Chapter 136: The Origin of Martial Arts
Genius remembers in a second [Aishang Novel Network biquge.info] to provide you with wonderful novels to read.
Ji Aojian asked, "Why is internal strength the heart method?"
Ji Yuxue said, "This has to start from the beginning." Martial arts evolved from the battle of the soldiers, and the first important thing in the selection of generals by the imperial court was the kung fu of bows, horses, and blades. Shaolin is the ancestor of foreign boxing, but at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Jiajing helped the Tang Dynasty, and Jiajing helped suppress the Japanese Kou, and the elites sent were all stick monks. Therefore, the most powerful thing in the fight between the rivers and lakes is still the blade kung fu. ”
Ji Aojian nodded. No matter how high your martial arts are, you are afraid of kitchen knives. The saying that fists are one sword and three is not about fun.
The Iceberg Divine Palm of the Sea Jade Dragon is extremely powerful, but to repel the siege of a group of first-class masters, it is necessary to use the blade.
Ji Yuxue said, "Since blade kung fu is the most important, why has boxing been prevalent in the world for hundreds of years, and all kinds of foreign and internal boxing have emerged in endlessly?"
Ji Aojian thought for a while, "This is because the Manchus occupy the Central Plains, and they are afraid that the Han people will rebel, so they don't allow the people to practice their blades." Those who practice martial arts have no choice but to turn battlefield kung fu into fist and foot kung fu and practice diligently, so as not to forget my Chinese martial arts. ”
Ji Yuxue said, "What do you think of this statement?"
Ji Aojian has seen this statement in later generations, and he has long doubted in his heart, "The boxing method was prevalent in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Xianming Dynasty was not a foreign regime, why is there already this omen?"
Ji Yuxue said, "After the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms entered the Song Dynasty, the country turned to emphasize literature over martial arts, and the folk practice of martial arts was gradually prosecuted. So the more he went to the later generations, the more he was light and heavy. ”
Since ancient times, China has integrated the army and the people, and the country's soldiers mainly come from the people in the countryside, and the Warring States period was a militaristic system, and the whole people had to practice martial arts desperately, ready to be conscripted to the battlefield at any time.
In the prosperous Han and Tang dynasties, civilian soldiers were still the main force of the army. In the turbulent times of the Wei and Jin dynasties, the dock walls were dense, and the people practiced martial arts to protect themselves. In these years, those who practiced martial arts were fierce and fierce, and they did not fall behind in fighting with nomadic tribes. Even if it is chaotic, it cannot be swept away in China. When the Sui Dynasty in the north reunified the country, it had completed sinicization and was regarded as the Chinese regime by the people of the world.
Before the Song Dynasty, the four words "out of the general into the phase" were the dreams of ambitious men in the world. Both civil and military have outstanding performance, and the most beautiful is the scenery.
At that time, the scholars were also unremittingly practicing martial arts, always wearing swords, and they were proud to serve the country in battle. The Tang Dynasty is a prosperous era of poetry, and there is a genre of Biansai poetry. Li Changji also has a poem: Why don't men take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures?
Since the Song Dynasty established the national policy of emphasizing literature over military force, the pride of "going out and going into the prime minister" has become a thing of the past, and the folk martial arts style has also begun to decline. At the time, everyone believed that even if the military general led the army to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, returned to the dynasty in triumph, and offered victory in the Taimiao, it was not comparable to the glory of the champion and the first. There is a saying among the people that "good iron does not hit nails, and good men do not serve soldiers".
Although after the overthrow of the Northern Song Dynasty, the folk martial arts of the Southern Song Dynasty recovered slightly. However, it has always been the state's unchanging policy to contain military force with civilian language. The general view of the world in the Ming and Qing dynasties: among the hundred industries, the industry is the first.
Ji Yuxue asked, "Xiaojian, you said that after the end of the Yuan Dynasty, boxing was prevalent everywhere, did this enter the prosperous era of martial arts?"
Ji Aojian thought about it again and again, and hesitated, "It should be." ”
Ji Yuxue asked again, "Compared with the ancient times, are there more people practicing martial arts now, or are there fewer of them?"
Ji Ao Kendao, "In ancient times, the whole people practiced martial arts, and naturally there were more people who practiced martial arts than now. ”
Ji Yuxue said, "Why were there few boxing techniques, fewer moves, and fewer routines at that time?"
