# Application of Information Technology in the Inheritance and Communication of Tai Chi Culture in the Era of Big Data

Authors: Haoying Du; Bin Du
Journal: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
 (2022)

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## Abstract

With the advent of the era of big data, the development of Internet technology has provided more platforms for the development of traditional culture and expanded the scope of influence of traditional culture. In the development process of Tai Chi, how to give full play to the advantages of information technology, enhance the influence of Tai Chi, and promote the dissemination and inheritance of the Chinese traditional sports culture are the problems that need to be solved at present. This paper took the population of Tai Chi practicing in X community as the investigation object and analyzed the current inheritance and development status of Tai Chi, found out the main problems in the inheritance and development of Tai Chi, and finally put forward the path of using VR technology in information technology for spread. In addition, the satisfaction of residents with the transmission and inheritance of Tai Chi was measured at the policy, economic, social, and technical levels and compared with the satisfaction of residents before and after the application of VR technology through experiments. The results showed that after the use of VR technology, residents were more involved in Tai Chi and had better satisfaction at all levels.


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## Body

## 1. Introduction

As an important part of the traditional Chinese martial arts, its inheritance and development have great significance to the inheritance and development of Chinese martial arts culture and Chinese civilization. With the development of science and technology, China began to rapidly transform, by information technology, modern communication, and virtual reality represented by the development of digital technology, making the traditional sense of Tai Chi practice way fundamental changes. For Tai Chi resource classification, preservation, display, inheritance, and transmission provide a wide space and greatly promote the rapid spread of Chinese excellent traditional culture.At the same time, with the advent of the era of big data, there are a series of problems in the inheritance and dissemination of Tai Chi culture, such as the lack of place of Tai Chi publicity, the impact of modern western sports on Tai Chi, and the single way of inheritance and promotion. This paper studied the transmission and inheritance of Tai Chi, explored the problems existing in the inheritance and transmission of Tai Chi culture, and used the VR technology of information technology. In order to further promote the sustainable development and inheritance of Tai Chi and to realize the national fitness national strategy, promoting the healthy and orderly development of traditional Tai Chi in China provides some reference. Firstly, this paper analyzed the transmission types, communication channels, and main audience, summarized the inheritance status and the virtual reality technology in information technology, and analyzed the transmission path of the Tai Chi according to the VR technology.At present, the research on Tai Chi in China is mainly carried out from the following aspects: first, it is affected by the influence of Tai Chi on human health, the current situation of Tai Chi in some birthplace city, and the popularization and promotion of Tai Chi. Few studies on Tai Chi have studied the transmission and inheritance from the perspective of the big data era. By studying the perspective of transmission and inheritance of Tai Chi, this paper enriched the theory of transmission and inheritance of national traditional sports culture, which is conducive to constructing and enriching the form of community dissemination and inheritance of national traditional sports culture. At the same time, the spread and inheritance of Tai Chi directly affect the promotion and development of traditional national sports culture, which has an important theoretical reference for cultivating people’s profound understanding of Chinese culture and cultivating people’s patriotism.


## 2. Related Work

In terms of theoretical research, experts and scholars from various countries discussed the influence of Tai Chi on people’s physical health and made related research in the physiological and psychological links. Yu et al. revealed the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of Tai Chi from a neuroimaging perspective, discussing the possible health effects of brain morphological modulation, functional homogeneity and connectivity, regional activity, and macronetwork activity due to Tai Chi. Furthermore, they identified possible associations between brain alterations and the beneficial effects of Tai Chi, such as improved motor function, pain perception, metabolic characteristics, cognitive function, mental health, and sleep quality, aiming to enable a better understanding of the mechanism by which Tai Chi is beneficial to human health [1]. Hamasaki reviewed the existing knowledge and recent literature on the relationship between exercise and intestinal microbiota and explored the feasibility of Tai Chi to improve the composition and function of intestinal microbiota. He suggested that exercise intensity can play a key role in affecting the gut microbiota. As a moderate-intensity exercise, Tai Chi can significantly improve immune function and intestinal inflammation [2]. Albert et al., through clinical studies, including randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses, have found that both Qigong and Tai Chi are beneficial for mental health and can reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. The slow movement of Qigong and Tai Chi and the slowing of respiratory rate can alter the autonomic nervous system and restore homeostasis, reduce the stress associated with hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity, and regulate the balanced of the autonomic nervous system to parasympathetic innervation [3].With the development of information technology, researchers from various countries have developed the development of intangible cultural heritage in the new era. The traditional intangible cultural heritage database system is not conducive to the storage, management, and analysis of massive data. With the development of digital intangible cultural heritage, a large amount of data was generated. With the large and fragmented data, the public is unable to quickly grasp key knowledge. To address these issues, Dou et al. proposed the Intangible Cultural Heritage Knowledge Atlas to assist knowledge management and serve to the public. To explore the role of public libraries in protecting the intangible cultural heritage, Runhao measured the intangible cultural heritage. He used natural language processing (NLP) technology to extract domain knowledge from the intangible cultural heritage text data, built a knowledge base of Chinese intangible cultural heritage based on domain ontology and examples, and developed the knowledge graph [4]. He collected and analyzed name, copyright, and metadata on the websites of 31 provincial public libraries. He argued that there is no uniform national standard for inconsistency between names and metadata and that the library merely does the information and has no creative behavior [5]. Zhou et al. examined the protection activities of the intangible cultural heritage in many places and recorded the status quo of the digital protection of the intangible cultural heritage in China. They found that the digital protection system has rich digital resources, but chaotic storage; there is certain policy support, but weak management. They proposed to further clarify the rights and responsibilities of these institutions, develop storage standards, build sharing platforms, and strengthen digital protection management [6]. Xie took the intangible cultural heritage of modern ceramics as an example to discuss the modern display technology of ceramics and uses virtual reality technology to enhance the sense of reality and interactivity in the display process. It was aimed at improving the value of art research, meeting the needs of the information age, and spreading the intangible cultural heritage by improving the virtual visualization of the digital display technology of the intangible cultural heritage [7].


