Bone reduction is a kind of kung fu that people often see in film and television dramas, and on the screen, it is often performed as a god. In reality, bone reduction is a kind of acrobatics, which was once used as a housekeeping skill by folk artists, but for various reasons, it is now almost lost.
Li Liangui is one of the few folk warriors today, with special skills, bone reduction is one of his skills, but unfortunately, his special skills have no successor. The torrent of history will always drown something, and the disappearance of a skill will always bring people regret and thinking.
The master Li Liangui, who grew up in Beijing and is now seventy years old, was sent to Zeng Yunlong, a famous artist in Beijing's Laotianqiao, to learn art to make a living because his family was poor.
Li Liangui then followed his master and practiced the bone reduction skills in the "Dharma Yi Jian Sutra" - this is also left by Li Liangui's master Chen Wenbin, a Hercules.
Since embarking on the road of learning martial arts, Li Liangui has been training hard day after day with amazing perseverance, and finally has also practiced a special skill.
As the years go by, those ups and downs without a trace of time, just like this in the caught off guard through people's side, people never know what kind of era they will meet.
In Li Liangui's childhood and adolescence, if you have a skill that can be sold, you can eat and wear with street performances, but society is constantly changing, and the era of street performers is gradually moving away, and finally it is squeezed to the edge of society. Li Liangui had to use other crafts to make ends meet.
But even if he didn't regard his martial arts as a formal job, Li Liangui never gave up on practicing martial arts. Decades of martial arts training eventually led him to grow into a true master.
In the blink of an eye, Li Liangui had been practicing martial arts for more than sixty years. He never married and had no children. Once upon a time, he lived in the courtyard of the hutong and practiced martial arts on an empty field every day. Today, he lives in an ordinary building, curled up in a city made of reinforced concrete, but what remains unchanged is the peace and tranquility of his heart.
Like the martial practitioners of the past, Li Liangui did not have any pursuit of materials.
The building he lived in was on the edge of Beijing, old and old, with four walls and nothing of value, and a practice blanket in the living room, as well as a circular steel ring for practicing and a two-meter-long rattan stick, which he cherished.
In addition, the living room has only a few simple chairs and a dining table, the bedroom is equally simple, and the electrical appliances in the whole house are only a few.
For many years, Li Liangui insisted on getting up at 5:30 every morning, practicing until 10 o'clock, and then eating the first meal of the day. What he ate was close to iftar, mostly steamed buns, white porridge, green vegetables, radishes, and tofu. He ate only two meals a day, took a nap for half an hour at noon, and then continued practicing until six o'clock in the evening.
At night, Li Liangui occasionally practiced calligraphy, but he did not use paper and pencil, and he could use anything to dip water in the ground to practice calligraphy. Sometimes he would go downstairs for a walk, afraid to practice for fear of attracting attention.
Master Li Liangui's kung fu is not a fiction, he can shrink his body to be as small as a child, and he can also pass his body through an iron ring with a diameter of twenty centimeters, pulling and squeezing, like a transformer.
Li Liangui's body is still very tough when he is old, and he has a shaved head and a white beard, and he has the appearance of a high-ranking person in the world. He often wears old sweatpants, and walks very neatly, quickly, and with integrity.
Such a martial arts master who is hidden in the city and does not seek fame and fortune is a hermit-like existence in modern society, the world is just a passing cloud in their eyes, the past is more traceless, the heart is far away, people like Li Liangui, although within the red dust, have truly achieved the four major emptiness, living a life that we may not be able to touch. Such a life is not understood by people, but it can contain a real wind bone.
Although Li Liangui acts low-key in his daily life, he has always had a wish, that is, to pass on his own learning. Although his body was still strong, he knew that he was old, and there were probably not many days left in the world, and he wanted to see the martial arts skills he regarded as faith passed on.
To this end, Li Liangui has been running around in the past few years, appearing on many TELEVISION programs, and even performing on stage everywhere, just to let more people understand the art of bone reduction and to show the world that this is not a kind of deception. The audience was amazed to see an old man with a long white beard who could shrink his body like a child, like a dragon.
Li Liangui intends to accept apprentices, but this is not an easy task, because Xi Wuren must also pay attention to personal character and martial virtue, and it is even more necessary to find suitable candidates.
Li Liangui was not confident, he said: "Now who is willing to let their children learn this?" Today's young people don't like it, they can't learn this, it's too bitter. ”
However, he regarded the martial art of bone reduction as a lifelong career, and without bone reduction, his life would lose its meaning. Therefore, even though he knew that there would be no successor to a large extent, Li Liangui still did not give up looking for an heir in the underworld.
Bone Reduction Gong looks and sounds very magical, and in martial arts novels, it is a special skill that helps the protagonist fly over the wall and escape from danger. But in the vast sea of Chinese kung fu, bone reduction is not so famous, and if it is explained scientifically, it is not so magical. It is mainly to actively dislocate the joints, elongate the tendons, and allow the bones to be misplaced and overlapped, so the body can shrink to unimaginable sizes.
This also determines that the difficulty and depth of pain of its practice exceeds the scope that ordinary people can imagine. Practice bone reduction skills like Li Liangui from a few years old to start practicing, and let the people who help you practice break the joints, the joints continue to break after growing well, so that repeatedly allow the joints to move freely, practice bone reduction skills, and endure great pain in the process of practice.
And this kind of pain is to be endured every day and night, because to practice kung fu well, you must practice hard, and few people can persist. After practicing bone reduction for a long time, there will be sequelae of bone pain.
Another master of bone reduction, Wang Baohe, like Li Liangui, has been practicing this kung fu for more than sixty years, and he often says that he sometimes suffers from pain.
In Li Liangui's time, practicing kung fu hard was to survive, in order to have the ability to eat, if you are not suffering, you will starve to death, but in today's society, there are many ways to make a living, and young people do not have to force themselves to practice such skills for life.
In the modern society with diversified entertainment, martial arts performances such as bone reduction have gradually declined, and it is difficult to find a place in the entertainment market, and the development situation is worrying. All these factors have led to the loss of bone reduction work.
The current state of bone reduction is also a microcosm of the state of Chinese martial arts. Martial arts is one of the traditional Chinese cultures, which once reached its peak and made many enthusiastic young people in China and many foreigners fall for it.
However, with the acceleration of the pace of life, the practicality of Chinese martial arts was once questioned, its martial arts value could not be reasonably developed, the intensity of publicity and promotion was not large, coupled with the boring and long cycle of learning, Chinese martial arts failed to carry forward, and even in a state of decline, which is undoubtedly a loss of traditional culture. If Chinese martial arts are to be passed on and developed, it is still a long way to obstruct.
Some things will fade, but if Chinese martial arts, which is one of the leaves of the cultural vein, has declined a few times, it is something that no one wants to see. The spirit of martial arts should be passed on, otherwise, how many Li Liangui are left in the world?
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