Ji Aojian suddenly had a flash of inspiration in front of him, "Because at that time, everyone needed to practice martial arts for self-protection, listen to the call of the country, and have to practice boxing skills, and have to practice without boxing skills." ”
In ancient times, everyone had to practice martial arts, and the daily fight was like a battlefield fight, and gradually accumulated experience and know-how on weekdays, although there were not many fixed moves, but those with excellent qualifications and comprehension were not worse than later generations in mastery of martial arts.
The famous generals who have been fighting on the battlefield for many years have found their own unique skills. It's just that everyone in the world has been practicing martial arts since childhood, and they have realized their own understanding of martial arts since childhood, and they don't need to copy and learn other people's martial arts completely, so there is no need for martial arts masters to make up too many fixed moves. At that time, there were horse pistols, drag-knife schemes, and three-plate axes, but there were not many complete and complex martial arts routines.
Ji Ao Kendao, "After the Two Song Dynasty, the folk martial arts style declined, and the interest of ordinary people in practicing martial arts decreased greatly. The number of people who practice martial arts has decreased dramatically, and if you still rely on indiscriminate fighting to accumulate experience and explore martial arts, not only will the results be slow, but there will be fewer and fewer people who are interested. Therefore, the martial arts masters sorted out their respective martial arts to organize a complete set of routines and moves, which was convenient for training disciples. ”
However, he thought in his heart that in fact, the productive forces of ancient China were constantly improving, and after the Song Dynasty, the living standards of the Chinese people continued to improve. As soon as this person lives a good life, and the country does not advocate martial arts, who is willing to bother to learn martial arts, of course, there must be a fixed number of paths, so that they can follow and learn.
Ji Yuxue said, "Exactly. The first in the Song Dynasty to organize martial arts into a complete martial arts routine was a military family. ”
Ji Aojian asked, "Could it be the Yang family generals?"
Ji Yuxue nodded, "The Yang family's marksmanship is the first gun in the world, seven langs and eight tigers, eight sisters and nine sisters, and there are people who are masters of marksmanship for generations." There is a saying in the two Song Dynasty that for 20 years, the pear flower gun is invincible in the world. ”
Ji Aojian thought to himself, making up the marksmanship out of the routine and passing it on, it can really greatly improve the success rate. This day, the Bofu family doesn't seem to have any mediocre talents, and it's very similar to my family.
Ji Yuxue said, "After that, there are 800,000 sect leaders of the forbidden army who explored and sorted out the martial arts. ”
Ji Aojian immediately remembered the names of Wang Jin, Lin Chong, Wang Wenbin and others, and asked, "Are there many leaders in the forbidden army?"
Ji Yuxue said, "There are about two hundred sect heads, big and small. ”
Ji Aojian coughed, "There are really a lot of teachers, it's like an academy." ”
Ji Yuxue said, "At that time, there was also a martial arts school that inherited martial arts, which was the Shaolin Temple that began to circulate from the Northern and Southern Dynasties. ”
Ji Ao Kendao, "At this time, the Shaolin Temple must have also begun to sort out the martial arts routines?"
Ji Yuxue said, "In the past dynasties, there have been masters who have figured out the true meaning of martial arts from the battlefield fighting, or from the body of birds and beasts, although they may not have created complete martial arts, but they have also left a lot of notes. Shaolin Temple has always been a holy place for martial arts exchanges, the information preserved in this aspect is very rich, in the time of the two Song Dynasty, the monks in the temple and the martial arts masters from outside, they summarized and sorted out a lot of martial arts on the blades and fists, and spread out to the outside. With this origin, there was a saying that the world's martial arts came out of Shaolin at that time. ”
Ji Aojian understood, "Shaolin martial arts are really not all handed down by the Bodhidharma Patriarch. ”
Ji Yuxue said, "Patriarch Bodhidharma is a great master, and naturally there are many martial arts experiences that will be passed on to future generations. But with his own strength, he naturally can't create hundreds or thousands of complete sets of martial arts in Shaolin Temple. ”
Ji Ao Kendao, "I heard Xiao Su mention that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the inner fist faction was in Wudang, and the Shaolin family boxing method was said to be a foreign boxing. ”
Ji Yuxue said, "After the reputation of Shaolin in the world's martial arts spreads, even if someone creates a new boxing technique, the outside world must regard it as having the origin of Shaolin." Shaolin is a Buddhist family and occupies a prominent position in martial arts, and Taoist masters are naturally not angry. After the Yuan Dynasty, the world's Dandao masters gathered in Wudang, with nearly a hundred years of work, to create a series of internal boxing. ”
Ji Aojian asked, "What is Dan Dao?"
