Chapter 22 Teaching Tai Chi
signed, add a new chapter, as a celebration)
Accidentally, our classmate Li Zhaoyuan played the role of Shan Tianfang's storytelling master and talked for an afternoon.
It was getting late, Li Zhaoyuan also had a dry mouth, took a sip of tea, and said, "Today, I will tell you so much, and I will have time and opportunity to tell you about the deeds of other ancestors in the future." ”
The three heroes of the Tie clan were about to withdraw, and Li Zhaoyuan suddenly thought that since he had accepted the apprentices, he wanted to open a mountain and establish a faction, which was to be more solemn and formal. So he stopped the three Tie brothers and said: "Since the teacher has accepted the three of you brothers as apprentices, then I will worship the heavens and worship the ancestors, and tell the heavens and the earth and the ancestors that my Taiji Gate will spread out in this infinite world, and ask the heavens and the earth and the ancestors to bless my Taiji Gate to carry forward." ”
Tie Long replied: "What the gentleman said is very true. I don't know when the ceremony of worshipping the heavens and worshiping the ancestors will be held?"
"Well, I think it's tomorrow morning when the sun is born. Li Zhaoyuan said seriously: "You guys prepare well tonight...... so Li Zhaoyuan said what to prepare, what to need, etc., and let the three apprentices go out.
Then he thought about it carefully, after accepting the apprentices, how to teach them, and what should he teach them, so as not to lose the face of their dignified Tai Chi Sect originator.
Today's Li Zhaoyuan has an amazing memory, not only what he has seen before, what he has heard, but also some useful and useless things can be found from the corner of his memory. Now his brain is like an accurate database of information, as long as he wants any memory, he can find it as soon as he looks for it.
In addition to his own memories, he also has the memories of Wu Fulan. As long as you look carefully, you can basically find what you are looking for.
At night, Li Zhaoyuan was still harassed by the two little girls. However, he is not as overwhelmed as he was at the beginning. Although there are still some unbearable ones, they can be considered to cope with it easily.
At dawn on the second day, the three Tielong brothers came to invite. Follow the three of them all the way to the backyard of the dart game. The backyard is a martial arts field, and the surrounding weapon racks are full of weapons, such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks. There are also some tools for refining the body, including stone axes, stone piers, stone pillars, and so on.
An altar has been placed in the middle of the martial arts field, on which are placed incense burners, red candles, fruits, sandalwood, wine and other offerings, and there is also a tablet made by people yesterday, which is written in gold characters the position of Zhang Sanfeng, the ancestor of Taijimen. Several podiums were placed under the altar.
Li Zhaoyuan asked people to light the candles and light the sandalwood, which was the beginning of worshipping the heavens and worshipping the ancestors.
The only witnesses were some of the dart head dart masters of the game. Originally, the three brothers of the Tie clan wanted to invite some celebrities and big people in Tiger Landing City to watch the ceremony. Li Zhaoyuan felt that this was his temporary idea, and the creation of Taiji Gate was just a small step. I don't know what will happen in the future, and I am too weak to be able to open the mountain gate and accept disciples widely. It's better to be cautious and keep a low profile. It is just to accept apprentices in a small area, and there is no need to make a big show and make it known to the people.
So it's just a part of the people in the game who know about it.
Li Zhaoyuan first took three sticks of incense and lit them, knelt on the podium in the middle, held the incense high, bowed three times, and inserted the incense burner. Then take a bowl of wine, kneel again, dip your right hand in the wine, point to the sky, point to the ground, and point to the people, and finally spill the wine on the ground.
After worshipping heaven and earth, Li Zhaoyuan took three more incense sticks, lit them, and then knelt on the podium in the middle. He held up the incense and said: "The ancestor Zhang Sanfeng Xianzun is above, the disciple Li Zhaoyuan is favored by heaven, and the teacher Chen XX (when he was a child, he was called the enlightenment teacher of Taijiquan, but it was all called Teacher Chen, and he didn't know his real name) to teach Taijiquan, and now the disciple has learned a little. Now the disciple is in the Xuanwu world, and he sees that there is no inheritance of my Taiji Gate here. Therefore, the disciples want to create Tai Chi Gate here, accept disciples to teach me the unique knowledge of Tai Chi Gate, spread the branches and leaves, and carry forward the way of all things in my Tai Chi Gate. Please bless the Taiji Gate to flourish in the Xuanwu world. Disciple Li Zhaoyuan bowed. ”
Li Zhaoyuan didn't know much about how to write the sacrificial text for worshipping the ancestors, so he could only pull a few words casually, bow three more times, insert the incense into the incense burner, and pour three glasses of wine to finish the matter.
Then Li Zhaoyuan asked the three apprentices of Tielong, Tiehu, and Tiebao to kneel down and worship the ancestor together, and informed the patriarch that he had accepted three apprentices, and then read out the door rules, so that the apprentices would remember it in the future. The farce is finally complete.
Li Zhaoyuan can be regarded as really accepting three apprentices, and became the head of the Taiji Sect with only four people.
Some of the dart masters who participated in the Tianxianglou banquet on the side, saw the three masters as apprentices, and they were also very envious, they had all seen the competition between Li Zhaoyuan and Xiong Batian, and they also admired Li Zhaoyuan very much.
As soon as the ceremony was over, the dart heads and dart masters rushed to ask for apprenticeship. Only the apprentices of the three heroes of the Tie clan thought to themselves: Our master is from the Taiji Gate, aren't we also from the Taiji Gate?
