Taigu in Shanxi Province is a famous martial arts town in the country, and the shape of the boxing is particularly characteristic of Taigu County. Among the many famous teachers of shape and meaning, Song Shirong, the master of Song's shape and meaning, is quite famous in the national martial arts community.
The master of shape and meaning, Li Luoneng, had been in the Care Of The Mengkou Family, a large household in Jinshang, for a long time, and got along well with the Meng family, during which he taught martial arts in Taigu City and Countryside, and trained three masters of Shape and Intention, one was the famous Second Master of Che in the county, and the other was song Shirong and Song Shide. Shi De later liked the old and yellow arts, and once left home to travel in all directions, while Shi Rong stayed at home to practice martial arts, studied martial arts, opened the door to apprentices, and made positive contributions to the promotion of shape and intention fist.
Although Mr. Song Shirong has great skills, he is peaceful and indifferent to fame and fortune, and he teaches apprentices carefully on weekdays, teaches people tirelessly, and insists on watch repair business, as if he is a watchmaker. He had extensive contacts on the ground in Taigu, and was not willing to be a descendant for public welfare. He knew Mr. Cao Runtang, the patriarch of the Cao family of the Jin merchant giant Jia, and had a close relationship. Cao Runtang was a poet, and in his poetry collection "Selected Poems of Mushi'an", there is a poem dedicated to Song Shirong, which reads: "Seeing the most skilled craftsman of the super screen, the elderly are especially angry like a rainbow, who knows Yan Zhao sad singers, mostly in the fishing salt version of the building." After this poem, Mr. Runtang also wrote the following text: "Song Yuezhai, a Yanjing person, a martial artist, a good hand, has never met in his life, and people only regard it as a person in trade." "It can be fully seen here that Mr. Song in life is so plain. He was fond of tea, and in order to seek good water, he had to run fifteen miles away every day to collect water from the spring, and insisted on it for several years, never stopping.
Sun Lutang and Song Shirong also had contacts, there are rumors that "Mr. Sun Lutang said that Mr. Song Shirong's wrist can not be held", below, let's take a look at how Sun Lutang recorded Mr. Song Shirong in "Fist Intention Truth".
Mr. Song Shirong
Mr. Song Shirong, Wanping ren, Xi Kunqu, Go, sex and good boxing. Opened a clock shop in Taigu, Shanxi. Mr. Wen Li Nengran was superb in boxing, and at that time, he was introduced by the trustees and worshiped as a disciple. Since his education, he has been practicing diligently day and night until now. The Five Elements Fist and the Twelve Shapes that I have learned are all perfect. When practicing the snake shape in the twelve shapes, you can do the best of the snake's performance, when you turn back to the left, the right hand can capture the right heel; when you turn to the right, the left hand can capture the left heel; when you turn back, the body is like a snake coil; when you walk, the body is curved and turned, and it is like the snake's grass meandering. When practicing swallow shape, the body is next to the ground, can be swept under the bench, go out for a long distance, the name of this style, that is, swallow copying water. He also practiced tanuki cat on the tree, which is a name in this series of fists, jumping up, hands and feet flat against the wall, can stick for a minute or two. At that time, there were many people in the same door and outside the door, and those who had witnessed the various skills practiced by mr. Wang were also very popular. Mr. Gai's qualities are very profound, and they can do their best, so their transmission of gods is also like this. Xi Lingren, acquaintance with Mr. Yun, when Yun was in naturalization city, he saw Mr. and a practitioner compare, the two people separated from each other, the practitioner stood up and shot, his body was as fast as an arrow, falling out of the two zhang, and the gentleman did not move at all, only to see two hands on the body of the practitioner! When Yu was more than 20 years old, he lived in Mr. Bai Xiyuan, Xiaoxier Hutong, Beijing, and Lingren and Mr. Bai lived opposite each other, and heard him say this to Mr. Bai. In January of the twelfth year of the Republic of China, a certain person from the same door went to Taigu to meet Mr. Wang, who was more than eighty years old at the time, with a strong spirit and a flexible body, just as in that year. After returning to Yu Yue, when mr. Yu Yu talked about boxing, he still raised his eyebrows and danced, spoke his reasoning, compared his body to his shape, and forgot that he was an elderly man, and sighed that it was better to be a healthy person!
——Sun Lutang, "Fist Intention Shu Zhen", Renji Printing Bureau, 18th year of the Republic of China, third edition