Chapter 5: Practicing (I)
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Chen Xi meditates on the bed, of course, it is not fun, he is really practicing.
After reading his first martial arts novel in elementary school, Chen Xi fell in love with it and was deeply fascinated by the magical Chinese martial arts. Although reason told him that it was an exaggerated description in the novel, it was impossible for such an unscientific magical martial arts to exist in reality. But in the depths of the emotions in his brain, he still prefers to believe that those kung fu are there, but now they are lost, and more importantly, people now have more entertainment and pastime, and they are impatient, and they are unwilling to work hard to practice, so they can't reach that level.
Chen Xi himself collected a lot of "Wulin" magazines published in the 80s, at that time, because the movie "Shaolin Temple" presented the national martial arts craze, it was also the golden age of "Wulin" magazine, and those old magazines introduced a lot of excellent traditional martial arts skills. He also studied some simple martial arts by himself according to books, of course, these are real kung fu, not magic skills in novels.
However, in recent years, although kung fu films such as "Once Upon a Time" have set off another round of kung fu fever, in the nineties, everyone is no longer so fanatical, and more people are staring at the direction of money.
I don't know why, in the past few years, the qigong that has been sick and healthy has suddenly become popular, probably because of the magic of some qigong treatment examples, and the fact that many people who learn qigong have developed special functions. There are at least hundreds of kinds of qigong in the country, among which the more famous and more learned in the country are Xianggong, Zhonggong, Xianghe pile, etc., and many true or false atmospheric gong masters have come out of the mountains to launch their own magical qigong.
In Chen Xi's town, there are many qigong tutoring stations, and many people learn a kind of qigong called Xingyi Gong. However, he did not have the money or time to learn these qigongs. And his concept is that he doesn't want these vain, but learns to learn the hard qigong of armed police soldiers like silver guns against their throats and broken bricks with their fists.
Once Chen Xi went for a run in the morning and ran to the only large square in the town, where he found that there were all kinds of qigong practitioners practicing, some practicing tai chi, and some practicing fist and foot martial arts. Seeing that everyone was in different shapes, Chen Xi thought it was very funny, so he sat on the side and watched them practice.
An old man who was practicing qigong next to him saw Chen Xi squatting there and looking around, so he walked up to him and asked him why he didn't practice it himself. Chen Xi said that there was no time and no money to pay for tutoring. As a result, the old man said that he could teach him, no money, and time was not a problem, as long as he had the heart to practice.
This surprised Chen Xi, but the rivers and lakes were sinister, and what he immediately thought of was that this person was not at ease, he must have taught a little beginner kung fu, and then if he wanted to continue learning, he would ask him for money, or threaten him with a madness or something when the time came.
The old man seemed to see through Chen Xi's thoughts, and said that he would definitely finish teaching him, and he would definitely not take money. And explained to him some common sense of qigong, saying that it is not just a simple trick, although it will not obviously see the effect, but it will help to improve the internal system of the body, relax the muscles and activate the nerves, get sick and fitness, and even make the mind clear, so as to develop intelligence and help learning.
That old man looks very honest, not like a liar, besides, he should be a neighbor in the town, not a foreigner, he shouldn't deceive people, thinking about it like this, Chen Xi is not a little relieved. The words also moved his heart, dispelling his notion that "soft qigong" was useless. In fact, he wanted to learn qigong to see if it would help his memory and comprehension, so he followed the old man in a daze, and he called the old man Master Liang.
Later, Chen Xi bought a book from the head of the Shaolin warrior monk in the bookstore, which introduced some of the practice methods of the basic internal strength of the Shaolin Temple, and he found that the so-called internal strength in martial arts can actually be regarded as a type of qigong. Since then, he has really studied with Master Liang with his heart.
Chen Xi has been studying qigong with Master Liang for more than half a year, and he will practice it for a while every night before going to bed, and go to the square every Sunday morning to find Master Liang. After studying for so long, Chen Xi didn't feel any changes in his body, but when he practiced, he felt really comfortable. And when I practice harder, I tend to be in better spirits during that time, I don't want to doze off in class, and my physical strength seems to be more abundant, and I can fight with others to do crouches. And when you are lazy, your mental and physical state is much worse.
