Preface
The origin and inheritance of Wushan Hui Pile Wushan belongs to Tianshui City, Gansu Province, known as "Ningyuan" County in ancient times, which was the area of Qiang tribe activities in ancient times and the place where the ancient Silk Road must pass.
"Wushan Old City Renovation Yin" cloud: "Ningyuan has been a soldier since ancient times, and the war between the dynasties and the dynasty has raised the smoke in order to gain war profits, and the boundary of Wei is biased according to the danger. ”
It can be seen that since ancient times, it has been a strategic place, and in ancient times, there were endless disputes between soldiers and soldiers, and it was often invaded by soldiers and bandits, and it has gradually formed the style of martial arts practice of the people of Wushan for generations.
The origin of "back to the pile" is legendary
Martial arts became the most effective means of defending against the enemy in the era of cold weapons, and the development of Wushan was more popular, and there were profound martial arts heritage and more practicing people in the region, and in 1992, it was rated as the first "national martial arts hometown" in Northwest China.
A number of outstanding martial arts talents have also emerged in Wushan, including the Kangqi family with the "return pile" as a unique instrument, and the Qing Dynasty had been admitted to the martial arts and martial arts.
Wushan Hui Pile is a unique family heirloom martial arts instrument, which has always been inherited only in the Kang Jiakang Roar family in Longquan Township, Wushan County.
Through the collation of field investigation data, Kang family ancestors from Rong to fight, Qing Yongzheng years, in a battle with the Mongolian army found that there are Hui warriors using similar "back pile" equipment, the battle is fierce, the enemy was wounded after several attacks, the ancestors of the Kang family rescued it, after the war to take back to Wushan's hometown, after the death of the land in Wushan Kangjiazhuang.
After taking back to Wushan's hometown, the unsung hero began to pass on his art to the Kang family, and his main instrument was to return to the pile. The reason why the pile is called the pile is called the pile research, and the teacher recalled that the ancestors once said that it may be because this fist is given by the Hui people, or it may be that there is a meaning that you can come back when you go out, so it is called back to the pile.
Through the careful study of the pile return equipment, the author believes that the origin of the pile return is closer to the real theory of fighting with the Mongolian army, and at the same time, combined with the characteristics of regional folklore, its origin should be related to the horse whip in the Tianshui area.
The comparison found that the shape of the Wushan pile is very similar to that of the horsewhip, like an enlarged version of the pile. Combined with the theory of fighting with the Mongolian army, it can be inferred that the "horse whip" was carried casually as a sharp weapon to drive horses when fighting on horseback at that time, and the use of "horse whip" to defend against the enemy in a critical moment can be completely reflected.
After the war, the experience was summed up, and the directional transformation of the horse whip was "enlarged", coupled with a sharp dart head, which became the return pile of the Kang family's unique inheritance.
Wushan Huizhu is mainly based on family inheritance, and the advantage of this inheritance method lies in the inheritance of the original ecology within the family with blood as the link.
In 1897 A.D. (the twenty-third year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty), the twenty-eighth Wujin scholar of the Zhongqing Ding Youke family. Kang Qi's arm strength is outstanding, he is good at bows and arrows, and inherits the family heirloom "back to the pile".
The structure of the Wushan pile belongs to the category of rope soldiers, and the so-called rope soldiers are "to tie a weapon with a rope or an iron chain, hold one end of the rope practice, and force the other end of the device tied to the weapon to hit or hook people".
The actual combat of the call back pile is more prominent, and the actual combat is both soft and hard, which can be long and short, can be near or far, throw and throw long hits, and shorten close attacks. It is mainly used in the stick method when used at close range, and rope darts are mainly used in long-distance use.
When it is not deployed, you can only see a stick, and during actual combat, there is suddenly an extra rope dart, which is easy to surprise and cause greater damage to the enemy.
It can be seen that the pile is also a kind of soft weapon with strong offensive characteristics that is easy to carry, concealed, sudden, and caught off guard.
The pile is also called "stick rope dart", the stick is slightly equipped with a round iron ring, and the other semi-circular iron ring is made into two small iron sheets, which are directly wrapped on the round wall of the stick, and then fixed with rivets, so it is very stable and not easy to fall off.
The back end of the hemp rope is tied to the stick, and most of the darts tied to the front end of the hemp rope are ordinary quadrangular darts, made of steel, and about 8-10cm long.
The characteristics of Wushan back pile
In actual combat or practice, it is necessary not only to have the foundation of single-headed stick method, but also to have all kinds of arc winding and sweeping techniques in the rope dart, and skillfully combine the stick with the rope dart.
In sports, various methods are transformed into each other, the dart head is out and out, the time is short, the action is changeable, soft and hard, fast and agile, and unpredictable. It can not only strengthen the body, but also be a weapon for self-defense and home.
Wushan back to the pile from a distance is a short stick, but in fact, the hidden rope dart hidden weapon of the instrument characteristics are mainly "use the stick to control the rope dart", the dart is attacked, the stick is defended, the attack is defended, and the defense is attacked.
In the pre-use or practice before the start of the exercise, the rope dart is slightly entangled with the stick, which at first glance looks like a stick, and the rope dart is held in the hand in the form of a hidden entanglement, giving outsiders the illusion that the opponent only has a stick.
