China News Service, Zhengzhou, July 8th, title: How do martial arts such as Shaolin and Tai Chi improve their "going to sea" strength?

　　China News Agency reporter Li Guigang

　　As an important part of Chinese traditional culture, martial arts, its international influence is increasing, how to further enhance the strength of Shaolin, Tai Chi and other martial arts in the process of "going to sea", Henan Provincial Sports Bureau, Henan Provincial Party Committee Foreign Affairs Office, Henan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, etc. 13 departments and bureaus and committees recently jointly issued the "Henan Wushu Industry Development Plan (2021-2025)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which is due to enhancing the international appeal and influence of Henan Wushu.

　　According to the "Henan Wushu History" published at the beginning of this year, the reform and opening up has enabled Wushu to go abroad and into the world, and it has become an indispensable and important content of cultural exchanges between the East and the West.

Since the end of the 1970s, Chinese and foreign martial arts exchange activities focusing on the Dengfeng Shaolin martial arts in Henan and the Taiji martial arts in Wenxian County have gradually been carried out. Especially in the 1980s, the movie "Shaolin Temple" was released, which has boosted global understanding and learning. , The upsurge of learning Chinese martial arts.

　　Statistics show that there are more than 300 million people practicing Tai Chi in the world, and nearly 130,000 people go to Shaolin Temple to learn boxing each year.

This also laid a good foundation for Chinese martial arts to "go out to sea".

　　However, in this process, Chinese martial arts also faced many challenges and problems.

　　"With the increasing number of overseas martial arts gyms and the increasing number of'going overseas' martial arts companies, Chinese martial arts has encountered a bottleneck period in its overseas development, and has encountered a'ceiling'." The relevant person in charge of the Henan Provincial Sports Bureau accepted a reporter from China News Agency on July 8. In the interview, he said bluntly, how to improve Henan Wushu's "going to sea" strength in the new era?

"It can be said that this "Planning" also pointed out the direction for Henan Wushu to'go out'."

　　The reporter combed and found that the "Planning" has a lot of focus on promoting the "going out" of martial arts.

Among them, the "Planning" mentions relying on the Wushu Association and overseas martial arts centers to build an overseas promotion center for Chinese Kungfu, play the "Kungfu" card, and enhance the international influence of martial arts; at the same time, it supports the study of the external dissemination of martial arts culture and focuses on the construction and cooperation of the "Belt and Road". The work of foreign sister cities develops overseas, creating a "national name card" for martial arts.

　　Zou Xiang, the person in charge of the official website of Shaolin Temple, said that at present, the Shaolin Overseas Cultural Center has expanded to more than 40 countries and cities around the world, with nearly 200, mainly engaged in Shaolin Kungfu training, Shaolin cultural exchanges, Chinese teaching, and traditional Chinese cultural dissemination. .

　　The relevant person in charge of the Henan Provincial Sports Bureau introduced that in terms of overseas promotion of Chinese Kungfu, the Shaolin Overseas Cultural Center and Overseas Martial Arts Center are "main forces", and they must focus on their overseas advantages and improve on the original good foundation. , Upgrade and perfect, in order to enhance the depth and breadth of Chinese Kung Fu's international influence and appeal.

　　In view of the inconsistency of many standards in the overseas promotion of Chinese martial arts, the person in charge stated that in the next five years, while guiding Shaolin and Tai Chi to "go out", the first step is to standardize and unify the clothing, martial arts equipment, professional terminology, foreign translation, etc. Secondly, taking Taijiquan as an example, it is necessary to integrate the strengths of various families to create a set of standard boxing methods recognized at home and abroad, which is convenient for international promotion.

　　"At present, in order to unify the standardization, Shaolin Temple has specially established the Shaolin Kungfu Duan Quality System of Nine Duan and Nine Stages, and established a standardized Shaolin Kungfu learning and training system and technical grade evaluation standards to strengthen the international spread of Shaolin Kungfu." Zou Xiangru said.

　　The martial arts industry is also helping on the road to standardization "going to sea".

Take Wujitang as an example, its Tai Chi products are sold to more than 10 countries and regions including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.

　　The "Plan" also mentions supporting martial arts companies to carry out overseas trademark registration and patent applications, encouraging powerful martial arts companies to expand overseas markets through acquisitions, mergers, and equity participation in international brands; supporting martial arts companies that represent outstanding Chinese national culture and have independent intellectual property And products enter the international market.

　　Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Shaolin, Tai Chi and other martial arts training and visiting performances have been blocked.

With the help of the new media communication platform, some Shaolin Chuans and Tai Chi Chuans communicated with overseas audiences through the Internet, and realized Shaolin Kungfu and Tai Chi exercises in the "cloud".

　　The relevant person in charge of the Henan Provincial Sports Bureau believes that the "cloud" model has expanded the new field of "martial arts + Internet" and extended a new path for the spread of martial arts.

　　In terms of integrated development, in recent years, Henan, together with Hebei, Shandong and other 8 provinces, jointly initiated the establishment of the "Chinese Kung Fu Journey" brand promotion collaboration body, and went to more than 10 countries including Spain and Italy to promote Kung Fu tourism, extending the martial arts industry chain. It has realized the integrated development and transformation from single-handed fighting to combined boxing.

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