Chapter 407: National Art

Suddenly, the word "national art" appeared in Bi Xia's mind.

In fact, there is a controversy about whether martial arts were once called Guoshu, and there are indeed some martial artists who joined forces to open some martial arts halls during the Republic of China, called Guoshu Hall, but this is only a small number of people who call themselves, and do not form a unified national title.

But Bixia decided to come up with the concept, believing that such a martial art deserved the title.

Martial artists and martial arts during the Republic of China period have a special status in history, and a group of passionate and patriotic folk heroes have long been born.

When I think of national art, I will naturally think of the classic "Romance of the Dragon and Snake", which is the first book in the memory world to put forward the concept of "national art", just like its author created a torrent of wilderness, "national art" is the second change and innovation he made in his pen.

It is said that in order to write this book, Dream into the Divine Machine visited many martial arts masters. In Bi Xia's view, part of the theory in this book is true, and part of it is excessive fiction, of course, it is impossible for a novel not to be fictional, and the fiction in the second half of the novel may be the author's speculation or extravagant hope for realistic martial arts.

At the same time, his works are too bloody for the fight of martial arts, which is actually not conducive to the promotion of martial arts.

Thinking of this, Bixia turned and walked back, at this time his inspiration was tumbling out like a spring, and he needed to record it.

This new novel, he decided to call it "The Romance of the Dragon and Snake", but the setting in it will be different, not so wantonly trampling on the law, but the setting of the national art will not change, that sentence: The national art only kills people and does not perform, which really makes people's blood boil.

At the same time, according to his understanding of martial arts, Bi Xia decided to divide the national martial arts system into practice and fighting. Courage, of course, is not that there is no way to play when practicing the law, but the actual combat is not strong, and the way of playing is all killing moves, and the response is the sentence "the killing of national art is not performed".

This is actually very normal, just like the taekwondo promoted today, it has also been castrated, the real ancient taekwondo is much more powerful than the popular now, and the fighting style is much more deadly, but this kind of boxing is not conducive to promotion.

Plot. Bi Xia has made a lot of changes to "Romance of the Dragon and Snake", in fact, this is completely his own book, he is indeed inspired by "The Romance of the Dragon and Snake", and he does use its title, including the names of the characters in it, but the plot will be completely different, this is really Bi Xia's "Romance of the Dragon and Snake".

Coupled with his identity as a real martial artist, his description of the fighting style in "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" will be more realistic and exciting. Bi Xia has absolute confidence in this.

It's exciting to think about, and for a while, Bi Xia's pen was like a dragon, the words were passionate, and an outline of tens of thousands of words was formed under his pen.

Bi Xia himself is proficient in the Eight Extremes and the Great Sage. Traditional splitting is also well understood, but it is far from enough. In order to write this "Romance of the Dragon and Snake" perfectly, he also needs to know more martial arts. Like the folk Tai Chi, Bagua, Xingyi, Wing Chun and other kung fu.

What "Tai Chi does not go out for ten years, Xingyi kills people in a year" These words describe how apt the martial arts of various sects and factions. If he doesn't write, maybe martial arts will be buried in the long river of time.

So he found Shen Shaonan. This royal martial arts instructor who is also a teacher and friend of Bi Xia is proficient in many martial arts.

"Wood, why do you suddenly have such a big interest in martial arts. Your kung fu is already very good now, anyway, I'm not your opponent, is it possible that you can't still be a grandmaster? Shen Shaonan asked jokingly.

"What kind of grandmaster, I'm still soaring." Bi Xia said speechlessly: "I have some new ideas, I want to know more about the history and routines of our martial arts, don't you find you, you know that my boxing skills mainly come from the army, and the eight poles are also practiced there, and my eight poles are reformed, there are deep traces of military body boxing, not a person in the martial arts, who are you looking for?" ”

"This is also true" Shen Shaonan nodded, raised his head sharply, and asked, "Are you inspired again?" Could it be that you still want to make a martial arts movie? The current martial arts movie market is not very good. Shen Shaonan said with some worry.

Martial arts movies? Shen Shaonan's statement reminded Bi Xia at once, in fact, there are not no movie memories of real martial arts depictions, they are all heroic stories of the Republic of China, Tai Chi, and Wing Chun have all been put on the screen.

In the memory world, there is a great director Wong Kar-wai who spent more than ten years in order to shoot the movie "The Grandmaster", from the idea to the planning of the 6 years, and then spent three years visiting folk boxing masters to understand the stories behind those martial arts. A protagonist in a more interesting movie, who spent three years learning Bajiquan for this movie, actually participated in the national Bajiquan competition before the movie was released, and won the championship, I have to say that this movie is legendary.

The film took three years to shoot alone, during which the actors were constantly being found back to reshoot. Wong Kar-wai also broke his own record of dragging his time.

So why can't he shoot him, whether the two-pronged approach of novels and movies can better promote martial arts culture, Bi Xia thought in his heart, this is definitely an exciting idea.

It's just that Bi Xia hesitated about "The Grandmaster", this is definitely not a normal action movie, it is said that it is an action movie but it is a literary and artistic lineage, the idea of this film is too profound, maybe Bi Xia is not old enough, he has not been in contact with the rivers and lakes, he doesn't know what the rivers and lakes should be, and he can only look at it from the perspective of ordinary people.

He took a lot of time to watch, thinking that ordinary audiences would not be much better than him, and the evaluation of this movie was indeed polarizing.

"Don't worry, when will you see me doing something that you are not sure about, anyway, it's still early, let's talk about martial arts first." Bi Xia said with a smile. After thinking about it, Bi Xia decided to get the novel out first, how to talk about this film later. In fact, "Ip Man" is also good, the idea is just high and low, although the idea of "Ip Man" is not as profound as "The Grandmaster", but it can be seen clearly by everyone.

"What do you want to know?" When Shen Shaonan saw Bi Xia say this, he had no choice but to keep the question in his heart.

"You can introduce me to other kung fu, such as iron wire boxing, poke back, Tan leg, Wing Chun, Bagua, Tai Chi and other boxing techniques." Bi Xia took out his notebook, flipped it open, and asked.

"I don't know so much, Wing Chun knows some, and I know a little bit about gossip, I don't know much about the rest, let me talk about what I know first, and the rest If you want to know that I help introduce other boxers, they are all inherited from others." Shen Shaonan said. (To be continued......)