Seeing that so many people asked for apprenticeship, Li Zhaoyuan did not immediately agree. He said to the three disciples of the Iron Dragon, Iron Tiger and Iron Leopard: "After I accept your three apprentices, I will no longer accept apprentices easily. In the future, the disciples of Taiji Sect can take in disciples by themselves. However, in addition to the six musts and six musts, I also have to see whether the person's moral character is good. The most important thing for those of us who practice martial arts is martial virtue. If the wicked person learns my Tai Chi Sect, it will bring disaster to the world, to the teacher, and to my reputation. ”
Li Zhaoyuan paused, and continued solemnly: "In the future, if you and the other three accept apprentices, you must clearly recognize their virtues, no matter how high their qualifications are, they must not accept them as apprentices." If you meet a disciple who is willing to apprentice in the future, but you also learn the martial arts of other sects, you don't have to care. Don't care about the portal. You can remember what the teacher said. ”
"Yes, the disciple Tielong (Iron Tiger, Iron Leopard) must follow the teachings of the master. The three brothers replied in unison.
After Li Zhaoyuan and the three disciples finished explaining, he said to those darts who wanted to apprentice, "I won't accept any more apprentices, if you are willing to join my Taijimen, you can go to my three disciples to apprentice." If they are willing to take you as an apprentice, I am willing to teach you the same Tai Chi Sect. ”
After that, he ignored the dart masters and said to the three apprentices: "I'll go back and rest first, and the three of you will come to me again in the afternoon to teach you the martial arts of Taijimen." After that, he left the arena.
Those dart masters knew that they could not worship directly under the disciple of the immortal Li Zhaoyuan, but that they had to worship his disciples as disciples, and they were also very familiar with the details of the iron dragon, iron tiger, and iron leopard. Some of the dart masters are martial arts people recruited by the Sanxiong Dart Bureau, and they generally have divisions. If they can worship under the immortal sect, their master will not only not blame when they know it, but they will also be very honored. But now they want to worship the three brothers of the Tie family, and some of them hesitate, in case they can't achieve anything in the future, it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes. But some dart masters, don't think so, even if you can't become an apprentice of an immortal, you can become an apprentice. As long as you can learn more advanced martial arts, there is nothing to hesitate.
In this way, some dart masters have become the second generation of disciples of Taijimen. Some people don't have a teacher because of the door. But most of them will regret why they hesitated in the first place, and no one thought that in the future, Taijimen would become the number one sect in the mortal world. But that's a later story, so I won't mention it more.
In the afternoon, the three brothers of the Iron Dragon, the Iron Tiger and the Iron Leopard came to see the master Li Zhaoyuan as scheduled.
Li Zhaoyuan decided to teach them the theory of Tai Chi first. These are some fragments of Tai Chi that they have found in their memories, desperately searching for him. He doesn't care if what he said is right or not, whether it's good or not, let's make the three apprentices stunned first. lest when they learn Tai Chi, they first feel that it is too easy, and then feel that it is useless, and they cannot comprehend the mystery and produce impatience and impetuousness. After all, it is difficult to learn Taijiquan intensively and deeply.
So Master Li Zhaoyuan began to apply the philosophy of Tai Chi. (from the Book of Changes) Yi has Taiji, the first birth of two instruments, two instruments give birth to four elephants, and four elephants give birth to gossip. (from the Song Dynasty Zhou Dunyi's "Taiji Diagram") is infinite and Taiji. Tai Chi moves and gives birth to yang, moving poles and stillness, and stillness gives birth to yin. The static pole is removing, one moving and one static, and each other is its root. Divide yin and yang, and stand on the two instruments. ...... (From Zhu Xi's "Taiji Diagram Commentary") Taiji Cloud is the ear of the principle of heaven and earth. Because it has no instrument and form, and the principle of all things in heaven and earth, it is everywhere, so it is said that there is no pole and Taiji, and because it has the principle of all things in heaven and earth, but there is no instrument and form, so it is said: Taiji is infinite...... Wait a minute.
Li Zhaoyuan said that he was all covered in clouds and fog, and he was finally fooled. The Iron Dragon and the Iron Leopard were thoughtful, while the black-faced Iron Tiger was drowsy. Looking at the performance of these three brothers, he knew that the goal had been achieved, so he didn't say much. He decided to start by teaching them a simple routine, Twenty-Four Tai Chi, to relax their brains.
So Li Zhaoyuan said: "As a teacher, I will teach you 24 styles of Taijiquan now." As long as you can master this fist, you will definitely improve your martial arts. You don't look at it well, you only practice three times for the teacher, and how much you can learn depends on your qualifications. ”
Li Zhaoyuan stood up, opened his left foot, bent his five fingers, naturally close together, slightly bent his hands in front of him, bent his legs and squatted, and slowly boxed: "The first style is the starting pose, the second type is the wild horse mane, the third type is the white crane wings, and the fifth type is to hug the knees and step hard...... 10th type cloud hand, 11th type single whip...... The twenty-third type of cross, the twenty-fourth type of closing. "His hands and eyes correspond, his mind and body follow each other, his intentions are not forceful, there is stillness in movement, movement and stillness are combined, the qi is sinking, the spirit is compatible, the rigidity and softness are combined, the style is even, and it is endless.
Li Zhaoyuan has practiced three times in a row, and the young qualifications of the Iron Leopard are also good, he remembers almost everything the first time, and he remembers them all the second time. The Iron Dragon martial arts are the highest, and the experience is also rich, so remember it the third time. Only Tiehu watched it three times and still couldn't remember it completely, he was anxious, and he didn't dare to say that he was stupid, so he could only sweat in a hurry.
Li Zhaoyuan didn't care about them, and after the drill three times, he asked them to go out to practice by themselves. It's up to them to understand it. Li Zhaoyuan went back to his room to practice.