## 3. Tai Chi Sports Communication and Virtual Reality Technology

### 3.1. Sports Transmission Types of Tai Chi

#### 3.1.1. The Type of “Community-Leading” Transmission

Community-led communication type refers to the community-oriented information communication activities. This community-led communication type mainly includes the process of unified coordination and operation by the community and the dissemination of Tai Chi. However, its limitation is that the scope of communication is relatively small, generally only within the community. The other is the communication and learning among folk organizations of Tai Chi. This kind of transmission scope is relatively wide. Due to the limited understanding ability and level of Tai Chi, there may be a deviation in the transmission process. The community-dominant transmission types are shown in Figure1.Figure 1
“Community-led” communication type diagram.For community Tai Chi, first of all, the community’s access to Tai Chi has a formal and clear direction. By spreading effective information to boxing practitioners, the communication scope and influence are effectively promoted through mutual communication, learning, and competition among boxing practitioners [8]. In recent years, with the support of enterprises and businesses under the jurisdiction of the community and the strong support of the higher government, the community has led the holding of Tai Chi performances, Tai Chi competitions, and other related activities, which can promote the communication and dissemination of Tai Chi to a certain extent.


#### 3.1.2. The Transmission Type of “Mentoring Inheritance Type”

It is the most intuitive and the most common and abundant way of transmission of Tai Chi in social life. Teachers and apprentices can share, learn, and communicate with Tai Chi through video and on-site teaching. In many areas, there are transmission types, but due to the small number of inheritors, the scope of transmission types is not very large, and the transmission ability is greatly reduced [9]. The type of mentoring transmission is shown in Figure 2.Figure 2
“Master-disciple inheritance type” communication type diagram.Tai Chi is spread in the “mentoring inheritance type,” and the form is relatively simple. The mentoring inheritance type is mainly due to two reasons: first, the inheritors of Tai Chi hope to spread and carry forward the value, connotation and function of Tai Chi; second, boxing practitioners hope to carry out in-depth study and research of Tai Chi from the perspective of professionals. Among the types of transmission of mentoring inheritance, Tai Chi exercises between the teachers and apprentices are easier to get satisfaction. This is because after reaching consensus about the same event, meeting the basic requirements is required by the heart. It is for this mutual satisfaction and sense of gain that make the spread of Tai Chi between teachers and apprentices more effective and more direct [10, 11].


#### 3.1.3. “One-Way Medium-Type” Transmission Type

At present, with the continuous development and growth of Internet technology, media plays a vital role and position in people’s life. Traditional media may spread Tai Chi more through oral communication, TV, and newspapers. But with the rise of modern media, social media apps, such as TikTok, Kuaishou, Weibo, and WeChat, can transmit information. However, compared with the “community-led” and “mentoring inheritance type,” “single media type” is a simple output. People use media to receive the transmission of information, which has a wide range of communication, but lack of feedback information [12]. The type of one-way vector-type transmission is shown in Figure 3.Figure 3
“One-way media type” communication type diagram.Although the lack of feedback information is “one-way media” communication, it is widely widespread at present, and its influence range is relatively widespread, which makes people easy to accept and its influence cannot be underestimated.


### 3.2. Communication Channels and Audience of Tai Chi Sports

The communication of Tai Chi in the community cannot be separated from the communication channels, which are also directly related to the effect of cultural communication. The communication channels of Tai Chi mainly rely on the forms of competitions, exchanges, and lectures. The most important way for Tai Chi lovers to learn cognitive Tai Chi is to learn between friends and school. Some people are friends or neighbors who learn Tai Chi through their introduction and dissemination and some who learn Tai Chi through courses offered in school. There are relatively many communication channels of Tai Chi [13], which is referred to Table 1 for details.Table 1
Communication channels of Tai Chi exercises.
Communication channelSpread contentOrganizational unitUrban competitionTai Chi health contestTai Chi AssociationCommunity lectureTai Chi health lectureCommunityInterpersonal communicationTai Chi practice skillsResident spontaneityIt can be seen from Table1 that Tai Chi has rich communication channels. The “Tai Chi Health Competition” has been organized every two years since the first opening of 2017, and teams from various provinces and cities have participated in each competition. In addition, the community will also take the initiative to invite teachers and coaches with high Tai Chi exercises to give lectures in the community to form a community Tai Chi health lecture hall. At the same time, Tai Chi enthusiasts irregularly organize the communication and learning of Tai Chi skills from time to time.Taking Community X as an example, the average number of people practicing Tai Chi is about 200. Of the 196 residents surveyed, 3 were under 30 (1. 5%), 6 were 31-40 (3. 1%), 18 (9. 2%) aged 41-50, 23 (11. 7%) aged 51-60, and 146 were over 60 (74. 5%). According to the data, the main population of participants in Tai Chi in this community is concentrated in the elderly. The survey is shown in Table2.Table 2
Age composition of X community.
AgeFrequencyProportionUnder 3031.5%31~4063.1%41~50189.2%51~602311.7%Over 6014674.5%Two-thirds of the 196 respondents were male, or 65.31%, and 34.69% were female. The ratio of male to female is about 2 : 1, and the survey is shown in Table3.Table 3
Gender composition of X community.
GenderMaleFemaleFrequency12868Proportion65.31%34.69%Among the 196 residents surveyed, there were five main motivations of Tai Chi practitioners, including 196 (100%), 98 (50%) understanding of traditional martial arts culture, 120 (61. 2%), 6 (3. 1%), and 32 others (16. 3%). Physical fitness is the main motivation of all practitioners practicing Tai Chi, which shows the good fitness effect of Tai Chi and also shows that people begin to pay attention to their own physical health and actively invest in the fitness industry. Secondly, understanding the traditional martial arts culture accounts for half, which shows that X community has a rich Tai Chi heritage. The survey is shown in Table4.Table 4
Motivation for practicing Tai Chi of X community.
MotivationFrequencyProportionPhysical fitness196100%Learn about traditional martial arts culture9850%Recreation or interpersonal communication12061. 2%Combat technology63. 1%Other3216. 3%


