A Research On Fujian Minghe Fist In The Cultural And Ecological Perspective

Minghe fist is come from Crane fist of Fuzhou city, which is one of the southern Wushu of Fujian province and it meets the criterion of traditional martial art of China: Orderliness of source and branches; Clearness of the theory of fist; Uniqueness of the style; completion of itself. However, in the present course of inheriting and developing, it confronts lots of barriers and challenges which were never met before. This essay applies the research method of cultural ecology theory, discussing the course of generation, existence and evolution of Minghe fist cultural ecological system. Furthermore, based on the cases of other traditional Wushu researches, try to make some suggestions about the strategies and methods of the harmony between Minghe fist and modern humanities society.According to the theory of cultural ecology, Minghe fist can be devided in to three stages under the cultural ecological perspective, those are generation, existence and evolution. When it comes to the generation of Minghe fist, it includes natural and social environment. The existence of the Minghe fist is talking from three perspective: materialistic culture existence, regulatory culture existence and spiritual culture existence. The evolution of Minghe fist is happened from two dimensions: firstly, genetic variation at the time line. Secondly, the new supersedes the old at the space range.Apart from these, this essay makes some suggestions about the best way of protection and inheritance of Minghe fist. Those are: that strengthen the optimization of the Minghe fist itself; that protect the superiority of the Minghe descendants; that increase the support from the government; that increase the media exposure of Minghe fist; that promote the globalization of Minghe fist.