Southern Shaolin Wuzu Quan, also known as Fujian Nan Quan, was recognized as one of the eight major fist systems of local Nan Quan in Fujian Province in 1984 at the summary meeting of the results of martial arts excavation and collation in Fujian Province.
Shaolin boxing martial arts are divided into two schools: the north and the south. The Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Henan is the authentic North Shaolin Temple, and the Southern Shaolin Temple in Fujian is the representative of the Southern Shaolin Fist. It originated from the Quanzhou Shaolin Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian Province. "The temple is named after the temple because of the wuxian", and the Southern Shaolin Temple plays an important role in spreading and promoting the Southern Fist. Now we often hear of the "southern fist and northern leg", which has formed a distinct northern and southern martial arts school in China.
According to some historical and archaeological studies in recent years, it has been confirmed that there are three Southern Shaolin monasteries in Fujian, which are located in Putian, Quanzhou and Fuqing. Therefore, Fujian is an important birthplace of Chinese Buddhist culture and Shaolin Southern Fist.
Quanzhou City is the development of the Southern Shaolin martial arts, martial arts activities have a long history, Quanzhou South Shaolin was first seen in the "Evergreen" "Baimei Daoist Fengzhi Great Destruction Shaolin Temple", began in the Jin Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Two Song Dynasties, the Quanzhou martial arts culture represented by the Southern Shaolin Martial Arts is an important part of quanzhou's excellent cultural essence. Wuzu Quan has forged an indissoluble relationship with the Shaolin Sect and the coastal areas of southern Fujian.
Zhou Kunmin, the compiler of the "Five Ancestral Fists", pointed out that nanquan is an important part of the culture of southern Fujian, and where there is a sea, there will be Fujian people, where there are Fujian people, there will be Nanquan, and where there is Nanquan, there will be Wuzuquan. Cai Changqing, the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, also said that although its history is not the oldest compared with other fist styles, and it has only been a hundred years since its own creation, it is the most popular boxing school in Fujian. It is simple and practical, and is used for self-combat. Overseas Chinese go abroad to earn a living, self-fitness, with the footprints of overseas Chinese, it spread to Southeast Asian countries, and then spread to five continents, famous all over the world. Therefore, WuzuQuan is the most representative of the Southern Shaolin boxing system, and is the most popular of the seven major fists in Fujian Province and the most widely spread of excellent fists.
Cai Changqing added that the development and spread of WuzuQuan in the world is getting better and better, in 2013, In 2013, The WuzuQuanquan Practitioners in Fujian, Fujian, China, Europe, America, South America, Nanyang, Hong Kong and Macao established the World WuzuQuan Promotion Association in Hong Kong, and held a seminar on the WuzuQuan Technique in Shishi, Fujian Province, and the WuzuQuan masters at home and abroad gathered together to perform, observe and exchange the WuzuQuan Techniques of various branches. At the invitation of the Wushu Research Institute of the General Administration of Sports, Master Zhou Mengyuan became the chief editor of the book "Wuzu Quan" of the "Chinese Martial Arts Duan Yuanyuan System Series Courses". The promotion of Chinese martial arts has inspired many Practitioners of WuzuQuan from all over the world. In addition to the International Southern Shaolin Wuzuquan Friendship Association and the World Wuzuquan Promotion Association, there are also Hakka Kung Fu Culture Research Association, Quanzhou Wuzuquan Research Association and other institutions that actively research, inherit and hold Wuzuquan activities. So that the Five Ancestral Fist can flow in the world and spread to the world.
(Cai Changqing)
Of course, the Five Ancestral Fist could not appear for no reason, and naturally someone created it. Master Cai Yuming is the founder. Cai Yuming, formerly known as Yihe, character Yuming, originally from Wucun, Jinjiang, is a contemporary Wu Xiucai in the late Qing Dynasty. Born with a good martial nature, he resolutely traveled all over The Great River in China, looking for people who gathered martial arts everywhere, he integrated the essence of the various factions in the north and south, and created his own boxing techniques. In order to make it prosperous, the Renyitang Martial Arts Hall was opened to receive disciples and teach Wuzu Quan, which became famous and became the largest boxing school in southern Fujian. Cai Yuming's disciples are all over Fujian, among which the famous ten disciples are commonly known as the Five Ancestors and Ten Tigers.