### 3.3. Problems Existing in the Inheritance and Dissemination of Tai Chi Culture

The first is that Tai Chi itself lacks the correct propaganda. The soft and slow movement style of Tai Chi itself and the meaning of attack and defense skills that are not easily understood by the people make most people think that Tai Chi is only suitable for the elderly and also creates the illusion that Tai Chi can only be used for skill attack and self-defense [14]. Nine times out of ten Tai Chi practitioners are middle-aged and elderly people, many people have some wrong idea that Tai Chi is the exercise of the elderly, and it is not late to learn Tai Chi slowly after retirement, and young people often miss Tai Chi. Tai Chi, an extensive and profound boxing method and traditional culture, is a serious problem for young people, and its development and inheritance will become a serious problem without their enthusiastic participation and unremitting hard training. However, we must start from the young people, so as to improve the physical quality of the whole nation, and can be conducive to the development of the whole Tai Chi.The second is the impact of modern western sports on Tai Chi. With the development of modern sports, western sports have gradually spread into the mainstream of Chinese sports in China. China’s national traditional sports gradually withdrew from the dominant historical stage and became popular in the people. Tai Chi, as an excellent traditional sports in China, is not spared and is much dimmer under the light of modern sports morality. At present, western sports such as badminton, basketball, football, and other sports have occupied an important position in modern society. The psychological development also determines that they will prefer the fierce and full of confrontation and outcome of Western sports [15]. As a result, the development of Tai Chi and even the whole traditional sports in the youth population is full of difficulties and challenges.Finally, the necessary connection between the inheritance way and the inheritance way of Tai Chi needs to be strengthened. Although the inheritance ways and ways of Tai Chi are relatively diversified, they ignore the importance of combining each other. Tai Chi has a good development in their own inheritance ways, but they also have their own natural defects that they cannot remedy [16]. Such as family inheritance and mentoring inheritance to a certain extent, there are less effective teaching object and teaching methods of backward problem, school inheritance, and social inheritance, and the teaching content is shallow, which not conducive to according to their aptitude, skill consciousness training serious shortage, and practice separation, which makes the necessary connection between various inheritance way crucial. On the one hand, the combination of different inheritance channels can make up for their own shortcomings to the maximum extent, and on the other hand, it can give full play to their own advantages, that is, learn from each other’s strengths and develop in an all-round way. For example, the combination of school inheritance with the inheritance of mentoring not only solves the problems of superficial inheritance content, serious lack of technical awareness training, serious separation of fighting and training, and few effective teaching objects in mentoring inheritance and backward inheritance methods. At the same time, it also gives full play to the advantages of advanced teaching methods, high teaching efficiency, and the combination of skill and attack consciousness training in the inheritance of teachers and apprentices. The two complement each other and can better promote the inheritance of Chen’s Tai Chi technology.


### 3.4. Virtual Reality Technology

Virtual reality technology (VR) is a comprehensive technology composed of computer graphics technology, multimedia technology, network technology, human-computer interaction technology, sensor technology, and 3D display technology. Virtual reality is the most influential science and technology in the world today, which has a significant impact on people’s lives. It integrated the use of computer technology, electronic technology, Internet technology, and multimedia technology. It also established a simulated environment with the help of the sensor of people’s vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and experience according to their own feelings to control their natural behavior and the interaction of the virtual world, so as to stimulate the cognition of things, ideas, and creativity [17]. The development of VR technology provides a powerful tool for the display of Tai Chi, especially in Tai Chi and other sports teaching, which will increasingly play a very unique role. In the future VR Tai Chi teaching film, the boxing technology of famous masters will be displayed in all directions, so that learners can truly achieve zero distance observation and learning.Functionally, virtual reality technology is a simulation system, which builds a virtual world to simulate and generate a 3D dynamic environment close to the real world, in which the senses of the experiencers are happy, or the so-called “spiritual field” [18]. Virtual reality technology in real-time 3 D space changes the boring situation between people and computers, providing a new method for the indirect observation of moving material, a new way for the visualization of big data, a new way for humans to explore the macro and micro world, and a new research field for human-computer communication. According to the relationship between experiencers, virtual scenes, and the real world, virtual reality can be divided into three categories: immersive virtual reality (VR), augmented virtual reality (AR), and hybrid virtual reality (MR). VR is about isolating experiencers from the real world and immersing them in a virtual scene close to reality through various technical devices. AR uses virtual digital information technology to place artificial virtual objects in a real environment and then display the converged virtual scene on the output device to enhance the amount of information in the real environment. MR is an integration of immersive and augmented virtual reality, and users can see a more real world. It is a new visual scene produced by integrating the real world and virtual world [19]. All three forms of virtual reality are intended to promote the interaction between the virtual and the real world to facilitate people to timely obtain relevant real and reliable information, as shown in Figure 4.Figure 4
Virtual reality category diagram.In real life, two entities that cannot penetrate each other cannot have the same spatial area. As one of the key technologies of virtual reality, collision detection is based on the fact that it plays an important role in the research fields of computer graphics, virtual assembly, virtual construction, immersive roaming, and other fields [20]. With the continuous development of computer technology, especially the rise of multimedia and 3D technology, the reality of images and models needs to be higher and higher, and the real-time requirements are more and more demanding. To simulate the motion trajectory of objects in real life realistically, this requires the collision detection algorithm to be more accurate and faster.The GJK algorithm is an iterative algorithm based on the vertex set of two objects, and the output result of the algorithm is the Euclidean distance between the set of convex bodies. Based on the distance to zero, determine whether a collision has occurred. However, the biggest feature of GJK algorithm is that the input set of vertex will not be any direct operation calculation, but by calculating the Minkowski distance between two objects, thus calculating the distance between two convex problems into solving a convex set to the origin of the minimum distance problem [21].Assuming two convex bodiesA and B, the distance betweenAandBcan be expressed by the following formula:
(1)dA,B=minx−y:x∈A,y∈B.The GJK algorithm can also return the two closest pointsa and b between two objects, satisfying
(2)a−b=dA,B,a∈A,b∈B.If the definition is a point with the smallest distance from the origin in the convex body setC, that is, satisfy the following formula:
(3)vC=minx:x∈C.Then, the distance betweenA and B can be expressed as the Minkowski difference:
(4)dA,B=vC.Among them,C=A⊖B.When there are multiple moving objects, it is assumed thatA and B are two objects in the scene that move in a straight line at a uniform speed, and their speeds arevAandvB, respectively, in a period of time interval t0,t1. Suppose CHA and CHB are convex bodies of two objects A and B, respectively. At t0 moment, CHA=V0At0,V1At0,⋯,VnAt0, CHB=V0Bt0,V1Bt0,⋯,VnBt0, where n and m represent the vertex numbers of CHA and CHB, respectively.In time intervalt0,t1, the position vertices of CHA and CHB are shown in
(5)ViAt=ViAt0+α⋅Δt⋅vA,(6)VjBt=VjBt0+α⋅Δt⋅vB.Among them,∆t=t1−t0, t=t0+α∙∆t, ∀t∈t0,t1.SupposeCHC is the CSO of a relatively moving convex body CHA and a relatively stationary convex body CHB. In time interval t0,t1, CHC=V0Ct,V1Ct,⋯,VnCt, α∈0,1,i∈1,2,⋯,n, j∈1,2,⋯,n. It can be obtained from Formulas (5) and (6), and the position vertex in CHC is shown in
(7)VijCt=ViAt0+αΔt−VjBt0+αΔt=αΔtvA−vB.According to Formula (7), it can be obtained that within this time interval t0,t1, CHC moves in a straight line, and the expression of its motion trajectory is shown in
(8)PCα=α⋅ΔtvA−vB.Therefore, the distance between the two objects is further converted into the distance between the origin of the solution and the motion trajectory of the CSO boundary. The distance calculation formulas are shown in(9)α=−ViAt0−VjBt0⋅P1P12,(10)Ok=ViAt0−VjBt0+Pα=VijCt0+Pα,(11)d=Ok.In time intervalt0,t1, the displacement vectors of A and B are and T2, respectively. From Formulas (5) and (6), the expressions of T1 and T2 are shown in
(12)T1=Δt⋅va,(13)T2=Δt⋅vb.In order to simplify the calculation process and speed up the calculation speed, it is assumed that the objectB is stationary relative to the object A, from which it can be obtained that the relative displacement vector of the object A is T=T1−T2. From Formulas (12) and (13), the following can be obtained:
(14)T=Δt⋅va−vb.By definition,C=A−B. Therefore, at time t0, C0=A0−B; at time t1, C1=A1−B.Since(15)A1=A0+T,so
(16)C1=C0+T.From Formula (16), it can be concluded that within a period of time interval 1, CHC is also in relative motion, which is equal to the relative displacement vector of object A, namely, T.


