Chapter 8 Spinning the Palm
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Lin Xu covered the wooden door behind him, raised his legs and walked towards the big green pine. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The west side of the Four Heavenly Kings Hall in front of the small temple is the village committee, and the open space behind the hall is the meeting place of the villagers. Except for that piece, most of the back part is usually not visited. The old bachelor who looked at the house for the village committee also had his living area in front. In the latter half of the part, except for Lin Lang who goes to the village committee on weekdays, their family rarely comes here. In addition, some of the children in the village will come to play in this ruined temple.
The thousand-armed Guanyin Hall behind the temple, although the door of the temple is also locked on weekdays, the four windows in front of it have long been damaged, and they have become several large holes, and there are only two window ridges that are still hanging with defects. I don't know if it was naturally decayed over time, or if the bandits who stole the Bodhisattva's head deliberately broke it and entered from there.
But even though it was broken, no one repaired it. Although the village committee is stationed in this temple, it does not regard this temple as a public property that must be maintained in the village. Therefore, the locked door of the temple is also an ornament, and almost all the children in the village have penetrated through these broken windows. Lin Xu had also gone in, otherwise, he would not know the situation in this hall, and how many heads were missing from the statues in the hall.
For the children, this ruined temple is still very mysterious in their minds, plus the hall is gloomy, many statues have no heads, and there are some terrifying and mysterious nature and atmosphere. Therefore, children often think of it as a place for adventure, and by the way, they also practice their courage.
However, it is approaching the end of the year, and it is winter, and it is still so early, and the children in the village will not come here to play if they have nothing to do.
After Lin Xu walked in, there was no half a figure in the entire temple, and it seemed very deep and quiet. In the row of houses of the village committee in front, no one entered or left the house. In such a small village with a population of more than 1,000, the village committee usually does not have much work. Moreover, some of the leaders in the village basically work in their own homes, and rarely come to the village committee. The village committee is basically a place for meetings and discussions, and it is also a meeting place for villagers. In addition, it also doubles as the village's radio studio, and if there is anything important in the village, it will be announced through the loudspeaker.
In front of the Thousand-Hand Kannon Hall, there is a ground paved with bluestone slabs. But after an unknown number of years, all of them have long been broken, and no one can be found intact. The cracks in the broken stone are also covered with various weeds. Now that everything has dried up, Lin Xu's feet stepped on it, and the sound of dead grass being trampled on kept coming.
Due to the shade of the trees, there is still some snow under the large pine trees. Lin Xu walked under the tree, found a place where there were fewer weeds and was fairly level, then stood facing the east, and stood in the preparatory style before the red sand hand exercise.
At this time, the sun had just risen, and the light emitted by the rising red sun was not dazzling. What's more, Lin Xu was in the shade of a big pine tree, and only some dappled sunlight could shine through the gaps between the branches and leaves.
Lin Xu slowly relaxed in this mottled light and shadow, adjusted his breathing, and then pressed his tongue against the palate, concentrated his thoughts, and began the practice of the red sand hand.
With the familiar experience of the first time yesterday afternoon, Lin Xu did not make a single mistake from beginning to end this time, and he did not make a single mistake in the five forms for a total of 245 times. However, just like yesterday afternoon, after each pose, he took a short break before continuing with the next pose.
After all the exercises, Lin Xu gasped and took out a handkerchief from his pocket to wipe the sweat on his forehead, then looked at the electronic watch on his left wrist and saw that it was already 8:21. After calculating, this trip to the red sand hand practice was exactly about an hour.
Although he set the alarm clock at seven o'clock, it took some time to get dressed after getting up, open the door, go to the toilet, and go to the big pine tree in the temple to officially start the exercise. When the official training began, although he didn't look at his watch, it was estimated that it was almost seven or ten or twenty.
In an hour, this is actually much faster than the first practice he had yesterday afternoon. Yesterday afternoon, he tossed and turned for more than two hours, almost three hours. Of course, it also has to do with the fact that he got it wrong a few times yesterday afternoon and started from scratch.
