Now we should talk about cultural self-confidence and read materials. Cultural self-confidence is "firm confidence in the vitality of its culture."
China has a history of 5,000 years. The Yangtze River has a turbulent culture, and its vitality is naturally not weak. The main trunk has not stopped flowing even after ten years of severe drought, not to mention the thousands of tributaries. Each one is not only full of vitality but also muddy and sandy, and has been rushing to the sea of world civilization with the torrent of history.
This Chinese martial arts culture is one of them, and even the length of this branch surpasses the mainstream, and the source directly penetrates the Tanggula Glacier. According to data, Chinese martial arts originated in the Stone Age. Fighting has been summed up for thousands of years. Although it is not known whether the Baguazhang and Xingyiquan originate from Hemudu or Zhoukoudian, the word martial arts is recorded for the first time in the Southern Dynasty Liang Zhaoming Prince Xiao Tong's "Selected Works" in Volume 20, "Crown Prince Shizunhui wrote a poem" ", it is recorded in the volume: "Yanshu Wushu, Zhayang Wenling." Wushu here refers to military fighting skills, and the killing skills are summarized as a routine to train the army, and the natural combat power is doubled. Therefore, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Da Liao peeped at my Central Plains magic and sent masters to steal my Chinese boxing manuals. The rumors were true, and Da Song martial arts naturally had to be prepared. The Xiao Yuanshan family is another story.
In fact, there are real sects everywhere, and there are many masters. The explosion of Chinese martial arts was in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At the end of the 19th century, foreign powers bullied, and there were endless contracts to lose power and humiliate the country. In the face of national disaster, every man is responsible, and there is no reason why folk martial arts masters should not stand up. The sky thundered, the land collapsed and the ground split, the senior brother raised his arms and shouted, "Help the Qing and destroy the ocean!", the second senior brother, the third senior brother, the fourth senior brother and the fifth senior brother responded, and the Boxer Reunion was formed. After slaughtering a group of churchmen and killing a few priests, the boxers met a foreign monster with Mark Qin. Facing the burning barrel and a group of fallen brothers, the big brother thought that this must be a foreigner. Sorcery, yes, sorcery is self-sufficient, so he put on a spell and recited Dan language and rushed to the enemy line, making a heroic sacrifice.
According to Li Hongzhang and Li Zhongtang, modern China has encountered "great changes unseen in a thousand years". The Western powers invaded China by relying on their strong ships and cannons. National self-confidence has been destroyed like never before. The revitalization of China depends on the Qing government. There is no hope. It can only rely on itself. Wushu, a young tree rooted in the soil of the people, has sprung up. Where do you mean to shoot which Mauser gun, I have a diamond that is not broken. blouse. The prosperity of martial arts just made up for the inferiority of the people in the late Qing Dynasty towards foreign military force.
After the fall of the Qing government, a new regime was established. In the early years of the Republic of China, China's weak external position had not fundamentally changed. The Paris Peace signing was not good, intellectuals and students could naturally have the May Fourth Movement, and Wang Wu, who was stuck farming in his hometown, could only pin his hopes on Chinese martial arts. The folk martial arts are well done. The government of the Republic of China saw it and saw that it was just right. The morale of the people is available, and martial arts can also strengthen the body. Everyone, come on. In 1911, a "Martial Arts Mission" appeared in Qingdao. In 1919, the Shandong education community established the "Martial Arts Institute". In April 1923, Shanghai held the "National Wushu Sports Conference".
At this stage, martial arts culture still continues the mission of boosting national self-confidence. Tabloids of punching Russian wrestlers and kicking British and American boxing champions are all over the sky. Intellectuals also participated in martial arts disputes. Chang Jiemiao wrote "Yongzheng Swordsman Picture". Wang Dulu wrote "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and the owner of Pearl also narrated "The Legend of Shushan" by smoking a big cigarette. In 1928, Zhang Shichuan, the affected director, made a milestone in the history of Chinese film "Burning the Red Lotus Temple". The technology was not enough to advance the concept. In the film, the flying sword with tracking effect appeared across the ages, which was not earlier than the V2 missile developed by the Third Reich. Knowing where it went, the Fuhrer looked ashamed, and von Braun wept.
Both style and style are blooming, both hands must be grasped, and both hands must be hard. In the 1920s and 1930s, China's national martial arts culture reached its peak. As for the liberation, it is another story.
Martial arts culture continued to blossom in Hong Kong in the 1940s, and martial arts gradually became martial arts. The culture of martial arts has changed from a kind of kung fu to a school of boxing, and it has fallen to the individual. Only a person can be a chivalrous person, and only a knight with martial arts can be a knight. The two most dazzling stars of martial arts culture in the 1950s were Jin Yong who wrote novels and Guan Dexing who played Huang Feihong. At that time, the prosperity of Hong Kong's "Once Upon a Time" became a trend. As long as Huang Feihong appeared in the cinema, the venue was full. With the box office, the producer naturally pursued the victory. The old man Guan was also half a martial artist back then, with a strong body. In one shot, 87 "Once Upon a Time" were filmed. In 87 movies, the old man was invincible all over the world, and the corrupt officials, green forests, and gangsters were all wiped out. Just when Senior Huang was standing in the forest of invincibility and was about to step back to the second line, director Hu Peng arranged for him a new opponent, the King of the Orangutans from Skull Island in Sumatra.
