Volume 1 The Journey Chapter 14 Learning the Arts
At present, the urgent report in the post house no longer seems to be a chicken feather letter with a fire sign, but a reminder list. Of course, no matter how urgent the military report is, someone needs to send it, and after the accident of Zhang Liuyi and the second brother Chao in the post house, no one dares to take over this fateful job. Among the peers, everyone was chattering about this matter under Langfang. At the same time, a five-hundred-mile rush aroused Zhang Bingzhong's boundless competitiveness, thinking that I would like to see how powerful this mountain bandit is, and if I meet him on the way, I will definitely kill him to avenge my father. When Zhang Dabiao, the manager of the post house, was frowning, he heard Xiao Liuzi suddenly shouting "I'll go!" under the corridor. A "I'll go," but the steward Zhang Dabiao was in a dilemma. If this trip to deliver spies appears again, this makes Zhang Dabiao a little unbearable, thinking that he can't let the old Zhang family die anymore because of official business, after all, the mountain bandits around Dingyuan County are everywhere. But Xiao Liuzi is a heart to find out, Zhang Dabiao can't stand Xiao Liuzi's hard pestering, and no one dares to respond to this trip at the moment, so he has no choice but to nod and agree to him.
Bingzhong stubbornly took out the good horse that his father used to drive in the manger in the post house alone, packed up his body, tied his body with bows and arrows, and tied up the letters. Just as he was about to leave, Zhang Dabiao stepped forward, handed a saber to Xiao Liuzi and said: Liuzi, this is distributed by the county, be careful along the way, remember that sentence, if you can't win, run away! Be smart! Xiao Liuzi nodded to Zhang Dabiao, the manager of the post house. Bingzhong patted the horse's neck and said, "Old man, let's go! Let's go through this ghost gate!" confidently turned over the horse and walked out.
Five hundred miles is expedited, and it can be delivered in one or two days for young and strong guys. Xiao Liuzi came like the wind, went like fire, and delivered the urgent letter in a hurry. It's just that when I came back, I looked for the message of the local people, and walked on the place where the mountain bandits haunted. Occasionally, when he encountered a few waves of rogues, Xiao Liuzi could not say anything, either he raised his knife and slashed, or he drew his bow and shot. Xu is so young and vigorous, Bingzhong is extremely smooth along the way. The joy of killing the generals was only delayed for a day or two on the journey. Xiao Liuzi himself didn't know that he was so happy and enmity along the way, but his relatives and friends at home were extremely worried. When the people in the neighborhood who grew up from childhood to adulthood saw Xiao Liuzi coming back from the official road of the archway, they hurriedly stepped forward to lead the horse and fall into the stirrup. I saw that there were still patches of blood stains on the clothes on the sixth brother's body, and among the few little brothers who came up, only Zao'er quickly asked: Sixth brother, what is going on? Are you injured? The little sixth brother said to everyone very happily: This was splashed when slashing and killing the rogue, and it is not very tight.
After this incident, whether it is within the county government or on the post road, there are rumors that Zhang Bingzhong, the fast horse of the post house, is loyal and brave, and he is a strong and courageous man. From then on, the fast horses in the post house must be equipped with standard swords and bows and arrows when they go out, and of course, these words must not escape the ears of the third master of the patrol horses. For this reason, Ma Sanye specially came to the post house to visit Zhang Bingzhong and Zhang Dabiao, the manager of the post house.
"Little Liuzi, I have heard that you are loyal and brave, you are a strong and fruitful, etc., but it is not enough to be able to ride a good horse and pull a few bows and arrows. Ma Sanye looked at Xiao Liuzi and said intentionally or unintentionally. Xiao Liuzi hurriedly said, please show the third master. At this time, I only heard Ma Sanye's hey and left.
A few days later, Zhang Dabiao, the manager of the post house, solemnly found Xiao Liuzi and said: What your Uncle Ma told you the day before yesterday, do you care? Xiao Liuzi replied: What my Third Master Ma said is very true, but where can I find such a martial artist to teach me now? Steward Zhang touched his thin beard and said: Far away in the sky, close in front of you. Could it be you? Xiao Liuzi blurted out. Steward Zhang smiled, my three-legged cat kung fu can't be on the stage, the real person with kung fu is your Uncle Ma! Don't look at him laughing all day long, in fact, he is a powerful corner. If you don't have real kung fu, how can you eat and have fun in front of the three sects and nine streams?
