The Enlightenment Of Life Preserving Concepts Of Laozi To Modern Sports Life Preserving

The various schools of thoughts in Qin times are considered as the key to traditional Chinese thoughts. The life preserving culture developed during this period, especially the one proposed by Laozi, leaves prosperous heritage to their descendents. The sports developed on the basis of more than five thousand years of traditional Chinese culture lays the foundation of life preserving culture of Laozi. And it is considered as the most precious treasure of all Chinese people. After several thousand years of development from its origination, its life preserving theory contributes a lot to modern sport. The abstraction of modern life preserving essence from life preserving thoughts of Laozi is the main task of this paper. Thus, based on the study of its essence, combined with distinctive characteristics of modern sport, this paper mainly concentrated on its implication to modern life preserving theory.Tao lays the foundation of life preserving thoughts of Laozi. Consequently, this paper started with the study on Taoism of Laozi, and further discovered its origination"Taoism". Taoism originated ahead of earth and heaven, ahead of everything. And everything, including earth, heaven and human beings, are comes from the Taoism, and everything, in return, runs while obey the Taoism. Thus, the core thoughts of life preserving thoughts of Laozi is magic arts nature which implies that heaven is harmonized with human, and appearance is harmonized with spirit. Human beings, as one kind of living things existed between earth and heaven, should obey the Taoism which means comply with the natural rules aims at the reunion with it and lived with nature in harmony. Our lives can be protected and nourished if we do it like this. In life preserving thoughts systems of Laozi, there are four categories of representative life preserving methods: my life is in my hand– new born is precious and death is not terrible; less personal desire for life preserving; virtue cultivation for life preserving and stay calm fro life preserving. There all highlight that our body and spirit, people and the whole society, human and nature should be co-existed in harmony.Based on the summarization and analysis of the life preserving theories and its core thoughts originated before Qin times, combined with the four-dimensional health concept of modern sport, this paper proposed four points of enlightenments to modern life preserving concepts with the hope of providing theory foundations to the setup and development of scientific sports life preserving concepts. This may helpful in the process of serving people and may actively stimulate the development of nationwide body-building program.The innovation of this paper is based on the core concepts of Laozi, given a systematical analyze to life preserving thoughts of Laozi started from"Taoism"which means the life preserving is on the basis of the understanding to Taoism. This may further enhance our health concepts and reconsider the meanings of life objectively.