There is a famous local saying: "Whether the martial arts are good or not, it depends on whether your life expectancy is high or not." That's right. However, the so-called longevity must be a healthy longevity, if the age is high, but the perennial bedridden, life can not take care of themselves, then what is the point?
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Master Wu Dianke was not. He is more than ninety years old, but his eyes are not flowered, he looks at the miniature version of "Ci Hai", without flower glasses; his hearing is unimpeded, and he communicates with people normally; his teeth have not fallen out, and he has not suffered from dental diseases in his lifetime; he can write fly-head small letters with a brush; he walks like an ordinary person and squats freely; his mind is particularly sensitive; when he is more than ninety years old, he actually finished the masterpiece "The True Scripture of Shape and Meaning Washing". Until the end, because of the old wife who had been in love for more than 70 years, the old man wanted to go away with him, and died after eighteen days without illness, at 6:00 a.m. on April 18, 2003.
Looking back on the ordinary and extraordinary life of the old man, his health regimen is really worthy of study and reference by future generations.
The old man was born in a farming and reading family at the end of the Qing Dynasty, ranked at the end of the line, and had a very poor congenital physique, and could not walk until he was five years old; the first four brothers all died early at the age of twenty or thirty, how could he live so healthily and long? It is all about self-cultivation in the day after tomorrow. As the biological son of the elderly, I am willing to dedicate my father's health care to the reader for the reference of those who are interested.
An ancestral honor of Confucius
Successive generations of martial artists have always taken Emperor Guan, the "martial saint" of great loyalty and righteousness, as a model. But his father was not only martial, but also revered Confucianism.
My grandfather Wu Dengguang was a typical believer in Confucianism, and his whole life was mainly to teach and educate people; he named his father "Dianke" and the word "Youzhang", which shows his good intentions; my father named me "Lian Confucian" and the word "Xuewen", which shows that our family's adherence to Confucianism is in line.
"Ren" is the core of Confucius's teachings. My father grew up reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and "deacons are respectful and loyal to others" has become the basic principle of his life's life.
Whether it is working as a clerk in a shop or a bank, or returning to his hometown to farm and farm, he can get along with his colleagues and villagers; after he started his education with the teacher, the master never allowed him to bully and bully with his youth; after teaching in the 1940s, he always took Confucius as a model and poured all his efforts into teaching and educating people.
When he was young, warlords were fighting, and his father never participated in the struggle between the party and the lords; the Japanese invaded China, trapped in the enemy-occupied areas, and almost lost their lives because they did not do things for the devils; in the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Yan Xishan "confessed to rebirth", and he secretly saved many people. Although my father did not have a higher level of enlightenment at that time, he understood the principle of being kind to others, so he was able to always maintain his innocence.
After liberation, he successively served as the principal of the center, the joint principal, and the cadre of the county education bureau, and because of his unremitting work, he became a model for attending the provinces, prefectures, and counties.
When the ultra-left line was rampant, like other old intellectuals, it was also attacked. After the rehabilitation, some people advocated "striking a blow against the gangsters", but my father still adhered to the Confucian idea of "repaying grievances with virtue", which made the ultra-left people at that time very grateful.
In the martial arts world, my father has always opposed the view of the door and suppressed others. The old man has been chanting for half a century for the martial arts of his predecessors who have guided them, such as Li Guangheng, Che Zhaojun, Bu Xuekuan and other masters! Even the brothers of the master and brothers highly praised and praised, such as Wu Zhitai, Sun Deyi, Wu Lianfu and other Wei Xiansai, who promoted Beiping and played with the deeds of Yan Bing, often told to us like a story, but never publicized themselves.
My father respected his teacher and emphasized teaching. During his tenure as an advisor to the Provincial Shape YiQuan Association, participating in various activities, the old man always has to answer questions, never conservative, it can be seen that he is tireless; he has a lot of information, can answer questions and answers, so people call it the "living dictionary" of Shape YiQuan. He regarded teaching boxing as an obligation to spread the culture of shape and intention, never considering personal gains and losses, and this tradition has been passed down to his third generation.