### 3.5. Promotion Path of Tai Chi in VR Technology

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Make VR videos of classic Tai Chi for promotionChina started relatively late in VR, but the effect of VR communication is very good. Uploading classic images of Tai Chi to the Internet through VR technology is bound to attract more attention, so as to promote the popularization of Tai Chi culture.(2)
Make Tai Chi type of VR games for promotionChinese pandas are very popular in the Kung Fu Panda overseas. With the popularity of VR technology today, Tai Chi, an intangible cultural heritage, must be integrated into the current trend. China has also made great progress in game development. Game development is not only for profit but also a responsibility to develop intelligence and spread culture. Introducing Tai Chi elements into the game, it lets the audience understand the culture of Tai Chi in the game and actively learn, which will greatly attract the young audience.(3)
VR and Tai Chi teaching are combined to promote itIn the design process of Tai Chi course, virtual reality technology has been applied to the teaching of Tai Chi. Through VR technology, practitioners can play a role in the virtual world and put all their energy into practice, and it practices the movements to proficiency through continuous practice. VR technology creates a directly interactive virtual space for practitioners in Tai Chi technology and technical training. The application of virtual reality technology in Tai Chi teaching mainly has the following aspects. First, according to VR technology, a set of Tai Chi teaching courseware can be made, so that learners can watch a certain technical action from multiple angles in the process of practice. Or some problems in the process of teacher demonstration can be well understood and overcome. Second, it is to develop online Tai Chi teaching resources and conduct distance teaching through the Internet, so that it can achieve an interactive, distributed, intelligent, and illustrated teaching mode. Third, in the virtual world, learners can safely fight the enemies in the virtual environment without worrying about any danger.


## 3.1. Sports Transmission Types of Tai Chi

### 3.1.1. The Type of “Community-Leading” Transmission

Community-led communication type refers to the community-oriented information communication activities. This community-led communication type mainly includes the process of unified coordination and operation by the community and the dissemination of Tai Chi. However, its limitation is that the scope of communication is relatively small, generally only within the community. The other is the communication and learning among folk organizations of Tai Chi. This kind of transmission scope is relatively wide. Due to the limited understanding ability and level of Tai Chi, there may be a deviation in the transmission process. The community-dominant transmission types are shown in Figure1.Figure 1
“Community-led” communication type diagram.For community Tai Chi, first of all, the community’s access to Tai Chi has a formal and clear direction. By spreading effective information to boxing practitioners, the communication scope and influence are effectively promoted through mutual communication, learning, and competition among boxing practitioners [8]. In recent years, with the support of enterprises and businesses under the jurisdiction of the community and the strong support of the higher government, the community has led the holding of Tai Chi performances, Tai Chi competitions, and other related activities, which can promote the communication and dissemination of Tai Chi to a certain extent.


### 3.1.2. The Transmission Type of “Mentoring Inheritance Type”

It is the most intuitive and the most common and abundant way of transmission of Tai Chi in social life. Teachers and apprentices can share, learn, and communicate with Tai Chi through video and on-site teaching. In many areas, there are transmission types, but due to the small number of inheritors, the scope of transmission types is not very large, and the transmission ability is greatly reduced [9]. The type of mentoring transmission is shown in Figure 2.Figure 2
“Master-disciple inheritance type” communication type diagram.Tai Chi is spread in the “mentoring inheritance type,” and the form is relatively simple. The mentoring inheritance type is mainly due to two reasons: first, the inheritors of Tai Chi hope to spread and carry forward the value, connotation and function of Tai Chi; second, boxing practitioners hope to carry out in-depth study and research of Tai Chi from the perspective of professionals. Among the types of transmission of mentoring inheritance, Tai Chi exercises between the teachers and apprentices are easier to get satisfaction. This is because after reaching consensus about the same event, meeting the basic requirements is required by the heart. It is for this mutual satisfaction and sense of gain that make the spread of Tai Chi between teachers and apprentices more effective and more direct [10, 11].


