On January 16, a generation of martial arts masters died of illness at the age of 81.
As soon as the news came out, countless people remembered on Weibo, and Wu Jing could not hide his emotions and grief in the middle of the night:
Teacher Yu Hai, go all the way.
You may not recognize the name Yu Hai, but you must have seen this face.
In 1982, "Shaolin Temple" was popular all over the country.
A sentence in the theme song of the movie: "Shaolin, Shaolin, how many heroes and heroes have come to admire you." ”
To this day, this sentence cannot be pronounced in my mind, it is to be sung.
What kid didn't imagine himself as Jet Li back then?
You can follow the master to practice good martial arts in the Shaolin Temple, punish treachery and eliminate evil, and support justice.
And the one who plays Jet Li's master in the movie is Yu Hai.
So whenever my mother chopped a roast chicken and went home, before I moved my mouth, I always remembered Yu Hai's Amitabha Buddha:
"Wine and flesh pass through the intestines, and the Buddha remains in his heart."
It seems that after saying this mantra, if you move your mouth and eat chicken, it is not called a transmissive, it is called transgression.
And Curie's deepest impression of Teacher Hai is still his and Wu Jing's "Grandmaster Taiji".
In that drama, Yu Hai and Billy Zhou had a rivalry scene, which impressed me deeply.
In the play, Yu Hai and Billy Zhou compared fists and feet, and he punched and broke the wind, beating Billy Zhou to the point of bitterness.
Wu Jing also mentioned in a program: He and Billy Zhou played each other without protective gear, and after the incident, both of them turned over protective gear bags there.
But that year, Billy Zhou became a world-class boxing champion, in his prime, and that year Yu Hai was 57 and was close to retirement.
With his excellent martial arts, he also served as the protagonist of the movie "Elder Babel".
In the future, he also participated in "Taiji Zhang Sanfeng", "New Shaolin Temple", "Taijixia" and so on, and contributed a lot of classic images.
At that time, martial arts films, fists to meat, were all real fights.
At that time, the martial arts actors and extremely dangerous action scenes were all photographed.
At the beginning of the filming of "Shaolin Temple", there were many scenes, and many things were sharpened in battle.
In one scene, he only spent 2 mornings practicing horseback riding, but he saw a poplar tree when he turned a corner.
In a sharp brake, the whole person flew out upside down.
Even if he tried his best to protect his head, he would inevitably break his left hand.
There was also "Shaolin Kid", where he shot exteriors on a hot summer day in Hangzhou.
During a fight with the "robbers", he accidentally broke his right leg.
But he continued to complete the shooting task in less than two weeks in a plaster cast and with an injured leg.
Yu Hai, who can fight so hard, also makes many people happy and convinced.
Teacher Ji Chunhua, who has played a villain all his life and has a treacherous look, hit Jet Li with all kinds of cruelty.
But he was defeated by a set of punches.
"Can't resist, really can't resist." Thinking of Yu Hai's fist, Ji Chunhua still had palpitations.
When he served as the martial arts instructor of "Shaolin Temple", he composed several movements for the film, which are still regarded as models by martial arts schools.
Decades later, Jet Li and Wu Jing have long become martial arts superstars.
But when I saw him, I still had to respectfully call out - master.
However, filming is just a matter of interest for him.
Yu Hai's real identity is a martial arts instructor.
In the martial arts world, he has a well-known name - Seven Star Mantis Fist Master.
Yu Hai was young and frail.
In 1954, when he was only 12 years old, he was sent by his father to the home of Mr. Lin Jingshan, the master of the Seven Star Mantis Boxing.
Lin Jingshan found that he was not only gifted and intelligent, but also had brute strength, so he waived his tuition.
Yu Hai recalled that time:
"You can't learn it, you can't learn it, so I practiced martial arts."
Four years later, he went down the mountain and directly represented the Shandong Wushu Team in winning many championships in sword, stick, mantis boxing and all-around.
He later visited Myanmar with Premier Zhou Enlai and Minister Chen Yi, when he was only 18 years old.
After that, he also served as the leader of the Chinese martial arts representative team for many times, leading the team to visit more than 30 countries including the United States to have friendly discussions and enhance friendship.
Yu Hai himself is known as a "martial arts dictionary" by the martial arts community.
In order to study the essence of praying mantis boxing and innovate, he often eats and lives with hundreds of praying mantises.
Praying mantis caught from the mountain could be seen everywhere in the curtains and beds in his room.
He loves to fight with praying mantises.
poked the mantis's butt and studied the technique of Diao; Poked the mantis's waist and learned to drive around the body.
The Mantis Fist that everyone sees now is a version that has been improved step by step by him.
Like a martial artist who is obsessed with martial arts.
Teacher Yu Hai has always been active in the front line of martial arts education and has paid too much for the word "martial arts".
Yu Hai's son Yu Tao was influenced by him and practiced martial arts with him at the age of 9.
Yu Tao also reached the highest standard of wushu athletes in 1989 and was awarded the title of "Wuying" athlete by the state.
In 2001, he established the "Yu's Wushu Cultural Exchange Center" to allow more people to practice martial arts.
In his later years, except for the occasional return to filming, he spent most of his time with his family.
Unable to let go of martial arts, he still lived with his wife in the staff dormitory of the Shandong Provincial Sports School before he died, like a sweeping monk.
In 2021, someone uploaded a video of Teacher Yu Hai, full of breath and steady.
Who could have predicted that this winter, he could not get over it.
Looking back at the so many films he has participated in, it is inevitable that there is also the intention of promoting martial arts, right?
But a generation of martial arts film classic "Shaolin Temple", the actors in it include Sword Saint Yu Chenghui teacher, Ji Chunhua teacher...
He has long passed away.
Perhaps only then did everyone realize that the childhood memories of our generation were gradually dying.
At that time, they played real and hard, and we watched it passionately and enjoyably.
This is a feeling that is impossible to find in today's martial arts films - our hearts are beating with the moves on the screen.
At that time, I was young, turned off the TV, and practiced martial arts moves repeatedly in my mind, and my dreams were full of the sound of fists and feet.
Now that the Sri people are gone, my dreams are shattered, I still wish I was dreaming.
But...... Goodbye, Teacher Yu Hai, students you have never met wish you a good journey.
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Responsible editor丨Happy little fairy
Editor丨River