Chapter 25: The Birth of the Grandmaster
Zhang Lao's guidance and explanation are equivalent to telling him the general direction clearly, and after knowing the general direction, if he can't summarize the purpose and essentials of Taijiquan, then Xu Guangling's reading comprehension in junior high and high school is in vain, and all his Chinese teachers have reason to despise him. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
But there are also high and low summaries.
The minimum is passing, this level Xu Guangling can reach at the moment; a little higher is good, with a lot of books read in the past, absorbing a lot of miscellaneous knowledge, Xu Guangling a little "the stone of other mountains, can attack jade", it should not be difficult to get a good summary; good and then up, is excellent, and excellent and then up, is perfect or close to perfect.
It's just a passing grade, which is unacceptable to Xu Guangling, but it's just good, and Xu Guangling is also difficult to accept.
Just like when he followed his mother to learn lyrics and composition, many of Xu Guangling's lyrics and music works can get a passing grade or even a relatively good score, if they are voted out, even if they don't rely on their mother's fame and channels, they should be able to get a lot of adoption rate, but none of those works, Xu Guangling has not voted out.
But the preservation has been preserved, and it can be regarded as a memorial of the process of learning and creating all the way, and later, after that incident, those drafts are a kind of remembrance of his mother for Xu Guangling. -- There were a lot of mother's revisions and annotations on those manuscripts.
In fact, this latter is the main reason why Xu Guangling preserved those manuscript papers or lyrics and songs, and if there is no reason for this, it is unknown whether Xu Guangling will destroy those works.
What Xu Guangling can accept should at least be excellent, and his actual self-expectation is actually above excellence. ――
Perfect, or close to perfect.
At this time, Zhang Lao's examination school is just an inconsequential matter, but Xu Guangling himself has obsessive-compulsive disorder, he can accept that he doesn't take the test or even give up, but he can't accept that after he takes the test, he only gets a good one, and even more, just passes!
However, how to sum it up, is it possible to get an excellent or even perfect score from an old man who has been playing Tai Chi for I don't know how many years he has been playing Tai Chi with "his body is as strong as loose, his breath is as heavy as a bell, and his spirit is like a dragon"?
is as healthy as a loose body or something, although there is a slight suspicion of flattery, especially the last sentence "God moves like a dragon", there is no real evidence at all, but Xu Guangling is really not talking nonsense with his eyes open, he will never be able to do that kind of thing, Zhang Lao, really gave Xu Guangling such a feeling.
Of course, in fact, there is still a little bit of a rise, but in general this is negligible.
Such an old man, no matter how gentle he is, no matter how smiling he is, his requirements for "serious things" must be quite high. The reason is very simple, a casual person, a casual person in serious matters, can never have such a bearing as "healthy as loose, calm as a bell, and moving as a dragon".
It's that simple!
Therefore, Xu Guangling did not answer rashly, but said to Zhang Lao: "Zhang Lao, please allow me to think about it a little. ”
Zhang Lao didn't look back, just hummed softly in front of him.
Next, I saw an old man and a young man walking on the path in the park, and the old man in front occasionally nodded or something with some people walking by from the opposite side and nearby, but there was little verbal conversation, I don't know if the morning exercisers here are more just nodding friends or Zhang Lao himself is not very enthusiastic.
Xu Guangling naturally turned a blind eye to these, his attention at this time was mostly immersed in the understanding of Tai Chi, even the forward movement of the feet was probably mechanical, if there was a tree in front of the trail, then Xu Guangling was quite likely to have a close contact with this tree.
The essence of exercise is to dredge and activate the qi and blood in the body.
However, exercise will also speed up the body's metabolism and cause a slight negative impact on the body, although it is only a little, but it is not a problem that can be ignored over time, year after year. Therefore, exercising too vigorously is the most undesirable, like chronic suicide.
For example, some athletes with high exercise intensity, because they often make the body's metabolism faster, may rarely get sick, and the body is relatively "healthy", but compared to ordinary people, they are also more prone to aging.
So the conclusion is:
For the sake of health, exercise should be done. People who do not move and move less are prone to problems inside the body, and they are problems that accumulate over time, from small problems to small flaws that cannot even be called small problems.
In order to live a long life, the nature and type of exercise should be screened.
Labor is a sport, but the vast majority of labor is an inferior sport.
Running is a kind of exercise, but this way of passively dredging the qi and blood in the body by "colliding" the body with the earth, even if it is not bad, it is definitely not brilliant, and its effect or grade is far below swimming.
Swimming, activity in water at room temperature, the effect is worse than in cold water and hot water, because whether it is cold water or hot water, it will make the qi and blood in the body produce a kind of stress circulation, so take a cold shower, or soak in a hot bath, hot spring or steam, its fitness effect is obviously stronger than simple swimming.
Labor < running< swimming< hot spring baths.
That's it in a nutshell.
This is a relatively obvious distinction between advantages and disadvantages, and there are many other various sports, such as playing ball, dancing, yoga, aerobics, etc., which are relatively difficult to distinguish and need to be further screened.
Taijiquan, since Zhang Lao said that it was created by ancient health practitioners, and it has always been valued by people, it must have done a good job in two aspects:
First, the effect of dredging qi and blood in the body is very good.
Second, the cause of wear and tear on the body is very small.
Combined with yesterday's and previous boxing experience, Xu Guangling's preliminary summary is:
Tai Chi is a kind of "immovable" movement, which causes the imbalance of the body or the deflection of the center of gravity through some simple and effective movements of the limbs, and then the body is in this imbalance and deflection of the center of gravity, instinctively produces the internal qi and blood surge and circulation, and at this time it is artificially supplemented by the corresponding movement to conform, guide and strengthen this surge and circulation, so as to achieve the maximum degree of internal dredging of the body with the smallest external limb movement, which is the core essence of Taijiquan!
Intuition told Xu Guangling that his summary should have grasped the purpose and fundamental context of Taijiquan, and all other details and exquisiteness should be in this!
Confucius has a saying, "If you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die at night!" Why is there such a saying? It is probably the acquisition of knowledge and sudden comprehension that can make people feel a kind of instinctive happiness.
Xu Guangling was like this at this time, when the purpose and fundamental context of Taijiquan were clearly sorted out by him, his comprehension of Taijiquan suddenly rose more than one level. If yesterday, he got the frame of Taijiquan, and before, he got the calmness of Taijiquan, then now, he has passed through the frame, through the calmness, and has obtained the root and essence of Taijiquan.
The three-step jump during this period has improved quite a lot, so big that Xu Guangling himself is so happy that he is pleasantly surprised.
But of course, the surprise wasn't enough to make him lose his temper.
Xu Guangling just said softly to Zhang Lao's figure: "Zhang Lao, I understand the purpose of Taijiquan. ”
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