If you like sports, you should know that the Cuban women's volleyball team was once very strong, and the Cuban men's boxing has always been very strong.
More than a decade ago, Bals, who had traveled all the way from Cuba to China, did not want to learn boxing at all.
Obviously, if you want to learn boxing, Bals might as well study it in Cuba.
He wanted to learn Kung Fu, aka Chinese martial arts.
At least in Bals's eyes, the most famous Chinese in the world is Bruce Lee.
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In fact, the people who are obsessed with Chinese kung fu are far more than a Barcel in Cuba.
There was an American who watched R-rated films as a young man, and he was not only an avid fan of Hong Kong director Wu Yusen, but also a loyal fan of Bruce Lee.
In the movie "The Killer Trilogy", this guy made a cameo appearance in a role that had to pay tribute to his idol Bruce Lee — and when he performed, he completely imitated the scene where Bruce Lee appeared coolly with his nose smeared.
Later, he directed a very good film that fully reproduced the information contained in these two things.
First, the film was called Kill Bill, and it became the first film in Canada to be rated R after the implementation of the new film rating system.
In fact, this time he is still restrained - because in each of his films, F's profanity will appear more than 100 times on average, but this movie only appears 17 times.
In that scene in the restaurant, the "bride" in the movie killed 57 people in one go.
And the whole movie used up 450 gallons of fake blood!
Second, he asked the heroine Uma Thurman to wear a bright yellow dress in the film, not only to show Uma's good figure, but actually to pay tribute to the dress worn by Bruce Lee in the 1978 movie "Game of Death".
He is the famous Director and Screenwriter of Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino.
In fact, many of the props in this film are Quentin Tarantino paying tribute to Bruce Lee.
How good is this director? Just talk about a few of his film productions - "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", "Django Rescued", "Eight Wicked Men", "Shameless Bastards", "Sin City", "Pulp Fiction"...
Quentin Tarantino has always been obsessed with Hong Kong's classic gunfights and martial arts films – he deliberately dressed up in Tang costumes to imitate Wong Fei Hung at the world premiere of his film "Django the Liberated"!
You say how deeply he obsessed with Chinese kung fu really is!
I was transiting from Cancún, Mexico, to Cuba, and during those few days in Mexico, my Chinese stomach lodged a serious protest against me.
By the way: there is no winter in Cuba, so we are in winter, and it is entirely possible to travel; it is just a very inconvenient trip in the past.
So, in Havana, the capital of Cuba, one of the things I ranked very high was to go to Havana's Chinatown for a Chinese meal.
On the way to Havana's Chinatown, I first saw a martial arts hall, in the Spanish colonial architecture, this Chinese-style gate really caught my eye - the door with Chinese written on the six big characters "Cuban Martial Arts School", and below it there are the words "Cuba, China".
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You have to probe your head and go inside to see it!
There was a young Chinese female teacher sitting in the martial arts hall, and Chinese spoke fluently.
She said the martial arts school was founded in 1995 with the aim of developing Chinese martial arts and preserving and passing on Chinese culture and traditions.
She smiled and said: Don't look at our martial arts school is not big, but there are more than 15,000 students in Cuba! Of these, there are nearly 2,500 in Havana. Among the trainees are not only children and young people, but also many elderly people who have been practicing fitness routines for a long time.
She said: "We and the trainees all believe that practicing martial arts helps to enhance people's good qualities of honesty, courage, tenacity and self-discipline...
She said she grew up in Cuba but studied in Beijing for two years; when she heard that I was going to Chinatown, she asked a Cuban kid who was half the size to take me straight to a Chinese restaurant.
The Cuban child's eyes were shining, wearing the traditional costume when he Chinese learning martial arts, although Chinese would only say "hello, thank you, no thanks", but looking at the movements he had just practiced martial arts, one move and one style were like a fake Chinese kung fu routine.
He was from the province of Matanzas in western Cuba, and the first martial arts master he worshipped was Bals, mentioned at the beginning of this article.
After eating and drinking, I remembered going to that martial arts school.
After a great trip to Cuba, I returned to Havana. On the way back to Chinatown, I stopped by to visit the martial arts school again.
This time, I was lucky enough to catch up with the martial arts school's similar cultural performance, and also met the head of the martial arts school!
Let's start with the headmaster, who, apart from having a Cuban face, is almost on the verge of becoming a Chinese.
The head coach not only said Chinese, but also had a mouth full of Beijing flavor: What do you want to drink? I please!
He was a graduate of the Martial Arts College of Beijing Sport University!
It can be seen that what makes this head coach obsessed not only with Chinese kung fu, but also with traditional Chinese culture: this is his martial arts hall, the main entrance of the martial arts hall is written with Chinese characters, and there are two stone lions guarding the door according to Chinese tradition - well, you don't want to be harsh on people who are thousands of miles away and make the stone lions look a bit like ... Poodles?
Let's talk about the inner courtyard of the martial arts hall - a shrine is specially cut out of the wall, enshrined in the martial saint Guan Yu.
The walls are either written with "Buddha" or "Tao", as well as Tai Chi motifs.
The stage that rises up is a traditional Chinese red pillar with red lanterns; the background wall is a Nine Dragon Wall – not delicate, but the taste is enough that you can't pick at this in Cuba, thousands of miles away.
In the office of the headmaster, it is also the Chinese style that overwhelms the Cuban taste, which contains Peking opera stills, Chinese calligraphy, and the Chinese god of wealth...
There are also Chinese weapons double hooks, next to the hook is a photo of Bruce Lee, one is a photo of Jet Li...
The only thing that tastes cuban is a photograph of Che Guevara – after all, he is the totem symbol in the minds of almost all Cubans.
Speaking of martial arts school activities, it is actually more like a big party.
As soon as the Cubans saw my Chinese face, they immediately invited me to sit in the front row - I was flattered and muttered in my heart: Don't Cubans think that Chinese can do kung fu? What if you have to PK with me later?
Even if I don't PK, I will be very big-headed except for shouting a few voices "Woo Ha Hey", nothing else! There is neither hanging Weah nor cutting the picture here...
Well, to the applause of the Cubans and my uninvited "guest", the trainees dressed in traditional Chinese costumes first performed a fan dance – or fan "wu"?
I'm ashamed to say that I really don't understand this channel, anyway, even if such emerald green clothes are worn on Cuban girls, I still inevitably think of square dancing.
Then there were cuban children and children who performed various martial arts discussions very seriously, from fist and foot kung fu to knives, guns and sticks.
By the way, Cubans are actually very serious about this activity, and there is a female host who is deliberately dressed up, and she is a good-looking Cuban sister!
At the end of the martial arts performance, I actually thought of India for the first time in distant Cuba!
Because the martial arts category ended, people especially went into the singing session.
Well, not to mention in the yard, even on the street, cubans who have a little music are bound to dance.
One young man sang three songs, and another uncle sang several songs while drinking.
I found the Cuban uncle to sing a very good song!
Original photo, on the left is the head of the head
These Chinese cultural symbols in Cuban martial arts schools may seem rudimentary in domestic terms, but don't forget that there is Cuba, which is almost an earth diameter from China.
It is a small tentacle that traditional Chinese culture sticks out.
So we can laugh, but when we laugh, it should be kind and liked.
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