In Chinese culture, in fact, "chivalry" is a very "Chinese" concept. "Xia" was born from ancient Chinese classics, and has also been given many Chinese cultural meanings with the development of history.
Among them, martial arts is an important component. Even if you haven't seen a real martial arts novel, you must have seen some film and television works based on martial arts novels. Influenced by martial arts culture, many people have a dream of being a "hero" in their hearts. The great poet Li Bai was there
The White Horse
The poem depicts the image of a chivalrous guest with high martial skills and a dashing gentleman, and pinned his own chivalrous dream.
For people who practice martial arts, the dream of the "great hero" is also deeply imprinted in their bone marrow. In the thousands of years of Yangyang Huaxia, the martial arts that have emerged from ancient times to the present are not mentioned, and the one we want to talk about today is the "Generation Sword Saint" and "Two-Handed Sword" Master - Yu Chenghui.
A generation of masters, Yu Chenghui
Martial arts career
At first, Yu Chenghui was born in an ordinary family in Penglai, Yantai, Shandong, because of his playful nature, he repeatedly called himself a hero, often beating other children to cry, and children in eight townships would look at him and flee. When he met such an inattentive child, Yu Chenghui's parents, in order to temper his temperament, sent him to Qingdao to learn martial arts at the age of 12 and began his martial arts career.
Perhaps it is also due to his nature that he practiced martial arts diligently when he was in martial arts school. When he was on the sports team, he was most annoyed by the routine and turned his head over, and his favorite was the "energy" explained by the teacher. After that, he participated in the Qingdao Wushu Competition at the age of 21, won the all-around championship in one fell swoop, and after some leadership communication and transfer, he was selected into the Wushu team of Shandong Provincial Sports Institute. It is precisely because of his obsession with martial arts practice for many years that his martial arts have become more and more exquisite. When participating in the Wushu Competition in East China, he won the championship with a set of "drunken swords" and four surprises. Perhaps, sometimes the life of a famous artist is destined to encounter ups and downs, accidentally injuring his leg during a training, and Yu Chenghui, who cannot continue to stay in the martial arts team, can only retire early. Later, after the unit was transferred to the state-owned factory Shandong Huangtai Paper Machinery Factory, he was arranged to do office work such as statistician.
However, people who practice martial arts naturally love to challenge difficulties, although they can't practice martial arts, but Yu Chenghui still takes the initiative to apply for a crane with higher work difficulties. After a period of time in his hoisting and transportation of large machinery and equipment and other work, he has been strictly designed and prepared for each lifting and transportation, and the work has not only been implemented from the same pool, but has become the focus of the eyes of the whole factory and is often watched. Even after many years, he will often mention this proud thing to the people around him.
It was also this incident that made Yu Chenghui feel that although his leg injury delayed his martial arts training, how could he say that he gave up after years of martial arts training? So he recuperated, exchanged martial arts with other warriors in his spare time, and consulted ancient books to study ancient two-handed sword techniques.
Due to the "mantis fist" in Shandong Boxing, the monkey step is required to be flexible at the waist and hips, and the hands and feet are moved together, which is extremely suitable for two-handed sword footwork. In the following 4 years of intensive research and continuous improvement, Yu Chenghui summed up the two-handed sword with splitting, picking, cutting as a technique, mainly with the waist force, the long sword is proposed as a gun head, the two hands are intended to be the gun, the body goes with the sword, not with the traditional martial arts moves to fix the sword pattern, and finally created the mantis shape "Twenty Methods of "Two-Handed Sword", and wrote a "Two-Handed Sword Theory" on the two-handed sword.
Born with three arm joints,
Holding the long front in four quarters.
Junruo practiced the two-handed sword,
Pass the big hurdle in your hand first.
Double grip to distinguish between the main and the auxiliary,
The conversion is flexible and natural.
Only the sword can get used to,
The method can be applied.
Twenty Complete Sword Techniques,
It is necessary to pay attention to the waist step.
The file step is fast and gapless,
Slash the sword to the point of danger.
Shock step continuous waist force Tim,
The wind swept thunderbolts and lightning bolts.
Sinking steps to turn to forest steps,
They are inseparable from the sword law.
