{"id":451,"date":"2008-06-24T01:56:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T06:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:38:20","slug":"you-lost-to-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2008\/06\/you-lost-to-a-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"You lost to a girl?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"yeoh\"<\/p>\n

Reading through \u4e2d\u534e\u6c11\u56fd\u6587\u5316\u53f2 (Cultural History of the Chinese Republic)1<\/a><\/sup> I found something interesting in the section on \u56fd\u672f. \u56fd\u672f is a term for what today would be called \u6b66\u672f, i.e. martial arts. Although there was a lot of interest in physical education in China in the 20s and 30s traditional martial arts were not part of this, as they were often seen as backwards peasant stuff. The Guomindang did make some efforts to encourage the modernization of the martial arts, however, setting up the \u4e2d\u592e\u56fd\u672f\u9986 (Central Martial Arts Academy) in Nanjing in 1927. Eventually there would be provincial-level organizations as well. At first the Academy seems to have been organized like a traditional martial arts school with masters and disciples but in 1929 it was reorganized as a more modern type of school. The top rated teachers were \u738b\u5b50\u5e73\uff0c\u5434\u56fe\u5357\uff0c\u59dc\u5bb9\u71d5\uff0c\u80e1\u5bb9\u534e (\u5973<\/span><\/span>), \u9648\u5fd7\u548c (\u5973<\/span><\/span>) the younger teachers included \u5f20\u6587\u5e7f\uff0c \u674e\u9521\u6069\uff0c\u5085\u6dd1\u4e91 (\u5973<\/span><\/span>) As the (\u5973<\/span><\/span>) indicates two of the top five teachers and three of eight were women.<\/p>\n

This actually surprised me a lot. In movies and fiction there may be a lot of female martial arts experts, and there were certainly some in reality as well. Still, this ratio strikes me as a little high. In 1933 there was a national martial arts exam and of the 427 competitors only 9 were women. Was this part of an attempt to modernize the martial arts? Was it a regional thing, since the academy drew heavily from the Northwest and followers of \u5f20\u4e4b\u6c5f? Has anybody written anything on this?<\/p>\n

  1. \u7f16 \u53f2\u5168\u751f\uff0c\u5409\u6797\u6587\u53f2  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Reading through \u4e2d\u534e\u6c11\u56fd\u6587\u5316\u53f2 (Cultural History of the Chinese Republic)1 I found something interesting in the section on \u56fd\u672f. \u56fd\u672f is a term for what today would be called \u6b66\u672f, i.e. martial arts. Although there was a lot of interest in physical education in China in the 20s and 30s traditional martial arts were not part…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,111,118,119,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-culture","category-education","category-english","category-republican"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-7h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}