(Cai Yuming)
Five ancestors, is it five people or five kinds of punches? Non also. Southern Shaolin Wuzu Quan is not a general term for the five martial arts. There are five traditional fists in southern Fujian, including Taizu, Dazun, Luohan, Monkey, White Crane and Wuquan. The Five Ancestral Fists are not taught by five people, nor are they five sets of martial arts. The current Wuzu Quan refers to an independent fist, which has an independent set of practice methods, routine content and technical system.
You Zhusan, the second generation of Wuzu Quan and the former Qing Wujue, pointed out the five sources of Cai Yuming's ChuangQuan in the preface to the Chinese Jiu-Jitsu Compendium, "At the end of fu boxing, ancient and modern celebrities have emerged, and those who have seen it in the world, wuzu fist stick ear." In the first year, the genetic distortion of the distant past was so that scholars were so diverse that they could not see the secrets. That is, to know a little about the doorway, and how brave and fierce, brave to be selfish and timid to be public. This scholar is ashamed to be called, and there are few unscrupulous people. My husband Cai Yuming, who used a bow horse to swim pan, also mastered the Five Ancestral Fist Techniques: White Crane Hand, Qi Tianzhi, Taizu Foot, Da Zun Body, Luo Han Bu Yu Pro Karma, See Fu Bu Wu De Style, Correction Like a Dragon Phoenix, Scattered Like a Sinking Fish. The heart has been sincerely seeking for more than twenty years."
According to the ancient genealogy "Ji Xue Quan Fa Zu", "The First Zu Da Zun Yun Fa. Taizu sectarian posture. The walker teaches. The Arhat showed himself. Mr. Hakutsuru teaches Gang Rou accordingly. Eight just twenty-four soft. Single-handed. It is invincible under heaven." Shaolin Wuzu Fist is a collection of the essence of the five kinds of martial arts of Dazun, Taizu, Luohan, Monkey and White Crane, and the main content can be divided into Wuzu Fist and Six Arts. There are more than forty-eight sets of fist sets. The Six Arts Method is a total of more than thirty-three sets of long, short, and strange weapons.
Cai Changqing, the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, also said that the ancestor Cai Yuming studied the essence of the five fists, walked the four seas, met with martial arts, went to Wu Cunjing, learned from each other's strengths, integrated and penetrated, and sorted out a systematic, distinctive, different from other fists and styled boxing. Because it integrates the essence of the five major fists of Fujian, people call Cai's boxing the Five Ancestral Fists.
The Southern Shaolin Five Ancestral Fist pays attention to waiting for movement, softly controlling rigidity, speeding up against delay, and attacking reality with falsehood. The heaviest posture of the Five Ancestral Fists requires the Head to stand tall, the teeth to be closed and the neck is strong, the ears are listening to the eight directions, the eyes are walking in all directions, the two shoulders are falling and the heart is guarded, the ten toes are fully born, the buwu pays attention to the hind limbs, the five bars are pre-empted, the large vertebrae are removed to pass the middle qi, the front of the pocket is enough to solidify the bladder, the lower abdomen must be defended, and the tail is clamped. With Shan Tian's breathing, fierce and powerful, infinite changes in hands and limbs, solid footsteps, strong explosive force, there are traditional southern fist fist techniques, but also has the advantages of the northern school of long fist and leg method, is one of the orthodox Shaolin boxing techniques that can be attacked and retreated, is a set of simple and easy to learn traditional southern fist, and can make the body strong.
Wuzu Fist Iron Arm Gong is one of the seventy-two masterpieces of Shaolin, which is a hard qigong stunt and is an amazing Shaolin martial art. Simply put, it is the iron cloth shirt and iron head on the arm. This art has become China's national intangible cultural heritage and Hong Kong's intangible cultural heritage. According to the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, intangible cultural heritage refers to "practices, performances, expressions, knowledge and skills and related tools, objects, crafts and cultural sites that are considered by groups, groups and sometimes individuals as their cultural heritage". The representative inheritor is Choi Cheung Ching, Vice President of the Hong Kong World Five Ancestral Fist Promotion Association.
Cai Changqing has the unique skill of "waving an arm and breaking a stone", this "iron arm gong" is one of the five major exercises of the Five Ancestral Fists, which belongs to the masculine strength, which is a special practice of the arm and hard skills. Cai Changqing said that as the name suggests, "iron arm gong" is to train the "bridge hand", that is, the forearm, to be as hard as iron, and as for what level and hardness of cultivation, it depends on interest and ability. However, to learn the iron arm skill, you have to go through the pain of the impact, the swelling of the skin and flesh, the skin and the skin, the strengthening of the bones, maintenance training, drug assistance and other complex processes, but a university question!