### 3.1.3. “One-Way Medium-Type” Transmission Type

At present, with the continuous development and growth of Internet technology, media plays a vital role and position in people’s life. Traditional media may spread Tai Chi more through oral communication, TV, and newspapers. But with the rise of modern media, social media apps, such as TikTok, Kuaishou, Weibo, and WeChat, can transmit information. However, compared with the “community-led” and “mentoring inheritance type,” “single media type” is a simple output. People use media to receive the transmission of information, which has a wide range of communication, but lack of feedback information [12]. The type of one-way vector-type transmission is shown in Figure 3.Figure 3
“One-way media type” communication type diagram.Although the lack of feedback information is “one-way media” communication, it is widely widespread at present, and its influence range is relatively widespread, which makes people easy to accept and its influence cannot be underestimated.


## 3.1.1. The Type of “Community-Leading” Transmission

Community-led communication type refers to the community-oriented information communication activities. This community-led communication type mainly includes the process of unified coordination and operation by the community and the dissemination of Tai Chi. However, its limitation is that the scope of communication is relatively small, generally only within the community. The other is the communication and learning among folk organizations of Tai Chi. This kind of transmission scope is relatively wide. Due to the limited understanding ability and level of Tai Chi, there may be a deviation in the transmission process. The community-dominant transmission types are shown in Figure1.Figure 1
“Community-led” communication type diagram.For community Tai Chi, first of all, the community’s access to Tai Chi has a formal and clear direction. By spreading effective information to boxing practitioners, the communication scope and influence are effectively promoted through mutual communication, learning, and competition among boxing practitioners [8]. In recent years, with the support of enterprises and businesses under the jurisdiction of the community and the strong support of the higher government, the community has led the holding of Tai Chi performances, Tai Chi competitions, and other related activities, which can promote the communication and dissemination of Tai Chi to a certain extent.


## 3.1.2. The Transmission Type of “Mentoring Inheritance Type”

It is the most intuitive and the most common and abundant way of transmission of Tai Chi in social life. Teachers and apprentices can share, learn, and communicate with Tai Chi through video and on-site teaching. In many areas, there are transmission types, but due to the small number of inheritors, the scope of transmission types is not very large, and the transmission ability is greatly reduced [9]. The type of mentoring transmission is shown in Figure 2.Figure 2
“Master-disciple inheritance type” communication type diagram.Tai Chi is spread in the “mentoring inheritance type,” and the form is relatively simple. The mentoring inheritance type is mainly due to two reasons: first, the inheritors of Tai Chi hope to spread and carry forward the value, connotation and function of Tai Chi; second, boxing practitioners hope to carry out in-depth study and research of Tai Chi from the perspective of professionals. Among the types of transmission of mentoring inheritance, Tai Chi exercises between the teachers and apprentices are easier to get satisfaction. This is because after reaching consensus about the same event, meeting the basic requirements is required by the heart. It is for this mutual satisfaction and sense of gain that make the spread of Tai Chi between teachers and apprentices more effective and more direct [10, 11].


## 3.1.3. “One-Way Medium-Type” Transmission Type

At present, with the continuous development and growth of Internet technology, media plays a vital role and position in people’s life. Traditional media may spread Tai Chi more through oral communication, TV, and newspapers. But with the rise of modern media, social media apps, such as TikTok, Kuaishou, Weibo, and WeChat, can transmit information. However, compared with the “community-led” and “mentoring inheritance type,” “single media type” is a simple output. People use media to receive the transmission of information, which has a wide range of communication, but lack of feedback information [12]. The type of one-way vector-type transmission is shown in Figure 3.Figure 3
“One-way media type” communication type diagram.Although the lack of feedback information is “one-way media” communication, it is widely widespread at present, and its influence range is relatively widespread, which makes people easy to accept and its influence cannot be underestimated.


## 3.2. Communication Channels and Audience of Tai Chi Sports

The communication of Tai Chi in the community cannot be separated from the communication channels, which are also directly related to the effect of cultural communication. The communication channels of Tai Chi mainly rely on the forms of competitions, exchanges, and lectures. The most important way for Tai Chi lovers to learn cognitive Tai Chi is to learn between friends and school. Some people are friends or neighbors who learn Tai Chi through their introduction and dissemination and some who learn Tai Chi through courses offered in school. There are relatively many communication channels of Tai Chi [13], which is referred to Table 1 for details.Table 1
Communication channels of Tai Chi exercises.
Communication channelSpread contentOrganizational unitUrban competitionTai Chi health contestTai Chi AssociationCommunity lectureTai Chi health lectureCommunityInterpersonal communicationTai Chi practice skillsResident spontaneityIt can be seen from Table1 that Tai Chi has rich communication channels. The “Tai Chi Health Competition” has been organized every two years since the first opening of 2017, and teams from various provinces and cities have participated in each competition. In addition, the community will also take the initiative to invite teachers and coaches with high Tai Chi exercises to give lectures in the community to form a community Tai Chi health lecture hall. At the same time, Tai Chi enthusiasts irregularly organize the communication and learning of Tai Chi skills from time to time.Taking Community X as an example, the average number of people practicing Tai Chi is about 200. Of the 196 residents surveyed, 3 were under 30 (1. 5%), 6 were 31-40 (3. 1%), 18 (9. 2%) aged 41-50, 23 (11. 7%) aged 51-60, and 146 were over 60 (74. 5%). According to the data, the main population of participants in Tai Chi in this community is concentrated in the elderly. The survey is shown in Table2.Table 2
Age composition of X community.
AgeFrequencyProportionUnder 3031.5%31~4063.1%41~50189.2%51~602311.7%Over 6014674.5%Two-thirds of the 196 respondents were male, or 65.31%, and 34.69% were female. The ratio of male to female is about 2 : 1, and the survey is shown in Table3.Table 3
Gender composition of X community.
GenderMaleFemaleFrequency12868Proportion65.31%34.69%Among the 196 residents surveyed, there were five main motivations of Tai Chi practitioners, including 196 (100%), 98 (50%) understanding of traditional martial arts culture, 120 (61. 2%), 6 (3. 1%), and 32 others (16. 3%). Physical fitness is the main motivation of all practitioners practicing Tai Chi, which shows the good fitness effect of Tai Chi and also shows that people begin to pay attention to their own physical health and actively invest in the fitness industry. Secondly, understanding the traditional martial arts culture accounts for half, which shows that X community has a rich Tai Chi heritage. The survey is shown in Table4.Table 4
Motivation for practicing Tai Chi of X community.
MotivationFrequencyProportionPhysical fitness196100%Learn about traditional martial arts culture9850%Recreation or interpersonal communication12061. 2%Combat technology63. 1%Other3216. 3%