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Chen Xi sat cross-legged on the bed, but found that it was not easy to be quiet today. Originally, because most people are off tomorrow, they are the most relaxed on weekend nights, and they are not in the mood to study or work or anything, but they want to relax and relax. The reason why he will practice automatically early tonight is because he hasn't worked hard in the past few days, so he wants to make up for it temporarily.
Chen Xi didn't know what the name of the qigong he practiced was, because Master Liang didn't tell him, he just said that it was an ordinary qigong. Chen Xi didn't care about it, anyway, it didn't cost money, did he still want to learn a famous qigong?
The bat under the bed didn't know if it was hungry or not, and let out a low cry, but it seemed to understand that it was in a human room, so it was very quiet.
Chen Xi could hear the call of the bat, but he was used to it, anyway, if it didn't look for food by itself, it deserved to starve to death, how did he know what to find to feed the bats? If the rats are better, just leave some leftovers. Bats: Who knows their habits? Anyway, Chen Xi also looked for books in the library, but he didn't see the relevant materials, so he couldn't ask the teacher how to feed the bats, right?
He turned off the light to practice, and his parents thought that he was tired for a week, and he wanted to sleep early today, so they didn't bother him.
Chen Xi tossed for a long time before slowly entering the state, and gradually practiced meditation exercises according to the method taught by Master Liang. Maybe you can practice deep internal skills! That's what he always thinks and expects.
Even if you meditate a lot, when you just cross your legs, your calves will be very painful, but the process will be a little faster, and it won't hurt soon. Like Chen Xi's meditation of three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, of course, it will hurt for a long time, and this period of time is also a time when there are a lot of distractions, so time passes very slowly.
When you really enter the state of qigong, or calm down, then time is no longer a burden, and it may feel like half a day has actually passed for a while.
When Chen Xi "woke up" from the qigong state, he didn't know how long it had been, anyway, it was already dark everywhere, and there were no human voices or TV sounds, everyone had already fallen asleep, it should have been late at night. He slowly lifted his legs down, and sat cross-legged for so long, both legs were already paralyzed, of course, he couldn't jump up like in martial arts novels, and he couldn't stand up immediately like in TV. He stretched his legs straight on the bed, then rubbed his hands for a while, allowing his legs to return to normal blood circulation, and then collapsed to sleep.
Early the next morning, Chen Xi got up and went for a run.
Said to be running, in fact he is now heading straight to the square. There are already many people exercising in the morning, which is also the result of the encouragement and publicity of the government departments in order to implement the "Outline of the National Fitness Plan" just promulgated by the state.
What made Chen Xi particularly embarrassed was that every time he went, Master Liang was already practicing there. Sometimes he went a little earlier, and Master Liang was already there. He didn't even know what time the old man got up, probably the old people slept for a short time.
Sure enough, when Chen Xi arrived today, Master Liang was already there again. He roughly inquired about Chen Xi's progress this week, and Chen Xi insisted that he was very serious and worked hard, but there was no progress. Master Liang didn't go to verify Chen Xi's progress, probably not easy to test, right? He began to instruct Chen Xi to practice.
The environment often creates people's behavior, and in the quiet atmosphere around and everyone is practicing seriously, Chen Xi also practiced meticulously. Most of the people around him are elderly, and there are also some middle-aged people, only Chen Xi is a "child", so he seems a little abrupt, but everyone practices very hard, and no one will pay attention to these.
As the sun rose, the people who were exercising in the morning slowly dispersed, and Master Liang greeted Chen Xi, and he also left. Chen Xi is a rare day a week to practice, usually in the morning can only move a little in his room to go to the morning self-study, so he has to hold on a little longer, as long as there are still people in the square to practice, he will generally continue to practice, of course, there is no one, he is embarrassed to "dance solo" here.
"Look, I'm right, right? Our Master Chen is here to practice Kung Fu! ”