There are many inspiring martial arts journal articles from the Republican period in China.
Some journal articles instruct readers how to do martial arts trainings in detail.
For example, there was one article which taught how to do training of internal martial arts.
It instructed that the first training you should do is zhanzhuang (standing meditation or stationary Qigong).
You have to have correct posture by doing zhanzhuang.
After this, you can practice movements while you maintain the correct posture you attained by doing zhanzhuang.
If you practice movements before you attain correct posture by doing zhanzhuang, all movements you make would be useless for training.
The Republican period was the time when the Chinese government needed to build strong military by making all Chinese citizens train their bodies. The government tried to train people with Chinese martial arts.
The classic Chinese martial arts treatise used to be superstitious that they were very difficult to understand. During the Republican period, they published many Chinese martial arts books and magazines to instruct the citizens which were more scientific .
Evolution of photography technology enabled to add photos also helped readers to understand better for learning the forms.
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