Yang Yang took the practice of Xingyiquan seriously, and since his father was discharged from the hospital, he began to pester his father to learn Xingyiquan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info To say that practicing martial arts should have a lot of benefits, at least it can strengthen the body, since he wants to learn, let him learn it. Lu Tao and I both thought so. And it is very easy to learn Xingyi Quan in Taigu, because Taigu is the birthplace of Xingyi Boxing, and more than 80% of the people who practice martial arts in Taigu are disciples of Xingyi Sect. Therefore, it is not difficult to find a boxer for Yangyang.

That morning, our family of three got up early in the morning, got up at half-past five, and walked to a park in the city. There are a lot of people who practice boxing in the park, and if you want to learn Xingyi boxing, just come to the park to find a master.

The park in the morning is a very lively place, occupying the big field is generally a team of square dancing aunts, crowded in the gazebo is mostly fans who are addicted to the play without makeup, the sidewalk often encounters worrying skateboarders, and there are more than a dozen anglers sitting quietly by the lake. In the groves around the park! Those who practice martial arts need to find a quiet corner to practice, especially the inner family boxing such as Xingyi Boxing and Taijiquan, which are more and more disturbed.

When our family of three walked lightly into the grove, we saw that there were already 100 people practicing martial arts here, we didn't dare to speak loudly, so we quietly hid in a corner first, admiring the extraordinary kung fu of all martial arts masters.

Wushu is a unique fitness and self-defense skill in China, and it is also an art, in which the meaning is profound and broad, and there are some that can be explained clearly by today's science, and there are also those that cannot be explained clearly. Just as human beings only have a small understanding of the natural world, human beings only know a little bit about the human body itself, and martial arts is one aspect of showing the potential of the human body.

People who don't know martial arts will also feel that it is a pleasure to watch others practice martial arts, which is the artistic charm of martial arts. And those who practice martial arts not only enjoy it, but also get a kind of fighting and self-cultivation energy, which benefits immensely.

So Lu Tao and I not only supported Yangyang to practice martial arts, but the two of us also decided to accompany him to practice, according to Lu Tao's words, our family has changed its style and is going to become a martial arts family.

But on the first day, we didn't do anything, we didn't move our fists or feet, we didn't look for the Master, but just watched from the sidelines, just like a newly literate child who looks at the picture first. We first let ourselves have a concept of the spatial image of martial arts, and then learn from the teacher.

The next morning, when we came again to the woods in the park, we were attracted by an old man with white hair. Seeing that he walked silently, walked like the wind, raised his hands with qi, kicked his feet and hid his skills, and the martial arts that were integrated, I guessed that he must be a master-level martial arts venerable who has practiced all his life.

Our family of three all wanted to become the master's apprentices, but we didn't know whether the master would accept us. I suggested that the whole family quietly learn from the master on the side, although we were very clumsy in learning every move, but we have been learning seriously, cheeky, and not afraid of other people's jokes at all. I think only by convincing the master that we have the sincerity to learn martial arts will he be able to take us as apprentices. And we have to convince the master that we have perseverance. In the days to come, we will come to the woods on time, rain or wind, and as long as the master is there, we will be there. One day, dark clouds covered the sky and rain was coming, but we still arrived in the park at half past five in the morning. At that time, we saw that there were only a few people practicing martial arts in the woods, and there was no master, but we did not leave immediately, but waited in the pavilion for more than half an hour, and still did not see the master, and then we went home. On the way home, we were drenched in the rain, and when we got home, we were like chickens in soup. We persisted like this for a month, and finally one day, the master turned his attention to us. This is exactly what I planned, I want the master to come to our side so that we can be more acceptable to him.

"How old is the child?" said the master, and we began to talk.

"Thirteen years old. I quickly replied.

"Like martial arts?" the master asked again.

"Yes, he wants to practice Xingyi Boxing. I said.

"Practicing martial arts is a chore, now there are many people who practice martial arts, but very few practice well, most people only have moves and no kung fu. "Master, this is called to first say ugly things.

"We understand this, if you want to practice martial arts well, you must have perseverance and not be afraid of hardship. Lu Tao continued on the side.

"But it's a good thing to be interested, have you ever visited the teacher?"

"No! we want to be your teacher!" I naturally took the master's words.

I didn't want the master to smile and said, "I have not been an apprentice for ten years, if you really want to learn Xingyi Fist, I can introduce my apprentice to be your master." ”

Oh, it seems that the master still refuses to accept us, but it is also a blessing to become his apprentice's apprentice, that is to say, the master is our master, and with the master here, I am still worried about not getting the guidance of the master? Thinking of this, I quickly said: "Thank you so much master, we will definitely work hard to learn." ”

"Okay, this Sunday morning, my apprentice Song Changlong is going to accept a group of apprentices, and then I will introduce you to and worship with others. The master said.

"That's great, thank you, Master!"

After exchanging contact information with the master, our family of three happily returned home. At this point, our plan to learn martial arts has finally taken the first step.

I had never been a teacher before, and I didn't expect the ceremony to be so grand and traditional, which made me a little uncomfortable.

On Sunday morning, we followed the guidance of the master and went to the house of Master Song Changlong. Song Changlong's family is located in a village on the outskirts of the city, and there are ten bungalows lined up in the house, with a courtyard of 300 square meters in front. When we arrived, we saw that there were already 100 people gathered in the courtyard. There is a long table on the north side of the courtyard, and there are several black and white photographs more than ten inches large on the table, which seem to be the photos of the predecessors of Xingyi, and an incense burner is placed in front of the photos.

