Wonderful legend
As the name implies, white crane boxing is related to white cranes. In Yongchun folk, there is also a story about Baihexian teaching boxing. During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1662—— 1722), Funing Prefecture, Fujian Province (now Fu 'an and Ningde areas; On the other hand, outside the north gate of Lishui County, the capital of Zhejiang Province, there was a man named Fang Zhonggong. His wife died long ago, and his only daughter was Bo Qi Ming's mother. Fang Qiniang was smart since childhood, eager to learn martial arts and beautiful. Fang Zhonggong spent the last year in the flower, and Fang Qiniang just turned sixteen. Young people from far and near have come to the door and proposed to Qi Niang. Qi Niang vowed not to marry in order to support her father. Unexpectedly, a rich boy looked at Yin's children and raced to Fang's house to flirt with Qi Niang.
One day, Qi Niang was burying her head in weaving. Suddenly, a white crane flew in and stood beside the crane, refusing to leave for a long time. Seven Niang grabbed the shuttle box and threw it. But I saw the crane gently spread its wings and bounced back the shuttle box. Seven Niang raised another bamboo branch and hit the crane. The crane's feet shook slightly, but the bamboo was ejected from the hall by Grant. All this makes Fang Qiqiang feel strange. At night, the crane doesn't walk between the beams. In her sleep, Qi Niang dreamed that an old man came over and said to her, "I am a fairy with a white crane. I think you will be painted with charcoal, and Tammy will help you. " I have the teaching of my mother's family, which seems rigid but not rigid, and seems soft but not soft. It's called He Quan. I'll teach you everything if you like. "Seven niang was overjoyed, and quickly knelt down to worship the crane for the teacher. Since then, Bai Hexian has been teaching Fang Qiniang boxing day and night. A few months later, Fang Qiniang became a famous and unique boxer. The men who are infatuated with her are frightened. One day, the fairy crane said to Qi Niang, "You have studied art, but there is only one thing to tell me today. If a stranger comes to your house for shelter at noon one day, you should keep him. This man is your husband. " Fang Qiniang waited expectantly for the evening. Months passed, and she added another year, but she didn't even see anyone. Women are also anxious when they get married. He called Qi Niang and said, "Let's choose a satisfactory one in the village!" Qi Niang won't say anything. The father and the daughter sat speechless. Just then, dark clouds rolled in the sky, and the wind roared outside. Suddenly, the rain poured down. Soon, there was a knock at the door. Qi Niang opened the door in surprise. But I saw a young man with a stick on his shoulder and a cloth bag hanging from one end. The young man said shyly, "It's raining too hard. Where you live, avoid it and leave. " Qi Niang let him in. Seeing that he was handsome and dignified, Fang Zhonggong happily asked him where he came from. The young man replied politely, "My surname is Zeng, my first name is A Si, and I am from Yongchun. It's only because of my poor family that I came to your boxing club to sell plasters for a living. "Fang Zhonggong left Zeng Asi at the request of the crane. In the evening, under Fang Zhonggong's repeated urging, Ah Si had no choice but to swing and punch. Unexpectedly, Fang Qiniang was awesome with a gentle sweep of her finger. Zeng Asi immediately worshipped Qi Niang as his teacher. From then on, Zeng Asi became Fang's son-in-law. Qiniang taught Chi all the techniques and routines of White Crane Boxing. The couple are kind and loving. A few years passed quickly. They had two boys, but Fang Zhonggong died unfortunately.
