Wake up（240）

 

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Accompanied by Wu Tianying, Chai Jianhua visited the "Tianying Martial Arts Hall" and had a conversation with Professor Zhan Lisong, the distinguished honorary principal of the martial arts hall. But Chai Jianhua seems not interested in the "cultural awareness" and "general education" mentioned by Professor Zhan Lisong. At least Wu Tianying sensed this from the change in Chai Jianhua's expression.

Therefore, Wu Tianying invited Chai Jianhua to the training ground of the martial arts gym. The trainees there are receiving training and education. The students, all dressed in black traditional martial arts attire, appear to be of various ages. There are young people, and there are juvenile dolls.

An instructor is demonstrating boxing routines. Its movements and forms are extremely brave and mighty, just like an eagle with an extraordinary demeanor, with sharp eyes and sharp claws, and iron wings pecking at it. Do not move. When it is fast, it is like a flying arrow leaving the string, and when it is steady, the green pines are facing the wind, flying fiercely and high, which is very distinctive, especially his pair of sharp eyes like a fierce eagle, which is really terrifying.

At this time, an old man in his 70s came towards Wu Tianying. Wu Tianying introduced to Chai Jianhua: This is Mr. Sheng Yaoqiang, who is the head coach of Yuejiaquan in our school.

Chai Jianhua shook hands with Sheng Yaoqiang to salute.

Sheng Yaoqiang said to Chai Jianhua: The students are practicing Eagle Claw Boxing, which is a traditional boxing technique. Eagle claw boxing mainly absorbs the characteristics of the eagle's shape, meaning and combat movements, and is a pictographic boxing.

Sheng Yaoqiang said: The legend of Eagle Claw Boxing was created by Yue Fei, a national hero who fought against Jin in the Song Dynasty. Over the long years, this boxing has been inherited and omitted, developed, and innovated, and it has been passed down from generation to generation. In the Ming Dynasty, the famous monk Li Quan, who was proficient in Fanzimen boxing, got the true instruction, and combined the two kinds of Yingzhao Fanzi boxing together to practice, and initially formed the "Eagle Claw Fanzi Boxing" routine. Since then, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and later passed on to Monk Facheng in the Qing Dynasty, and then Monk Facheng passed it on to Liu Shijun, the founder of Yingclaw Fanzi Boxing.

Speaking of Liu Shijun worshiping Master Facheng as his teacher, Sheng Yaoqiang told an interesting story.

Liu Shijun is from Xiong County, Hebei Province. When he was young, his family was poor and he made a living selling flue-cured tobacco, but he loved martial arts since childhood. One day he went out to sell cigarettes, and at night he stayed in a small inn to rest, and practiced in the yard alone late at night, but the sound of fists and feet disturbed the monk Facheng who lived in the same inn.

Monk Facheng waited for Liu Shijun to practice and said to him: "Young man, your kung fu is well practiced. It's good for strengthening your body, but it's not good if you want to defend yourself against the enemy!"

At this time, the young and energetic Liu Shijun was very uncomfortable after hearing this, his face showed warmth, and he became angry from embarrassment. He wanted to compare with Facheng on the spot, so the two competed in the courtyard. However, the aggressive Liu Shijun was eager to win. Although he attacked the bullfighting bullfight three times in a row, they were all easily resolved one by one by Facheng. Hold his wrist tightly with the "eagle claw" technique.

At this moment, Liu Shijun exerted all his strength, turning left and right, but he was still unable to break free. Facheng clicked on the acupuncture points on Liu's back again, and Liu Shijun immediately felt numb all over his body, and the pain was unbearable, and he fell to the ground.

At this time, Liu Shijun woke up like a dream, only then did he realize the superb martial arts skills of the monk Facheng, so he immediately bowed his head and worshiped him as his teacher. Monk Facheng gladly accepted Liu Shijun as his apprentice.

From then on, Liu Shijun practiced martial arts hard with Monk Facheng, and deeply understood the essence of Monk Facheng's boxing skills. The learning content mainly includes: Yue's Lianquan three-rifle gun, five-rifle gun, twining gun, string gun, kite gun, five-way big gun, etc.

Liu Shijun also learned the eagle claw grasping technique from monk Facheng's elder brother Daoji.

Three years later, Liu Shijun resigned from his teacher and wandered around the world, and spent his whole life studying boxing skills, passing on skills to apprentices, and was known as "Xiong County Liu" and "Eagle Claw King".

Liu Shijun later served as an instructor in the Shenji Battalion of the Qing Dynasty Escort Army in Beijing. Liu Shijun had many disciples in his life, and his nephew Liu Chengyou was the best among them. Later, Liu Chengyou passed it on to his nephew Chen Zizheng.

Chen Zizheng also taught disciples in Northeast China, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, which made Eagle Claw Boxing widely spread.

Not long after the establishment of the Shanghai Jingwu Sports Association in the last century, Chen Zizheng was invited to teach the art of the Jingwu Association, specializing in Eagle Claw Boxing. He is one of the "Four Famous Boxers" of Shanghai Jingwu Sports Association.