## 3.3. Problems Existing in the Inheritance and Dissemination of Tai Chi Culture

The first is that Tai Chi itself lacks the correct propaganda. The soft and slow movement style of Tai Chi itself and the meaning of attack and defense skills that are not easily understood by the people make most people think that Tai Chi is only suitable for the elderly and also creates the illusion that Tai Chi can only be used for skill attack and self-defense [14]. Nine times out of ten Tai Chi practitioners are middle-aged and elderly people, many people have some wrong idea that Tai Chi is the exercise of the elderly, and it is not late to learn Tai Chi slowly after retirement, and young people often miss Tai Chi. Tai Chi, an extensive and profound boxing method and traditional culture, is a serious problem for young people, and its development and inheritance will become a serious problem without their enthusiastic participation and unremitting hard training. However, we must start from the young people, so as to improve the physical quality of the whole nation, and can be conducive to the development of the whole Tai Chi.The second is the impact of modern western sports on Tai Chi. With the development of modern sports, western sports have gradually spread into the mainstream of Chinese sports in China. China’s national traditional sports gradually withdrew from the dominant historical stage and became popular in the people. Tai Chi, as an excellent traditional sports in China, is not spared and is much dimmer under the light of modern sports morality. At present, western sports such as badminton, basketball, football, and other sports have occupied an important position in modern society. The psychological development also determines that they will prefer the fierce and full of confrontation and outcome of Western sports [15]. As a result, the development of Tai Chi and even the whole traditional sports in the youth population is full of difficulties and challenges.Finally, the necessary connection between the inheritance way and the inheritance way of Tai Chi needs to be strengthened. Although the inheritance ways and ways of Tai Chi are relatively diversified, they ignore the importance of combining each other. Tai Chi has a good development in their own inheritance ways, but they also have their own natural defects that they cannot remedy [16]. Such as family inheritance and mentoring inheritance to a certain extent, there are less effective teaching object and teaching methods of backward problem, school inheritance, and social inheritance, and the teaching content is shallow, which not conducive to according to their aptitude, skill consciousness training serious shortage, and practice separation, which makes the necessary connection between various inheritance way crucial. On the one hand, the combination of different inheritance channels can make up for their own shortcomings to the maximum extent, and on the other hand, it can give full play to their own advantages, that is, learn from each other’s strengths and develop in an all-round way. For example, the combination of school inheritance with the inheritance of mentoring not only solves the problems of superficial inheritance content, serious lack of technical awareness training, serious separation of fighting and training, and few effective teaching objects in mentoring inheritance and backward inheritance methods. At the same time, it also gives full play to the advantages of advanced teaching methods, high teaching efficiency, and the combination of skill and attack consciousness training in the inheritance of teachers and apprentices. The two complement each other and can better promote the inheritance of Chen’s Tai Chi technology.


