No matter how many people are and how unconvinced they are, it is an indisputable fact that the technical ability of Chinese martial arts is inferior from generation to generation, and it is getting weaker and weaker, and finally degenerating into a non-confrontational sport. The magic of martial arts will always remain in legends, martial arts novels, and kung fu movies, and in reality, as long as it is hard to fight with modern techniques, whether it is boxing, sanda, free fighting, or grappling fighting techniques used by the military and police...... Poor martial arts, all end up with a blue nose and swollen face, no exception.

This is a very strange phenomenon.

The development of any sport is always stronger from generation to generation, especially with the help of modern medicine, nutrition and systematic and scientific training methods, it is a trend of accelerated development - if Chamberlain and Bailey step from the twentieth century to the twenty-first century, the former and Howard and James directly confront, the latter and Messi, Ronaldo direct confrontation, Guan Zhuofan thinks: it is simply looking for abuse.

If you look at the changes in the various Olympic records, the question becomes even clearer.

Only martial arts, lonely shadows.

Guan Zhuofan has always been curious, why is this?

Some blame it on the routineization of martial arts. Guan Zhuofan disagrees with this view. Without the form of routines, it is difficult to pass on the skills completely. Especially in the traditional martial arts teaching, only the words and ears, the master teaches the apprentice, if it is always piecemeal, after one or two generations, a martial art will be deformed or even annihilated.

So why?

After the crossing, especially in the process of creating a standardized "capture the enemy and capture the prisoner technique", Guan Zhuofan slowly found the answer.

During the Warring States Period and the Qin and Han Dynasties, the soldiers and the people were united. Chinese martial arts, whether or not they were called "wushu" at the time, were pure martial arts. The sole purpose of martial arts. It's about knocking down and killing opponents. This kind of martial arts, one hit and one move to defeat the enemy, must be the most basic requirement; Whether it looks good or not should not be considered.

At this time, Chinese martial arts should be very strong.

Chen Tang once said to Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty: "Fu Hu soldiers are five and Han soldiers are one, who is it?" The blade is blunt, and the bow and crossbow are unfavorable. Today's news is quite skillful. However, it is especially three and one. ”

Examining the situation of the confrontation between the Han soldiers and the Zhuhu of the Western Regions at that time, and the fact that these words were said by Chen Tang, this "five and as one" and "three and as one" cannot be regarded as bragging.

Of course, what Chen Tang emphasized was the generation difference between Han and Hu weapons and equipment, but Guan Zhuofan thought that in the era of cold weapons, the advantage of weapons and equipment alone was not enough to defeat the enemy - the middle and late Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The Central Plains Dynasty against the northern nomadic peoples shows this point.

Therefore. There is enough reason to believe that Chinese martial arts in the pre-Han period had a strong technical ability. This ability, known in the world at that time, was overwhelmingly superior.

When did Chinese martial arts start to taste?

Guan Zhuofan thought that it should be from Zhao Song's Chongwen and suppression of martial arts.

As a matter of fact, as long as China ends the war and establishes a unified regime, the government will look at the people who are dancing with knives and guns and will have the impulse to ban the use of weapons. Qin Shi Huang collected the soldiers of the world, gathered Xianyang, sold the blade, and cast it as the twelve golden people, which was the first to open up the atmosphere. It's just that the second Qin Dynasty died, and what practical effect does wood have for this work.

The two great unified dynasties of the Han and Tang dynasties, China was in its own youth and prime of life, and had a strong impulse to expand, and the martial atmosphere of the people and the foreign military actions of the government were compatible with each other. The government needs both high-quality military resources and the self-confidence to control the situation, so it has basically adopted a tolerant attitude towards civilian military affairs.

However, since the Zhao and Song dynasties, China's impulse to expand abroad has disappeared, and the regime's primary task is to maintain its own stability, and the reverence for literature and suppression of martial arts has become a logical choice, and the good days of Chinese martial arts have come to an end.

The "Qing Yuan Article Law Class" stipulates: "All the members of the society, those who read and practice martial arts (the genus of rods, rods, chains, and cones), teachers and the first person, are apprenticed for two years, and the rest are each with 100 rods." Xu was told that his candidates would not sit. ”

This kind of regime, do you expect him to recover his homeland and unify China? Dream on!

The Yuan Dynasty was a small clan and a large country, and in the eyes of the Mongols, all Han Chinese who practiced martial arts were potential rebels, and the ban on martial arts spared no effort.

Within a few years of the destruction of the Song Dynasty, the "Order on the Prohibition of Practicing Guns and Sticks" was promulgated, and the civil martial arts were greatly banned.

