Martial arts are the pride of China's ancestors and the glory of the Chinese nation, and after thousands of years of inheritance, Chinese ancestors have pushed it to the peak and become a skill admired by the world. Named "The Inheritor of The World Intangible Cultural Heritage" by the Ministry of Culture, Wang Baohe was praised as the "Ghost Hand King" for his amazing skills, and he is not only a small number of people who practice martial arts, but also the only descendant of "bone reduction gong" in China.
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When it comes to Wang Baohe's amazing skills, we have to mention his family. Wang Baohe's grandfather was the famous "Great King of Unloading Ropes" Wang Yulin, who was famous for his amazing "bone reduction skills" at that time. Because of his true ability and excellent skills, everyone who watched his performance was amazed and amazed, and after gradually publicizing his reputation as "bone reduction", he was known as the "Eight Monsters of Beijing Tianqiao". Therefore, before Wang Baohe was born, "Bone Reduction Gong" was already very famous in the local area.
Wang Baohe's grandfather and father had both set up stalls in Beijing's Tianqiao to sell art, and his grandfather was very famous in the Tianqiao area at that time with the title of "Bone Reduction Gong" and "One of the Eight Monsters". After Wang Baohe's grandfather decided to retire, he passed on his mastery to his son, Wang Baohe's father, Wang Fushou.
Wang Baohe learned martial arts with his family at the age of six, and while other children were still innocently enjoying their beautiful childhoods, he had begun to learn martial arts every morning. Whenever his father went to the overpass to sell his art, he would assist his father's program and perform some basic skills. He followed his father around to perform, and with the passage of time, his skills became more and more exquisite, he had a high degree of understanding and patience, coupled with hard practice day after day, and gradually had his own unique skills "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" and "Bone Reduction Soft Skills".
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > one minute on stage, ten years offstage</h1>
When Wang Baohe was young, he followed his father and grandfather to learn "bone reduction and soft skills", and the process of practicing the exercises was extremely hard, and the people who practiced martial arts paid attention to the environment for practicing martial arts. No matter how cold it is, how hot the weather is, you need to train in an open-air place. Even if Wang Baohe was very young at that time, he had to suffer hardships to practice a mastery, so he got up every day to practice the basic skills, even if it was windy and rainy, he couldn't stop.
In order to lay a good foundation for future practice, he also fell into a problem that hurt every rainy or cloudy day. Decades of hard work and study have also made Wang Baohe make great progress and achievements. Now we may not appreciate the difficulties at that time, Wang Baohe lived in the era of hunger and cold, if there is no real ability to make the audience feel surprised and admired, it is impossible to make money at all, in order to support the family, had to pay ordinary people unimaginable hard work.
It is a very hard thing to practice bone reduction, in fact, the principle of the collarbone is to take the initiative to dislocate your arm. In the beginning, you need someone else to constantly pull the dislocation of their arm and close it again, and pull the dislocation again and close it again... These actions are repeated again and again until no pain is felt, which can be described as "one minute on stage, ten years off stage", just by describing, you can feel the pain. As the older generation of martial arts practitioners, they will not cheat, they use real kung fu.
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To practice bone reduction skills, you need to go through long-term training and continuous training, and now it is difficult to find a successor to bone reduction skills. Even Wang Baohe himself did not expect that he would become the only descendant of the Bone Reduction Gong. In order to pass on his skills, he had suffered and suffered countless sins over the years. However, few people can withstand the suffering that must be endured in martial arts training, and fewer and fewer people are practicing slowly, and even fewer people persist in it.
In 1999, when Wang Baohe performed with the art troupe, Tung Chee-hwa, who was hong Kong's chief executive at the time, watched his performance and called him a "ghost hand" and specially inscribed an inscription for him. Various media also rushed to report on this, and since then, Wang Baohe's name of "ghost hand" has been widely disseminated. After that, CCTV also invited Wang Baohe to perform on stage, and he methodically completed the performance during the live broadcast, which not only stunned the audience in front of the TV, but also amazed the host at the time.
The most common props used by Wang Baohe to perform "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" are small sponge balls, porcelain bowls and chopsticks, which can not only make the sponge ball swim between the two porcelain bowls under the eyes of the audience, but also let the tourists hold a sponge ball, so that the ball in the hands of the tourists immediately becomes two. The speed is so fast that the CCTV camera can't see through the mystery when it is slowed down.
After this, Wang Baohe had the title of the head of the "Eight Monsters of the Jianghu". His appearance and his lifelong skills set off a wave of learning martial arts in China at that time, and once became the object of young people's pursuit. Later, in 2007, Wang Baohe was selected as the inheritor of the world's intangible cultural heritage with his skills.
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Years have not spared anyone, and Wang Baohe has gone through decades from the beginning of learning bone reduction skills to the time he plans to retire. During this period, he traveled all over the place, met all kinds of people, experienced ups and downs, but people will eventually grow old, Wang Baohe had an accident in the last performance in his life, and the performance was not successful.
This performance, he also prepared earlier. The performance is divided into two parts, and the first part of the competition is flexibility, and Wang Baohe, who has more than 60 years of skill, easily won the victory. After a short break, the second round of the competition begins, which requires getting out of the rope.
Wang Baohe began to shrink his bones as usual, but surprisingly, he did not succeed. The audience watched with some surprise as he tried again and again, but it was still difficult to get out. In the end, the written test in the second part ended in failure, which was a regret in Wang Baohe's life, and there was a mistake in the last game of retirement.
But even if Wang Baohe failed in the last game, people still admired him very much. After all, decades of hard work and perseverance, day after day of tempering, can not deceive people. What's more, Wang Baohe is already very old, and the functions of the body have also deteriorated, which the public understands, everyone will make mistakes, and a failure cannot negate anything.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > culture needs to be inherited, and it must not be lost</h1>
Wang Baohe can be counted as an old Chinese artist, and as the only descendant of the "bone reduction gong" at that time, he was very worried about the art that was about to be lost. It is too hard to practice this skill, and although there are many people like him who have a heart to bow down to traditional arts, there are very few people who can suffer from it.
But what is gratifying is that Wang Baohe's unique "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" has already been passed down. Now he has many disciples, but the one who has received his true transmission is his son. There are some remarks that the city culture is difficult to climb the elegant hall, but there are always some people in a certain corner of society, with the heritage handed down from their ancestors, to bring laughter to people, and even affect many people, they are worthy of respect and admiration.
I hope that traditional Chinese folk art can be passed on, and more people can love and pay attention to traditional skills. I hope that the integration of these folk cultures with the mainstream of today's society will bring them to the public's vision and let more people understand.
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