Chapter 1 The Age of Qigong Fever

In the early 90s, people were still relatively simple, there was no entertainment, and in addition to watching TV at home at night, it was to create human beings. It's not like now, when materialism is rampant, and I often sing songs every night.

I don't remember when it started, but suddenly there was a burst of qigong fever.

Ma Guocai grew up in this era, I remember that back then, in their town, there was also a junior study class of Zhonggong, and every night in a room of dozens of square meters, it was crowded with people, listening to the people on the podium explain the benefits and practice of Zhonggong. Every morning, there are still a lot of people outside practicing the so-called Zhonggong! Some people say that after practicing, their bodies will get hot or something. Anyway, at that time, I thought that if you didn't learn something about Zhonggong or something, you would be out!

Ma Guocai still vaguely remembers that in the classroom where the class was held, there was still a poster of **, the extra-large kind, on the screen** sitting on the lotus, the back of the head was colorful and bright, the clouds and mist under the lotus, and the hand was holding a seal, like a fairy Buddha. At that time, many people bought and posted at home, had money, and bought his books. Back then, I remember that even the game hall had a poster of him.

At that time, Equestria was only about nine years old, and it was the time when he was young and ignorant, and he was also curious about everything, and he listened to the adults talk amazingly, and he followed a few lessons in it. Well, it was his wife who took him there at that time! He also took a few lessons with him, and there were many uncles and uncles he knew. It's all from a small town, and they don't know each other and look familiar. They all listened carefully there, and followed the lecturer to learn from there.

Looking back on it now, I can't remember the specifics of what I said.

It didn't take long for Zhonggong to begin to fade away. It wasn't until more than ten years later that Ma Guo occasionally looked through the news and information and learned that the full name of Zhonggong was "Chinese Health Puzzle Gong". In 1999, "Zhonggong" was banned, and in January 2000, he illegally entered the United States and was later detained in Guam. In June of the same year, the Chinese government was wanted on suspicion of women, murder and forgery of documents. In September, the United States Immigration Department detained ** who had been smuggled into the country at the beginning of the year, but released him on 17 April 2001. Subsequently, ** regarded himself as a dissident, and also established a so-called shadow government and appointed himself "president". In 2003, ** was prosecuted on suspicion of violently beating and kidnapping housekeeper He Nanfang. On July 31, 2006, he died in a car accident in the United States, along with his female secretary and driver.

There's a lot of information in it!

In the nineties, there were often some people who sold medicine in the town when they were in the market, which is now known as selling dog skin plasters. At that time, the medicine sellers were still quite dedicated, shouting and waiting for more people, there would be performances, splitting pebbles. With a roar, the pebbles were split in half. At that time, I didn't know that this was a hard qigong performance, but I just thought those people were very powerful.

Ma Guocai also learned luck when he was a child, and once learned to split red bricks to play, but it was a pain, and he almost thought his hand was broken. He couldn't understand how such a large pebble could be split by hand? Look at this delicate and tender little hand, and then look at the intact bricks, and give up decisively.

Occasionally, there is a market in the town, and some small performance troupes come over, and the ticket is two to three yuan. Although Ma Guocai's family was not very wealthy back then, it was not bad compared to other children in the town. Occasionally, I would go to my parents and ask for a few dollars to see it. In my current impression, I still vaguely remember a few performances, one is a qigong performance, palm-pressing beer bottles, and I still feel that I remember it deeply. At that time, there was no concept of qigong until I watched those performances!

I remember that the performer was about 20 years old, put an empty beer bottle on the table, palmed one hand to the bottom of the bottle, the other palm to the mouth of the bottle, and drank softly, as if the beer bottle had not touched it, and the beer bottle snapped, and it broke like that. At the beginning, I just felt that it was too powerful, so amazing, I really didn't understand how it was done?

There is also a performance in which you lick a red-hot piece of iron with your tongue. There are iron-striking people in the town, and when I was a child, I often went to see the iron-striker, naturally until the red-hot iron piece was hot, but the master was able to lick it several times and again, and his tongue didn't do anything at all. Ma Guocai really wanted to ask the master, master, how does it taste, is it delicious?

Occasionally, when I think back to these two performances, I still feel very magical, because I was very close to the performers at that time, and it was just over a meter away, and I could see it clearly.

There are also three performances that can often be seen on TV on the Internet now, with fingers buttoning bricks, which are decrypted on the Internet, and I won't mention them now; there is also a spear tip piercing the throat, hard qigong performances, which are also performed a lot now; and the last one is a back slag of glass, that is, naked, and then lying on top of the glass slag, and the other person holds it and falls on it.

