"Change is general, general is change, change is live, live is change" I remember that Li Yu, the owner of the temple, once made this warning sentence, even in today's day, it still feels like an empowerment pointing directly to people's hearts. With the progress of the era of social development, what the ancestors left behind is not necessarily all the essence, and the final consequence of the immutable can only be abandoned by the times.
For the traditional martial arts that have now stepped down from the altar, in the face of the pursuit of stronger, faster and more practical modern fighting, clinging to the so-called "Chuan Chuan" and "Authentic", not knowing that the sea is eclectic, and only knowing that some masters who make excuses for failure can really represent the long-standing Chinese martial arts?
Back in 1966, when the gang rou liu master Sawamura Tadashi went on an expedition to Thailand to fight against professional Muay Thai boxers, he was brutally abused by the other side, and his whole body was seriously injured in as many as sixteen places, and he lay in the hospital alone for more than half a month. However, after this person recovered from his injuries, he was ashamed and then bravely stayed in Thailand to learn Muay Thai, and finally integrated and won many battles, achieving the famous name of "kicking boxing ghost", and those invincible masters lacked such passion as blood?
Dating back to the Republic of China period, there was also a ghost similar to kicking and punching in China, that is, Zhu Guofu, who is known as the father of Chinese fighting. Zhu Guofu (朱国福), courtesy name Guofu (字果夫), was born on January 5, 1891 in Dazhujiazhuang, Dingxing County, Zhidi Province, at the age of fourteen, he worshiped the famous Yiquan master Ma Yutang as a teacher, and later practiced Bagua palm and Taijiquan from Mr. Sun Lutang, and also sought out people to practice boxing.
In August 1923, the famous Belarusian boxer Beby Hubuer held a boxing match at the Giant Ida Road International Martial Arts Arena in the French Concession. On the evening of August 22, 1923, Zhu Guofu came to the stage in accordance with the rules of boxing to challenge, after the war, because the White Russian boxers were tall and powerful, Zhu Guofu mostly used close-quarters melee combat, straight fists and flexed arms, hooked fists like files, swinging fists like dials, close punches, main attack on the stomach.
Finally, in the fourth round, Pei Yi Haber was knocked to the ground by Zhu Guofu, and could not get up after reading the seconds, and suddenly, the Chinese audience in the stadium thundered with joy, and Zhu Guofu also became famous. According to the Shanghai "Declaration", at that time, the field erupted like a volcano, the joy was thunderous, and the people shouted with their arms: "Our boys, they are not weak!" ”。
In 1924, Zhu Guofu came to Shanghai and founded the Martial Arts Society. In 1928, Zhu Guofu participated in the first Wushu National Examination and won the best class. In 1929, he entered the Nanjing Central Guoshu Museum and served as the director of academic affairs, and at the same time opened boxing classes, introduced and developed boxing for the country, and practiced it, using modern concepts to carry out combat training and teaching.
In the book "Modern Boxing" written by Professor Zhou Shibin, a famous boxer in modern China, one paragraph reads: "In 1930, the Central Guoshu Hall of the Kuomintang government and the later established National Guoshu Sports College both made boxing one of the compulsory subjects. The boxing of the Central GuoshuGuan was taught by Zhu Guofu, a descendant of the Shape Yi Gate... During this period, he cultivated many talents, such as Zhang Wenguang, Wen Jingming, Li Hao, Bu Enfu, Wu Yuchi, Jiang Haoquan and other people in the martial arts industry, all of whom were boxing masters. ”
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Guofu stayed on as a teacher at Chongqing University, and was elected as the leader of the Wushu Research and Finishing Group of the Southwest Branch of the National Sports Federation, a member of the Chinese Wushu Society, and the first vice chairman of the Chongqing Wushu Association. In 1953, Zhu Guofu accepted the invitation of Marshal He Long of the Southwest Military Region to cultivate martial arts talents for the army, and compiled effective military teaching materials such as bayonets and stabs for the army. On June 15, 1968, Zhu Guofu died in Chongqing at the age of 77.