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People who know Guo Youxing think he is not Thai. Because, he is tall, has a big voice, loves to laugh and talk, can write and fight, and does not look like a Buddhist disciple at first glance, but he has a chivalrous style of breaking into the rivers and lakes.
Guo Youxing's fate was bumpy and bumpy, but it created his colorful life. In terms of profession, he is both a Chinese teacher and a calligrapher and painter, a tourist and a Muay Thai and martial arts boxer. Both literature and martial arts are complete, but they are always pregnant with talent.
Guo Youxing's Thai name was uthai.veerasitthisoonthorn, and his birth was the beginning of ill-fated fate.
The handsome Guo Youxing has an artistic temperament and a martial arts spirit
Wu Tai's father was tong.veerasitthisoonthorn, one of the few Descendants of Shandong in Thailand, born in Krabi Province, southern Thailand, Chinese named Guo Hongzhen. Guo Hongzhen's grandfather was one of the figures of the law reform faction in the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, who was hunted down and killed by the Qing government after the failure of the Penghu Reform, and had to take a boat to Siam, settled in Southern Thailand, engaged in commercial labor, and later purchased the rubber forest of the entire land. Guo Youxing is the 4th generation of Chinese born in Thailand, he inherits the figure and disposition of Shandong people, with a straight personality, a righteous and outspoken, bold and courageous, and courageous to move forward.
Why does Guo Youxing not feel like a Thai? Because he has a lot of Chinese traces on him, this is related to his experience since childhood.
In the early 1950s, Guo Youxing's father, Guo Hongzhen, was still a hot-blooded young man, and he joined the Communist Party of Southern Thailand under the introduction of The Father of Admiral Surayu of Thailand, and returned to the motherland with several comrades-in-arms to join the army, participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and also made a third-class meritorious service twice. This glorious history of the Chinese Volunteer Army, back in Thailand at that time, the political environment was regarded as illegal, black history. Since his return to Thailand, father Guo has been helping the family in business, helping the poor and sponsoring temples. At this time, I met a woman of Fujian descent named Ye Yayu, whose Thai name was Baiyu Baiyu, Andi Li Dajun, nicknamed Song Peng. Her ancestral home is Xiamen, Fujian Province, and her family is a solid Chinese merchant family in Krabi Province, and she has followed her family to do business since she was a child. After Guo Hongzhen and Ye Yayu married, they gave birth to two sons and a daughter, the eldest son Guo Youxing, the second daughter Guo Shuzhu, and the second son Guo Fusheng.
When Guo Youxing was 4 years old, at the time of the political trend of anti-Chinese in Southeast Asian countries, the Thai government had also arrested the Southern Thai Communist Party and raided Guo Hongzhen's home. In desperation, the father ran to Utai Thani Province (Guo Youxing's birthplace) on the Thai-Burmese border to ask his young wife, Lingji, to help him raise a few children. In 1962, Guo Hongzhen was once again wanted by the Thai government, and under duress, Guo's father fled with his two young sons and three newborn sons to Yunnan, a border between northern Thailand, and returned to his mother's ancestral hometown of Xiamen, Fujian Province, which was also the city where the government arranged for guo's father to work after he joined the army and retired from the army.
Guo's parents returned to China to live happily and peacefully for a few years, at that time, despite the poverty of domestic life and the miasma of the Cultural Revolution struggle, the couple opened a small business and employment work, which allowed the family to live a good life.
Guo Youxing treasures the only family portrait of his parents with sound parents, and the left one is Guo Youxing
The weather is unpredictable. At the end of 1967, the wind of the Cultural Revolution was blowing wildly on the land of China and relentlessly blew into the small Guo family. Some people reported that Guo Hongzhen is an overseas Chinese, his family has several hundred Rai land in Southern Thailand, and there is a courtyard left by his ancestors on the outskirts of Xiamen, and his history is not clear. So suddenly one day, the Red Guards broke into the Guo family's home and raided the house, turned over the books in the home, Xiamen real estate materials, and daily necessities, and confiscated all the materials brought back from Thailand, including real estate deeds, land deeds, household registrations, birth papers, etc. Guo Hongzhen was forcibly taken away by the Red Guards as a suspect of being a special enemy.