Indifference to fame and fortune is another principle that the father followed. When the "Complete Book of Shape-Meaning Boxing" was published, people advocated writing "Wu Dianke", but the old man insisted that what was contained in the book was the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the predecessors of shape and intention and the brothers of the teachers, and his contribution was only to truthfully record the teachings of the endangered ancestors, and it was enough to mark "compilation".
The elderly father became famous. International friends call it the modern "Shape intention taidou", and he solemnly tells us that only the Feiyu Ancestor Master and the Yi Zhai Grandmaster are worthy of this honor; the disciples send plaques "Shape Intention Soul", and he says that the cultivated and accomplished Ancestors of Shape and Meaning such as Li Fuzhen, Bu Xuekuan, Liu Jian and other masters are the soul of the Shape Intention Fist.
Writing here, we should understand that as the fifth national healthy elderly, one of the secrets of the father's health and longevity is the long-term edification of Confucian thought as the national essence of Confucius.
Zi Yue: "The knower is happy, and the benevolent one lives." "Gentlemen are frank, and villains are long-standing." If people can break free from the lock of fame and fortune, be benevolent, be gentlemen, and treat life with such a mentality, there will be no reason why health and longevity will not follow!
2. A lifetime of cultivation of form and intention fist
When compiling the resumes of celebrities of various martial arts sects across the country, a person with the same form and intention occasionally found a surprising secret: there are many more famous masters of shape and meaning in the past than other fists. Therefore, he judged that the Shape Intention Fist was a rare fist of longevity.
However, the same is the study of the shape of the intention of the fist, but also have to pay attention to the Fa, otherwise there is also a danger of useless or even self-destructive. For example, some famous teachers suffer from leg diseases in old age and cannot get out of bed, which is probably caused by improper boxing and exercise methods when they were young. My father often said that the experience and lessons of the old predecessors in practicing boxing were too many. There are roughly two situations in which individual boxers break their legs, one is that Zhen (Taigu is also known as "礅") breaks the leg, and the other is that the leg is destroyed. The problem of shock damage is better solved, as long as you pay attention to it often and stomp less when practicing, you can avoid it; and the mistake of urging your legs is committed without paying attention, so you must practice according to the rules when practicing boxing, in order to benefit. It seems that even if you practice longevity boxing, you still need to pay attention to science.
When the father practiced the shape of the fist for more than eighty spring and autumn, when standing on the three-body pile gong, one talked about the double heart, at least half an hour each time; the second talked about the buttocks and the anus, people often said "ten men and nine hemorrhoids", for a long time to practice the anus, you can avoid the worry of hemorrhoids; the third is to concentrate on the index finger and its extension line, do not turn your eyes, try your best to look far, the old man is old and has good eyesight, may benefit from this; fourth, he must sink into the Dantian, the heart is as quiet as water, eliminate distractions, purify the heart, and stand up with a clear mind and refreshed; fifth, the top of the tongue, the teeth are tapped lightly, the chest is pulled out, and the vertical neck is straight, Loose chest and solid abdomen, natural breathing. Fist Jingyun: "After practicing for a long time, it has become a vajra body, and all diseases are eliminated like a child." All the advanced shapes and meanings of the predecessors of kung fu have worked too the three-body pile work.
Shape intention five elements fist, also known as shape intention mother fist, external cultivation of splitting, collapse, drilling, cannon, horizontal five fists, internal lungs, liver, kidneys, heart, spleen five Tibetan, both internal and external cultivation, virtual reality causes, style simple meaning deep, easy to learn difficult.
When practicing the Five Elements, my father often stressed that he should pay attention to it according to his own characteristics. For example, split fist, "the lungs should be heard internally, the nose should be passed on externally, the body should be fur, the guard should be in the stomach, and the qi should be sent to the lungs." Because the split fist is golden, the main autumn order, in the autumn appropriately increase the cultivation of split fist, the lungs are comfortable, the qi and blood run, there is a great benefit; if you have indigestion, you may wish to increase the cultivation of the horizontal fist, because "the horizontal fist should be spleen inside, the mouth is open outside, in the body is a muscle, the guard is in the middle, the spleen is spleen", "the spleen is the foundation of the day after tomorrow, the transportation of the main water valley", long practice of horizontal fist, spleen and stomach, spirit uplifting, strong limbs.
