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Chapter 172: A Visit from the American Guest

While Tagawa was practicing his swords at home alone, time passed quietly, and the day had come for the Los Angeles Mixed Martial Arts Association to visit the capital.

On behalf of the Taijiquan Sports Committee, Tian Chuan and Liu Meiting went to the airport to greet Michelle and his party. At the exit of Beijing Airport, Tian Chuan and Liu Meiting, who had been waiting for a long time, finally saw a team of more than ten foreigners walking out under the leadership of Michelle.

Tian Chuan hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Dear Michelle, I haven't seen you for a few months, you are more beautiful." ”

Michelle complained to Tian Chuan: "Tian, since you left Los Angeles, you have rarely contacted me, and I thought you had forgotten about me. ”

After a polite hug, the two introduced their companions to each other. The U.S. delegation made up nine members, including Michelle, all members of the MMA Association. Michelle communicated with Tian Chuan on the phone in advance, and some of these people were really interested in Tai Chi and participated, while others were not interested in the Chinese kung fu that Michelle was trying to promote, and came to kick the field.

Tagawa didn't care about this, his idea was simple, Tai Chi Tui Tui should be developed, not only to learn from other martial arts and improve them, but also to fight back against various provocateurs, so as to build confidence and show muscles.

After the greetings, Tian Chuan led everyone to get on a minibus and drove towards the city.

I went to the hotel that Tagawa had booked for the American guests, registered the rooms for everyone, and then invited the guests to go back to their rooms for a brief rest, and then have a welcome dinner.

The dinner was held in the hotel's small Chinese restaurant, which was in the form of Chinese food. The accompanying personnel included all the Chinese representatives who participated in the competition, headed by Master Liu Mingtang, the executive director of the Taijiquan Sports Committee and the head of Yang-style Taijiquan.

None of the visiting US personnel spoke Chinese, and on the Chinese side, only Tian Chuan and Liu Meiting could speak English fluently. For the convenience of communication, Tagawa specially invited several translators. Most of these translators are personnel from the sports university introduced by the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, and they have a good grasp of professional vocabulary in sports, so it is relatively convenient to translate. pretending to be public and private, Tian Chuan brought his girlfriend Xu Jingyi here. Xu Jingyi's English has been improving during this time, and her level has improved a lot compared to when she first went to the United States, especially in terms of vocabulary, she is even more knowledgeable and memorized, and her translation is not worse than that of those sports colleges.

Those Americans are a little uncomfortable with Chinese food, but there is not too much inconvenience, and it is generally acceptable. As for why he served them with Chinese food, Tagawa said: "Since we have come to China, of course we have to entertain you in our own way, which is the hospitality of our country." ”

At the banquet, everyone didn't talk about the upcoming fighting match, just chatted casually and talked about the customs of both sides. Tagawa is a lively character, and he constantly enlivens the atmosphere at the banquet, and those Americans are also relatively casual, without the restraint of ordinary people, and soon, everyone is familiar with it.

The banquet did not last too long, and it dispersed at nine o'clock in the evening. The Americans had just arrived in China, and they had to suffer from jet lag, and in the latter part of the banquet, some people were already yawning. After the dinner, Tian Chuan and Michelle made an appointment to meet tomorrow morning to discuss the specific itinerary, and then said goodbye to her and went home.

The next day, Tagawa came to the hotel and met Michelle. Everyone agreed to invite the U.S. team to move freely for one day today, adapt to the venue tomorrow, and determine the rules of the game, and compete the day after tomorrow. Then you can move around freely. As for whether Tian Chuan wanted to arrange a tour for them, Tian Chuan asked Michelle to ask everyone on his behalf, and if necessary, Tian Chuan could spend two days and take them to visit the beautiful scenery of the capital.

Michelle said: "Before we came, we had already discussed, and after the competition, everyone was free to move around. This delegation is not an official organization, there is no regulation on the itinerary, and everyone will arrange their own return to China after the competition. But you promised to take me on a tour of the capital, but you can't break your promise. ”

Tian Chuan smiled: "Don't worry, I have already obtained my girlfriend's consent, and I will accompany you in the next few days, she will not be jealous." ”

After the joke, at Michelle's request, Tian Chuan first took her to Agricultural University, where she visited the place where she exercised every day, as well as the Tai Chi Association that she organized to teach boxing.

Here at the association, she saw the members practicing Tai Chi Tui, and also saw the books and video materials that Tagawa prepared for the members. and photos and videos of the games at the Games. As a professional, she can certainly see that the actual combat level of the members of the association is not high, but this practice method of Tai Chi has opened her eyes.