"Shaolin truly passed on the Iron Arm Gong and was keen to hone perseverance. Train your arms to be as hard as iron, and practice for ten winters in the cold and summer." , which points out the necessary process for learning this exercise. At the beginning of the exercise, the left and right arms should be exchanged for practice, and the four sides of the sleek wooden stake should be gently hit with the arm front and back inside and out, and the inside and outside must be made. Several times a day, gradually increasing to dozens, hundreds, or even more than a thousand times. The force gradually increased from light to heavy, and hit hard. After that, it changes from hitting the pile to hitting the tree. Because the trunk is rough, uneven, not as smooth as the stakes, it is rubbed with it at the beginning of the attack, and the skin is easy to swell and hurt, but it still needs to be practiced daily. After two years, the blow was painless, and the arms became stronger and harder. Two years later, the trunk was replaced by a cobblestone column. Every day, the two arms are alternated, and the stone pile is hit from side to side. After the cobblestone pillar, replace it with a stone pillar with a horn, and alternately rotate the left and right arms to hit it, and hit it according to the law. Practice from dozens to hundreds to thousands of times a day. After a period of time, choose a granite cylinder with a diameter of about thirty centimeters to train, until one arm swing, can break the cobblestone column, and then hit the stone pillar according to the method, hitting non-stop every day, step by step to train the forearms of both hands. When a single arm can break a stone stake with a horn, it is still uninterrupted and continues to hit it. Perseverance can be practiced to maintain hardness. To practice this exercise, it is also necessary to wash the arms with Shaolin on time, three grams of safflower, five grams of citrus shells, six grams of beef knees, five grams of five plus skins, five grams of eucommia, four grams of green skin, three grams of grass wu, two kilograms of water, decoct the soup to wash the arms, maintain the skin, flesh, muscles and bones, reduce damage, and promote blood circulation.
The human body parts exercised by iron arm gong are: shoulder back, including deltoid muscles, inferior muscles, etc., large arms, that is, biceps brachii, triceps, forearms, there are radial radial muscles, radial wrist flexor muscles, palm long muscles, ulnar wrist extensor muscles, etc., elbow segments of the elbow and tendons of the wrist. Practicing iron arm skills can make the arms thick and powerful, the muscles hard, the bones hard as iron, and the ligaments flexible and tough. At this time, the arms were as hard as iron and stone. When used to hit people, the heavy ones break the tendons and fractures. If you encounter a sword and a stick, you can also break it with one arm, even if you are bare-handed, you will not lose the battle. When hitting a stone, you can break several granite stone pillars without harming your arms. Master Zhenjun, a shaolin monk, said: "The ancestors inherited the iron arm gong and passed down the ancient temple for thousands of winters." Successive generations of martial monks have studied hard, and their arms dare to fight with iron and stone. Swinging the steel pillar with one arm, it swept through the crowd and cut the onion." , which shows the power of the iron arm gong.
Cai Changqing, the sixth generation of Wuzu Quan. Master Cai began to learn boxing techniques from Zhou Mengyuan, the fifth generation of WuzuQuan, from the age of eleven, and swinging stone pillars was a compulsory course for him to practice every day, and he had to swing hundreds of times each time. After a long beating, the surface of the stone pillar became black and smooth, and one of the sharp edges and corners was also ground into a rounded corner, and I suddenly thought that I might really see the stone pillar grinded into a needle! In the long-term training, Master Cai's arm is two circles thicker than ordinary people, and it should be hard to touch. If you hammer his diamond arm with his fist, you must feel hard as iron, burning pain.
What is Kung Fu? It takes time to do it! Kung Fu should be refined, not to embroider legs, but to take time. There is no shortcut to the iron arm skill, and it is necessary to train hard year after year, day after day, and without interruption to achieve some achievements. What you want is to have a love for martial arts, the courage to hit the stumps and pillars, the perseverance and perseverance to train unremittingly, and the firm will to practice success. Every muscle and bone injury and hot sweat, skin and flesh and bruises are a sign of hard work and concentration. Diligence in true kung fu, Fang is a real martial artist. Learning Kung Fu is actually cultivating the mind and learning to be a person!
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Dr. Ye Deping is a well-known cultural scholar in Hong Kong, a senior educator, a senior lecturer at the University, a bachelor's and a master's degree in Chinese from the University of Chinese, Hong Kong, and a doctorate in literature from Beijing Normal University. He is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Hong Kong Higher Education Council, the President of the Hong Kong Taoist Cultural Society, and the Vice President of the Hong Kong Historical and Cultural Research Association.