The Study On Taijiquan And Civilians' Sport Leisure

With the development of social economy, the living standard of our people has generally improved in a large scale. After their basic material needs are satisfied, the common people begin to focus more and more on the improvement of their living quality. The reform in national furlough system make people have more and more leisure time. How to make reasonable use of the leisure time so that both the physical part and the mental part of the individual can be fully rested and meanwhile the spiritual world of the individual is enriched has become people's new living pursuit. People have various leisure movements in their leisure time. Taijiquan is the treasure of our traditional physical culture. Many civilians in our country choose Taijiquan as their main leisure activities.Jiaozuo in Henan province is the original place of Taijiquan. Residents in jiaozuo have relatively high degree of recognition toward Taiji culture. Most of them practice Taijiquan in their spare time. This article focuses on analyzing the advantages of Taijiquan as one of the leisure activities. It adopts the methods of interview, survey, document-analyzing and questionnaire in order to understand the generalizing condition of Taijiquan among civilians in Jiaozuo. Moreover, it analyzes the significance and situation for Jiaozuo to popularize Taijiquan and put forward some advice for the city government on the problems existed in the course of generalizing Taijiquan. Meanwhile, on the basis of above analysis, this article will analyze and predict the future and prospect of Taijiquan.This paper consists of six parts .In the prologue I will introduce the significance and context of this theme, its content and method of research and its initiative points.The second part elaborates on leisure, leisure sport and their respective values.The third part introduces the status quo of Taijiquan and the development of people's sport leisure in the city. It makes a review on the history of Taijiquan and summarizes the functions of this sport in people's physical, psychological and social fields. Through the analysis on the unique advantages of Taijiquan, we can get the value of Taijiquan as a leisure movement. In view of these values, Taijiquan is able to spread in China and abroad. Furthermore, It makes an introduction of the history and status quo of urban people's sport leisure and summarize the situation of Taijiquan's dissemination in China and abroad.The fourth part is to make a specific research on cases collected in Jizuo. This section analyzes the background for civilians in Jiaozuo to practice Taijiquan and its present situation. It will make a SWOT analysis on the situation for Jiaozuo to popularize Taijiquan. Furthermore, it will probe into the problems existed in government's popularizing activities and put forward some specific advice in hope that it will be helpful to the further development of Taijiquan.The fifth part will make an analysis and forecast on the prospect of Taijiquan's future development. It follows that Taijiquan will be more and more popular among civilians in China and abroad.The sixth part is conclusion.