Ji Yuxue said, "Taoism emphasizes the cultivation of life, and there are Dan Dao sects and Fu Gong sects. Dan Dao, also known as the Dan Ding faction, was originally a refining of the outer Dan Feisheng, known as the elixir of immortality. After the Tang Dynasty, the Zhong Lu faction created the study of Inner Dan, cultivated Dan Yi in their hearts, and became Jindan Dao. ”
Ji Aojian was a little confused, "This doesn't sound easy to understand. ”
Ji Yuxue said, "Danyi is the state of mind. The success of Jindan is to achieve the state of mind of the great grandmaster, and the hope of soaring. Buddhism preaches the spiritual platform to guide the way, and Taoism says that Jindan soars. ”
Ji Aojian nodded suddenly.
Ji Yuxue said, "Martial arts cultivation can also achieve a supreme state of mind. The unity of spirit and spirit is the state of mind of the famous master, the heart of heaven and earth is the state of mind of the grandmaster, and the induction of heaven and man is the state of mind of the great master. There are countless martial arts masters in the past dynasties, but these personal understandings are difficult to teach to outsiders, and they can only be understood, not spoken. ”
Ji Aojian nodded, how to achieve a state of mind is naturally a very mysterious thing, and you don't understand it.
Ji Yuxue said, "For example, Guan Shengye, he killed Yan Liang, the general of Hebei, in the midst of ten thousand troops, if he didn't have the state of mind to look down on heaven and earth, how could he do this?"
When Guan Yu was in front of the Hebei Army, Cao cāo said, "Hebei people and horses, so majestic!" Guan Gong said: "In my view, it is like a native chicken tile dog ear!" Cao cāo also pointed and said: "Under the cover, the embroidered robe and gold armor, and the one who holds the sword is Yan Liangye." Guan Gong raised his eyes and said, "I look at Yan Liang, such as inserting a label to sell the first ear!"
This kind of arrogant and invincible state is not the same as the lonely and invincible heart of the sixth sister?
Ji Aojian asked, "What is the state of mind of Guan Shengye?"
Ji Yuxue said, "He has Spring and Autumn in his heart. ”
Ji Aojian understood that Guan Yu read the Spring and Autumn Period at night and couldn't let go of the volume, which was also an important factor for him to be called "Master Guan".
Thinking of those super-first-class generals in the Three Kingdoms, when they were over sixty years old, they could all dance with big swords and heavy guns, and the nameless generals were still not their enemies. Don't talk about Lao Huang Zhong, Lao Guan Yu, Lao Zhao Yun, and even Lao Zhang He, they are all very fierce.
At that time, the generals of the world must have at least a small three-element artistic conception, the unity of spirit and spirit, and the self-generated vitality in the body, which is equivalent to the master of the inner family, not those foreign masters whose state has declined sharply after the age of forty or fifty.
Ji Yuxue said, "Dan Dao masters, Ben also practiced martial arts, and the portraits of Taoist priests in the Tang Dynasty mostly walked around with long swords on their backs. ”
Ji Aojian nodded, "Yes, they are all learning from Lu Dongbin." ”
He suddenly reacted, "At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the masters of the Dan Dao gathered in Wudang, could it be that they used the method of cultivation in the state of mind to turn into an inner family kung fu?"
Ji Yuxue said, "Yes, it is the combination of Taoist cultivation and martial arts to create the method of internal cultivation." ”
Any knowledge in this world that is studied to the depths can generate artistic conceptions. Martial arts, medicine, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, meditation and practice, to a certain level, you can get the true meaning, if you also practice the art of strengthening the body, it is possible to achieve the small three yuan.
Martial arts people must start by practicing external skills, and in the long years of qi and blood operation, they have become experts in the regulation of qi and blood.
In ancient times, when martial arts were highly human, and after reaching the three-element realm, they could use their powerful mind to assist in regulating luck and blood, and give birth to a strong force that surpassed external strength.