In the 1960s and 1970s, martial arts movies entered the hands of literati, and the most successful one was Hu Jinquan, the director of "The Heroine". Hu Jinquan was born in Peiping in the 1930s and moved to Hong Kong in 1949. In the mainland historical circles, the style of studying the history of the Ming Dynasty was quite popular. Influenced by the style of study, Hu Daoming's research on the history of Hu Daoming made some achievements. The story of "The Heroine" is based on Pu Songlin's "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai" short story of the same name, and the background is changed. An in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party Yang Lian case.
Director Hu's personal accomplishment is not only in history, but also in his personal aesthetic accomplishment. The beauty of Chinese literati's blank space in "The Heroine" is readily available.
The meaning of landscape can be seen everywhere.
The portrait drawn by the protagonist Gu Sheng for the Dongchang spy is also the work of Hu Jinquan himself.
Not as exaggerated as the action scenes of the previous martial arts movies, the martial arts scenes directed by Hu Jinquan are realistic and sharp, leaving aside the influence of the Japanese samurai movies that swept the world at that time, the reeds fight with swords, and the good and evil groups fight in the bamboo forest. With traditional Chinese aesthetics.
The weapon setting is also quite attentive. The chivalrous girl Miss Yang is a short knife. The movements are mainly blocking, wiping, and stabbing, and it is elegant and feminine. Xu Xianchun, the Minister of Fu of Dongchang Town, used dragon claw hands. The movements are mainly grasping, pulling, and holding, which are vicious and vicious. The monk's weapon is a roll of hemp rope, which is mainly wrapped, wrapped, and pulled, and is compassionate to persuade people to turn back. . In addition, the props and scenery are also very elegant, ranging from market stalls to sculpture pavilions.
With the history of the Ming Dynasty in mind, Hu Jinquan naturally did not have to go to the other side of the ocean like Hu Peng to borrow King Kong to fight the protagonist.
In 1970, Hu Jinquan won the top three Chinese martial arts films in Europe so far, the Cannes Film Festival Technology Award. Since then, Chinese martial arts films have never made breakthroughs in the three major European film festivals.
Then Hu Jinquan was disheartened after filming the loss-making masterpiece "Empty Mountain Lingyu" and retired to the world. It was not until the last few years of his life that Xu Hark, the representative director of the new martial arts, found Hu Jinquan and wanted to co-produce "Swordsman", and the old man came out again. As a result, the world of martial arts was no longer his own.
At that time, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States ended, the Iraq War started, and American fighter planes ran rampant in the world, announcing the arrival of the new king to the whole world, and Hollywood movies hit the world. "Jurassic Park" and "True Lies" made Asian movies vomit blood, hard Qiao Hard Ma's films can no longer satisfy the audience, and the war signals broadcast live on TV also make us tremble in our hearts from thousands of miles away. Foreign countries have planes and cannons, and we have magic swords. Lin Qingxia's Tianmoqin in "Six Fingers Demon" became an induction mine detonator. In "New Jade Blood Sword", Li Xiuxian's golden snake sword became a tracking missile when it was split. In "New Shaolin Five Ancestors", Ma Ninger was more funny and opened it directly. The most exaggerated one is Tsui Hark's own "Shu Mountain". When a group of swordsmen are dispatched, they will attack in a group of fighter jets. The floating island is also like the planetary battleship Hyperion.
After all this farce is over, Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will look back, and the golden period of Chinese martial arts movies and even martial arts culture will come to an end.
A few years ago, amateur fighter Xu Xiaodong boxed Tai Chi and kicked Wing Chun, which was a fig leaf for Chuan Wu.
Last year, the fourth film of "Ip Man", the last glorious martial arts movie, finished the filming. After a circle of foreigners, the old man Ye finally stopped, which can be regarded as a way to live for the Baltan star who is far away in the M78 nebula. Now that my country's economy is taking off, its international status is soaring, and there is money to protect one's body. Naturally, there is no need for magical powers. I am afraid that there will be no more martial arts movies on the top ten list at the box office at the end of this year.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Du Xinwu, a former bodyguard of Sun Yat-sen, lived in Yuqian Hutong in Beijing when he was in his 60s. After the fall of Peiping, I saw with my own eyes three Chinese children were killed by Japanese tanks. They turned their backs and hugged their heads and cried. What was wrapped in his tears, people in the past do not understand, do people now understand?
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