At that time, 9-year-old Guo Youxing was not yet familiar with the world, and did not understand politics except silly play. His father was charged with four counts: overseas Chinese, secret agent, landlord, and rich peasant. At that time, my father was not satisfied and appealed to the Chinese military and political department, proving that he had participated in the war to resist the United States and aid Korea. However, the crazy Red Guards instead added another crime to Guo Hongzhen: the anti-army black general. Until one day in the summer of 1968, Guo Youxing's uncle Ye Shi (the younger brother of his mother Ye Yayu, who returned to China to join the navy in Xiamen) ran to his home and took his small hand and hurried outside, stumbling to the Huangjiadu Wharf on Gulangyu Island, where he was horrified to see a scene: Dad was bent over, his face was facing up on a stone pier, his right hand was tied with a rope and hung on the pier, and he stared motionlessly at the eyes that had lost his mind. His uncle told him, "Your father is dead." He was dumbfounded, and saw someone pull up Dad's body and then go up and cover Dad's eyes, and suddenly a lot of blood came out of Dad's nose and mouth. The uncle immediately covered his eyes, and he asked him sadly and hatefully, "Who killed my father?" The uncle said sadly: "Don't ask more, the government said that he committed suicide." You're still young. That night, Guo Youxing returned home and saw his mother's grief-stricken expression of not daring to cry out loud, and he would never forget this scene.
Later, his uncle Ye Shi tried every means to return to Thailand, and he smuggled back to Thailand with his sister's eldest son, Guo Youxing, who was more than 9 years old, from Yunnan. At that time, his uncle and his father were as enthusiastic as they were to the motherland and returned to China to join the navy, but now, the strange political situation makes his uncle unable to understand, and he has to choose to return to Thailand.
Returning to Thailand is an unfamiliar environment, he learned Chinese from an early age, the Thai language is forgotten and must be re-learned. His grandfather Ye Chao loved him very much, and his grandfather said, "Of all the grandchildren in the Ye family, you are the most handsome and the most well-behaved. You have artistic talent, don't always think about revenge, or play your own art. At that time, with the financial support of his grandfather and eldest cousin, he went to Penang and Singapore to study, and later he was admitted to the art department of Xiamen University.
16 and 7-year-old Guo Youxing grew into a handsome, handsome, young and tall boy. When he met Muay Thai in Thailand, the competitive sport immediately attracted him. A fire rose in his heart, and he said, "I want to learn Muay Thai, and I want to have the ability to protect myself and my family." ”
As a result, in the Thai Muay Thai ring, there was a tall and handsome boxer, because he had also learned martial arts from a teacher, and some people always accused his movements of not pure Muay Thai standard movements, with martial arts traces. His theory is: punching is to knock the other party down, I can knock you down if I don't violate the law, I will win, where to deliberately use those actions?
Guo Youxing visited the world Muay Thai king Sha Gapeng 30 years ago
Madly in love with Muay Thai, he accidentally punched his eardrums and his hearing was affected. Until today, when he is over 60 years old, he said that 2/3 of his eardrums have been perforated, and he often can't hear other people's speeches, so he has always spoken in a high voice, which is an unconscious behavior, but in Thailand, this Buddhist country is used to whispering, and he is often misunderstood for a big and rude voice. This made Guo Youxing very helpless and sorry.
Guo Youxing (center) Muay Thai career
Turning to Guo Youxing's life story, the most shining page, takes us to 1986-1988.
At that time, he had just graduated from college, and Guo Youxing was in his 20s, handsome and straight, and brave. At that time, he ended his tour guide career from Hong Kong and returned to the Tourism Industry in Bangkok to work as a travel agency owner and tour guide. He has an advantageous command of Thai, English, Mandarin, Min, Cantonese and other languages, and is unique as a tour guide. At that time, Chinese mainland had not yet opened up for overseas travel, and most of the Chinese groups received by Thailand were tourists from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Just when everyone was scrambling for the group, he boldly proposed: to go to Europe to pull the regiment, target the Soviet regiment and the Vietnamese regiment.