## 3.4. Virtual Reality Technology

Virtual reality technology (VR) is a comprehensive technology composed of computer graphics technology, multimedia technology, network technology, human-computer interaction technology, sensor technology, and 3D display technology. Virtual reality is the most influential science and technology in the world today, which has a significant impact on people’s lives. It integrated the use of computer technology, electronic technology, Internet technology, and multimedia technology. It also established a simulated environment with the help of the sensor of people’s vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and experience according to their own feelings to control their natural behavior and the interaction of the virtual world, so as to stimulate the cognition of things, ideas, and creativity [17]. The development of VR technology provides a powerful tool for the display of Tai Chi, especially in Tai Chi and other sports teaching, which will increasingly play a very unique role. In the future VR Tai Chi teaching film, the boxing technology of famous masters will be displayed in all directions, so that learners can truly achieve zero distance observation and learning.Functionally, virtual reality technology is a simulation system, which builds a virtual world to simulate and generate a 3D dynamic environment close to the real world, in which the senses of the experiencers are happy, or the so-called “spiritual field” [18]. Virtual reality technology in real-time 3 D space changes the boring situation between people and computers, providing a new method for the indirect observation of moving material, a new way for the visualization of big data, a new way for humans to explore the macro and micro world, and a new research field for human-computer communication. According to the relationship between experiencers, virtual scenes, and the real world, virtual reality can be divided into three categories: immersive virtual reality (VR), augmented virtual reality (AR), and hybrid virtual reality (MR). VR is about isolating experiencers from the real world and immersing them in a virtual scene close to reality through various technical devices. AR uses virtual digital information technology to place artificial virtual objects in a real environment and then display the converged virtual scene on the output device to enhance the amount of information in the real environment. MR is an integration of immersive and augmented virtual reality, and users can see a more real world. It is a new visual scene produced by integrating the real world and virtual world [19]. All three forms of virtual reality are intended to promote the interaction between the virtual and the real world to facilitate people to timely obtain relevant real and reliable information, as shown in Figure 4.Figure 4
Virtual reality category diagram.In real life, two entities that cannot penetrate each other cannot have the same spatial area. As one of the key technologies of virtual reality, collision detection is based on the fact that it plays an important role in the research fields of computer graphics, virtual assembly, virtual construction, immersive roaming, and other fields [20]. With the continuous development of computer technology, especially the rise of multimedia and 3D technology, the reality of images and models needs to be higher and higher, and the real-time requirements are more and more demanding. To simulate the motion trajectory of objects in real life realistically, this requires the collision detection algorithm to be more accurate and faster.The GJK algorithm is an iterative algorithm based on the vertex set of two objects, and the output result of the algorithm is the Euclidean distance between the set of convex bodies. Based on the distance to zero, determine whether a collision has occurred. However, the biggest feature of GJK algorithm is that the input set of vertex will not be any direct operation calculation, but by calculating the Minkowski distance between two objects, thus calculating the distance between two convex problems into solving a convex set to the origin of the minimum distance problem [21].Assuming two convex bodiesA and B, the distance betweenAandBcan be expressed by the following formula:
(1)dA,B=minx−y:x∈A,y∈B.The GJK algorithm can also return the two closest pointsa and b between two objects, satisfying
(2)a−b=dA,B,a∈A,b∈B.If the definition is a point with the smallest distance from the origin in the convex body setC, that is, satisfy the following formula:
(3)vC=minx:x∈C.Then, the distance betweenA and B can be expressed as the Minkowski difference:
(4)dA,B=vC.Among them,C=A⊖B.When there are multiple moving objects, it is assumed thatA and B are two objects in the scene that move in a straight line at a uniform speed, and their speeds arevAandvB, respectively, in a period of time interval t0,t1. Suppose CHA and CHB are convex bodies of two objects A and B, respectively. At t0 moment, CHA=V0At0,V1At0,⋯,VnAt0, CHB=V0Bt0,V1Bt0,⋯,VnBt0, where n and m represent the vertex numbers of CHA and CHB, respectively.In time intervalt0,t1, the position vertices of CHA and CHB are shown in
(5)ViAt=ViAt0+α⋅Δt⋅vA,(6)VjBt=VjBt0+α⋅Δt⋅vB.Among them,∆t=t1−t0, t=t0+α∙∆t, ∀t∈t0,t1.SupposeCHC is the CSO of a relatively moving convex body CHA and a relatively stationary convex body CHB. In time interval t0,t1, CHC=V0Ct,V1Ct,⋯,VnCt, α∈0,1,i∈1,2,⋯,n, j∈1,2,⋯,n. It can be obtained from Formulas (5) and (6), and the position vertex in CHC is shown in
(7)VijCt=ViAt0+αΔt−VjBt0+αΔt=αΔtvA−vB.According to Formula (7), it can be obtained that within this time interval t0,t1, CHC moves in a straight line, and the expression of its motion trajectory is shown in
(8)PCα=α⋅ΔtvA−vB.Therefore, the distance between the two objects is further converted into the distance between the origin of the solution and the motion trajectory of the CSO boundary. The distance calculation formulas are shown in(9)α=−ViAt0−VjBt0⋅P1P12,(10)Ok=ViAt0−VjBt0+Pα=VijCt0+Pα,(11)d=Ok.In time intervalt0,t1, the displacement vectors of A and B are and T2, respectively. From Formulas (5) and (6), the expressions of T1 and T2 are shown in
(12)T1=Δt⋅va,(13)T2=Δt⋅vb.In order to simplify the calculation process and speed up the calculation speed, it is assumed that the objectB is stationary relative to the object A, from which it can be obtained that the relative displacement vector of the object A is T=T1−T2. From Formulas (12) and (13), the following can be obtained:
(14)T=Δt⋅va−vb.By definition,C=A−B. Therefore, at time t0, C0=A0−B; at time t1, C1=A1−B.Since(15)A1=A0+T,so
(16)C1=C0+T.From Formula (16), it can be concluded that within a period of time interval 1, CHC is also in relative motion, which is equal to the relative displacement vector of object A, namely, T.


## 3.5. Promotion Path of Tai Chi in VR Technology

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Make VR videos of classic Tai Chi for promotionChina started relatively late in VR, but the effect of VR communication is very good. Uploading classic images of Tai Chi to the Internet through VR technology is bound to attract more attention, so as to promote the popularization of Tai Chi culture.(2)
Make Tai Chi type of VR games for promotionChinese pandas are very popular in the Kung Fu Panda overseas. With the popularity of VR technology today, Tai Chi, an intangible cultural heritage, must be integrated into the current trend. China has also made great progress in game development. Game development is not only for profit but also a responsibility to develop intelligence and spread culture. Introducing Tai Chi elements into the game, it lets the audience understand the culture of Tai Chi in the game and actively learn, which will greatly attract the young audience.(3)
VR and Tai Chi teaching are combined to promote itIn the design process of Tai Chi course, virtual reality technology has been applied to the teaching of Tai Chi. Through VR technology, practitioners can play a role in the virtual world and put all their energy into practice, and it practices the movements to proficiency through continuous practice. VR technology creates a directly interactive virtual space for practitioners in Tai Chi technology and technical training. The application of virtual reality technology in Tai Chi teaching mainly has the following aspects. First, according to VR technology, a set of Tai Chi teaching courseware can be made, so that learners can watch a certain technical action from multiple angles in the process of practice. Or some problems in the process of teacher demonstration can be well understood and overcome. Second, it is to develop online Tai Chi teaching resources and conduct distance teaching through the Internet, so that it can achieve an interactive, distributed, intelligent, and illustrated teaching mode. Third, in the virtual world, learners can safely fight the enemies in the virtual environment without worrying about any danger.