When my father practiced the Five Elements Fist, he often focused on it at any time according to his own situation, and the small problems of internal organs were often resolved by themselves. The yin and yang of the internal organs are balanced, and the disease can naturally be turned away as soon as possible.
My father's favorite in his life was the "Seventy-Two Techniques". It was created by Master Che Yizhai based on the combination of the five elements of form and meaning, the technical essentials of the twelve-shaped fist, the single practice, the many techniques in the practice routine, and many "tricks" that were secretly transmitted. Practicing the seventy-two techniques is almost equivalent to reviewing the main content of the Shape And Intention Fist. Head, shoulder, elbow, hand, crotch, knee, foot seven punches are used, rolling punch, right split punch, pull drill punch, double roll punch, right plant punch, plate block punch, left hammer alternate, lion swallow hand, wrench cannon, flip hand cannon, pressure hand cannon, yo-hand cannon, hand cannon wheel cast. The technique is comprehensive, the play is both balanced, the rhythm is symmetrical, and it is integrated. After a set of training, the limbs and hundreds of skeletons, internal organs, ears, eyes, heads and necks, muscles, bones, qi and blood can be fully exercised, which is a comprehensive exercise of the shape and intention of the fist. Its role in strengthening the body and regulating the qi and nourishing the spirit is incomparable to other fists.
However, no matter how good the boxing style is, it must be persisted for a long time to benefit. His father was enlightened by his cousin Wu Yaoke (a disciple of Zhang Shude in Hebei) since childhood, and when he was studying at the county high school, he studied with the Bu Xue kuan master for four years, until he was officially taught by Liu Jianmen, and the practice was uninterrupted. Even in the war-torn years, the ultra-left period, he practiced secret cultivation at night, and did not give up until his old age. Therefore, as a longevity fist, as long as you are good at learning and persevering, everyone can live a long and healthy life, and the deeds of many other elders are enough to prove it.
3. Long-term adherence to the Pulp Washing Sutra
The Pulp Washing Sutra has always been divided into different opinions. There is the theory of the founding of the Southern Dynasty Song Dharma (said to be the Tianzhu people, the founder of Chinese Buddhist Zen Buddhism), and there is the theory of the creation and compilation of the great painter Wu Daozi of the Tang Dynasty... The final results of the examination are still inconclusive. The more well-founded Taigu in Shanxi is the ancestor of our clan, Wu Benzhong, who inherited the tradition of his predecessors. Wu Benzhong was a master of martial arts, a generation of famous teachers, then known as "God Marbles". After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Shanxi Taigu developed economically, merchants gathered, and the later Shanxi General Chamber of Commerce was set up here, which shows the status of Taigu's commerce in the province. By the time of the Republic of China, it had been called "China's Wall Street", "Dry Dock", and "Little Beijing". At that time, the four richest people in the territory, Such as Wang, Cao, Yuan, and Sun, and the eight rich families such as Meng, Wu, Zhang, and Qiao, competed with high salaries to hire nursing home boxers, and for a time martial arts masters from all over the world gathered in Taigu. Feng Kezhi, a direct subordinate to the "Iron Palm King Kong", Ma Dachun, a Shandong "Divine Hand Xiushi", Li Fahu, a Yiren "Divine Hook", and Hu Duo and Wu Benzhong, a "flying leg", are called the "five masters" in the territory. Soon, Shen fist Li Laonong was also hired by the Meng family to come to Taigu.
When the warriors meet, it is inevitable that they will "compete". Li Laonong and the five masters have all passed the moves one by one. "No fight, no deal", after all became good friends.
