Comparative Research On Origins,Developments,Costumes,Cultures And Thoughts Of Chinese Martial Arts And Muay Thai

Both Chinese martial arts and Muay Thai have a long history.They stemmed from wars in ancient times and at that time people had to practice fighting techniques to safeguard their homelands and protect themselves.They even killed the enemies in the battlefields with fighting techniques.However,with the coming of hot-weapon age,the role that Chinese martial arts and Muay Thai used to play has been changed by the popularity among ordinary people.Chinese martial arts has been a sport that can enable people to exercise and build up their bodies with self-cultivation while Muay Thai has been widely spread in the fields of entertainment and commercial matches.In recent years,with the increasing connection between Chinese martial arts and Muay Thai as well as the emergence of lots of related movies and films,both of them have been well known by people in two countries gradually.However,due to some exaggerated or unilateral descriptions in those films,people seem to know only a small part of these two fighting techniques.Besides,many scholars have paid much attention to the research on Chinese martial arts and Muat Thai applied in sports while ignored many aspects,such as their origins,developments,changes,cultures and even thoughts in both of them.Therefore,based on my research and survey along with a lot of work done on all kinds of materials,I write this article aiming to deepen two countries’people’ s mutual recognition and understanding of Chinese martial arts and Muay Thai and make my contributions to mutual communication and co-operation between two countries in many fields,such as culture.This article shows us a strong comparison through the origins,developments and changes,including different costumes,characteristics,traditional thoughts and inheritances between Chinese martial arts and Muay Thai.And I also summarize the differences in the fields of cultures and thoughts between them.Chinese martial arts has been deeply affected by the combination of three thoughts,which focuses on self-cultivation and one’ s life,practicing martial arts is a kind of cultivations that combines one’ s body and his mind.Meanwhile,Muay Thai has been influenced by the thought of Buddhism.Thai people commonly believe that one was born to suffer a lot but every person can be reborn after death.Therefore,the traditional thought in Muay Thai is no fear of sufferings and death.This is why Muay Thai practicers could tolerate after so many sufferings and it also illustrates to us the spirit of being fierce and brave.I sincerely hope that the readers would know much better about the origins,developments,cultures and thoughts in Chinese martial arts and Muay Thai through this article,which I believe could help deepen the communication and co-operation in the fields of cultures and thoughts between two countries.We should seek common points while reserving differences,learn from the other’ s strong points to offset one’ s weakness and thus to make the trees of friendship always green and flowers of friendship flourish all the time.