Research on the Value and Path of Ideological and Political Education in College Tai Chi Curriculum

Abstract

Research purpose: The Ministry of Education pointed out that "martial arts courses should focus on patriotic education and traditional excellent cultural education, cultivate students' tenacious struggle, establish lofty ideals and beliefs, stimulate and improve students' sense of national responsibility and consciousness in learning." As an important branch of Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi has natural educational advantages. Tai Chi is divided into six schools, including Yang, Chen, Wu, Sun, and Wu. The posture of Tai Chi is relaxed and generous The actions are simple and easy to learn, and the ideological and political elements contained in them help guide students to promote excellent Chinese culture. The ideological and political education of Tai Chi curriculum should be integrated into the nature, objectives, teaching concepts, content, methods, processes, and evaluations of the curriculum. Deeply exploring the ideological and political elements of Tai Chi to construct its cultural value is a requirement for the ideological and political education of Tai Chi curriculum in the new era to cultivate morality and promote excellent Chinese sports culture. Research method: 1) Literature review method. Using databases such as CNKI and VIP as sources, search for Key words such as "integrating Tai Chi into curriculum ideological and political education" and "Tai Chi's educational value" to lay the foundation for the writing of this article. 2) Logical analysis method. Conduct logical reasoning and dialectical analysis on the literature reviewed, reveal the cultural value of Tai Chi, and analyze it to propose optimization paths. Research results: The educational values of Tai Chi include: national spirit, cultural confidence, martial arts and morality, and innovative spirit. 1) National spirit: As an important branch of Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi has natural educational advantages. Tai Chi push hands practice by practicing the single push, double push, folding push and other steps of both sides, and the attack and defense awareness and reaction state reflected by each move and each advance and retreat are the ideological concepts of cultivating young people, such as "advancing and retreating are suitable, being able to bend and stretch, and sacrificing oneself to others". Through Tai Chi teaching, it can promote the formation of self-improvement among young people The national spirit of integrity, tenacious struggle, and patriotism. 2) Cultural Confidence: Tai Chi follows the philosophical viewpoint of the unity of heaven and man, and upholds the rule of virtue of "morality is the foundation of the Tao, and propriety is the foundation of Qi"; Advocate the viewpoint of "having a heavy responsibility and a long way to go, not failing to forge ahead in the youth"; Emphasize that 'those who are benevolent must have courage'; In practice, the understanding of the "Three Cardinals and Five Constants", "Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and trustworthiness", "Cultivating one's character, governing the country, and leveling the world", "Discrimination between righteousness and profit", "Theory of Human Nature", and other ideas, all present China's unique way of thinking - cultural confidence. 3) Advocating Martial Arts and Virtue: Tai Chi emphasizes the basic principle of "establishing virtue", and in the teaching process, "showing virtue through etiquette" is the saying "never practice martial arts, learn virtue first", and achieve core values through "double virtues of virtue and art"; In the process of practicing techniques, attention should be paid to the walking posture of "upright at the end" and "three in one and three out". During practice, attention should also be paid to the principles of "calm mind and calmness", "perfect coherence", and "clear distinction between reality and emptiness"; Offensive and defensive techniques emphasize the principle of "using softness to overcome hardness" and "using stillness to brake"; Pursue recognition and comprehension after practice. 4) Innovative spirit: Tai Chi is a dialectical thinking representative of Yin and Yang complementing each other, the five elements generating and restraining each other, and all things in the world changing from bad to good; It is a spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation's "use of etiquette, harmony is precious", "the healthy nature of heaven, the gentleman's constant self-improvement", "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trust, gentleness, courtesy, thrift, and compromise", and so on; Integrating it into students' thinking logic can be beneficial, or by combining theory with practice to establish new formal logic,Tai Chi has a long history and profound content. Utilizing and analyzing it through innovative means to make it more scientifically serve human society is a great innovation challenge. Research results: Optimization path for integrating Tai Chi courses into teaching in universities: 1) Scientific design of ideological and political teaching objectives. When formulating ideological and political goals, it is based on "military ethics", combined with skill learning and moral education guidance, and integrates the ideological and political elements of Tai Chi into teaching, to build a complete sports core literacy system, namely ability goals, healthy behavior goals, and sports moral goals. 2) Build a system of ideological and political content. Combining Tai Chi with local characteristic boxing styles; Establish a comprehensive evaluation system for evaluation, such as the evaluation of teachers' professional ethics and conduct, the evaluation of teaching effectiveness, and the evaluation of students' "martial arts ethics" throughout their daily life performance. 3) Deepen teachers' sense of responsibility. Through periodic ideological and political training for teachers, the profound connotation of Tai Chi is consciously integrated into ideological and political education in physical education teaching, and the educational value of Tai Chi is maximized; In terms of sense of responsibility, it is possible to build a platform for teachers to communicate and refine in depth during the practical process, in order to enhance teachers' sense of responsibility in highly educating people. 4) Deeply explore ideological and political elements and select educational materials. Deeply break through the problem of "what to excavate" and "how to excavate" ideological and political elements in Tai Chi curriculum, sort out the educational value and advantages of Tai Chi, based on "moral education" education, and deeply explore the ideological and political elements of Tai Chi with points and lines, and lines and surfaces; In the selection of ideological and political materials for Tai Chi, students should be taken as the center, and the materials should be scientifically and reasonably applied to the teaching process based on the actual situation of students, in order to achieve "educating people with martial arts". Tai Chi is a product of a specific historical period, influenced by extensive and profound historical culture. Integrating it into the curriculum can guide students to better use sports methods such as observation, comparison, understanding, abstraction, deduction, and induction; The integration of Tai Chi into ideological and political education can help guide students to promote excellent Chinese culture, establish a correct outlook on life, values, and the world, practice socialist core values, strengthen students' self-cultivation, form a good thinking mode, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talent, and strive to cultivate college students to become successors who shoulder the great responsibility of the motherland.