Frame small steps live double sword,
The transformation of the spirit is convenient.
Step-in-step and hand-to-hand,
The waist spirals hard together.
Twist the waist and live shoulders,
Lifting the shoulders is slippery and firm.
There is dodging with the head of the head,
If the law has rules, do not deviate.
Sideways to adjust the body to probe outside,
It is difficult to put your hands far away.
Occasionally there is a sword that is thrown away,
To make the fierce edge touch the sky.
This form of this body two-handed sword,
Only Hawkeye can pass on the gods.
Six steps at a glance,
Five arms and four knots are natural.
Light and not superficial,
Heavy without being sluggish.
Be quick and don't mess with the law,
Don't slacken off.
Swallow freely as rigid and soft,
It must be studied with qi.
Energetic and energetic,
Pure and evil should not be mixed.
Impartiality and formlessness,
But to seek the method is the source.
Chasing his hand-eye-body footwork,
When the law is the first.
Spiritual Qigong,
Then there are pure words that can be heaven! -------------------- Yu Chenghui's "Theory of Two-Handed Sword and Sword"
In fact, Yu Chenghui is not only a martial artist, his own cultural foundation is not low at all. After completing the idea of integrating the mantis fist into the two-handed sword, so that the two-handed sword method that had long been lost in China was rejuvenated, the martial artist also wrote a poem at that time.
The sword righteousness of the nearest night has not yet succeeded,
Huo Ranqi ordered the transcript to be in his chest;
Suddenly the time is raging with heavy rain,
Electric phase lightning competes for the cracks in the sky;
A small insect in the mood of the forest,
Wielding a giant axe with all his might to fight with the heavens;
Splitting rain and fog to cut obstacles to find their way,
How desperate to fight each other in the face of stubborn enemies;
Bunches of grass around the branches of the air and luck of the spirit,
Wounded first to prevent it from moving earlier;
Anti-Genting big catcher force to take in,
Set of jade ring dissected liver and gallbladder residual anger is not loose;
When the weather is resistant, the journey breaks through the long wind,
Driving thunder and lightning across the rain and fog;
At this time,
Exhibition Peak,
The cold light and shadow in the flying pen forest,
Spectral into the mantis string forest;
Humanity is the sword should fly the dragon and dance the phoenix,
Thunder and lightning;
If you want to succeed in first holding the long front,
To its meaning is the unity of its Fa-Bo characters;
The wind wants to calm the rain has stopped and clarified,
Thank God for helping me;
I want to make the Future Envoy Ling Qiong explore the wonderful realm,
See the infinitely good scenery all over the dangerous peaks. ---------------- Yu Chenghui's "The Sword of Enlightenment"
Yu Chenghui's self-created "two-handed sword" set of sword techniques, when dancing like clouds and flowing water, is dazzling, partial sword method is different from the traditional martial arts routine playing method, which contains practical combat techniques, shocking the entire domestic martial arts community. In the spring of 1979, the Ningxia Wushu Team invited Yu Chenghui to serve as the coach of the Wushu Team, and Yu Chenghui also cherished this hard-won job. However, because domestic martial arts masters are difficult to find, and at the same time, Zhang Xinyan, the director of "Shaolin Temple", also values Chenghui, although Yu Chenghui has repeatedly emphasized that he will return to coach the Ningxia martial arts team after acting. But with the sensation caused by "Shaolin Temple" in the world, Yu Chenghui's life also turned into the film and television circle. It is also this turning point that makes the world gradually understand this "sword saint"!
Film and television career
In Yu Chenghui's film and television career, he has starred in "Shaolin Temple", "Shaolin Boy", "North and South Shaolin", "Yellow River Hero", "Donggui Hero Biography", CCTV martial arts drama "Laughing Proud of the Jianghu", TV series "Shaolin Wu Wang", costume martial arts drama "Lian cheng tips", Liu Yifei version of the TV series "Divine Eagle Heroes", TV version of "Seven Swords Under the Heavenly Mountain", "Ma Mingfeng XiaoXiao", "Ink Attack", TV series "Green Blood Sword", "Legend of Shaolin Temple", "Legend of Bruce Lee", "Deer DingJi", "Yitian Slaughter Dragon Chronicle", "Li Bai", "Li Bai". Journey to the West", "Mu Guiying Hangs Commander", "Hot Blood Pier", "Do a Pretty Job", "Love in Langzhong", "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch of the Bright Moon Heavenly Kingdom", "The Four Famous Catches", and Xu Haofeng directed the film "The Trail of Wukou" as Qiu Dongyue, the first master of Frost Leaf City, and Kuang Yimin, the martial arts master in "The Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape".