One day, it was known that he sent his minions to extort money from house to house. Seeing Fang Qiniang's extraordinary beauty, the talons of officials gave birth to evil thoughts and came forward to tease her. Qi Niang stepped on a partial step and waved her hands. A collector's paw flies around with brains. Nian immediately sent someone to punish Qi Niang. That night, Zeng Si escaped with Qi Niang and his mother. After many twists and turns, they returned to Yongchun County. Then in Guanyin Pavilion at the foothills of Jin Feng, Wuli Street, Yongchun, he taught 28 handsome men, including Zheng, Wang, Wu, Lin, Li, Cai, Yan and Le, white crane boxing skills. In this way, Baihequan began to take root and multiply in Yongchun mountain area, and became a martial art that villagers generally liked to learn.
unique style
Yongchun White Crane Boxing is rich in content, including unarmed boxing, various methods of operating instruments and acupuncture techniques. There are five skills in unarmed boxing: hand, leg and head, 108 techniques and ten routines. Every movement has a name, such as crane crown, crane mouth, crane wing, crane foot, bow, arrow and so on. Various techniques are also called "crane independence", "crane spreading its wings" and "crane stepping through snow". Routines also have their own unique names. Beginners should first practice "three lines", "shaking skills", "luck" and "shaking knots". Instruments include knives, guns, swords, halberds and so on 18 kinds of martial arts, each with its own techniques and routines. Yongchun White Crane Boxing also has the technique of "crane skill" to break tendons and veins according to the differences of meridians, acupoints and time. In addition, it also includes a set of methods and prescriptions for massage, massage, bone setting, prevention and treatment, as well as the knowledge of making Gaodan medicinal powder. Therefore, the master of Baihequan is also a famous doctor in orthopedics.
There is a folk saying that "cranes can generate electricity, and if they lose, they will drop three feet." . Its martial arts will sound, one finger and one section, one stroke and one style, such as lightning speed, fierce and unstoppable. However, the movements of the White Crane Boxing are similar to the posture of the crane, which is both rigid and flexible, dexterous and agile, and elegant and changeable, all marked by "the crane sends its feet". White crane boxing is good at using palm and leg techniques. Boxing is mainly based on power accumulation and finger strength, while preventing power accumulation and attacking with finger strength. From the arm to the palm, like a tiger catching a pig, swallow the shoulder in the upper section and the tail in the middle section. From the inside out, the inner section should be made of iron, the outer section of cotton and the tail section of mud. When attacking, the hand should be like a unicycle, the elbow should be turned into an auxiliary, the hand should be like a bull's tongue, and the hand should be like a split toe, so as to take the lead. Its leg method and posture should be "non-definite and non-eight", and its legs are divided into "first three and then seven". Left and right feet, depending on the situation, mainly single foot, flexible rotation. Leg and foot stand legislation is divided into flat horse and rein horse, which are divided into three sets together with posture: upper, middle and lower. Leg methods mainly include kicking, sweeping and hooking. Yongchun White Crane Boxing pays attention to waiting for action and pushing with qi. Prospecting should be tied to the waist and fall into the vertebral column, starting from a single game, lifting the intestines and contracting the gas, and pushing the tail. Therefore, we must practice qigong and basic skills hard, and do both internal and external training. Only in this way can "breathe in and out, and the meridians are unobstructed." Pulse is accessible and qi is smooth. Meaning and form go hand in hand. Internal and external integration. Combine rigidity with softness and live in harmony. "
to the winds
Yongchun is located in the mountainous area of southern Fujian. In the long leisure society, tigers and wolves haunt, soldiers and bandits nest in disorder, landlords extort money, bureaucrats oppress, and rural people struggle in dire straits. All this has forced many people to have "two-spectrum kung fu". People who leave their homes and cross the ocean to make a living should have a "two steps and seven" attitude towards boxing. Therefore, when Qi Niang and A Si brought Baihe Boxing to Yongchun Mountain, boxing gymnasiums were set up everywhere from the county seat, Wuli Street, Tai Po and Penghu to Xiushan, Taiping and Huyang, and men and women competed to learn skills. "Yongchun County Records" contains: "Zheng Li, a cool breeze and feather man, is good at boxing. During the reign of Kangxi, ... Li Ming, the ritual father, tasted the role of praying, lost and became ill. His last words ordered the teacher to read together. " "Li Helin chase, Yao Hu, etc. And Qi Niang learned the White Crane Boxing and worked hard, so she became famous. "At that time, Zheng Li had the highest skills. After becoming famous all over southern Fujian, he went to Fujian and Jiangxi to learn skills from boxers all over the country. Thus, Yongchun White Crane Boxing was developed. His disciples are all over Bamin. After more than 200 years, as the "Yongchun County Records" said: "Those who are famous for their fists and fists are also taught by generous people." At the same time, Yongchun White Crane Boxing also spread to all parts of Southeast Asia with people who went abroad to make a living. Especially in Malaya, which is known as "no one will never open a mound", almost every major town has Yongchun boxers to teach boxing.
