Quanzhou Southern Shaolin martial arts are going global, and the picture shows foreign friends practicing Wuzu Quan. Photo courtesy of Quanzhou Municipal Sports Bureau
Quanzhou, December 15 (Huang Jiahui) Recently, at the awarding and promotion activities of the China Sports Culture Expo and the China Sports Tourism Expo (hereinafter referred to as the "Two Expos"), a total of 39 "Chinese Sports Culture Outstanding Projects" were selected, and the three projects from Quanzhou, Fujian Province, "Duck Skimming on the Water", "Southern Shaolin Martial Arts" and "Shishi Lion Array", were awarded the "Chinese Sports Culture Excellent Projects", accounting for half of the six selected projects in Fujian Province, showing quanzhou's promotion of the integration of sports and traditional culture 3. Let sports bloom the beneficial exploration of the unique charm of traditional culture.
The reporter learned from the Quanzhou Municipal Sports Bureau on the 15th that as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road and the first batch of national historical and cultural cities, the "Quanzhou: World Marine Trade Center of Song and Yuan China" project was officially selected into the World Cultural Heritage List this year, which highlights Quanzhou's profound cultural heritage. Quanzhou's traditional sports culture has not faded, since ancient times there is a martial style, as early as the Song Dynasty was summed up by poets with a sentence "Quannan everywhere Shaolin style" image, Yu Dayu, Zheng Chenggong, Shi Lang, Lin Xingzhu, Chen Huacheng and a large number of famous generals appeared, making Quanzhou's martial arts practice increasingly popular, thus deriving many traditional cultural sports such as Southern Shaolin martial arts, "duck grazing" on the water, Shishi Lion Array and so on.
Water "duck skimming" is a popular water sports in Quanzhou, and the picture shows the scene of the water "duck skimming" project. Photo courtesy of Quanzhou Municipal Sports Bureau
Zhang Xiaofeng, secretary general of Quanzhou Wushu Association, introduced that Southern Shaolin is one of Quanzhou's cultural business cards, and there are many kinds of Southern Shaolin martial arts, among which in 2008 Wuzuquan was named a national intangible cultural heritage protection project by the State Council, and Over the years Quanzhou has held large-scale international Southern Shaolin martial arts exchange competitions and international martial arts exchanges, and continues to promote Southern Shaolin martial arts to the world.
"Regarding duckling on the water, it is said that the national hero Zheng Chenggong trained sailors in Quanzhou's An harbor." According to Yan Chengzhi, the person in charge of the "duck grazing" project on the water, the project later became a dragon boat festival water competition in Anhai Ancient Town, Jinjiang, Fujian Province. On the pier of the Anping Bridge or on the boat, a long greased bamboo pole is set up, and at the end hangs a cage containing white ducks. To the sound of the crowd's encouragement, the contestants carefully crossed the sleek bamboo pole barefoot, and whoever was able to reach the end and probe the cage to pick the duck was the challenge to victory. This event is a combination of fitness, adventure and entertainment, and it is loved and has been loved for a long time.
The picture shows the butterfly array performance in the Quanzhou Shishi Lion Array. Photo courtesy of Quanzhou Municipal Sports Bureau
According to Qiu Shangcheng, deputy director of the Shishi Sports Bureau, the Shishi Lion Formation, commonly known as the "Shaving Lion", originated from the military formations and martial arts exercises in the Song and Ming Dynasties, and became a large-scale collective comprehensive martial arts exercise form in the Chinese martial arts system of "no one else, I am unique".
In recent years, relying on the excellent sports tradition, the Quanzhou Municipal Sports Bureau has continued to carry forward the excellent spirit of traditional sports culture, regarded the excellent traditional Chinese culture education as an important starting point for promoting quality education, promoted the "martial arts into the campus" team, regularly held martial arts gymnastics competitions for primary and secondary school students, encouraged and supported high-level talents in martial arts to enter the campus to teach martial arts full-time, cultivated traditional sports talents, and created "sports + culture" by expanding sports culture exchanges, holding traditional cultural sports events, and organizing various traditional sports culture research and study activities "Integrate the event brand and continuously enhance the soft power of Quanzhou's culture." (End)