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At first glance, I don't know what I like in the shadow, but then I see that I am already a person in the shadow.
Wong Kar-wai's films, oil-painting-like film photography, obscure and elaborate lines, just the right background music, repeatedly polished scripts, film emperor film-level performances, ten years of grinding a sword, very cinematic texture.
Excellent movies always hide the title in the lines of the movie, and "Generation Grandmaster" borrows the gong er played by the heroine Zhang Ziyi to tell the title of the movie: There are three stages of learning martial arts, seeing oneself, seeing heaven and earth, and seeing sentient beings. And the rhythm of the story, the development of the plot, including Ip Man's life, are also around this sentence.
This is not only the stage of martial arts, but also the realm of being a human being, and if you understand this line, you will understand "A Generation of Grandmasters".
1
See yourself
If there are four seasons in life, the first forty years of Ip Man are spring. After the age of forty, he really knew himself.
Ip Man, a native of Nanhai, Foshan, Guangdong Province, whose father, Ye Yiduo, runs a north-south business in Wenxian West Street, Hong Kong, and the Mulberry Garden Ye clan is a Wang clan in Foshan, known as Peidrieye. Before the age of forty, he did not worry about eating and drinking, relying on the property left by his ancestors.
His lover, Zhang Yongcheng, was a descendant of Zhang Yinhuan, a former minister of the Qing Dynasty. Ip Man learned boxing at the age of seven, his master was Chen Huashun, and Foshan Wing Chun began with Mr. Zan, and went through Guangxu, Xuantong, the Republic of China, the Northern Expedition, the Anti-Japanese War, the Civil War, and finally came to Hong Kong.
Kung Fu was his only hobby, having studied Wing Chun for 33 years and had not seen a mountain before the age of forty.
Before the age of forty, Ip Man's horizontal and vertical were simple merits and demerits of the king and the loser.
The arrival of Miya haneda gave Ip Man a Zen opportunity to meet himself and a chance to become famous in the First World War.
The Gong family was not defeated, and after fighting with Gong Er, when he saw the Gong family gossip sixty-four hands, Ip Man felt that there were people outside the mountain.
This is the best age for Gong Er, young and vigorous, competitive, curious about everything, only win or lose in his eyes, when he meets Ip Man, he begins to find that what he actually likes in his heart is Ip Man.
Ip Man loves kung fu, but he never thought of making a living from it, or even thinking of starting a sect and becoming a generation of masters to inherit Chinese martial arts.
Gong Er is young and vigorous, has already promised to marry others, and will live a happy life of a husband and a godson. He never thought that in the future he would devote his life to the Tao, not to marry, not to pass on the art.
Yi Xiantian joined the Kuomintang military command with a martial art, assassinated Japanese officers, and performed loyalty to the country. He never imagined that one day he would betray the military command and flee to Hong Kong.
The famous cartoonist Zhu Deyong once said: Life is a labyrinth, spending the first half of your life to find the entrance, and the second half of your life to find the exit.
When we were young, like Ip Man, Gong Er and Yi XianTian in our youth, we were young and full of pride, but we had not yet found our own way of life.
Seeing yourself is building your own outlook on life, what kind of person you want to be, and how you want to spend your life.
Before Ip Man was forty years old, he actually did not know his life's mission, it was Miyahata who brought a little Zen machine, let the southern fist pass on to the north, let Ip Man spread the good martial arts wing chun of his life, let him become a generation of masters, inherit martial arts culture, but unfortunately the War of Resistance Against Japan made Ip Man come to Hong Kong, perhaps forced to make a living, perhaps to inherit culture, or both, in Hong Kong to receive apprentices and pass on the art, and eventually become a generation of masters.
2
See heaven and earth
No matter how high the martial arts are, they are not as high as the sky. The qualifications are thick and thick.
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, northeast China and Foshan fell one after another. Japanese officers vigorously attracted talents, and Ip Man, Ma San, Gong Er, and Yi Xiantian were facing the threats and inducements of the Japanese, how did they choose?
In October 1938, Foshan fell, and the Ye family mansion was requisitioned by the Japanese Military Police.
Ip Man's life suddenly fell from spring to winter, and at the age of forty, he never discovered a mountain, only to find that life was the most difficult mountain to cross.
Someone persuaded Ip Man to turn to the Japanese, but Ip Man directly refused, saying: Bring me to get rich, help me break the roots of poverty, I have never been poor in my life, now the country is in trouble, difficulties are everyone has, there is nothing poor, I am used to drinking Pearl River water, this Japanese rice, I am not used to eating. I still have friends, one person invites me to eat a meal, I can last for a year and a half, you eat slowly.
