“Lu Xi Yan” Yoga Studio at Zhengzhou City: New Health Culture in the Popular Cultural Society Context of China

Abstract

Background and Aim: Yoga is a physical activity and its origins in Hindu and Buddhist Culture in ancient Indian societies. It was initiated in the context of Hinduism, involving The control of the body, mind, and concentration. It is expressed in various postures known as Yoga. Later, Yoga spread to ancient China through religious propagation and social relations. Yoga has been transformed from a religious practice into a type of physical activity. Therefore, become a health culture in response to health problems from using the body in various forms. Nowadays, Yoga has become a new kind of health culture that is widely popular. Yoga has become such an important activity in China’s metropolitan fitness that it has become the new popular culture of the country, which is an important phenomenon of this research. The researcher wants to find answers to the phenomenon of Yoga as a new health culture in China today.

Materials and Methods: This is basic research using a qualitative research methodology. Data were collected in two ways, 1) document study about the history of Yoga and related socio-cultural contexts in both India and China, 2) fieldwork from the study of the phenomenon of Yoga studios in major cities in China, focusing on a case study at Lu Xi Yan”, Yoga Studio at Zhengzhou City. The main tools for data collection are questionnaires, interviews, and observational research frameworks. An essential piece of equipment is a still image recorder animation Voice and field notebook.

Results: Yoga’s phenomena as a new health culture in the process of popular culture in the large cities of China is in the process of China’s modernization. Yoga is integrated with the development of the city, and the rapid development of popular culture, with the urban public as the main body and the main consumption object, stimulating the consumption economy, and producing the unique female consumption economy for Yoga in China, and national fitness drives fitness Yoga, Yoga, as a space, presents a variety of lifestyles, no longer only popular sports for young people, but gradually approaches the middle-aged and elderly groups. People’s pursuit of health makes Yoga form a new healthy culture.

Conclusion: (1) Yoga is a body culture. It has been changing its meaning all the time. Since the beginning, the origin of Yoga has been associated with Hinduism, Brahmanism, and Buddhism from India. (2) Yoga has been adapting to a new set of social conditions that put Yoga in a new context, including the new health culture in the context of popular Culture in China. This research presents the flexibility of Yoga culture. (3) Understanding Yoga as a new health culture. Thus, showing the relationship between Indian and Chinese cultural societies in different contexts simultaneously.