Historically, Yongchun Baihe Boxing has played a great role in resisting wild animals, feudal oppression and bandits in the mountains. One year, several overseas Chinese who went back to visit relatives in Yongchun stayed in Quanzhou for a long time for fear of being robbed by bandits when passing through a mountain in Nan 'an. Zheng Li, a famous boxer, heard about the competition in Quanzhou and went to an overseas Chinese relative and said, "Come back with me, you will be safe." When I came to the mountains, several robbers jumped out of the jungle and were murderous. Robbed Zheng Li with a knife, pretended to be the representative of all the people, and stepped forward to hand over the treasure. He stabbed a gangster with a single stick, sold it short, took the gangster's broadsword and killed him. The gangsters had to kneel down and beg for mercy. The relatives of overseas Chinese then arrived at their hometown safely. In the third year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1853), in response to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, Lin Jun's army in Yongchun was invincible, and successively conquered Yongchun, Dehua, Datian, Yong 'an, Youxi and Xianyou counties 18. Lin Jun, the team leader, is a famous master of White Crane Boxing.
Nineteen-year-old boxer: Zheng Wencun
As Baihe Boxing is the youngest of the five ancestors of Shaolin, and it is good at absorbing the strengths of other boxing and developing itself, Yongchun Baihe Boxing is widely spread among the people, making Yongchun Baihe Boxing once famous at home and abroad. 1928 In August, the puppet national government held the first national Wushu examination and competition in Nanjing. Yongchun selected ten participants, all of whom met the standards. One of them took part in the competition and won a gold medal. After returning home, invited by overseas Chinese leaders in Nanyang, Li led a performance in Xingma and other places in August 1 929, which lasted more than eight months and was well received by overseas Chinese and local people. Chen Jiageng also met with Yongchun White Crane fighter many times and gave him financial support. Due to the urgent demand of overseas Chinese, there are many Boxers in Baihe, Yongchun, and they still stay in various ports in Southeast Asia to set up museums and spread boxing. /kloc-in the winter of 0/930, Yongchun county opened a martial arts hall at Wenggong Temple in Wuli Street, with Lin Baoshan, Pan Shizhen and Pan Xiaode as curators successively, systematically teaching Baihequan.
After liberation, with the attention of the * * * Party and the people's government, Yongchun Baihe Boxing has been further developed. Excavate, collect and sort out the routines and techniques of White Crane Boxing that spread among the people. Elected representatives for many times and participated in martial arts performances and competitions held at all levels. Among them, Zheng Wencun, a descendant of the Boxer Rebellion in Zheng Li and a member of the Provincial Wushu Association, who won the first prize of the provincial Wushu performance and competition twice, sorted out the manuscript of Yongchun Baihequan, and made a relatively complete summary of its origin, characteristics, techniques and gloves. Wencun boxer is 80 years old, still hale and hearty, and continues to teach Baihe Boxing all over southern Fujian. In Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and other places, Lee Jae-yong's books, such as Gandeyuan White Crane Boxing Manual and White Crane Boxing Tips, have also come out one after another. Not long ago, the State Sports Commission and the provincial sports team sent people to Yongchun to visit the famous white crane boxing teachers and dig up Yongchun white crane boxing. This unique boxing method in Yongchun County will be further improved and developed. The flowers in this boxing garden will certainly bloom more brilliantly in the beautiful spring of the motherland.