So he went to Europe at his own expense to participate in the tourism exhibition jointly organized by 18 countries. That day, in front of his booth, without bringing any decorative advertisements, he had a clever move and borrowed colored pens to draw his own. He painted a group of beautiful Thai landscapes, the Grand Palace, the Chao Phraya River, coconut-style beaches, beautiful women, and colorful paintings adorned his booth particularly conspicuously. One day, a Russian tourism director was attracted by his tropical paintings and walked into his booth with several officials and asked, "Are these beautiful views Thailand?" He replied, "Yes, I'm Thai." The other person asked: "Thailand is so beautiful?" He smiled and replied: "Yes, Thailand is the most beautiful country in the world, you come to travel, I will be your guide." The man asked again, "Is this what you painted?" Guo Youxing said: "Yes, I painted it, I didn't bring an advertising version, I had to paint it myself." Curiously, he asked, "You are a tourist, how can you paint?" Guo Youxing told him: "I graduated from the art department of Xiamen University in China, and I have held several art exhibitions with friends in Thailand. "Russia is an art-loving people, and they were as surprised as they found a treasure, and immediately invited Guo Youxing to the former Soviet Union to hold a painting exhibition. In this way, Guo Youxing signed a contract with the Russian City Art Center and the Vladivostok City Art Center, and flew to the former Soviet Union with more than 100 of his own calligraphy and painting works, and held a wonderful solo exhibition in Russia and Vladivostok for more than a month.
Guo Youxing held a solo exhibition in Russia
In 1988, folk art exchanges between countries were still poor, and Guo Youxing was the first Thai invited by the Vladivostok municipal government to hold a solo exhibition. At that time, the exhibition was held at the ground floor art center of the 36-story municipal government building in the local area, and the opening ceremony was unprecedented, and people from all walks of life in the city came to visit the exhibition, and the crowds were crowded. The Russian nation has a tradition of buying paintings to decorate the home environment, so Guo Youxing's calligraphy and painting works have become best-selling goods. Media reporters flocked to the media and reported on television, newspapers and magazines about the Thai painter Guo Youxing for more than a month. He constantly showed his face on television and in the press, and when he walked into the government canteen to buy lunch, all the people in line gave way to him, calling him an "oriental artist."
Guo Youxing painted a painting of Her Royal Highness Princess Sirindhorn to present to the princess in person
One day, a local reporter asked Guo Youxing in a provocative tone: "I heard that every man in Thailand can do Muay Thai, will you?" Guo Youxing smiled and said in English, "Do you want to try it with me?" The reporter said: "Do you dare to go to our boxing gym tomorrow to compete?" Guo Youxing said: "I am here to hold a painting exhibition, not to play a boxing match." You compete, you come to Bangkok. The reporter said: "No competition, just exchange." ”
Sure enough, the next day, the reporter brought two boxers to challenge Guo Youxing. Looking at niu gaoma's opponent, Guo Youxing did not move, the other party thought that he was weak-minded, so he took the initiative to come up and punch and attack, only to see that he was not in a hurry, pulled away the move, and then took a big swing of his leg, and knocked the other party down. Everyone present was stunned, and they did not expect that this handsome painter with polite style was actually hidden deeply, and he really had kung fu.
The reporter was not convinced, and the next afternoon he called the Russian international boxing champion and taekwondo boxing champion to try it out with Guo Painter. Several local friends who assisted in the exhibition advised Guo Youxing not to fight with such a powerful character. Guo Youxing smiled and said, "It's all right, I was knocked down, you sent me to the hospital for treatment; he was knocked down, you are ready to move him." At this moment, the news spread, the onlookers were stacked in circles, and Guo Youxing thought to himself: Just right, let you see Muay Thai! The other side of the bull is tall and big, taking the initiative to attack, Guo Youxing is not in a hurry, wisdom to take the move, one elbow and two knees, three or two hits to knock the other party to the ground. It turns out that the world champion is also so vulnerable. At this moment, Guo Youxing's reputation was even more greatly enhanced under the rendering of the local media.