After a few common stick techniques, the dart will be suddenly released, and it is thanks to the "yin handle" of the left and right hands that the dart can be quickly released. Its techniques are mostly "vertical circle strike, vertical circle buckle, flat circle sweep, cross strike" and so on, the technique of the rope dart is mainly based on attack.
Judging from the actual exercise, in addition to the above usage, the most important action is that the rope dart is dragged on the ground after the attack.
After mopping the rope dart, the stick method is mainly changed, and the stick method is mainly defensive, and there are also offensive actions, which is the offense in defense.
Flexible footwork features
The flexible movement of the footwork ensures the coordination and cooperation of both soft and hard piles. In practice, it is not easy to maintain a good balance between "body, stick, rope and dart", especially in the process of exercise.
It is precisely because of this state of balance that is difficult to maintain that the practitioner must quickly adjust and maintain balance after breaking the balance, and the movement of footwork plays a key role, which can also be explained by the sentence "Nine Palace Bagua is inside and outside".
With internal diplomacy and diplomacy as the actual combat simulation of "inside the enemy and outside, outside the enemy and inside", there are mainly progress, follow, cover step, insertion (stealing step), leap and slide step, lunge and so on.
Judging from the actual drill of returning to the pile, the long-distance use of darts to make moves, close range with stick defense, coupled with rapid footwork movement, and fast darts, in order to achieve a better offensive and defensive effect.
Strong combat skills
As a product of war in the era of cold weapons, Wushan Huizhu has a strong practical combat nature. With its practical characteristics of being able to be long and short, and using both soft and hard, it can often inflict more damage on the enemy in engagement.
According to the introduction of Mr. Kang Roar, the inheritor of the Wushan Hui Pile in the survey, the village where the Kang family's ancestors were located had been invaded by bandits, and the Kang brothers used the family heirloom to keep the enemy out of the gate.
Its flexibility, both offensive and defensive often make people defenseless, field investigation confirmed that Wushan Hui pile does have its uniqueness, this uniqueness is not possessed by ordinary martial arts equipment.
The most surprising thing is that the Hui Pile is not only good at foot combat, but also can be used in cavalry combat, although the lethality is not as good as spear and sword, but the attack range is very wide, suitable for mid-range grappling.
The origin of Wushan Huizhu is said to be fighting with the Mongolian army, and the battle with the Mongolian army is mostly cavalry, and the ancient cavalry mostly used long-distance attacking bows and arrows and close-range spears as the main weapons.
The pile is just longer than the ordinary spear, and can be quickly retracted and shortened, which can effectively make up for the actual combat environment in the middle of the far and short distances, and the user can do "sweeping, snatching" and other actions on horseback, which can be used before and after, left and right, up and down, because of its soft and hard, short and long nature characteristics and can effectively fight against weapons such as spears, and the enemy can not approach within the sweeping arc, so as to achieve effective actual combat ability.
The most common feature of martial arts equipment is that it can be defended and attacked, and the same is true for Wushan Huizhen. According to the analysis of the oral data of the survey, its main characteristics are that it can be defended and attacked, and there is attack in defense, and there is defense in attack.
As a landmark building of rich families in villages around Wushan in the past dynasties, "Gatehouse" can only be owned by large wealthy families, and large families are often the target of bandits.
The gatehouse is generally a two-storey civil structure with a height of about 4-5 meters. The downstairs is only a doorway for people to enter and exit, and the upstairs building is the main stronghold of the nursing home.
When there is a bandit attack, the enemy can stand on the door tower to defend, with the back pile "down smash, stand round cover smashing" and other technical attack methods, kill the downstairs siege bandits, can effectively repel the attackers, do not have to fight with the enemy in close quarters, so as to achieve the effective purpose of defending the enemy.
On the contrary, when attacking the gatehouse or a smaller city, you can stand under the tower and attack the defenders of the city, with the main technique of "throwing up in an arc and slashing", which also avoids hand-to-hand combat.
Those who are deep in kung fu can even plunge the head of the pile dart into the city wall, climb the machine and kill the enemy. It is precisely because of this that the Wushan Hui pile was only passed down to the Kang family in ancient times and never passed on, and if it was passed on, it would threaten itself, which was also the main reason why some martial arts in the past dynasties were not passed on.
A sharp weapon for wall strikes
As a soft instrument, Wushan Hui Pile has the characteristics of some soft instruments. The most special thing is that it can hit the attacker invisible or unapproachable enemy, the research of the current Kang roar shows the function of the wall back to the pile, its "vertical circle around the attack, back to the retraction, back to carry the burden and other techniques can be effective strike, the actual combat effect is strong.
The front of the wall can be attacked to the back, and there are mainly techniques such as "standing circle winding, lifting and retracting, and carrying back". Compared with simple meteors, rope darts and other instruments, when the partition wall is struck and recovered, the pile is easier to recover because of the wooden stick as the mother.
In addition, it can also be hit like a "bending gun", attacking from the side of the wall in an arc with a flat circle, mainly including techniques such as "flat circle snatching, swinging back and retracting, and winding back belt".
epilogue
Cold weapons that combine hard and soft such as piles are similar in the West, such as the "chain hammer" used in Europe, which is similar to it, and uses the characteristics of soft weapons to carry out curved strikes, so as to surround the opponent's shield or weapon.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a "flail" in the army, which was a sharp weapon for many hand-to-hand soldiers, and it was often able to surprise and take advantage of the fighting in close combat.