In fact, the martial arts in the world have their own shortcomings and lengths, and they learn from each other. Li Fuzhen, the disciple of Che Yizhai who opened the door, once exchanged the shape meaning "miscellaneous punch" for "poking foot", which was later adapted to "Mandarin duck foot". At that time, the "Divine Bullet" Wu Benzhong's "Sutra of Washing the Pulp" was passed on to Li Laonong, and it was re-transmitted to Che Yizhai and then to his father Wu Dianke through Liu Jian through the combination of the Shape and Meaning Fist. Wu Benzhong's original baptism sutra was also transmitted by Wu Dengkui from the Gate of wu, wu Yaoke, and then to his father. Therefore, the Father's "Sutra of The Purification of the Pulp of Form" actually comes from two sources. After decades of practice, refinement and sublimation, it has become the "True Scripture of Shape and Intention Washing" that is now circulating in the world.
The "True Sutra of Shape and Intention Washing" is divided into two parts, the upper part is the limb movement pulp washing, and the lower part is the massage pulp washing. It is characterized by the movement of the head and neck, limbs, hands and feet, torso, massage the meridian acupuncture points of the whole body, so that the five organs and six intestines yin and yang balance, the qi and blood meridians run smoothly, so as to achieve the purpose of strengthening the body. Its movements seem simple, but it requires that the practice must be standardized, the acupuncture points accurate, and long-term persistence, in order to truly achieve the purpose of disease prevention, disease removal, and fitness.
My father had been practicing the Essence of Essence for decades, but it was only after the age of sixty that it became the most important thing. He began every morning in the early hours of the morning, first meditating and massaging cross-legged, and then moving his limbs on the ground until dawn; at night, on the contrary, he seemed to feel slightly sweaty and relaxed, and when he went to bed, he immediately fell asleep. My father practiced this exercise for about an hour and a half at a time, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, without interruption. Here are a few fitness recipes for the elderly to feast on the reader.
1. Morning and evening rubbing the abdomen eighty-one, the elderly year is inconvenient and secret
Constipation in the elderly is almost universal, and the resulting problems are not to mention. My father never had any worries about constipation in his life, and the way to prevent it was to rub his abdomen reasonably. The specific steps are: every morning and evening with the palm of the hand clockwise hand alternately rubbing the lower abdomen 9981 times, irreversible clockwise operation; because the intestine is the right abdominal ascending colon, from the right to the left transverse colon, the left abdomen descending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum. Most people with constipation are caused by slow bowel movements, especially in the elderly. Morning and evening massage of the abdomen, naturally accelerate the intestinal peristalsis, long-term adherence, often can prevent constipation. Special reminder: To practice this exercise, be sure to empty the bladder to accumulate urine in case of accidents.
2. Rub your feet every morning and evening, and you will never have leg pain for life. The spring point of the foot heart, located in the recess of the toe, Chinese medicine acupuncture belongs to the Shaoyin kidney meridian, and it should be rubbed until it is feverish each time. My father often said that leg guards first protect the feet, and protect the feet and protect the heart of the feet, even in the middle of summer, the heart of the feet should not be cold; as long as you insist on protecting the heart of the feet from the cold, no matter how old you are, you may not suffer from leg diseases.
When his father was in his twenties, he was injured by a needle and a blood vessel by a soil doctor due to leg pain, and two surgeries before and after almost lame, which showed that the congenital conditions were not good. However, after persistent exercise, especially self-protection in accordance with the foot-rubbing heart leg protection method of the True Scripture of Shape and Intention Washing, sixty years later, when the "Complete Complete Book of Shape-Intention Boxing" was published, it was still possible to take dragon-shaped fist photos of shape-shaped Yiquan and twelve-shaped fists; seventy years later, walking and living as ordinary people, squatting to facilitate the future generation, and even practicing the "Seventy-Two Techniques" of Shape-Intention Fist as usual; the ninetieth birthday performed a practice routine for guests inside and outside the province at the Taigu County Hotel, which made the audience even more amazed!