There are bandits and bandits in the surrounding areas of Dingyuan County, and the public order in the four counties and eight townships in the territory is also very chaotic. Our county lord just asked our post house to allocate a group of horsemen to help the third master of the patrol horse and horse to manage and maintain the order under the rule of the county. I want to recommend you little guys to the past, and then I will guarantee you to learn martial arts with Ma Sanye, if you get his consent, this will kill two birds with one stone, wouldn't it be beautiful. The steward Zhang Dabiao said while stroking his beard while drinking tea. Xiao Liuzi hurriedly bowed and bowed, and kept thanking him in his mouth. In my heart, I was thinking that these two people had calculated before, and as long as I nodded, this thing would probably be done. In fact, it is really not Xiao Liuzi's conjecture, the characters of the two uncles and uncles are deeply guilty because of Zhang Liuyi's sudden incident, and at the same time, the two really like Xiao Liuzi's cleverness and loyalty, so they performed such a double reed.
Soon, Xiao Liuzi led the post house to lead the jujubes, talented, capable and others came to the command of the third master of the city patrol horses. On official business, Ma Sanye arranged them one by one, and followed the seniors. One day, Ma Sanye took Xiao Liuzi alone to the upstairs of the Spring Flower Store to eat wine. The two of them found an Accord, sat down, and feasted on wine. Ma Sanye was eating peanuts while chatting with Xiao Liuzi, and talked about his own martial arts. This Ma Sanye is a three-generation Tongjian boxer, and his martial arts are strong, but he doesn't show it much on weekdays.
According to legend, this Tongjian comes from the legend that it was created by the White Ape Gong during the Warring States Period, and the Baiyun Patriarch is called the White Ape Patriarch. There are many schools of boxing, such as the white ape, the ape, the five elements, the Liuhe, the Shaolin, the split, the two-winged arm, the twenty-four-style arm, and the Hongdong back. As for the origin of Tongbei Fist, the legend is also different. Some people say that it was passed on by Sun Bin in the Warring States Period, which is obviously very far-fetched. There is also a legend that it was preached in Yunmeng Mountain by the "Ghost Valley Pioneer" during the Warring States Period: imitating the essence of the apes' method of perching, hunting, fighting, and survival. It is called the through arm, which is mainly based on the shape of the gibbon, imitates its shape and exercises, aims to lengthen the arm strength, and the single operation is the majority. It is a kind of practice. After thousands of years, the ancestors to rough and fine, learn from each other's strengths, formed a kind of soft-based, rigid and soft, with back force as the law, long strike far preemptive, special practice of the boxing method; The internal and external penetration, the combination of rigidity and softness, and the correct use of the mind, body, and strength make it a special type of boxing in the martial arts, which is different from "Shaolin" and "Wudang". Tong Back Punch is known for its special outstretched arm movements.
And this arm extension action force from the back, through the shoulders, elbows, to the fingertips, requiring the back, shoulders, elbows to coordinate, stretch hard. The hand shape of the back fist or palm is richer, and the back fist mainly has a single shaking palm, a yin palm, a double cover palm, a leading palm, a clapping palm, a stepping palm, a show bone boxing, a flat fist, a sharp fist, a decapitation palm, etc., and the splitting and hanging of the Tongbei fist mainly includes hooking hands, wrestling palms, teasing yin palms, point palms, tucking palms, middle palms, jumping in the boxing, standing punching in the boxing, buckle punching in the boxing, stone monkey boxing, ape boxing, etc. The strength of the back fist is mainly based on the cross of "shrinking soft and delicate, cold and crisp and fast". Its routines include small chain, large ring, split boxing, five horses running groove, six road total hands, twelve chain boxing, etc. The leg method is mainly dark hair, weighing seven inches and low legs. The body shape is required to achieve the top of the head, collar, empty in front, solid in the back, virtual chest, concave belly, probing shoulders, arm length, and live wrists. The fist posture requires the body to be like a bow, the hand like an arrow, the waist like a screw, and the foot like a drill. The basic techniques of Tongjiquan include the front air and the back full, and the long arm of the shoulder. Bend down to protect and shoot long. Urging the probe shaker, crisp and fast as a whip. The circular diameter depends on each other, and the short guard is long. The front is empty and the back is abundant, and the long arm of the shoulder is the basic technique of the quiet posture of the arm boxing. Anterior space refers to the front half of the body with a void chest (including the chest) and a concave belly (abdomen). Houfeng refers to the back of the body, the waist is straightened, and the buttocks are pulled up, so that the back is tense and plump. The long arm of the probe shoulder refers to the leading strength of each section of the upper limb to the direction of attack, forming a shape of the shoulder reaching forward and the arm stretching. Bending to protect and letting go of the long shot is the basic technique of bending and stretching the limbs of the arm fist and the strength of the accumulation of hair and the combination of offensive and defensive attack skills. When bending and retracting the limbs, you should consciously inhale, relax the muscles or lengthen the length of the muscles to cooperate with the accumulation of breath, strength and momentum. At the same time, it is necessary to flex and retract the torso to play the function of protecting itself. Generally, the elbows, wrists, and fingers are flexed to protect the upper plate, the chest, spine, and waist are flexed to protect the middle, the shoulders and arms are flexed to protect both sides, and the hips and knees are flexed to protect the lower plate, which is called "five protections and eight breaks".
