On the morning of February 3, Hubei**, the 2023 Wushu Campus Pilot Learning Exchange Competition Collective Project Competition. The picture shows the Guangdong team in the game. Photo by China Youth Daily and China Youth Network reporter Ci Xin.
Wudang Mountain in winter is even more majestic, and it also witnesses the wonderful moment of a group of martial arts teenagers learning martial arts. On the morning of February 3, the 2023 Wushu Campus Pilot School Exchange Tournament kicked off at the Wudang International Wushu Exchange Center in ** City, Hubei Province, at the foot of Wudang Mountain, with more than 300 primary and secondary school students from 7 provinces and cities in Shanghai, Hubei, Chongqing, Henan, Guangdong, Yunnan, and Fujian meeting friends with martial arts and gathering in the birthplace of Wudang Wushu.
The pilot work of wushu into schools is an important measure for the Youth Sports Department of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and the Wushu Sports Management Center to deepen the integration of sports and education and lead the reform of school sports, and a total of 7 pilot provinces and cities will be selected across the country to promote it in 2023.
As an important part of school physical education and sports activities, wushu has a unique charm that distinguishes it from other sports - wushu is one of the essences of traditional Chinese culture, and martial arts teaching is also an important means to help young students receive traditional cultural education and improve their cultural self-confidence. At the seminar on martial arts on campus held during this exchange competition, Jiang Bailong, an expert of the Expert Committee of the Wushu Research Institute of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and a professor of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, believes that it is necessary to recognize martial arts from the perspective of martial arts as a kind of cultural education and national ideological education.
Young students who practice martial arts are often "eye-catching" teenagers. Guo Fujin, deputy secretary-general of the Guangdong Wushu Association, the person in charge of the Guangdong Wushu Campus Project, and the physical education teacher of Leliu Middle School in Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, proudly introduced to the reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network, "As soon as the teachers from outside enter our Leliu Middle School, the first feeling is that the students here are very eye-catching. Eye-catching in Cantonese means that a person is spiritual, upright, and smart. This kind of sunny and righteous image is exactly a clear label that young students have acquired after a long period of martial arts practice."
In Shaoshan Primary School, Wuhua District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, the school-wide martial arts teaching activities have also greatly changed the students' mental outlook while enhancing their physical fitness. Xia Xianchuan, a martial arts teacher at Shaoshan Primary School, said, "I hope that every teenager has a full mental state to learn, inherit and carry forward the profound traditional culture." The teaching requirements I set for myself are to teach students who are sunny, confident, brave and stylish. Xia Xianchuan said that it is true that the changes in the children after learning martial arts, not only the physical fitness has improved significantly, but more importantly, they all have vitality.
In Dongfeng Senior High School, ** City, Hubei Province, there are not a few students who are both civil and military. Guo Shengbin, a physical education teacher and martial arts coach at the school, mainly coaches the school's martial arts competitive team, and the students in the team can basically be admitted to the university through their martial arts expertise. However, among the ** brought by Guo Shengbin, there are many "scholars" who are admitted to colleges and universities only on the basis of their cultural achievements. Guo Shengbin believes that these martial arts teenagers who are top students prove that practicing martial arts can not only give children a strong body, but also help them grow better mentally.
Guo Fujin believes that a child who insists on practicing martial arts is often also a child with a sense of responsibility. Guo Fujin introduced that martial arts must be cultivated in martial arts, so the Guangdong Provincial Martial Arts Association uniformly promoted Wing Chun boxing exercises throughout the province, requiring children to recite the "martial arts chapter" before doing the exercises, and then recite the "Juvenile China Sayings" after the exercises. Everything is the first, practice martial arts and learn morality. So, what is martial virtue? What exactly is martial arts training for? Guo Fujin said: "The answer is very simple, it is to love the country, love the family and love others. ”
When the Guangdong Provincial Martial Arts Association promoted Wing Chun gymnastics in schools in Heshan City in 2018, many parents and teachers were worried that their children would become fond of fighting after learning martial arts. Guo Fujin said: "The truth is quite the opposite. The children learn martial arts and practice martial arts every day, and their bodies are stronger and their consciousness is higher. When the children see someone, they salute first and then add a word of hello, and when they part, they give a salute and then add a goodbye, how can they fight? "A child who really practices martial arts will definitely avoid the abuse of force. He has the ability to dominate the enemy, but he refrains from using it. He knew that martial arts training was not for fighting, but for the responsibility of his family and country.
