The Surging News reporter Huang Xiaohe
The documentary "Fighting Kung Fu", produced by the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Tourism, will premiere worldwide on CGTN's English news channel on November 16 and November 17, and will be launched on CGTN's language channels in the near future, as well as on Macao Radio and Television, covering Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia.
"Fighting Kung Fu" poster
Wing Chun, Hong Quan, Clematis, Choi Lee Fo Fist... The martial arts tradition in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has deep roots and plays a unique role in the inheritance and international dissemination of traditional Chinese martial arts. The open, diverse and inclusive social and cultural atmosphere of the Greater Bay Area has enabled many martial arts schools that are on the verge of being lost to be preserved and passed on here, becoming the "living fossils" of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese martial arts. It is from here that Kung Fu goes international, becoming a symbol of Chinese culture in the world and triggering the national identity of Chinese people all over the world.
"Fighting Kung Fu" chronicles the efforts of three new Cantonese to take root in tradition, return martial arts to Chinese routine, and evoke lost physical memories. In them, we see the past and future of traditional Chinese martial arts.
The creative team visited Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhaoqing, as well as a number of traditional martial arts inheritors in Hong Kong and Macao, looking for traditional martial arts skills and martial arts spirit, questioning the contemporary significance of traditional martial arts, and looking for ways to creatively inherit and develop traditional Chinese martial arts in the context of the construction strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Stills from "Fighting Kung Fu"
Zhang Yaxin, the film's executive producer, professor at the Communication University of China and doctoral supervisor, said: "We are not looking for martial arts masters, but looking for the possibility that traditional Chinese martial arts can truly enter the life of ordinary Chinese and exude new vitality." We have found such a figure in the most traditional, at the same time the most modern and open Greater Bay Area in China, which allows us to see the hope of the development and inheritance of traditional Chinese martial arts in the new era. ”
Turning over the history of the development of martial arts in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, many heroes and heroes have emerged. In them, we can not only feel the majestic physical strength contained in traditional Chinese martial arts, but also let people feel the martial courage and patriotic spirit of those who practice martial arts.
In the three protagonists of "Fighting Kung Fu", Chen Huijun, coach of the Children's Awakening Lion Team of Guangzhou Liede Boyi Wushu Center, Feng Yihui, coach of Guangzhou Juying Martial Arts Center, Feng Yihui, coach of Hong Quan, and Ma Lianzhen, professor of the School of Physical Education of South China Normal University and founder of Jiangong College, we see the adherence to and inheritance of the values of justice, courage and courage in the spirit of traditional martial arts, as well as the importance and value of these to the healthy development of Chinese youth.
Chen Huijun, coach of the Children's Awakening Lion Team of Guangzhou Liede Boyi Wushu Center, is a typical "post-80s" who studied law at university and worked in a financial institution after graduation. At the age of 28, he married and had children, and married into Liede Village in Guangzhou. Every Spring Festival and Dragon Boat Festival in Liede Village, the gongs and drums of waking lions and dragon boats awaken the martial arts cells in her body, and she has since embarked on an atypical life trajectory.
Feng Jiazu learned Hong Quan with Tan Min, Hong Xiguan's apprentice. By Feng Yihui, Hong Fist had been passed down in the Feng family for six generations. The family's history and glory became a burden on his shoulders. Although he has shining titles and honors such as the representative inheritor of Hongquan, the intangible cultural heritage of Guangzhou, and the deputy secretary-general of the Hongquan Professional Committee of the Guangdong Wushu Association, in an era of peace and peace, it is not an easy task for children to love Hongquan and for parents to accept Hongquan.
The Ma family is the most representative martial arts family in contemporary China, and the family tradition has a long history. During the Republic of China period, he participated in the creation of the Central Guoshu Museum and promoted the revival of Guoshu. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ma Fengtu compiled and compiled the "Eight Knives for Breaking the Wind" for Feng Yuxiang's northwest army units, which became a spiritual symbol for enhancing the morale and confidence of the people.
Produced by Guangzhou Universal Ruidu Cultural Communication Co., Ltd., "Fighting Kung Fu" brings together outstanding documentary production talents from Guangzhou and China, with Xu Li, a famous music producer and winner of the Best Music Sound Award of the China Documentary Academy Award, as the music director, and Wang Weiyu, a young teacher of Shanghai Normal University who has been shortlisted for a number of international animation film festivals, as the opening animation design.
Editor-in-charge: Cheng Yu
Proofreader: Liu Wei