3. The toe grasps the ground and shakes the arm, which can reduce blood pressure. When he was young, his father's blood pressure was high; later, he grabbed the ground with his feet, swung his arms, and exercised with his mind sinking with his hands, and his blood pressure actually dropped to normal. Seven or eight people with high blood pressure followed suit, all of which achieved good results. Unfortunately, it has not been more widely promoted, and the father has gone. The author recommends this, interested parties may wish to give it a try.
4. The spirit of the five senses, the mind is clear, the five senses are damaged, and people will be stupid. What person with poor hearing doesn't go crazy? What person with poor eyesight doesn't look stupid? Therefore, the facial features should be the "defense line" of the human mind.
My father often said, "The ears should always bounce, the nose should be rubbed often, the eyes should be often transported, the teeth should be often buttoned, the jin should be often swallowed, the head should be combed, and the face should be rubbed often..."
Often play ear chakras, vibrate eardrums, can prevent its aging; often rub the nose, can make the nasal cavity moist, prevent colds; often run the eyeballs, can prevent vision loss; often buckle teeth, strengthen the root of the teeth, do not suffer from dental disease; often pharyngeal Jin, wet throat is not on fire; often comb the hair, promote blood circulation in the scalp, prevent gray hair, prevent baldness; often rub the face, prevent dry skin, early wrinkles... Although the action is simple, it is difficult to persist. The ninety-something father's ears are deaf, clear-eyed, hairless, and moist,often amazing visitors; in particular, his father's quick thinking and extraordinary memory are even more impressive. Half a century ago, things can be told. Like the details of the fourteenth year of the Republic of China (1925) when Xia was introduced by his cousin Wu Yaoke (then the second treasurer of "Guanghengqing") to "Zhongxingzheng" to meet Mr. Li Guangheng, a disciple of Che Yizhai and the ink book of "Heart essence"; the scene of General Feng Yuxiang squatting on the bench eating steamed steamed buns in the autumn of 1930 when he passed through Taigu without entering the banquet; the order of the first master's tablets on the table when he entered the master in 1933 and the "door rules and door covenants" of the first master; in November 1937, the Japanese devils invaded the Taigu and trampled the people. Details of adultery and captivity... It can be told to people like a history book. After the national, provincial and municipal reporters interviewed, there was no one who did not marvel at the strange memory of the elderly. Taigu "Sanduotang", "Kong Xiangxi Residence", the birthplace of the shape of the fist "Ji'an Hall", the original style of the famous streets, famous courtyards, famous shops and important scenic spots in the ancient city of Taigu, he knows it all very well, for this reason, the Taigu County Zhi Office specially hired his father as a special consultant and a witness to the history of the Republic of China. As far as the children are concerned, the father's quick thinking and extraordinary memory are the result of his good health, pay attention to the protection of the five senses, and insist on using the brain. Writing books in his eighties and completing long works in his nineties is the certificate of his father's life to old age and work to old age
As children, we are also trying to inherit our father's business. The eldest brother Wu Lianjun (Zi Xiufeng) is more than eighty years old, the spirit is strong, is the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project (Shape and Intention Fist) in Shanxi Province, he compiled the "Traditional Shape and Intention Instrument Record" is about to be completed, is the first most comprehensive monograph on shape and meaning instruments in the history of Chinese shape and intention boxing; although the author is more than ancient, unfortunately, the age is high, the attainment is low, only to try his best to explore the martial arts heritage of his predecessors, willing to be a stick to help burn; the fifth grandson Wu Hui will enter nearly half a hundred years, but has forty-two years of boxing age, and his theory and martial arts have been very accessible Wu Huidi, the ninth grandson, is the director of the county sports center and assisted in the preparation of the 3rd "COSCO WEI Cup" International Shape and Intention Boxing Invitational Tournament in 2012. Wu Huiming, Wu Jinjie, Wang Yanhua, Li Shijie, Wu Liangen, and other martial artists have become quite influential and accomplished martial arts figures in the local area. If the father had known, he would have laughed at the Nine Springs.
The father's way of health and longevity is worthy of careful study by future generations, as mentioned above, perhaps the tip of the iceberg, if there is any impropriety, please be generous to the axe.
(The author was born in 1939, and has been passed down from generation to generation)