Chapter 40: The Family Forces Behind Bruce Lee

This behavior regained the attention of the Ye family in G Province, and "Wing Chun" officially recovered.

People suddenly found that film and television dramas and books about "Wing Chun" suddenly appeared on the market on a large scale.

Mr. Ye Xianhua received an interview invitation, and it also came like a tide.

The content of the previous interview is nothing more than what happened between Ip Man and Bruce Lee, especially about whether the anecdote of "traditional armed families are enthusiastic about Bruce Lee" is correct and what kind of gossip is behind it.

In this regard, Ye Xianhua will always seriously tell the media that in the seventies and eighties, when information was not developed, the recruitment situation of traditional armed families was difficult and abnormal.

Well, it's only natural to launch a spokesperson.

Whether it's true or not, there's no need to dig deeper.

Because there is no point.

Just like in the film market, there are commercial films and art films.

If you don't hold the standards of art films and ask for commercial films, you are undoubtedly looking for guilt and asking for hardships.

Every industry, in every era, has its own uniqueness.

Although this uniqueness does not encapsulate the characteristics of the era in which the industry lived, it at least reflects some of the characteristics of the times.

Just like you media friends always want to dig deep into the story behind Bruce Lee, but in fact, in the martial arts industry, Bruce Lee is not researchable.

In addition to satisfying the gossip of human beings, Mr. Bruce Lee is no longer the image of a great martial artist in people's hearts, but the image of a "martial arts superstar".

This is undoubtedly regrettable.

May I ask, should you media friends also bear part of the responsibility?

You will surely say that this is the creation of the times.

Okay, I admit that it was created by the times, but you media friends should also admit that all kinds of anecdotes about traditional armed forces families are also created by the times.

In the ancient land of China, there was the so-called "chivalry is forbidden by force".

This is the statement of Han Feizi, a Korean nobleman, and it is a shallow understanding of the social structure from the perspective of the ruling class.

However, does the fact that this kind of recognition can be recognized in large numbers already shows that the existence of traditional armed families poses a certain threat to the ancient Chinese rulers?

Of course, I'm not saying that the ancient armed families would take the initiative to disrupt the social order.

It's just that the popularity of this argument makes it hard to believe that there is no ruling class to help the flames.

Why, then, did the ancient Chinese rulers dislike the Martial Families?

It's because these people have mastered the art of killing their enemies.

You must know that hand-to-hand combat was a normal and frequent occurrence on the battlefield in ancient times, which means that whoever has mastered the skills of killing the enemy will master a certain degree of "means of production" on the battlefield.

Your friends in the media will surely say that it is not those great military strategists who control the "means of production" on the battlefield?

This is mutually reinforcing.

Without a strategist to come up with a strategy, the army will inevitably have no direction, but without a person who actually executes it, the great strategists will not be able to achieve fame.

The so-called "one will make ten thousand bones dry" comes from this.

However, the rulers of ancient China found that there was a group of people who taught and trained ordinary people to master the art of killing.

This is the so-called "chivalry" in Han Feizi's mouth.

They will inevitably stifle this group, and if they can't, they will stigmatize it as much as possible.

For example, this group will be named "bandits", "gangsters", "green forests", "villages", and so on, forming a number of words that are basically equal to inferior, so that ordinary people will fear and dislike this group, and finally stay away from it.

But can you say that this is the wrong behavior? From the point of view of social stability, this is undoubtedly the right thing to do.

This is the characteristic of the era in which I mentioned above, and there will always be some characteristics of the times.

So, why has the reputation of "chivalry" gradually improved among the people?

It is also related to the ancient Chinese rulers.

When a dynasty has great financial pressure, power vacuum, and the phenomenon of loss of control at the bottom, the dynasty will "age", and the sign of the "aging" of the dynasty is the emergence of rebel armies.

In other words, after the old ancient Chinese rulers squandered the accumulation of their ancestors, the new rulers no longer cared about the suffering of the people, and there would be a situation of corpse vegetarian meals.

When we look at the history books, there are the so-called "civil official clique", "eunuch clique", "dictatorship of foreign relatives", "curtain listening to politics", and so on.

But no matter how the name changes or who forms the group, what these groups do is nothing more than two things, one is power, and the other is money.

Based on this, there is a top-down chain of corruption.

This has led to the misery of the people.

Because grassroots officials want to get in touch with the upper echelons and travel extensively, they will inevitably have to pay a considerable amount of money.

But these amounts are equivalent to dozens of times their salary, what should I do?

Then you can only exploit the masses at the bottom and loot the people's fat and cream.

There is the hyped "prosperous era of Kangqian" in the Qing Dynasty, but in fact it is just a return to the light before the collapse of the empire.

In this so-called "prosperous era", a large number of corrupt officials appeared.

This led to a result, that is, the people of the Qing Dynasty would have a great sense of association and identity with "chivalry and martial arts".

Therefore, "chivalry" is no longer a terrifying image, but a great hero who saves the people from fire and water.

These are all historical conditions, and freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

It's okay for you media friends to dig deep into the "traditional armed family forces behind Bruce Lee", because the media has the right to supervise and report.

But don't be too alarmist.

If it is true, it is just one of the acts created by the times, and it is really not a big conspiracy.

Just like Mr. Jin Yong in Hong Kong who writes martial arts, he is no longer like Luo Guanzhong, Wu Chengen and others in ancient times who wrote "chivalry", no longer a hero in the green forest, a hundred and eight generals in Wagangzhai, no longer involving the level of war, but more concerned about personal growth.

The definition given by Mr. Jin Yong is "the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people".

That is to say, a person who has the courage to sacrifice his personal life and even his life for the sake of the country and the nation is a "chivalrous", and it has nothing to do with the "breaking the ban" mentioned by Han Feizi, and it has nothing to do with whether he has kung fu or not.

What does this mean?

It shows that with the advancement of the times, writers, artists, and the general public have a more advanced understanding of the traditional armed families.

Those of us who know kung fu are just a group of ordinary people, just because we know how to embroider some fists and legs, respond to the call of the country, and strive to be a "chivalrous man" for the country and the people is very content.

However, compared with grassroots officers and soldiers, commanders and fighters, firefighters, and border guards, our contribution to the country and the people is not as good as theirs.

Therefore, you media friends asked me to discuss the limitations of the times, to discuss "behind Bruce Lee is the entire traditional armed family", I think, with my limited level of knowledge and social cognition, I am not qualified to discuss this topic.

Therefore, I hope that you media friends can pay more attention to the lives of ordinary people and stay away from the trap of entertainment to death.

Ye Xianhua said it well, and the interviewer was speechless, so he had to leave the scene in disappointment.