Mr. Sun Jianyun would rather be a nanny than an artist

Mr. Sun Jianyun would rather be a nanny than an artist

Xue Shengdong

Mr. Sun Jianyun is the daughter of Mr. Sun Lutang, a famous martial artist in modern China, in the fifties of the last century, she and Wang Xialin, Wu Yinghua, Li Wenzhen, Wang Jurong, once called the "five golden flowers" of martial arts. I have read several articles that interview Mr. Sun Jianyun. The content is to say that as the daughter of Mr. Sun Lutang, a famous martial artist of a generation, although she has a body of internal boxing skills, she suffered from life in the fifties and sixties of the last century, so that she quit her regular job for special reasons and interrupted her source of life. She used to live in a small room of 4.7 square meters for ten years, and she couldn't stretch her legs when she slept at night. In order to make a living, Mr. Sun Jianyun was introduced by a friend, and drew drawings for some universities and research units. She also painted for the palace lamp factory exported by foreign trade, and a four-open painting was only three cents, which was equivalent to the money of a popsicle at that time, and the pens, ink, and pigments used were all brought by herself. It can be seen that it is difficult to make ends meet.

After being a famous family, Sun Jianyun was also forced to work as a nanny, take care of children, cook, and do any job. Someone won a nanny position for Mr. Sun Jianyun with a monthly salary of 30 yuan, but Mr. Sun was not greedy for money and said bluntly, just charge 10 yuan, which is enough to pay the water, electricity and gas bills. Reading the article, I had mixed feelings, as a person who practiced martial arts in traditional martial arts, I felt very bad in my heart. Especially as mentioned in the article, Mr. Sun Jianyun, even in the case of hardship and poverty, is poor and strong-willed, indifferent-hearted, relying on selling brushwork, being a nanny, and doing handymen to get by, and never boxing and performing arts, never using the skills of his ancestors for food, he can't help but cry and feel distressed. As the saying goes: "People are poor and perform on the streets, and tigers are hungry and hurt people." However, Mr. Sun scrupulously adhered to the ancient precept that the skills were not passed on lightly, and the Tao passed on the ancient precepts of those who were destined to be born, she said: "Martial arts is a priceless treasure of the Chinese nation, how can it be sold? In his later years, Mr. Sun Jianyun was fortunate to be taken by his disciple Dai Jianying to his home in Baoding City to spend the rest of his life in peace, and he was able to die a good death, and Shoulu was 90 years old, which can be described as the blessing of God, and it is enough to soothe the hearts of fellow martial artists.

Sun Jianyun's predecessor, a martial artist all his life, a bumpy life, a poor man, a clean life, and an upright life. She used her life of many disasters and hardships to practice the ancient precepts and precepts of not passing on skills lightly and preaching destined people. This reminds me of the deeds of Wang Zhengnan, the famous successor of Neijiaquan in the Ming Dynasty. Mr. Sun Jianyun is the same as Mr. Wang Zhengnan, they both have rare skills, and in the process of encountering the hardships and hardships of life and poverty, they did the same thing - starving to death and not performing arts.

At the end of Huang Baijia's "Epitaph of the Inner Boxing King Zhengnan", there is such a summary text about Mr. Wang Zhengnan's bumpy and difficult life: "If you have skills, you will not be able to do anything, and your ambition will be sad." "鬻 (pronounced yǎu): the meaning of selling and selling. It describes a person with real skills, abiding by the precepts that art is not passed on lightly, cherishing skills, treating art as life, although living in poverty, he will never live because of his art, he will not bow his head when he freezes to death, and he will not sell his art if he starves to death. It reflects a person with true Taoist skills, who is poor and strong, and has the awe of the Taoist precepts and the respect for the Taoist skills.

The spiritual integrity of the predecessors who starved to death and did not sell their arts originated from the ancient precept that art is not lightly passed on, and the Tao is destined to be passed on. However, the skills of the Taoist Gate are by no means deliberately not passed on, but must be passed on to others, if they are obtained and deliberately not passed on, it is for the private possession of heavenly treasures, and it is also a great sin to be punished by heaven. The crux of the matter is to get the people to pass it on, the master seeks the apprentice for three years, the apprentice seeks the master for three years, and the relationship between the master and the apprentice is the meeting and harmony due to fate. A real apprentice must be a person who respects the teacher and respects the art, loves the skills as his life, really likes, really works hard, and is willing to pay, and can achieve a close relationship between the master and the apprentice, and the feelings are in place, so as to achieve the birth of a new generation of skill inheritors.