Ji Aojian understood that it was a very draining and dangerous thing to run qi and blood to a level that surpassed the cultivation of external skills. And a character who is in a successful mood can calmly complete such a move if his mind is strong enough.
Therefore, after the state of mind reaches a certain attainment, if you are a person who practices martial arts, you will naturally be able to improve your qi and blood on the basis of the original external skills, and gradually feel that the vitality is born in the body, and you will naturally have "internal strength".
The practice of Buddhism and Taoism is the kung fu of physical and mental control and temperament polishing, and it pays attention to the cultivation of vitality in the body. The mind is enhanced, the mood is detached, and the study of any knowledge can get twice the result with half the effort, and the courage to improve. If it is used on top of martial arts, it is natural that you can also achieve higher martial arts attainments.
Therefore, the masters of the inner family are not only good at exercising their skills, but also pay attention to the cultivation of their hearts, and almost all of them are masters with profound martial arts.
Ji Yuxue said, "The Taoist Neidan lineage was a Quanzhen sect in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and Zhang Sanfeng, the first person in the Wudang family, was a Quanzhen Taoist. After the Dandao masters created internal strength in Wudang, they called themselves the inner family faction. The method of cultivating qi in the inner family is used in the martial arts, whether it is the operation of qi and blood, or the maintenance and longevity of life, it is better than that of the outer family. Therefore, the inner martial arts are known as true kung fu, and the name overwhelmed the outer family for a while, and naturally overwhelmed the Shaolin Temple, which has a thousand-year-old martial arts heritage. ”
Dan Dao internal strength, full of Jindan practice terminology and various easy-to-learn theories, Tai Chi Liangyi, Five Elements Bagua. So casually flip through a book of theories of inner boxing, Taoism is full of smell.
Ji Ao Kendao, "So the Shaolin Temple has also transformed to the theory of the inner family, and launched the "Yijin Sutra" and "Washing the Marrow Sutra", which are known as the supreme internal strength of the heart. ”
Ji Yuxue said, "Yes, since the Dan Dao state of mind can be turned into internal strength. Then the Zen state of mind can naturally be turned into internal strength. Shaolin is the ancestral court of Zen Buddhism, the monks of the past dynasties have countless experiences in the cultivation of Zen mind, although the "Yijin Sutra" and "Washing the Pulp Sutra" are written by the Bodhidharma Patriarch, but most of them also have the state of mind of the Bodhidharma Patriarch. ”
"Yijin Sutra" and "Washing the Marrow Sutra" were released after the Dandao Inner School, so they actually "absorbed" some of the other party's theories, and there are a lot of Taoist terms in them.
Dan Dao internal strength is the heart method. Zen Tao internal strength is also the method of the heart. In fact, they are all about applying the methods of cultivation to martial arts.
However, it is also a matter of merit to be able to cultivate the ethereal and unpredictable state of mind and present it in the form of martial arts internal strength, so that people in the world can get in touch with one more cultivation method.
The method of inner cultivation, whether it is standing on a stump to gather the spirit, or meditating and pranayama, has requirements for the mind, and in fact it is a practice method.
The first step in the practice is to settle down and be free from distractions. This is in the house is concentrated.
The second step of cultivation is to forget oneself and not be moved by distractions. This is fascinating in this home.
The third step of the practice is enlightenment, generating the Zen heart and the Tao mind, which is carried away in this family, and is the precondition of the "god" of the unity of the small three elements and spirits.
If you look at any book of inner thoughts, you will definitely say that when you are lucky, you must concentrate, throw away distracting thoughts, detach your mind, and sense nature.
Therefore, the process of cultivating any internal strength is also a process of increasing the mind, and the ultimate goal is to improve the state of mind.
Ji Aojian didn't feel that it took much effort when he practiced his family's internal strength and Tu Na Mind Method, because at that time, he had already completed the first two steps under the training of the blue sky above his head and the interference of the sound of the piano.
After that, under the training of the head hanging blade and the hidden edge in the eyebrows, the mind grew rapidly, and the martial arts attainments soon got carried away, and it was much easier to achieve the little three yuan than others.
He was thinking about it in a daze, but he heard the sixth sister say, "Xiaojian, you will open a village in another day, if you still want to practice, hurry up." ”