Just when he was secretly proud, the reaction of the Thai Muay Thai community was: "Who approved you to fight on behalf of Thailand?" Who made you say you're Thai? Guo Youxing's heart was cold and stabbed, and it was precisely because he understood that he could not represent Thailand to fight boxing matches without authorization, so he insisted on refusing to go to the local boxing gym to fight, but instead tried his knife in the field of the painting studio. He was convinced that he was not wrong: "As a Thai, I made the provocateur understand what Muay Thai is and the national spirit; as a man, I proved that I can stand up to the sky." ”
Painting by Guo Youxing
Speaking of this experience, Guo Youxing was very emotional, he said: "There is an old saying: The common people are not guilty, and the burden is the sin. That is to say, if ordinary people are too talented and the light stings at those in power, you are guilty. Perhaps it was precisely because of this that everywhere Guo Youxing went, there were people who disagreed with him. However, everything is a process and experience, everything is also a passing smoke, Guo Youxing with a 60-year-old life to understand, interpretation, he faces life with a new attitude, "In this world, no one can beat you down, only yourself." ”
Guo Youxing has always missed his maternal grandfather, a Fujian Chinese businessman who grew up in southern Thailand. Grandpa and eldest cousin often gave financial support to this most beloved grandson, and were also important enlightenment teachers in his life.
From 1982 to 1986, my grandfather asked his cousin, who was in business, to invest 500,000 baht for Guo Youxing to return to China to study and realize his dream of engaging in art. He returned to Fujian and studied art at the Provincial Arts and Crafts School and the Art Department of Xiamen University and graduated. He has studied under the masters of landscape and water, Zhang Xiaohan and Yang Xia, the masters of flowers and birds, Guan Shanyue and Zhang Renxi, the Nanjing painter Yaming, the Zhejiang painter Shao Fengyuan, the Xiamen calligrapher Luo Dan, the professor of the art department of Xiamen University, the calligraphers Bai Qihong, Chen Meixiang, He Bingzhong, etc., and he has also embarked on the road of calligraphy and painting art creation. In the martial arts world, he once studied under Master Wan Lisheng and Master Ke Zicong of Fujian Province, and in Tongbei Gate, he worshiped Sun Zhenhuan's eldest disciples Gao Neng, Sun Qing, Zhang Changjian, and Huang Jiacai as teachers. In the Muay Thai world, at the cost of 5,000 baht per hour, he studied with the world Muay Thai king Shaga Pong Twe, Pattaya Shiyothong Master, and Chaiya Tantric Boxing Master, and achieved good results in the ring 15 times before and after, participating in playing competitions in several countries.
Guo Youxing's calligraphy works
In the 1990s, China opened up its citizens to travel abroad, the first destination country was Thailand, Guo Youxing's lionwu travel agency was very popular, his travel experience and contacts made him earn a lot of money, when he bought a luxury house, bought a luxury car, raised a wolf dog, opened a karaoke shop, and lived a luxurious life. When others were praising and pleasing him, the Thai monk Long Pokun shook his head and said, "You are too young, you have such a big property, you can't hold back such a bad thing!" "He doesn't understand why it's bad? Grandpa said: "You make so much money at such a young age, you start to enjoy it so young, your blessings are used up in advance, and you will suffer a lot in the future!" ”
Sure enough, within a few years, twice experienced the storm of economic integration, Guo Youxing's life was smooth into the mud, the tourism was not good, the company was closed, the bank closed the building, the wife and the ion were scattered, all the disasters came to the brain, the sunny life changed in an instant, and every day I saw that the sun was gray. At this time, he remembered the foresight of Long Pokun and his grandfather, and it really came true.
Disasters will teach people to precipitate, and precipitation will teach people to mature. At that time, Guo Youxing, who was too old to be confused, matured, and in order to survive, he gave up his life in Bangkok and often went to several universities in foreign provinces to teach Chinese and painting. In any case, self-improvement is unceasing, and he does not let the tribulation beat himself down. Life will always pay off, Guo Youxing harvested love during his teaching in the foreign house, and heaven gave him a son. Having a son in middle age, the responsibility of his life awakened. Now, he has trained his 6-year-old son to become a little Muay Thai boxer.
Guo Youxing entered middle age
At the same time, with the growth of age and the enrichment of life experience, he lived out of a high realm, actively participated in the activities of the Thai Chinese community, and played his specialty to participate in social justice activities. He served as a director of the Thai-Chinese Economic Association and the Thailand Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of China. He said: Doing something practical for the economic and trade development of China and Thailand, introducing Muay Thai culture into China and bringing Chinese martial arts into Thailand is what I am most willing to do; and for the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, I am more willing to make a contribution to overseas Chinese.
He is now the Board Secretary-General and Agent of the World Muay Thai-Wushu Super League Federation. (Contact: Thai mobile: 089-2361888, China mobile: 15985827566, e-mail: [email protected] www.uthaiveerat.com)