Looking at the past and present, there are some people who have a suspicious heart, make small calculations, and have the psychology of taking advantage of speculation, thinking that they can get a complete teaching by kowtowing, handing over a post, visiting a teacher, meeting with the master a few times, and drinking a few small drinks. The people who really get the skills to be taught have paid a lot of financial and material resources and hard work. I once read two articles, talking about two descendants of mantis boxing, one said that he insisted on sending pig's head meat to the master every three or five times, and sent the pig to the goods, which impressed the master and became a closed-door disciple. Another said that he insisted on drinking wine for the master, which impressed the master, and finally got the so-called true biography. I also read an article that said that a certain master smoked a lot, and one of the disciples sold the only ten acres of land left in the family in exchange for big tobacco soil to support the master of the big smoker, because this land is the last belongings, naturally there is a bitter face, but the master saw it and said: "Don't be unhappy, you go up the opposite mountain and look down, what is your land, I have given you more things." These three examples, although they sound vulgar and ridiculous, are enough to illustrate the problem that it is not easy to learn traditional martial arts.

In fact, the real internal boxing skills, as well as the Taoist Confucian Buddhism's life cultivation, traditional Chinese medicine skills, Kanyu, divination and other knowledge, are all passed down by oral transmission. For example, there is a proverb in martial arts skills that teach boxing but not steps, and teach steps to beat the master. Traditional Chinese medicine has rules and thresholds such as passing on medicine but not passing on the amount (ratio), life cultivation and cultivating the truth has rules and thresholds such as passing on pills without passing on medicines, and passing medicines without passing on fire. The core of the martial arts skills of many portals is to be of no avail and impossible to understand by simply closing the door and meditating, and pondering with your eyes closed. This is similar to the core patented technology for modern scientific research. One side is pinching the neck in the core technology, the other party is not afraid of pinching the neck, we have a hard neck, we have to engage in independent research and development, self-reliance, how bold people are, how productive the land is, we independently research and develop it, and then scare you to death. However, independent research and development, ten or twenty years, one life and two lifetimes, time waits for no one! Time has passed, and important work has been delayed. Dreams do come true, however, always on the way. However, if the core technology is directly taught and directly delivered, the situation is different. The core technology is a kind of entrustment, a kind of inheritance, is the research results of the predecessors, you take it directly, how fast and saving, saving time can be done into a big business, this is the charm and value of inheritance. It is precisely because the inheritance of core skills is stepping on the shoulders of predecessors that it has been able to climb. Therefore, such a good thing is cheap, and it is not easy to fall into the hands of others casually. Therefore, the predecessors left a heartfelt emotion:

Painstaking effort and spirit, do not lightly pass on the unrighteous.

Those who know should be given priceless, why should ordinary people say a thousand gold.

In the final analysis, it is a special threshold deliberately set in order to protect the safe and reasonable transfer of intellectual property rights. And for unsuitable people, it is strictly confidential, resolutely prohibits export transfer, and does not sell as much as it is given. It is necessary to achieve the core technology, carry out comprehensive sanctions against the wicked, comprehensively block and keep secrets, and strictly prevent skills from falling into the hands of the villains. Therefore, it is actually arbitrary and biased that the secular public often puts on an extremely conservative and secret hat and name for the masters and experienced practitioners who inherit traditional martial arts skills. They don't know the pain and loneliness in their hearts because they can't meet the inheritors.

Many people have pursued it all their lives, but for some reason, for some reason, the relationship between master and apprentice is not intimate, close but not close, and has not reached a certain level of trust, so they have not been taught the core technical content, let alone what is the full art. There are even some people who have also received special teaching and guidance from their masters, but as apprentices, they have not paid attention to the heart and method, or they have not practiced in depth, so that the skills have not been put on the body, which is really a pity of 120,000 points. The list of practical examples of this is endless. Therefore, there are many people in reality, who want to be famous, and who are born in the door. This is because these external things are the capital and poor capital that some people rely on to survive and survive. Therefore, even if you spend money to buy it, you are spending money to change the reply of the apprentice. Because, once you remove these external wrapping paper, the inside is worthless and empty, with no actual content.

Therefore, the heirs who can get a more systematic and complete skill are actually only a few people in each generation, and it can really be said that Liao Ruochenxing, one in a hundred, it is not too much to say that it is rare as rare. Through Mr. Sun Jianyun and Mr. Wang Zhengnan, about the true deeds of not passing on skills lightly, preaching destined people, and starving to death without performing arts, it can be concluded that it is not easy for the real wonderful skills of the inner family martial arts to be passed on. This is also the reason why the country has issued a call since the 80s of the last century: to rescue the excavation of traditional Chinese martial arts skills. In fact, there are not many traditional Chinese cultural heritages that need to be excavated and sorted out in a rescue way, and more people are really needed to cherish and cherish it!

January 26, 2024 at the Wuli Hall of the Plum Crane Tower