The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of introducing Chinese martial arts to school physical education in modern times of China and understand its meaning in its development in precise. The results are as follows according to such p...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of introducing Chinese martial arts to school physical education in modern times of China and understand its meaning in its development in precise. The results are as follows according to such purposes. Firstly, physical education of the West was flowed in two ways; entered with the Western theories in modern times or introduced by the willful intention of Chinese. It was first determined as a regular curriculum by 《Presented School Regulation(奏定學堂章程)》 announced by Qing government in 1903. Secondly, martial arts was adopted as a regular academic course by the efforts of physicians and physical organizations in 1915. Thirdly, discussion about the Western sports and Chinese traditional ones that initiated in modern times ended to form a fusion course of the Western physical education and martial arts, which became an important process for martial arts to be adopted as an academic curriculum. Seen from the perspective of nurturing martial arts teachers, education and physics schools were short of martial arts teacher so they began nurturing them. Those teachers did a big role in spreading martial arts in modern times. In addition to that, people from all fields put emphasis on education of martial arts, which gained momentum for it to be introduced to the school curriculum in modern times.