The second is this long blow, which refers to stretching the limbs and lengthening the arms, lengthening the attack distance of the two hands in appearance, and the internal qi and internal strength are sent out with the body's stretching and guidance. The shape of the long hit is based on the waist as the axis, through the chest, pull the back, loosen the shoulder, elbow, wrist joint, through the shoulder back and the far arm waist is transparent. The long-term blow of the internal qi and internal strength is the internal force emitted by the internal qi of the dantian and the waist spine, which flows through the finger end with the waist and arm and is distributed to the target slightly farther away. If you attack the opponent's chest with your hands, the internal qi and internal energy should penetrate the chest and reach the back of the opponent. Urging the probe to shake the bullet, crisp and fast like a whip, is the basic technique of the Tongjiquan exercise. The fist is a metaphor for the human body as a whip, and the four energies of urging, probing, shaking, and bounce to complete the action can obtain the crisp and fast energy (also known as "whip energy") produced like a whip. The human body is a whip rod below the waist, the foot is the pole handle, the waist ridge is the pole head, the back, shoulders, and arms are the whip rope, and the hand is the whip tip. When waving the "whip", the two feet (rod handle) push the ground to urge the upload, and send it up with the waist spine (rod head), urging the waist, back, and shoulders to stretch in turn in the direction of attack, urging the arm (whip rope) to the wrist, and passing it to the hand (whip tip) by shaking the wrist, and bursting out with a crisp and fast energy that is loose with a flick. The characteristics of this method make the movements of Tongjiquan appear flexible and long, soft and rigid. The circle diameter depends on each other, and the short guard is long, which is the basic technique of both long and short arm fists. Tongjiquan focuses on both short strikes in long hits, and uses short hits to save gaps and assist long strikes. The commonly used method of "short guard long" is to alternate the vertical circle action of swinging the arm and splitting the racket with the middle punch action of hitting directly along the middle. In the movement, the change from the middle fist to the beat split, is like drawing a circle with a moment. From a split beat to a middle punch, the length and the short complement each other. In addition to the boxing routines, the equipment of Tongbei Boxing includes single knife, double knife, stick, gun, sword, etc. based on the white ape's back boxing, and Zilong big gun, Qingping sword, long knife, wind stick, splitting and hanging single knife, splitting and hanging double knife and so on based on 24-style Tongbei boxing and two-wing Tongji. Live wrist, as the saying goes, "live shoulder hit wrist, handle half". The special training of Tongbeiquan - "living wrist" can be said to be the top priority of Tongbeiquan. Regarding the live wrist, as long as you have practiced the back boxing, you know that there is no back boxing without the live wrist, and the wrist must be practiced when you practice the back boxing. Wrist practice is a major feature of Tongbeiquan, especially people who have practiced Tongbeiquan for a long time, most of them have formed a habit, whether it is a walkway, sitting down to rest, eating, bathing, etc., there may be nothing to shake their wrists in daily life, so that outsiders feel like they have ADHD, but they don't know that people may be working hard to practice superior kung fu. Practice through the back fist to the wrist practice, in the future practice of each single exercise is very conducive to the strength of the out, through the back boxing is very important single exercise to play the strength of the main rely on the strength of the wrist, through the back boxing there is a "wrestling palm master in the wrist" said. It's okay to practice the live wrist of the back boxing is also conducive to relaxing the muscles and invigorating the blood and stretching the fingers, just like the handwriting cramps, getting up to practice the wrist, it is very comfortable, especially the wrist is not only practiced but also practiced, the tenacity of the wrist, the tenacity of the wrist is practiced to hit the talent ruthlessly, and the strength of the fight is thorough, and many beginners who practice through the back boxing do not pay special attention to the practice of the wrist, although they also know to practice, when they are fine, they also shake their wrists, and have a sense of practice, but they do not pay attention to it at all.
