Then one day, we started to learn push hands. The coach let us feel it in pairs. After a while, the person opposite me is the founder of our Tai Chi club, "Brother Jun". After a few pushes, Jun brother saw that I was missing the point and started to remind me. Only from him did I know that pushing hands is to practice feeling the strength and direction of the opponent, and to feel the strength and direction of the opponent, we can use force to fight and move a thousand pounds. And stand on the pile and turn yourself into a ball, you can stably center it, and the opponent's strength can be invisible. Later, he talked about the scene when he went to Chenjiagou in Henan to learn boxing during his student days, and was knocked down by a Taijiquan master with various techniques during practice. When we go back to the routine, we will feel that the posture is much more coordinated.
"Nowadays, Tai Chi competitions are all about routines, and their movements are better than others. In fact, Tai Chi is used for actual combat. It would be a pity to continue playing like this." He looked worried.
I don't quite understand his concerns, but I always think he's right. When I got home, I googled "Tai Chi actual combat" and found a new world about Tai Chi opened up for me. I learned that Taijiquan should not have been created by Zhang Sanfeng, which are the strongest in contemporary Taijiquan, and that Chenjiagou has four great kings of martial arts. One of the Four Heavenly Kings, Master Wang Xi'an, his second son, Wang Zhanjun, has been a victorious general for more than ten years. But it is still unclear whether the Wudang faction and the Wudang Sanfeng faction are the same thing.
In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, in that era when many heroes were rising together and the situation was changing, the martial arts schools such as Taijiquan, Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, and Wingchun were pushed to a very high position. Wushu is called "national art". In 1933, Mr. Zhang Zhijiang founded the Central Martial Arts Museum. Sun Lutang, a famous martial artist, taught Xingyiquan, Yang Chengfu taught Yang-style Taijiquan, Gong Runtian taught Wu-style Taijiquan, Chen Zirong taught Chen-style Taijiquan, and Wu Junshan and Sun Yukun taught Baguazhang and grabbing. . . It is worth mentioning that Sun Lutang is a figure like Taishan Beidou, who is familiar with Taijiquan, Baguazhang, Xingyiquan, and the founder of Sun Style Taijiquan, while Yang Chengfu's grandfather is the famous Yang Luchan----Yang Style. Founder of Tai Chi. One can imagine how lofty and popular Wushu was in those days. For example, Premier Zhou Enlai was a politician with martial arts accomplishments. His teacher is Mr. Han Muxia. And Mr. Han ranked among the top ten masters in the late Qing Dynasty. The ten masters are Dong Haichuan, Da Dao Wang Wu, Huang Feihong, Huo Yuanjia, Wang Ziping, Du Xinwu, Han Muxia, Yanzi Li San, Sun Lutang, and Guo Yunshen. Seeing these names, I think everyone can think of something.
Later, with the change of time and the vicissitudes of personnel, martial arts was banned in the mainland and gradually became weak. Taijiquan became Taijiquan before it became popular for a while in the 1990s. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, martial arts has become a kung fu in film and television. Liu Jialiang's father, Mr. Liu Zhan, was an apprentice of Huang Feihong's apprentice "Pork Rong" Lin Shirong, who belonged to the authentic Hongquan. Guan Dexing, Bruce Lee, Yuan Kui, Yuan Biao, Yuan Heping, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen, these well-known kung fu stars and martial arts instructors, also have their own inheritance, and they continue the spirit of martial arts in the film. So at the end of "One Man's Martial Arts", we saw Donnie Yen pay tribute to these seniors with a lot of pictures of martial arts instructors, martial arts directors and filmmakers. Very touching.
In fact, I have always been a relatively pessimistic person. When I wrote this article, what I wanted to say was: in this era, Chinese martial arts has been shaped into a kind of literature and art for viewing. Concerns about the current state of martial arts. The dead martial arts, in fact, behind the dead culture. In my generation, it can be said that most people do not understand classical Chinese, nor do they understand the profound artistic conception of yin and yang changes behind Tai Chi, and they do not understand the philosophical principles behind Bagua Zhang. We eagerly learn English and various advanced science and management methods passed down from abroad, but we have forgotten those beautiful and incomparably charming things handed down from our ancestors. But then again, the Chinese have used it for more than a hundred years to develop from a weak state to the current national strength, which is a great achievement. Whether it is to forget the tradition or to catch up, it may take another hundred years to make an evaluation.
As a Chinese, what I can do is to learn Tai Chi by myself, and teach my daughter to learn calligraphy in the future, so as to inherit and continue Chinese culture, and feel the beauty of Chinese culture in this inheritance.
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