When there are hundreds of people learning boxing together at the same time, everyone can find a suitable practice object, although not everyone is present, but whenever you want to practice boxing, there will always be someone there, such a practice environment, for practitioners, is the most conducive to progress. She finally understood the meaning of Tagawa asking her not to practice alone, but to organize a group and practice boxing together.

The only thing that made her unsatisfactory was that many Tai Chi materials and books had not yet been translated into English, and she could not understand the Chinese materials at all. Tagawa is also distressed by this, there are too few people who can translate, and a large number of terms are difficult for Chinese who are not in the Taijiquan world to understand, let alone translate. His own time is limited, and now he is the only one who can help him do some translation work. There are too few people in the Tai Chi world who are familiar with English, although Liu Meiting's English is good, but she can only do it after understanding these professional words, and she has no intention of doing it at all.

Tian Chuan found some people in the Taijiquan Association to learn this work, but among the people who went to the Agricultural University, there were not many people who could speak English clearly.

So until now, he is still alone and slowly gnawing on these materials with the help of Xu Jingyi.

He once thought that if he could promote the Tai Chi Association to some of the top universities, there would be much more English talents. It's just that this thing needs a process, and it can't be done in a short time. Now, he has been approached by Sports University, Huaqing University, Aviation University and other schools to help them set up associations and teach boxing, but Tian Chuan has limited energy, but he still promised them to take the time to go over to guide them, and gave them a detailed introduction to the professional organization of the Taijiquan Sports Committee. According to his assumption, there will always be a few people who practice Tai Chi well in these universities, and it should not be too difficult to organize an association. He was a little frustrated, if he had been able to get in touch with the Tai Chi masters of those first-class universities earlier, the job of this translator would have been much easier.

In this case, he could only say to Michelle: "These Taijiquan theories are too professional, and few of our Taijiquan masters here understand English, and at present, only Xu Jingyi and I are doing the translation work, and the progress will definitely be much slower." Now we are developing the Tai Chi Tui Hand movement in several first-class universities in Beijing, and after a while, more people will be able to participate in the translation, and the overall progress will be faster. These translations involve a lot of professional vocabulary, which do not have a fixed translation at present, and need to be determined and unified at the time of initial translation, and this process cannot be quickly achieved by a large number of people. ”

"Xu Jingyi and I are translating at the same time, and we are also compiling a professional glossary, and only by determining the professional glossary and making some translation samples can others complete the translation work according to these basic requirements. In fact, in the United States, there should be some Chinese immigrants in the Taijiquan world, but they basically do not teach Taijiquan to outsiders, and it has been circulating among Chinese Americans, and these professional words are still taught in Chinese, and there is no fixed English word, otherwise my translation work here will be much simpler. ”

Michelle said, "I'm sorry, I don't know about your difficulties here. I would like to ask, can I stay in China and learn Tai Chi from you? I can also learn Chinese here and help you do translation work in the future. ”

Tian Chuan was a little surprised, he didn't expect Michelle to have the idea of staying in China to learn Taijiquan. asked: "Staying here to learn boxing, did you think about it a long time ago, or did it happen on the spot?"

"I've been thinking about it for a long time. It's so hard to learn by email and phone now, and I feel like I've made very little progress in the past few months, and it's hard to find the sense of listening. It is precisely because of the lack of progress that those guys in the association have lost confidence in what I said about Taijiquan, and this time I came to China for exchanges, and everyone also wanted to prove the real combat effectiveness of Taijiquan. ”

Tian Chuan understood Michelle's thoughts, and he didn't realize the problem of learning boxing from a distance in advance, it seems that the master is the right way to teach boxing in person. After all, there are still too few people like themselves who should be able to practice their ability to listen through self-study of basic knowledge. It's time to find a viable way for Michelle to learn boxing.

After further communication, Tian Chuan learned that Michelle was going to stay in the capital to learn boxing this time, not for a long time, but after studying for a while, she would go back for a while, and while learning boxing here, she also took care of her work in Los Angeles and the affairs of the MMA over there, and also took care of the progress of a group of Tai Chi practitioners who had just started in Los Angeles.

Michelle's job in Los Angeles is as a coach at a mixed martial arts club, where some women are self-defense, and a part-time job as a martial arts instructor for a security company's security staff. Her working hours are more flexible, she doesn't have to sit on shifts, and the coach's time can also be more free, so she can often spare more than ten days to come to Beijing to learn Taijiquan.