However, in many film and television works, Yu Chenghui's favorite ones are "The Yellow River Hero", "The Trail of Wukou" and "The Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape", because there are more scenes showing his martial arts!
In this film, he performed the style of a hero for the country and the people, and also performed the chivalrous courage of "walking alone for thousands of miles, a thousand gold and a promise", and he stood up to the image of a martial arts master who stood proudly by the river, which is still reflected in the hearts of many martial arts fans. The Hero of the Yellow River is Yu Chenghui's real masterpiece, which has subverted his acting career.
However, after the completion of this film, he chose to fade out of the show business circle, and Yu Chenghui believed that the feature film was subject to various factors, and it was difficult to express his martial arts views in depth and accurately, nor could he fully display the relevant research results.
Therefore, he has always wanted to make a documentary that is truly his own, and the short film "Sword Fool", which shows his "two-handed sword" skills, should be a small attempt. In the film "Sword Fool", he introduced his own experience and revealed his sword skills, all of which used poetic language, rich in emotion and profound charm.
In February 2012, when he was invited by director Xu Haofeng to return to the big screen, he played the protagonist Qiu Dongyue in "The Trail of Wokou", in which he had white hair and a long beard, a fairy wind Dao bone, and was the world's first master of backyard fire. Later, in "Arrow Warrior Liu Bai Ape", he played a jianghu high-roller who had a heart to "goods and the emperor's family" but maintained the true color of a warrior.
"Yellow River Hero" was released in 1988, and Yu Chenghui was nearly 50 years old when he filmed the Yellow River Hero that year. However, in the play, he uses the exquisite sword technique that is magical and fascinating, and the human and the sword reach a high degree of unity, reaching the supreme realm of the unity of the human sword as stated in the martial arts novel.
Later, when the other two films were filmed, Yu Chenghui still used real kung fu. Among them, there is a scene in "The Trail of Wokou" in which Yu Chenghui is energetic in the field, and the strength of the shape is fist.
Golden Rooster Trembling And Golden Rooster Trembling Lingjin is the ideal state for all Inner Family Fist cultivation. The force rises from between the feet, spirals upwards, and reaches the two hands, showing the mixed element force of horizontal and vertical combination. So much so that when the film participated in the 48th Golden Horse Awards, Taiwanese film audiences commented: The scene in the rice field is really too classic!
Later, in "The Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape", Yu Chenghui basically showed the martial arts he had practiced in his lifetime.
For example, playing paper people in temples and playing "rowing labazi" with people.
Look at the "strength", as well as his Sun Zhen fist, shaking big gun, the use of body technique and strength. As well as the stunning "Back To The Carbine"!
In the final fight with the protagonist Song Yang, although the opponent's bow string is attached to his neck, his hand has reached the throat of the opponent, and one of the moves shows all the martial arts skills. Yu Chenghui deliberately asked director Xu Haofeng in the action design to record his kung fu as comprehensively as possible. This movie is very precious, and maybe in a little while more people will find out its value!
Martial fools
As long as you focus on one thing, the mind will be stable. The heart is stable, and the work will be easy to do. Unfortunately, at 20:40 Beijing time on July 4, 2015, Yu Chenghui passed away at the age of 76. Mr. Yu Chenghui has always shown the outside world the image of "martial fool". He almost did not enter the film and television circle because of a bad idea, but he has not been like Jet Li who has been following the path of movie stars. He has only spent most of his life on martial arts, taking the development of martial arts traditions as his lifelong pursuit!
Something:
The dream of the ancient chivalrous guest, the Si people have passed away, the great heroes have passed, but "martial fool", "generation of sword saints", "a generation of masters" Yu Chenghui, his proud figure with the river is still reflected in our minds............