Traditional martial arts have a long history, dating directly back to the Xia Shang Dynasty before the Spring and Autumn Warring States. Wugong is another name for martial arts, Chinese used to call martial arts martial arts, which is both a martial arts dream and a martial arts sentiment. Before science fiction elements were added to novels and movies and TV series, martial arts novels had been the spiritual food of Chinese. The 6780s and 1990s of New China was the golden age of martial arts novels, and men and women of all ages, young and old, watched serialized novels in newspapers or periodicals, or secretly read them with lights in the quilts, looked up, and discussed them with others the next day. Huang Rong became the dream lover of unknown numbers of young people and middle-aged people.
There are many schools of Chinese martial arts, such as wing chun, clematis, shape and meaning fist, Tongbei fist, Hong fist, etc., which are recorded in the novel, and there are more martial arts recorded in the novel, and fifty or sixty kinds of "Tianlong Eight Parts" are written in just one book. In fact, martial arts are not as mysterious as everyone thinks, and the martial arts halls that taught martial arts in ancient China, such as the taekwondo halls and sanda halls around you now, are similar. The development of the industrial revolution has gradually lost the fighting nature of the past, and the function has become performance and physical fitness.
It is often seen in martial arts novels that a certain hero or old devil rushed into the camp and the palace to steal things, which made people yearn for it, always thinking of learning a martial art and flying over the wall, doing heroic deeds and righteousness, and living a leisurely life. However, in the actual ancient history, no matter how strong and capable the martial arts were, they did not dare to confront the army, even if they fought together, they were bound to lose, and it was impossible to win. unbelief? In the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the skilled fighters were famous all over the world.
Martial arts, i.e. martial arts used in fighting.
"Xunzi Yibing": "Qi Renlong's skill, his skills are also." Note: "The Qi people use courage to kill the enemy, which is called a technical attack." ”
Then Xunzi said:
"Qi's skill cannot meet Wei's martial pawns, and Wei's martial pawns cannot meet Qin's sharp soldiers."
The martial artists of the State of Qi were no better than the martial pawns of the State of Wei, and the martial pawns of the State of Wei were not as good as the sharp soldiers of the State of Qin. It is equivalent to the army of the State of Qi composed of people with strong martial skills, and it is the worst in Qi, Wei, and Qin. The skilled warriors of the State of Qi were more like mercenaries, and the army that gave money to do things was called by the Confucians:
Soldier of the Fallen Nation.
The State of Qi had fought with the State of Yan, and the defeat of the Qi army almost led to the annihilation of the country, which showed that the skilled fighters were not very powerful.
Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Wu general of the Ming Dynasty, was even more interested in traditional martial arts
"Martial Arts Master"
Dismissive. He wrote very clearly in the New Book of Ji Xiao:
"Open a big line against the big enemy." Comparing the art in the field, catching the thief, thousands of people from different halls of the hall lined up in front, the brave must not be the first, the cowardly must not be behind; the cong gun pokes, the cong gun pokes, the knife is slashed, the random killing is returned, but it is all rushed in, it is difficult to change hands, can you tolerate the left and right jumps? ”
Kung Fu is a killing skill, but it is not visible in the battlefield battle front, and there is no room for play. Qi Jiguang's words were very simple, not very profound: set up a powerful formation and face a powerful enemy. Comparing the martial arts in the school yard and arresting thieves, it is different from the upright array of thousands of people lining up at the same time, the brave people cannot go first, and the cowardly people will not fall behind; the guns poke and poke like a jungle, slash and slash around, and the crowd kills other enemies indiscriminately, just a crowded forward together, it is difficult to turn their hands, where to allow for left and right jumping.
As an enemy, no matter how high the martial arts master is, it is useless, the army slashes and stabs randomly, you are agile and react fast, it is useless; as a military companion, no matter how high the martial arts, it is also important to advance and attack or retreat to defend together, there is no room for free play, you can only leave the military formation. Dozens of spears are stabbed head-on, and unless you are a strongman with infinite strength who can sweep away all the attacks in one move in a row and launch an attack to crush the enemy, you can only wait forward for death or retreat to save your life.
The army fights wars in cooperation and tacit understanding, which reduces the personal bravery and martial role of the enemy and us to the extreme. Jin Yong described such a fragment in the Book of the Dragon Slayer in the Heavens:
Even if they could not kill the Tatar officers and soldiers before, it would always be difficult for them to protect themselves. However, after a battle, after seeing the power of the Yuan army, I realized that marching to fight and fighting alone was indeed very different, and thousands of people rushed up, and the tide was like a tide, such as Zhou Zhiruo, who was extremely strong in martial arts, and did not use any skills in the crowd.
In all directions are swords, guns, swords, slashing and killing indiscriminately, and what you usually learn to see and dismantle, internal strength and external skills, all of them are not needed. When they saw the Yuan army retreat, the crowd talked about it one after another, and only then did they understand why the heroes and heroes of the former dynasty who were highly skilled in martial arts had fallen to the hands of the Tartars.
Old Master Jin Yong saw it quite clearly.
In the war of the Grand Legion, the strict discipline of the large army and the strict coordination between the branches of the army are the basis for victory. The large number of Ming troops had no way to face the small number of Wukou, who were skilled in martial arts, and jumped up and down, mainly because the Ming army was not accustomed to battle formations, the formation was scattered, there was no cooperation to speak of, plus they were all exquisite, how could they be the opponents of the Wukou.
It is precisely because Qi Jiguang knows the secret well, so he strengthens the training of the army and strengthens the discipline of the soldiers, and then uses the combination of long and short weapons and the battle formation scattered in the army line with firearms to easily crush the Wokou and achieve a record that the people of the world do not dare to believe. What is the use of even a sword master with high sword skills, facing the pressure of the army to slash or stab, there is only a share of escaping and waiting for death. In this way, the battle loss ratio of the Qi family army is quite high, almost one Qi family army general died, and hundreds of Wukou died at the hands of the Qi family army.
Of course, this is not to say that traditional martial arts and martial arts are useless, just like giving a meal to a person who is about to starve to death is better than giving him a hundred yuan, which is used differently and used in different places. People with high martial arts, assassination, transmission of news, survival of the rebel army, reconnaissance of the enemy, close protection, etc. are still very good, and they have miraculous effects.