## 4. Application of Virtual Reality Technology in the Inheritance and Communication of Tai Chi

Taking 196 residents of X community as experimental objects, the satisfaction of residents in Tai Chi before and after the use of VR technology was analyzed from the political, economic, social, and technical levels. The results are shown in Figure5.Figure 5
Satisfaction with participation in Tai Chi facilities and services at the policy level.
(a)(b)Figure5(a) shows the residents’ satisfaction with the government and community participation in the planning of the site and facilities.Figure5(b) shows resident satisfaction with policy support for government and community participation in site services.As can be seen from Figure5, after the application of VR technology, residents’ satisfaction with the Tai Chi facilities has been greatly improved. Among them, the residents’ satisfaction with the government and the community’s planning facilities for the Tai Chi field reached 82. 95%, and the satisfaction with the government and the community’s policy support for the site service reached 78. 13%. Before the application of VR technology, residents’ satisfaction with government and community participation in Tai Chi facility services and government and community planning was 80.34%, their satisfaction with policy support was average, and their satisfaction with government and community on-site services was 77.09%. Residents of the government and community using VR technology participate in Tai Chi facilities and services to help and contribute more satisfied. Community and government constructions, such as basketball court, football field, badminton, and table tennis venues, support the development of all kinds of sports, and to enrich the daily sports cultural life is the biggest help and support.Figure6(a) shows the residents’ satisfaction with the government’s financial support for Tai Chi sports.Figure 6
Satisfaction with Tai Chi support and services at the economic level.
(a)(b)Figure6(b) shows the residents’ satisfaction with the publicity and activity innovation of Tai Chi exercise.As can be seen from Figure6, after the application of VR technology, among the economic support and service satisfaction (generally satisfied and above), the government’s economic support for Tai Chi is 74. 22% and the innovation of Tai Chi is 71. 31%. Before the application of VR technology, in terms of satisfaction with Tai Chi support and service (general satisfaction and above), the government’s economic support for community Tai Chi is 73. 96%, and the innovation of community Tai Chi publicity and activities is 74. 41%. Economic factors are the material basis and basic guarantee of whether Tai Chi can be better inherited. There was no significant difference in residents’ satisfaction with the government in the Tai Chi sports support and service before and after the application of VR technology. Compared with Figure 5, residents were more satisfied with the facilities and services of the Tai Chi site at the government policy level. Government departments still need to increase the investment in the development of traditional ethnic sports.Figure7(a) shows the residents’ satisfaction with the atmosphere of Tai Chi activities.Figure 7
Satisfaction with participation in Tai Chi sports organization service at the social level.
(a)(b)Figure7(b) shows the residents’ satisfaction with the linkage of the inheritance mode of Tai Chi.As can be seen from Figure7, after the application of VR technology, among the social satisfaction of Tai Chi support and service (generally satisfied and above), the atmosphere of Tai Chi is 82. 83%, and the inheritance of Tai Chi is 80. 23%. Before the application of VR technology, among residents in terms of satisfaction with Tai Chi support and service (generally satisfied or above), the atmosphere of Tai Chi activities is 79. 71%, and the linkage of Tai Chi inheritance mode is 75. 54%. The application of VR technology has gradually increased Tai Chi books, available broadcasts, and irregular lectures and enabled boxing practitioners to have a deeper understanding of Tai Chi from different angles and channels, which is conducive to promoting the inheritance and dissemination of Tai Chi.At the present stage, the more noteworthy problem is that China’s population is gradually showing an aging trend, and Tai Chi is deeply loved by the elderly, which is an inevitable result for expanding the Tai Chi team. At the same time, with the popularization of our compulsory education and the expansion of higher education, people’s education level and college public Tai Chi-related courses, which makes young people to Tai Chi have a new understanding and understanding to a certain extent, attract more young people to join the Tai Chi practice and inheritance team. To some extent, it also speeds up the process of Tai Chi inheritance and transmission.Figure8(a) shows the residents’ satisfaction with Tai Chi physical fitness monitoring services.Figure 8
Satisfaction with technical services in the development of Tai Chi exercises.
(a)(b)Figure8(b) shows the residents’ satisfaction with the scientific guidance of Tai Chi exercise.From Figure8, it can be seen that after the application of VR technology, residents’ satisfaction with Tai Chi has improved in terms of technical service level. Among them, the satisfaction rate for Tai Chi physical monitoring service is 61.46%, and the satisfaction rate for scientific guidance about Tai Chi is 65.1%. Before using VR technology, residents’ satisfaction with Tai Chi exercise physical monitoring service was 58. 85%, and their satisfaction with scientific guidance on Tai Chi exercise was 63. 54%. Technical factors are the key to the inheritance effect of Tai Chi in the community. Although the satisfaction increase of technical service before and after the application of VR technology is not large, it still shows that the technology in the process of Tai Chi inheritance is in a good direction, which is conducive to the inheritance of Tai Chi inheritance. However, the ecological and economic support for the inheritance of technology needs to be improved further, so as to be more conducive to the inheritance and dissemination of Tai Chi.


## 5. Discussion

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The government has increased its support and actively promoted the traditional ethnic sports cultureThe dissemination and inheritance of Tai Chi are the trend of The Times. The higher government should increase the policy preference and capital investment for the transmission and inheritance of Tai Chi to ensure the stability and adequacy of Tai Chi in the process of community transmission and inheritance. At the same time, the corresponding system should be appropriately formulated to create a good institutional environment and make up for the deficiency of the ecological inheritance of Tai Chi.(2)
The society should intensify the publicity efforts, and actively cultivate the Tai Chi exercise audience groupAll units of society should increase the popularization of Tai Chi, so that people have a correct understanding of Tai Chi, so as to actively join in the dissemination and inheritance of Tai Chi. Schools should take Tai Chi as a general education course to instill theories and ideas into students, and enterprises and institutions should organize employees to conduct necessary learning, so that they can have a new understanding of Tai Chi. Only with the efforts of various social groups can more people correct their consciousness, accept Tai Chi, and actively join Tai Chi to exercises, spread and inherit.(3)
The community increases its learning efforts to enhance the audience’s understanding of Tai Chi cultureTai Chi culture is extensive and profound, and it is a treasure of the Chinese nation. In the investigation, it was found that Tai Chi practitioners are generally older and have a low education level, which affects the comprehension ability of Tai Chi to a certain extent. In order to change this situation, both communities and individuals should expand the channels of learning Tai Chi culture in the form of lectures and publicity posters, so as to improve the audience’s understanding and understanding of Tai Chi culture.(4)
Create a community cultural atmosphere, optimize and improve Tai Chi inheritance technologyAs the smallest unit subject, the community, unlike the birthplace of Tai Chi, has unique geographical environment and cultural environment advantages. The inheritance atmosphere of Tai Chi is not very strong, and the audience’s awareness and concept of inheritance are relatively weak. The community should employ famous teachers of Tai Chi to enter the community for guidance and teaching, and publicize the history and development of Tai Chi through broadcasting, so as to create a good atmosphere for the inheritance of community Tai Chi.


## 6. Conclusion

Through experimental analysis and research, using VR technology is feasible and effective for the inheritance and dissemination of Tai Chi. Political factors can promote and promote Tai Chi in transmission. Although financial support is not high, it can meet the basic needs of boxing practitioners, and social factors are the key to the effect of Tai Chi in the community. By studying the dissemination and inheritance of Tai Chi, this paper puts forward the ways and ways to optimize the transmission and inheritance of Tai Chi and provides new ideas for the development of Tai Chi in China. But at the same time, the article focuses on the analysis of community Tai Chi, and it also needs further research on school Tai Chi education and Tai Chi club, so as to make the research on the transmission and inheritance of Tai Chi more complete.



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