This is a preface written by Zhang Hengqiu's disciple Liang Lun in the book "Zhang's Short Punching Fist", and if you read it carefully, you may have a sense of "vibrating deafness and hair" and "being reborn".
Boxing Techniques Sect Hundred Tips
Purpose of The Body (Prologue)
Those who often learn calligraphy (calligraphy) know: "Those who do not know the six books (in ancient times, when they went to primary school at the age of eight, they first learned the six groups of characters "up and down", "sun and moon", "rivers", "wuxin", "kao lao", "lingchang" is also) can not know the characters." I call it a practitioner of boxing: "Those who do not possess the Three Laws cannot be zongquan." What are the Three Laws? It is "technique", "body method", "footwork" is also. If one method is not refined, it is not possible to resist the enemy, and if the three laws are not prepared, it is no different from those who do not learn boxing. However, among the three methods, the first is the step, the step is the mainstay, and the hand is used. The step is also rooted, the body is also the same, and the hand is also skilled. If you are clumsy (stupid), you have no roots and branches are like losing your ears. That is, the hand is the portal to cover the body, which cannot be ignored. If it were not for the fact that the body was still turning, it would not shake the enemy's front. ("Pick", the enemy touched also) Although the body is round, there is no step to advance and retreat, and it is difficult to avoid and run straight. Longitudinal can flash oblique side, manual and foot should not, the body turned and the step was delayed. Up and down the law and forward and backward condensation half, can you defeat the enemy and win? Oh, today's boxers, qiang shang heavy hands, ("耑" word equals "specialized") do not know the body but only for use, but put the footwork without saying a word, is the end of the original.
Moreover, the purpose of "crossing the horse and opening the bow" has long been lost, and the "study of luck in the movement of the festival" is rare in the world. Therefore, the unscrupulous warriors are ignorant of the righteousness of flickering and moving, there is no undulating and sticky side, they do not seek the strategy of moving the knot, and they are the only way to practice strength. In the final analysis, those who have not yet known what kind of model it is, or who can squat slightly and sit upright, then recognize it: "The body method is good." Common "three-legged cats" pretend to be boxers, Xuan "Three Family Village" talk about skills, teach people to pose "sitting on horses", separate their feet and eight characters, sit upright, and do not change the elderly to go to the toilet. The Scholar of Naiyu (Teaching) says, "It is wonderful to practice until you cannot push it." It does not say how the footsteps advance and retreat, how the body is conducted, what its name is and what its meaning is, what its method is used for, and there is no pointing pointing out, so that people are reckless and blind.
Another example is to teach people to swing the "front bow and rear arrow" posture, first help the scholar's body forward, the front foot is stepped out, like a cross screen, and then the scholar's back foot bends in a pedal to see if it is hard, and the scholar knows: "The most solid here, otherwise I am afraid that if I am kicked from behind, I will fall and flash." This discussion is almost a bit of a mouthful.
If it is like a technique, it will rampage, but it knows that heavy is capable. The footsteps go straight in and out, and they can be called fast. Do you know that the magic of boxing is exquisite and poor, and it is like being bottomless? There are many strange and positive sides that need to be compared, and the anti-replication of the meaning of victory is difficult to understand and indescribable. If you see it with a heavy hand, you can do the magic of the fist technique, I don't believe it.
All kinds of paradoxes are difficult to count, and it is a little bit of a mistake to see and cure the mistakes of habit.
The husband's technique is inherently heavy, but he must be proficient in trick-or-treating in order to defeat the enemy. Although the body method is more expensive than low, there is no "ups and downs and curls", how can it be controlled, and it has the power of expansion and contraction, and the subtlety of the essence of yin and yang illusion? Even more necessary to move the hand, the body rotates, the fist is out and the elbows and shoulders are followed, taking advantage of the weakness and the situation, the party does not shake the strength of the people, the rigidity and softness are harmonious, and it is called the wonder of the enemy. Circle the living, mediate up and down, and be worthy of the magic of the use of hands. As for the footwork is nothing less than a quick step, ("啻" = more than that) it is especially advisable to be "frivolous and strong", and it should be "hanging with the real finger", sinking and moving. Between steps, skim your knees and "follow the kicks and legs". Sending and not waiting for the end of the pass, (the word "descending" in the original text, only the right half of the block, also pronounced "descending", is the meaning of "advent") to meet the enemy, rigid and soft multiplication, Dun is glued straight in, hard is followed by the trend, let the middle not let go, do not attack and attack, out of nowhere, reborn in the end, Shu has the ability of the lower part, which is called footwork. Isn't it just a matter of speed?
However, it must be practiced with the heart, ("耑" = specialization) day and night, living in seclusion, and not having to accumulate learning to confuse, in order to be able to reach this place. Aren't beginners the beginners?
It is to cut the footwork to the hand, must first repeat its work, to establish the root, and then can speak the fist. Therefore, the sages set the "triangle" and "plum blossom" footwork, which is actually a boxing program. The first generation has been around for a long time, and there is no recipe for the map, and it is not without the disadvantages of error. At the same time, the practitioners are still wonderful, and the branches are divided into one family, so there are "cold chicken steps, one-word steps, inner eight-character steps, outer eight-character steps". The steps are not prototype, but each is not symmetrical. But the knower can be dexterous, not thinking about the dry, but according to this person's superficiality, ("hooker", as the saying goes, "hook", behavior also.) Those who do not speculate on their ability to follow the truth will deceive each other with falsehood and slander each other, so that scholars will be suspicious. Those who talk about the Tao are often eight or nine, and those who speculate on the source of the poor are one hundred, and there is no true transmission of practical learning.