After we found the master, no, we should call it the master, and the master immediately introduced us to our master:

"I met this family of three in the park, and they really want to learn Xingyi Boxing, so you can take them in. ”

"Good Master, as long as they are willing to learn, I am willing to teach them. Song Boxer said.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Lu Tao and I thanked the two boxers repeatedly.

After about ten minutes, the apprenticeship ceremony officially began. The ceremony was presided over by a man who was said to be my uncle. The first content is that all the people in the division bow down to their predecessors. When the masters and apprentices kneel and worship their predecessors, they are carried out in order from high to low, so the first to offer incense is the master, followed by the people of our master's generation, and then it is the turn of those young people to go up and kowtow. We haven't apprenticed yet, so we don't need to visit this part of the shrine first. The second is a boxing performance. Our uncles and brothers took turns to fight, one by one showing their housekeeping skills, some were boxing with their bare hands, some were wielding equipment, some were heavy, some were gentle, in short, all of them were skillful and profound, so that those of us who were waiting for the apprenticeship had a good look. The third part is the formal apprenticeship ceremony. I saw our master Song Quan sitting on an ancient chair in the middle, and then we newcomers walked to the master in turn under the guidance of the host, and then knelt down on both knees, kowtowed to the master three times, and after the master gave us a Xingyi boxing book and let us get up, the apprenticeship was completed.

I am not used to bowing down, and I think people who were born in New China like me have hardly bowed to anyone except to kowtow to their deceased elders, not even to their parents. But today I want to kneel down to a person who has no blood relationship with me, just to learn a martial art! But then I think about it, it's nothing, the reason why I don't adapt is because New China abolished these ways of saluting, and before liberation, it was common for younger generations to bow down to their elders. Besides, the profound martial arts are worth our knees.

Of course, in order not to confuse the generations, Yangyang can't worship the same master as us, Yangyang worships one of our senior brothers, named Wu Tianhao. But when kneeling and bowing to the master, the younger Yang Yang behaved very naturally, and he didn't see any discomfort, showing people a look of respectful and sincere martial arts.

After visiting the teacher, morning martial arts practice became a formal part of our family's life.

Yang Yang is very positive and excited, and every morning he no longer uses me to wake him up, but instead he wakes us up. He was always the first to get out of bed every morning.

But under the master's teaching, after formally learning boxing, I really realized the difficulties and hardships of learning martial arts.

On the first day of learning martial arts, the master just let us practice standing piles. On the second day, the third day, until a month later, our daily lessons were still standing on the pile. Standing pile is the basic skill of practicing Xingyi boxing, requiring the legs to bend slightly, the body to squat, the hands to protect the face and chest, the whole action to make a posture of wanting to enter and defend, and to take abdominal breathing, the air sinks into the dantian, like a sculpture in place, meditating on the aura. Lu Tao and I can understand the standing pile, but Yang Yang can't understand it, he, the first person who proposed to practice martial arts and is the most active in practicing martial arts, finally became impatient. Fortunately, he hadn't shown this clearly in front of the Master, but when he got home, he kept saying to us, "Why did you only learn one standing post in a month?"

"A month, if you can't stand well, you might have to stand for a year!" I said to Yangyang.

"Is it so slow to learn martial arts? Is it that when I learn it, I'll be old?" Yang Yang was a little unconfident. Children are like that, with more interest and less patience.

"If you have a high level of understanding and diligence, you may be able to learn the basic routines in one year, you can compete in five years, and you can accept apprentices as masters in ten years, but if you don't like to think and have no perseverance, you may give up halfway in less than two months. But I don't like people who do things halfway, unless it's really something they shouldn't do, or it's not worth doing. ”

Maybe Yangyang's master saw Yangyang's beginning to fluctuate emotionally, and this Senior Brother Wu paused letting Yangyang stand on the pile and began to teach him the Five Shapes Fist. Five-shape boxing is the most basic routine in Xingyi boxing. Now Yang Yang was happy, he was interested, and he practiced very seriously with the master. And he not only insisted on practicing every morning, but also practiced in the courtyard of the community for half an hour after returning home from school in the afternoon. Of course, it is difficult for a child to truly understand the connotation of martial arts, and it is also difficult to achieve the unity of qi and form and mind of Neijiaquan, and it is good for him to learn the movements. Master Wu liked Yang Yang very much, and among his more than ten apprentices, he spent a lot of time on Yang Yang.

What I didn't expect was that after standing on the pile for more than a month, my leg began to hurt so badly that it was difficult to walk, and then I had to rest at home, and it wasn't until another month later that I resumed training. I wondered why Lu Tao and Yang Yang didn't have this reaction of mine, my master said that it was because my physique was not as good as Lu Tao and Yang Yang, and the amount of exercise I was given was too much, which exceeded my ability to bear, so my legs hurt. Next, Master reduced the amount of exercise I exercised, and when Lu Tao also learned the Five Shapes, I learned one of the Five Shapes.

In any case, our whole family joined the martial arts training team, and no matter what level we can learn in the future, we can at least exercise our bodies, increase our tolerance, and improve our self-defense ability. (To be continued.) )