In the early years, Chen Zizheng and his disciples Chen Guoqing and Bao Xiyong taught the main routines of Eagle Claw Turning Zimen in Shanghai Jingwu Sports Association: Fifty-way Eagle Claw Lianquan, Twelve-way Xingquan, Arhat Boxing, Eight-step Hammer, Small Eight-Mian , Bamian Chui, Taizu Boxing, Eagle Claw Palm, Wuhua Pao, Yanxing Boxing, Xiaoxiong Boxing, Daxiong Boxing, Qianliushi, Drunken Eight Immortals, etc. Fifty-way Eagle Claw Lianquan and Twelve-way Xingquan are classic works of Eagle Claw Fanzimen.

The equipment routines taught by him include: diamond knife, diamond double knife, seedling knife, Liuhe knife, door breaking knife, plum blossom knife, dagger, Liuhe gun, plum blossom gun, door breaking gun, Arhat gun, big pole, plum blossom sword, Qingfeng Sword, Small Chain Sword, Big Chain Sword, Qimen Stick, Arhat Stick, Eyebrow Stick, Five Tiger Catch Sheep Stick, Tiger Head Double Hook.

The sparring routines taught include: one hundred and eight boxing sparring, one hundred and eight hand grappling, cotton palm fist sparring, single-knife into the gun, double-knife into the gun, big knife into the gun, kidnapper knife into the gun, three-section stick into the gun , tiger head hook into the gun, single-handed pair, double-handed pair, empty-handed dagger, etc.

Sheng Yaoqiang said to Chai Jianhua:

There are also many schools of Eagle Claw Fist in pictographic boxing, such as Eagle Claw Fist with a whole set of movements imitating the hand shape of Eagle Claw, Eagle Claw Fist with equal emphasis on wings and claws, and Rock Eagle Fist with undulating and high-spirited movements. These routines are generally composed of four techniques: flying, searching, catching, and striking.

Chai Jianhua looked at Sheng Yaoqiang who was not tall and asked curiously: "When did the master learn martial arts?"

Sheng Yaoqiang then told Chai Jianhua about his experience in the Cultural Revolution:

In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards also went to Hong Kong during the rebellion, arresting and denouncing the remnants of the Kuomintang and counter-revolutionaries from the Mainland who had fled to Hong Kong. When they found out that my father had joined the national army, they criticized my father, and I became a son of a bitch in Hong Kong. Some so-called revolutionary Hong Kong Red Guards often beat and used force against me. I tried my best to resist, but because of my small stature, I couldn't beat them. Once, they broke my arm and sat on the side of the road in pain. At this time, a middle-aged man came over and scared the little devils away.

But another strong man came over, and that man punched the middle-aged man. It was too late to say it, and then it was too fast, the middle-aged man jumped into the sky like a goshawk, then flew back and turned 360 degrees and kicked horizontally, only heard a puffing sound, when the man didn't react, what happened? What happened, he had already fallen to the ground upon hearing the sound, and his eyes were shining brightly. This clean and complete blow opened the eyes of the onlookers in amazement. It turned out that the flying kick that the middle-aged man hit just now was called "Teng Xuan Hou Cu". The strong man was overwhelmed by fright, and slipped away in embarrassment on the spot.

The middle-aged man came up to me, saw my injuries, and asked me: Why did those children beat you? I told him that my father had joined the national army, and I became a son of the Kuomintang. He asked me again, your arm was broken, why didn't you cry? I said, I never cry.

Without saying a word, the middle-aged man carried me to a nearby private clinic. He told me that I can find him in the future, his name is Zheng Darong.

A few days later, I found Zheng Darong on the martial arts training ground with my arm wrapped in bandages. I fell at his knees and became Zheng Darong's student.

Later, I learned that he had also joined the national army before, and had also served as a martial arts instructor in the army. Zheng Darong was once a disciple of Chen Zizheng. He told me the origin story of the Yingclaw School's Fanzimen Boxing. Legend has it that at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty in my country, Yue Fei, a famous anti-golden general, participated in Shaolin climbing methods and created the Yue Family Lianquan 108 moves, which is the current Fifty Route Lianquan. Yue Fei taught the Yue family army to practice to fight against the invasion of Jin soldiers. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese general, recorded the phrase "the eagle's claw king takes it" in "Ji Xiaoxin Shu", which shows that bottom claw climbing was already popular among the people at that time.

Zheng Darong often taught us students: Although martial arts is a fitness exercise, fitness should be backed by "fighting", and "fighting" should be aimed at fitness; "fighting" without purpose and fitness without "fighting" as the backing It is difficult to survive and flourish. The two should complement each other. I always keep in mind the words of the master: the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and the edge of a sword comes from sharpening.

I graduated from high school in a blink of an eye. There is no martial arts university in Hong Kong, so I applied for the physical education department of a university in Taiwan. Later, I heard that the Hong Kong government did not recognize Taiwan's diploma, so I had to give up. Then I applied for the Hong Kong Police Academy and passed all the exams. In particular, my martial arts was praised by the examiners, but I was rejected because I was not tall enough to be 1.6 meters tall. An official said to me: "You can be a policeman, but you can't be a police officer. The police officers of the British government must show their talents." The police officer's words deeply hurt my heart.

That was 1970. I just turned 20. My parents originally expected me to give up my martial arts and start a business and help them manage restaurants. I have no interest in doing business at all, and I often use my spare time to teach martial arts in Catholic Church, Chinese Association and other places. Later, I met Mr. Wu Tianying, and applied for a job as a martial arts coach in the "Tianying Martial Arts Hall".

Chai Jianhua looked at Sheng Yaoqiang in front of him. This old man in his seventies was not tall, but he suddenly became taller in his mind.