First lay out the harm of practicing martial arts, and the voice is full of color:

"The traitors do not do their own business, they are idle in their hands, and even learn sumo wrestling, or get guns and sticks, and those who are good at their work, each of them pays money and worships him as a teacher. The presidents and others of various departments do not know the prohibition, and they do not ask questions. For a long time, the customs are arrogant, the end of arrogance, or from this life. ”

Since the practice of martial arts has this original sin, the prohibition of martial arts is inevitable:

"In the future, if the military and the civilian people of all colors learn sumo wrestling, or get guns and sticks, they are allowed to be the first to tell the truth, and the teacher and the student will be sentenced to seventy-seven times, and the teacher will give the informant a reward with money and goods, and the two neighbors will know but not be the first, and the offender's crime will be reduced by one degree. The president knowingly connived and commuted the offender's crime to the second degree. ”

Well, those who practice martial arts must be punished, those who raise them must be rewarded, and those who do not know must sit together, which can be said to be a last resort.

Finally, the significance of the ban on weapons is pointed out:

"Don't do a few fierce winds, don't pass on fierce skills, domesticate people's feelings, and sit down to eliminate changes, which is not light in politics. This station is begging all over the office, and the ban is strictly enforced. ”

In today's terms, this is a real rise to the height of "political zhì". And the "Bentai" in the article refers to the "Yushitai" - led by the country's highest judicial supervision body to ban weapons, this grade is high enough, right?

After that, the imperial court repeatedly reiterated the decree prohibiting the practice of martial arts. In the second year of his reign, Yingzong issued an edict, which was straightforward: "It is forbidden for Han people to hold weapons, hunt and practice martial arts." ”

The Mongols' scheming did not guarantee the longevity of their rule, but after a few decades, the Han people drove them back into the desert. But Chinese martial arts, since then, have suffered a great loss of vitality and can no longer recover.

The Ming Dynasty emphasized literature over military force, just like the two Song Dynasty, and the status of military attachés was much lower than that of civilian officials, let alone "warriors". In the Qing Dynasty, whether it was a "military attaché" or a "martial artist", the status became more and more inferior; Moreover, the Qing Dynasty, like the Yuan Dynasty, was also a small clan in a big country, although it did not make any "Prohibition on Learning Guns and Sticks", but it still maintained a high degree of vigilance against folk martial arts.

Sejong once said, "Martial artists are mostly idle and do not do their jobs", and issued a decree to prohibit the practice of sticks. However, the legendary "ban on martial arts" against the Han people does not exist.

In the face of the suppression of political power, Chinese martial arts have to embark on the path of grinding away their minions and weakening themselves—that is, reducing the technical function of martial arts and changing the nature of martial arts' "killing techniques"—at the expense of self-abolition of the ability to possibly threaten the regime.

As a result, Chinese martial arts are composed of knives and spears and clubs, long instruments and short instruments, fists and feet from instruments, defense by attack, performance by technical strikes, and health preservation by performance. While the routines and moves are becoming more and more beautiful, the lethality is getting smaller and smaller, and the value of techniques and confrontations is becoming less and less. In the end, in modern times, only the words "flower fist embroidered legs" remained.

After Zhao Song, the only ray of life in Chinese martial arts appeared in the hands of Qi Jiguang. He re-incorporated the martial arts that had been separated from actual combat into actual combat, and to a certain extent restored the value of martial arts. Unfortunately, one of the greatest military geniuses in Chinese history – at least one of them – was born in the wrong era. If Qi Jiguang was born in the Han and Tang dynasties, Guan Zhuofan thought that his martial arts should not be under Wei, Huo, Jing, and Xun.

It's a pity that he was not only born in the Ming Dynasty, but also in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

After the death of Qi Jiguang, the people died and the government rested, and like the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty, Chinese martial arts entered the track of degeneration again, until the four words "flower fist embroidered legs" were realized.

Guan Zhuofan summed up that the fate of Chinese martial arts is roughly as follows: the Warring States Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties, all the way high-spirited and soaring; On the occasion of the two songs, there was a reversal; At the beginning of Meng Yuan, he was hit hard and injured into his viscera; In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, he tried to cheer up, but after a flash in the pan, he became more and more depressed; The Qing Dynasty entered the customs and Dingding, and finally pinched it, Chinese martial arts, and it was like a gossamer, and the medicine stone was ineffective.

The process of creating the "Capture the Enemy and Capture Technique" made Guan Zhuofan determine an understanding: there are many martial arts schools, among which there are only a small number of skills, which can be used as a reference for modern military fighting techniques. However, the value of martial arts to military combat arts, that's all. The distance between martial arts and military fighting is already 108,000 miles, and any attempt to fully restore the function of martial arts is doomed to be futile.

It is no longer Qi Jiguang's time.

The old is gone, and the new is coming.

Just don't go on and on.

Well, isn't that what the so-called reform is all about?

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(This chapter is a bit special, and it's hard to avoid sneering when you think about it.) In response, the lion had no choice but to say sorry. Tomorrow, let's start the favorite plot again)

*(To be continued......)