The result of choosing no was that the younger daughter starved to death, and she was forced to leave Hong Kong, facing her wife across the sea, and did not see her until her death. But Ip Man has preserved his national integrity, just like the movie says, living in one breath.
Miya Haneda's disciple Ma San taught both kung fu and the principle of being a man, and there are three places in the movie that specifically teach the apprentice Ma San how to be a man, but unfortunately Ma San did not listen to it or even misunderstood.
Do you know why a knife has to be sheathed?
Because the true meaning of the knife is not to kill but to hide.
Do you know why you are called Ma San?
Words must be called three, hands will be formed in circles, which means that there are capable people behind capable people, and everything must be three points, reminding Ma San to be humble and want to be responsible.
Old ape hanging seal, what is this living pass to know?
The old ape hung the seal and looked back, and Guan Ai was not hanging the seal, but turning back.
However, Ma San, who would rather think about it, but Ma San, who thought about it, lived backwards, and his ability was not worthy of ambition, he did not hesitate to turn to the Japanese for the ideal in his heart, he was defeated by Gong Er, and only when he died did he understand the value of the old ape's hanging seal, but unfortunately life was like a chess piece, there was no regret, he did not establish correct values, and finally lived to become a dog.
When Ma San turned to the Japanese, the elders, jealous of the Japanese forces, advised Gong Er to follow the old master's last words and not to ask for revenge, and said that many things were not in human affairs, but in Providence. But Gong Er said that maybe I was Providence, determined to take revenge, she took the Tao, and she would never marry again in her life, could not pass on the art, and could not have a queen.
In order to serve the motherland and become the thug of the Kuomintang military command, the times have changed, and they have no choice but to go to Hong Kong and open a white rose barber shop curve to survive.
Everyone makes choices every day, and the underlying logic of choice stems from their own values.
Seeing heaven and earth is about building your own values. It is the principle of building one's own life for oneself to live in the world, and it is the way of life that you pursue throughout your life. The first line of heaven, Gong Er and Ma San had only reached the realm of seeing themselves and seeing heaven and earth, and they were still one step away from seeing sentient beings.
3
See all beings
Miya Haneda, in his lifetime, did three great things, merged the Shape Intention Gate and the Bagua Gate, took over the master brother's class leader the Chinese Samurai Association, united more than a dozen sects such as Tongbei, Cannon Hammer, Taiji, and Yan Qing, and finally formed the Northern Boxing Master to pass on the art to the south.
Does the fist have a north and south, and the state has a north and south? Old Master Gong is the great hero who sees the realm of sentient beings for the country and the people, and he ignores the hostility and provocation of the southern boxers, chooses to create a situation and support Ip Man to the position of a generation of grandmasters, hoping to unite with the south so that the southern fist can spread from the north.
The Gong family has never been defeated, and Gong Laozi is a martial artist with both ability and pattern.
In fact, the world is big, and not only the north and south, barely seeking perfection is equivalent to standing still, in your eyes, this cake is a martial artist, for me is a world, the so-called dacheng if it is lacking, there are shortcomings in order to have progress. If it really works, the Southern Fist will not stop at the North Transmission.
Ip Man does not worry about eating and drinking, not close to women, does not want to pursue fame and fortune through martial arts, learning martial arts is his only hobby, Ip Man's pattern is not under Miya Haneda, so Miya Haneda said that he won a lifetime, did not lose in martial arts, did not want to lose in the idea.
However, Ip Man has a pattern but is not capable enough, he is only a newcomer among the boxers, there is no Kaizong Sect, Miyahata wants to create a situation, make Ip Man famous in the ceremony of washing his hands in the southern golden basin, and push ip man who has already been selected to the position of a generation of masters.
To see sentient beings is to construct one's own worldview, that is, how big the world you want to relate to.
Miyahata devoted his life to the inheritance of martial arts, and it was his lifelong wish to pass on the southern fist and the northern leg from generation to generation on the land of China.
Disciple Bruce Lee combined Ip Man's martial arts ideas with the essence of Wing Chun with modern development, founded Trunkaku, and passed on Chinese martial arts to the world through apprenticeship and filming.
No matter how the world rotates, there will always be people who will light this lamp and pass it on, the previous martial arts world has left us, but some people still inherit chinese martial arts by shooting short videos, TV series, movies, opening martial arts gyms and other ways, the unchanged is the culture itself, change is the carrier of culture, with a breath of light a lamp, never forget there will be an echo. If there is a lamp, there will be someone, the lamp will not be extinguished, and the classic will be passed on forever.
Seeing oneself, seeing heaven and earth, and seeing sentient beings is to construct a martial arts outlook on life, values and world outlook, and it is also the three views of being a human being, and the difference between the three views ultimately leads to different results and patterns in life.
The so-called three views are positive, and the grandeur lasts forever.