This Ma Sanye said energetically, wiping his big mouth stained with wine, and then said: The ancient master Han Yu once said that a good ancient scholar must have a teacher. Teacher, so preaching and receiving karma to solve doubts. People who are not born to know how to learn without confusion and not follow the teacher, they are confused, and they will not be able to understand the way! To learn gibbon boxing, you should first apprentice to the teacher, and you cannot learn without a teacher without a teacher. Under the guidance of the teacher, study hard and hard, practice boxing is expensive, and you can't slack off. Three days of fishing and drying nets can definitely not be practiced well, the mystery of the gibbon lies in repeated speculation and practice will be realized. As the saying goes: the profundity of the gibbon is understood by the scholars. Yes, there are clouds in the boxing spectrum: it is in vain to learn without thinking, don't take this art seriously. If you can understand the reason, it is better than passing it on to your face. It is said that those who learn boxing should follow the teacher's guidance, be diligent in thinking, ponder repeatedly, and then repeatedly review the past and learn the new to understand the profundity of the gibbon. Although I know you nostalgically, you still have to learn more. The gibbon heart ape door pays the most attention to the training of the basic law root, especially the importance of the foundation of the building is self-evident, for teaching beginners at the beginning must pay attention to the training of the basic law root, through the training of the basic law root to develop the correct posture, the basic frame of the gibbon heart ape door is the door holding type is also called the hammer hugging the door leaf, the formula is four or six steps to stand still, the head requires "the head to the top of the essentials", "intended to hang on the top"; the torso requires "the front chest is empty, the back is tight", "suck the chest and sink the air, the back is loose and the shoulders are bowed, and the air sinks into the dantian" , the body is not biased, the arm requires "the hand does not leave the elbow, the elbow does not leave the ribs", the leg requires the hind leg to bend slightly, the front leg and the sole of the foot grasp the ground "crotch to cover the lu", the buttocks, the front leg four parts, the back leg six parts. "The three tips are aligned in a line", that is, the tip of the toe and the tip of the hand are in a straight line with the mouth and heart. Keep your body and mind relaxed, leaning up, or kicking your butt is a big no-no! Beginners take the rocking arm and wrist shake as the preliminary, and it is required to follow the five elements of the technique during training, such as the water-round technique, the wood-from the inside to the outside, the fire-top-down direct splitting technique, the gold-left and right horizontal hands, and the earth-four actions and the quiet hands. The live arm can not be used clumsy force, pure use of natural power, five fingers such as tied to the rope, flexible leap, over time will give birth to the innate true power, practice should also pay attention. The top force can not be lost, the collar, the tooth buckle, the mouth is slightly open, the tip of the toe should be correct, the chest is sucked and the belly is concave, the back is bowed and the shoulders are loose, and the four or six steps are taken. The expression is natural, the heart is calm, the tongue is against the palate, breathe through the nose, do not be stuffy, breathe evenly and breathe, do not be greedy for more than 100 times when you practice, and sweat slightly! The training of the heart ape gate is roughly divided into practice techniques, manipulation techniques and kicking piles and bags. Among them, the upper six forms of practice techniques are the most basic exercises for gibbons, and the general requirements are: spectrum clouds: hollow and dark practice to nourish the spirit, such as snake sucking! Training requires a peaceful state of mind, a high degree of concentration, breathing and manual coordination, one movement and one static, one opening and one closing, and the breath correspondingly. The footwork is accommodating, and everything is handy. For example: the first style of the opening of the six styles, a fist and a palm, its style seems to be very simple, but it is reasonable, the arm is alternately punched and a palm, and the arm is a fist and a palm. The fist is withdrawn from the mouth and returned to the ribs, and the footwork is a four-six-step rubbing footwork, which is the most basic force footwork of the gibbon. The overall requirement of one fist and one palm is that the two hands are connected like stars, one movement and one stillness, one fist and one palm, and the footwork follows. The breathing coordination in this pose highlights all the requirements of the gibbon, and there are some differences between the manoeuvre training and the manipulation technique. The operator is a gibbon used for the training of force, and it is worth noting that there is no strength to exercise without good exercises. It can be seen that the importance of practicing techniques, the general requirements of the operation techniques are light, flexible and slow, cold and crisp, fast and hard, soft and fast, and sticky. As the spectrum says: the head should be at the top of the item, and the chest should be empty and the back should be tightened. The shoulders are like burdens, the hands are like whips, and the pipa bones are alive like fans. The two hands are connected like stars, sucking the chest and falling into the dantian. The converging heart is on the top, and the four or six steps are not biased. The steps never change, and the fist bursts out from the mouth. Withdraw back to the ribs and enter and exit the arm line in the center. The technique of attacking is to lift the crotch, quiet and happy, with rigidity and softness. Rigidity and softness complement each other, and the formation of the gathering is superb. Shoot to be cold and wake up, and start a finger correction when you get wet. Grab and press the split, the soft and fast is quick and cold, and the crisp and hard hand sickle should be sticky. Light as a silk roll, heavy as a hammer, as urgent as a cat, as fast as an arrow. Always keep in mind, and practice all over the body into a joint movement. With the force of qi to move and static, quiet like a virgin moving like a rabbit running. This is the separation of movement and static, if it is like electricity. The open hand is like a knife and a gun to give orders, and the shot is like a cannon drill.