The Dance Of Life And The Revealed Space

The fighting skills of shaolin wushu embodied the life consciousness of Chinese classical aesthetic,was “the dance of life” of Chinese martial arts,as well as “the art of life” of Chinese martial arts.The shaolin wushu not only had provided Chinese arts with “aesthetic mode” of aesthetic appreciation,but also was the representation of the artistic principle of “all things having souls”.The beauty of life of Chinese wushu was embodied by “the shi of the fighting skills” and adopting the viewpoint of “jin,gu,xue,rou” to give a vivid description of shaolin wushu was quite proper to the “beauty of the body” of martial arts.The postures of fighting skills went through every exercise of practitioners of shaolin wushu by “orchid” and other life images and they also were conceived in the aesthetic experiences of the practitioners’ “aesthetic contempaltion” to “the dance of life” of Chinese martial arts.In addition to that,wushu images were endowed with “the spirits of wushu” because of the practitioners’ body movements.Wushu image was based on a vivid process of construction,namely a process of the aesthetic subject experienced the beauty of wushu in his sense of aesthetic as well as a process of the beauty of wushu revealed itself to the aesthetic subject.In the process of wushu image construction,the aesthetic subject had to regard quasiphysical image,narrative language image and technique image of martial arts as the raw materials,relying on his aesthetic imagination and gave birth to the baeuty of “the oneness of nature and human beings”.The process of the construction of wushu image was the revealation of free will and aesthetic feelings of the subject,and based on which the trinity of the “xiang”,“shen” and “dao” of martial arts’ quasiphysical image,narrative language image and technique image had come into being.The fact that shaolin wushu had been enlisted in the directory of the first national "non-material cultural heritage" list by Chinese indicated that the culture was encountered with danger of survival.Nowadays,various products of shaolin wushu arts had been an distinct cultural space of that sort of intangible cultural heritage.Thus,shaolin wushu arts had got such enormous cultural powers as follows: inhibiting the cultural space of that kind of intangible cultural heritage;innovating Inheritance model of wushu culture;enhancing the national influences of Chinese power and help to realize the national rejuvenation of Chinese people.