This seems like a quick increase, but it's a matter of proficiency. The practice movements of the red sand hand are not complicated, as long as you are proficient, the rest is repeated over and over again. Lin Xu could actually be faster just now, but he was afraid that he would make a mistake if he was too fast, but he would rather be slower than make a mistake again. Moreover, this red sand hand is studied carefully, it belongs to the category of internal strength, and the most important thing is to experience the sense of qi when exercising the movements, not to pursue speed. Therefore, no matter how fast you practice, it is useless if you don't practice a sense of qi.
It's a pity that Lin Xu still didn't feel any sense of qi during this morning's practice. Whether it is the qi sinking dantian, or the qi penetrating the palms, or the dantian part, there is no obvious feeling.
But this is only the second time, and he is not in a hurry. After standing still and resting for a while, he stood up again and began to prepare for the second set of kung fu he had chosen yesterday - the Spinning Qiankun Palm. Yesterday afternoon, he originally planned to practice the red sand hand and also practice the rotating Qiankun palm together, but he didn't expect to practice the red sand hand for so long, and it was dark after the practice, so he didn't practice this set of rotating Qiankun palm again, and left it until this morning.
The rotating Qiankun palm is simpler than the red sand hand, there are only four styles, and the movements of the four styles are not complicated. Climbing the peak, exploring the sea, discharging clouds, and picking stars, these four movements are a style to practice in each direction of the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and just turn back after the practice, and turn a circle in the same place, so there is a "rotation" in the name. And its movements are also required to turn freely, interlocking, and integrated, which is very similar to the posture of Taijiquan, but it is much simpler than Taijiquan.
The number of words in the exercise that describes the rotation of the Qiankun palm is not much, and Lin Xu has memorized it silently after reading it carefully a few times yesterday. At this moment, he didn't need to read a book, and after meditating carefully in his mind, he first put out a preparatory pose for spinning his palm.
The style is to face south and back to north, feet apart and shoulder width apart, legs slightly bent into a horse step, eyes staring ahead, hands bent elbows and palms on the waist. Then mix and exhale evenly, and keep the dantian.
After the breathing is evenly adjusted, you can start the exercise, and the whole exercise process requires the intention to keep the dantian, and there is no special requirement for breathing, just to achieve a smooth and symmetrical effect.
The right palm is raised in an arc in front of the body, and at the same time, the right toe is retracted into a right sitting step, the left is virtual and the right is solid, and the peak is climbed; turn to the west, the left palm is drawn in an arc from the left front to take a large circle and probe down, and the left toe is abducted to the east, and the center of gravity is still sitting on the right foot, exploring the sea; then turn to the north, the right palm arc to the chest and push out, the clouds; finally turn to the east, the left palm is interspersed from the back of the right palm, stretching out to the upper left and holding it high in the form of picking, picking up the stars.
The four actions should be smooth and smooth in one go. After doing it, do it the other way around, just now it is the right palm to climb the peak, the left palm to explore the sea, this time it is the left palm to climb the peak, the right palm to explore the sea, the same is true for the clouds and the stars, the left and right are reversed. And the direction of rotation is also reversed, just now it was clockwise, this time it is counterclockwise.
Although it is four movements, there is one set of positive and negative movements, which is actually eight styles. These eight formulas are done a total of eight times, which is the eighty-eighty-sixty-four formulas, which is exactly the number of sixty-four hexagrams.
The movements of this set of exercises are very simple, and there is no special breathing method to cooperate when doing the movements, but it only requires the whole process to keep the dantian, but it is another layer simpler. The whole set, eight eight sixty-four styles, Lin Xu did not make a mistake. At first, there was a sense of rustiness, but later on, the more proficient it became, and the posture was stretched and chic, and the circle was the same.
It's just that when I finish it at the end, I spin around a few times in a row, and I feel a little dizzy. After doing this, return to the preparatory position of the starting hand, and then slowly exhale to close the work.
I raised my wrist and looked at the table below, but it was more than half an hour, and it was more than nine o'clock, and I hurriedly went home from the temple. After getting out of the small wooden door, I still turned around and inserted the deadbolt to hang the lock.
When I got home, I just had dinner, so I quickly washed my face and had breakfast.