exercise and health care, daily life and academic study, natural state and social scope, research on Kungfu could shed a wholly new light on these interrelated phenomena in an intercultural context. If the research sets out from aesthetics perspective, people can more easily comprehend the characters of the popularity and fashion of Kungfu as "art"; and if Kungfu research starts with the aesthetic method, namely "perceptually comprehensive method", the profoundness namely multi-gradation and multi-orientation of its intercultural significance can be explained in a orrespondingly simply way; thus the research on Kungfu will more effectively oppose the "cultural centered views", so as to raise a new subject and even open up a new path for modern international academia.

1.Beauty of form of Wushu and Chinese Art Many westerners find the action and routines of Chinese Wushu (Martial Art) to be quite spectacular, but also ask if a real Kungfu fight would look so impressive.

2.Beauty of mood of Qigong and the wisdom of Taoist School and Chan sect Chinese Kungfu includes both Wushu and Qigong. In fact, the higher level of most of Wushu (martial arts) is Qigong. Qigong exercise has created aesthetic miracles of life and culture, which modern sports cannot hope to reach.

3. Being beauty of Kungfu and Tao-ontological aesthetics Kungfu-aesthetics studies both the outside beauty of form and the inner beauty of spirit. Moreover, it may involve ontology (being philosophy) of beauty of life.

It is reported that students from martial arts schools practice Wushu at the Songshan Shaolin Temple scenic spot in Dengfeng city of central China’s Henan Province, Oct 23 ,2010. More than 60,000 Wushu students performed Chinese kungfu along the 10-kilometer road leading to the Shaolin Temple to welcome the guests from 56 countries and regions for the Eighth International Shaolin Martial Arts Festival, which began on Friday night.