These are the most memorable performance projects of Ma Guocai when he was a child, and no one mentioned anything at that time, this is a professional performance, don't imitate anything. When he was a child, the most he did was to chop bricks by hand, and if he was afraid of pain, he would put on a book and occasionally come a few times. Later, those bricks that were not strong, he could grit his teeth and split a piece, but the result was that his hands hurt for a while, but then he grew up and knew that in addition to practicing hard qigong, he also needed medicine to assist him in practice, otherwise it would be easy to practice and hurt his body, so he would never do this stupid thing again!

**The 10s was also an era of martial arts fever, due to regional differences, many TV dramas in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 80s were not available in the mainland until the 90s. At that time, the most memorable ones were "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Chen Zhen, Guo Jing, and Huang Rong also entered his sight. Of course, Equestria didn't have any feelings about the spirit inside, love or something, and at that time, a little kid was naturally interested in the martial arts inside. What a lost fist, the eighteen palms of the dragon, the nine yin scriptures, and the dog stick method. I fantasize that if I learn these kung fu, then I can pay it back, that flying around, I can break a tree with one palm, and I can sweep out candles with my fist, and I am excited to think about it.

So much so that when I played with children later, taking a stick was a dog stick, a quick fist was a lost boxing, and a palm was the eighteen palms of the dragon. Sometimes lighting a candle at home is either practicing boxing or palming. Occasionally extinguish the candle with one palm, then I have to be self-absorbed for a while, brother, and finally practice the palm style.

Now listening to songs such as "The Great Wall Will Never Fall" and "Iron Blood Pill Heart", it seems that I can still recall some of the feelings of the past, like these songs, which have carried a deep imprint of the times.

**The 10th century should belong to the era of martial arts!

In the distance of the youthful age, these dreams of martial arts qigong are also growing up, and they gradually understand that those things on TV are just some fictional things.

The pressure of studying also suddenly increased with the arrival of junior high school. Ma Guocai is not a smart child, his memory is poor, and he may not remember the texts that others can memorize in about ten minutes. The only thing that makes him happy is that his comprehension skills are still good, so his grades can still be maintained around average.

Even so, every time the family sees his grades, they compare them with him, saying who you see, the grades are so good, you, this what, that or something, makes him Alexander. The most annoying thing to compare with whom.,It's okay at first.,I can bear to feel that I should fight for breath.,To study hard.,But then I was gradually nagged by the family into an old fritter.,Say it.,Anyway, that's it.,Started to break the jar and broke it.。

When he was in his second year of junior high school, there was a major event in the school that year, a senior did not do well in the midterm exam, specifically because the teacher said a few words to him, or because he felt stressed, ran to the school bathhouse at noon, wrapped his neck with a wire, and hanged himself in the bathroom. So far, the bathroom has basically become a forbidden place for students, anyway, he has never gone there to take a bath again, and it is said that the school later invited a Taoist priest to spend time in the bathroom.

He doesn't know how to deal with it later, but after that incident, the school felt a lot more relaxed.

At that time, Ma Guocai's biggest dream may be that he doesn't study, he can be like an adult, he can do whatever he wants (in his impression when he was a child, adults were like this, and he didn't understand until he grew up, and he had more troubles about growing up when he grew up), and he didn't have to get up early to study, which was the happiest.

When I was studying, I was looking forward to the end of class after class, thinking about why it was not enough to take lunch after class, and I looked forward to the weekend coming soon every day. Of course, he actually likes the labor class, because the labor class has several classes in a row, and he doesn't need to read. Anyway, at that time, I just didn't study, I could do anything.

Because it is a township school, they often clean up the weeds and garbage on the campus in the labor class, occasionally have to fertilize the school's orange orchard, or go outside to catch grass and feed the fish. Once a year, I pick up sludge from the school's pond! There is still a week or so of each semester, and it is a work-study program, and most of them go outside to pick wild chrysanthemums and so on.

I'm afraid that there are no more such activities for elementary and junior high school students today!

Ma Guocai now thinks back to what happened when he was a child, and he thinks it's quite interesting. It's really a young and carefree time, think about the time when I was in the video hall outside, secretly watching blockbuster movies, well, adults watching, climbing out after self-study at night to catch up on TV dramas, going to the mountains to find wild fruits, and a few playmates wrestling in the grass. A group of children played in the river with their bare buttocks, climbed to the trees and dived, swam in the dog planing style, held their breath the longest in the water, touched the fish, and there was no pollution in the river at that time. Think about it now, although the quadathlon and the dog planing pentathlon, I never go to the river to play anymore, because the river is too dirty now.

In the first few years when he went out to study, he occasionally went back to his alma mater to take a look during the summer and winter vacations, but now, the times have changed, and the people have changed, so he didn't go back!

Ma Guocai's family also closed down because of the town's factory, and in 98, the family moved back to the countryside from the town.