Guo Fujin said: "Now the whole city of Heshan City is 680,000 primary and secondary school students practice Wing Chun. Starting this year, Wing Chun will be fully popularized in kindergartens, which is the necessity and feasibility of the city's people recognizing children's martial arts. ”
As the essence of traditional Chinese culture, allowing more young people to learn martial arts will help them better learn and understand traditional Chinese culture and enhance their cultural self-confidence. If you look at the entry of martial arts into the campus from this perspective, Jiang Bailong believes that it is not too much to list martial arts as a separate course.
Although the educational value of martial arts to young students in China is extraordinary, as far as the overall development of martial arts in China's schools is concerned, the degree of attention is far from enough, and there is still a lot of room for excavation of the educational function that martial arts should play.
As a part of physical education, martial arts has already been widely used in China's primary and secondary schools, but there are still some problems. Liu Tiancai, director of the Sports and Health Art Division of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education, said: "Our current "Physical Education and Health" class in primary and secondary schools has martial arts content, but it lacks systematization; Some colleges and universities also offer martial arts classes, but student participation is not high. ”
On the one hand, as the quintessence of martial arts, it is reasonable for more young students to better understand martial arts and the oriental philosophy contained in them in the process of participating in martial arts. On the other hand, there are also many places in China that have seen the benefits of students in the process of carrying out martial arts into schools, and thus made martial arts popular with schools and parents. However, there are still many schools in China, and the teaching of martial arts is still in its infancy, which highlights the importance of the pilot work of martial arts on campus since 2023.
How can martial arts enter more schools and attract more students to be able to participate in the long term and deeply. Li Shengfu, a professor at Henan University and a martial arts Jiuduan, believes that good policies, good teaching materials, and good teachers are inseparable.
In recent years, a series of documents such as the "Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Sports and Education to Promote the Healthy Development of Adolescents" and the "Implementation Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening and Improving School Physical Education in the New Era" have given various sports activities, including martial arts, an opportunity to carry out in depth and in an all-round way in schools. At the same time, the release and implementation of national strategic policies such as building a cultural power, a sports power, and a healthy China are also development opportunities for martial arts. In addition, wushu, as a sport native to China, is also actively striving to enter the Olympic Games. Wushu is now an official sport at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, the first time it has been an official sport in the Olympic series. As for whether wushu can go further and enter the Olympic Games in the future, IOC President ** said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency not long ago, "We are looking forward to the 'Olympic debut' of wushu." After that, we will evaluate the martial arts to see how internationally recognized, engaged, etc. "There is no doubt that a martial art with a high level of international recognition and participation should also be a martial art with a wider range of young people's participation. From the domestic point of view, it is particularly important for martial arts to better enter the campus.
The good teaching materials and good teachers mentioned by Li Shengfu mainly refer to the need for a textbook that can meet the physiological conditions and psychological characteristics of teenagers, so that such teaching materials can stimulate teenagers' interest in learning martial arts. It is also necessary for physical education teachers and martial arts coaches to be able to master more advanced martial arts teaching methods, rather than just teaching students to play a few sets of martial arts routines.
In some parts of China, many methods have actually been explored and summarized to stimulate the interest of young students to continue to practice martial arts. Guo Fujin introduced, "In fact, it is not difficult to make children interested in martial arts, one of the ways is to let children understand what they practice for, how to use it, and when to use it." It is difficult for most children to stick to the martial arts routines by practicing only martial arts routines. In the process of promoting Guangdong martial arts in schools, we use the boxing techniques in Wing Chun to teach children how to use them for self-defense, and form a pair of hands (similar to Tai Chi pushers) to continuously strengthen children's reaction ability and coordination. We sometimes gamify martial arts training, such as placing a balloon between two people, and the two people push it around while making sure that the balloon does not burst, which can easily stimulate children's interest in learning. ”
After the students became interested in martial arts, while teaching them to practice martial arts skills, martial arts education also began. From the requirements and norms of students' spiritual outlook, etiquette and etiquette, to the cultivation of their integrity, bravery, patriotism and family. At this point, martial arts education really begins.
Beijing, 5 Feb --
China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Cixin.
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