Liu Chaofeng/ Wen
Today, at the scene of the Wushu Festival's Qi Model Gymnasium Competition, an old man with a strong spirit has attracted your attention, it turns out that he is a famous martial artist in China, the arbitration director of this competition, one of the top ten martial arts masters in contemporary China, a well-known taidou-level figure in the martial arts world, and Mr. Liang Yiquan, the founder of Epo Martial Arts School.
Liang Yiquan, who is 88 years old this year, has a clear mind, quick thinking, and a silver hair to witness the never-ending pace of his development of martial arts. "Nowadays, it is rare to go far away, and every day is two points and one line at school and home. As you get older, your ears are a little back, and you need the 'secret weapon' of hearing aids when talking to you. Seeing a familiar old friend, Elder Liang greeted the reporter humorously and chatted like a family treasure. As a "regular visitor" of the martial arts festival, Liang Yiquan participated in almost every session, and when it came to this year's martial arts event, Liang Yiquan said emotionally: "This year's foreign friends are obviously more, and the level has also been greatly improved, indicating that martial arts have become quite popular in the world." The students of the Goose Slope Martial Arts School participated in this competition, and the youngest of them was only five years old, and the level was quite good, so that we could not let no one in the martial arts world follow. ”
Spreading Shaolin martial arts and establishing martial arts education is a complex that Mr. Liang Yiquan can hardly let go. In 1995, Mr. Liang Yiquan retired honorably, but he retired and founded the Shaolin Goose Slope Martial Arts Academy to continue to cultivate Shaolin martial arts talents for the country. The Shaolin martial arts disciples trained by Mr. Liang have long been all over the world.
Nowadays, although Mr. Liang is old, he still maintains the habit of practicing exercises, and morning exercise and evening exercise are compulsory courses every day. In the early morning, Mr. Liang came to the martial arts school as usual. At this point, the students were about to start practicing. Mr. Liang quickly walked among the students and personally taught the skills. Even in the case of many work and social affairs, Mr. Liang still insists on personally going deep among the students to guide him every day. Talking about his participation in the first wushu festival, Mr. Liang couldn't help but get up and draw it: "At the time of the first wushu festival, although I was 61 years old at the time, I was still very excited and very happy after receiving the notice that I was going to perform for guests at home and abroad! In recent years, while founding the Epo Education Group and the martial arts spirit of Everbright, Master Liang Yiquan has also paid great attention to the various undertakings of his hometown Luotuoya Village, and he has been comforting the elderly and helping poor residents during the Spring Festival all year round, donating funds to build roads, donating funds for education, building cultural squares and Liang Family Ancestral Halls. In 2017, Liang invested nearly 20 million yuan in the construction of Liang's Boxing Hall in his hometown of Donghua Town, recreating the glorious process of the rise, inheritance, excavation, sorting, development and glorification of Shaolin martial arts in the Liang family.
Liang's Boxing Workshop is an extension on the basis of the Liang family's old residence, covering an area of 2556 square meters, with reception rooms, exhibition rooms, classrooms, old boxing houses, old residences, mills, livestock rooms, kitchens, communication rooms, living rooms and other buildings. The Liang family's old mansion is a typical Central Plains farmhouse, which is a place where the Liang martial arts family lives and practices. It was founded in the 1840s and has been around for more than 170 years. Liang Haishui, the fifteenth ancestor of the Liang clan, and his son, the Shaolin grandmaster Liang Yi, all lived here for a long time. A repair was carried out in 1947. This year, Master Liang Yiquan rebuilt the old mansion, expanded the scale, improved the function, and built the Liang's Boxing Hall for the world to visit, so as to trace the history of the Liang clan, remember the merits of the predecessors, and inspire future generations to work hard.
After the 8th China Zhengzhou International Shaolin Wushu Festival began in 2010, Liang Lao began to move from the daily martial arts teaching work center to excavating, sorting out and passing on traditional Shaolin martial arts to teachers and students in Goose Slope. In 2011, a special traditional exercise training ground was built on the campus. In 2012, the 81-year-old Liang Lao compiled and published the Songshan Shaolin Fist Song Recipe. In 2015, Liang Lao took the lead and organized one of the traditional Shaolin martial arts of liang's Shaolin martial arts orangutan lineage, including his eldest son Liang Shaozong, second son Liang Shaofei, grandchildren Liang Hongxun, Liang Hongliang and others, collectively created a three-act martial arts sitcom "Orangutan Monster Breaks into the Mountain Gate" to perform on the stage, CCTV, Henan Television and other media conducted in-depth interviews and reports many times. On October 16, 2016, the Liang's Shaolin martial arts orangutan monster, which has been rated as the intangible cultural heritage of Dengfeng City, won the official debut of the 11th China Zhengzhou International Wushu Festival.
Talking about the holding of this martial arts festival in Dengfeng, Liang Yiquan's face was full of joy, and when he left, Liang Lao confidently said: "The martial arts festival has built a bridge between Dengfeng and the world, making the hometown of martial arts more famous, and the future of Dengfeng will build a world-famous kung fu capital, and the prospects are immeasurable." As the inheritor of martial arts, although I am not in the front line due to physical reasons, I will spare no effort to do a good job in the inheritance and development of martial arts, and do my best to carry forward Chinese martial arts in the world. This is Mr. Liang Yiquan, who is the inheritor of Shaolin martial arts and the spreader of Shaolin martial arts. As a Shaolin martial arts researcher, he wrote the first Shaolin martial arts monograph; As a pioneer of Shaolin martial arts, he founded the country's first school to spread Shaolin martial arts; As a Shaolin martial arts educator, the Goose Slope Education Group he founded has trained a number of martial arts talents.
A body of righteousness is in the human world, Liang Yiquan said this, and even more so.
Reprinted from Zhengzhou Daily, October 2018