I Hui County (Huangshan City, Anhui Province) Jixi (30 kilometers west of Huangshan City) Ku Shi (Xiu Cai) Mr. Zhang Hengqiu's boxing technique is magical, for the Uchi famous family body, "triangle" and "plum blossom" footwork into "left and right Xuan", deducing the essence, into a theorem. Drawing the recipe, revealing the secrets that have not been developed through the ages, so that scholars can get their first sect. But its mysteries, those who have not worked deeply for a long time cannot be created (attained), those who have no talent and are both excellent cannot be said, and they are like the village fools, it is difficult to detect this, and the inherent deficiencies and language are also.
However, Yu often reads the Zhang's Fist Classic, in fact, the words are thorough, the words are strange, one method and one use, do not prepare detailed words, and show people's fang skills. There is no shortage of scholars in the four directions, and it is often said that they are of the same origin, the law is different, and the direction of their application is completely inconsistent with the purpose of the book. In short, how reckless or even illiterate a martial practitioner is, and how much of a scholar has not attacked the purpose of the book, how can he study subtlety? It is nothing more than oral transmission of the heart, just like the painting of the gourd, and the preacher has a secret, the scholar has not worked, he has lost his tendons, he has lost his authenticity, and once the difference of a millimeter has caused a thousand miles of error. To or schema difference, (sound breathing, confusion, violation) to spread falsehoods, abuse for a long time, the bottom of the sac is nothing, then it is known that the transmission is not actual, scholars have obtained the whole instrument and even the neck (reaching a certain level) Hu.
Yu was poor and had little food, and was cowardly (cowardly) and sick, and he was determined to fight for a long time. In the beginning, he only knew that there was a fist in the art, but he did not know that there was a method of fist, and the method of luck in all the movements of the body was never heard of. Daily practice, but flying fists and dancing legs, to be beautiful. Occasionally, the special brute force, and the push pile swinging style to serve deception, all kinds of superficial learning, no real results, wasted years. The name of mu zhang has a year.
Eight years after the transfer of more, he was in Nanxiong in the summer of Wang Shu (1742, the seventh year of Qianlong), (southwest of Ganzhou, Jiangxi) (here the copy is missing, seeing the process of Zhang Hengqiu) Pingshui met, sincerely with three lives and luck, nai Meng did not hesitate to see the teaching, that is, to take a step, to make a circle, but to see one after another, the momentum is like a galloping horse, rampage, can not be swept away, easy to advance and retreat, retract nature, take advantage of the false situation, do not pick up the strength of people, close to the heart, like a landslide. Ups and downs, circles of calm, moves around, hands and hands into one piece, dazzling, hands do not have time to fingers, is nothing less than thunder and lightning. Yu stole the strangeness, so he led his friends Hong's Fengcheng and Yang's Zhenxiu, and Tiao's disciple Li to learn from yan together. It is the main building in Jinchangmen (in Suzhou) to serve for Three Months. Teaching in person day and night, getting the face of the ear, the student has not learned, referring to what has been learned. Explain the mysteries and get to the root causes. Knowing the learning of the past, all of them are partial to dryness, and they are used to many branches and leaves rather than fundamental. In fact, the teachers and technicians are famous, both literary and martial arts, and the cycle is short, one by one, so that people can penetrate, it is true that the master's style is comparable, and it is indeed comparable to that of extraordinary husbands, and it is a shame to see each other late.
The fate of Mr. Nanxuan, my generation also gradually scattered, and then each ping traced uncertainly, the clutch was very, and Sui'er was lazy. After the study of his boxing skills, especially before stepping into the room, time flies, and after ten years of hasty rotation, Mr. Meng pointed out Xuan'ao.
Xin Wei (1751, qianlong sixteenth year) Yangchun, chasing profits (doing business) Lou Dong (in the southeast of Suzhou) of the south gate, the next autumn and July, (1752, Qianlong seventeen years) heard of hu Daosheng in Hui County Sheyi (now Huangshan City, Anhui), known as a boxer, quite Zhang's secret mystery, suitable for Wumen. (Suzhou) Yu Wen was pleased, that is, comrade Three visited. When he met tiger hill, he came to the dormitory and gladly stayed. The grass collapsed enough to talk about the heart, and the anti-Si Dao, so that each of them was born to learn, and the speed of the return of my teacher to the spring (death) did not fully obtain its subtlety, and the good could sigh. Because of the purpose of his body steps, he followed the use of mysteries. Therefore, Zhang Shi's "XuanBu Method" was used to teach Yu, pointing out the magic of hesitation, dividing the doors and settling the households, and being methodical and reasonable. Offensive retreat, more than enough. Scattered is a universal method, and there is no need to sit on branches. Unity is the same principle and becomes a certain rule. The magic is in a thousand changes, and scholars know it well. It's really worthy of my inner family secret teaching. If you learn it from the faint sect, you can't help it. In January, the exercise was undulating and sticky, and the self-conscious circle was lively. After practicing for half a year, he moved sideways and flashed, and he actually became a stumbling step. One after the other, with a rampage, he came and went, and there was a hard front. Step to the body, the enemy is difficult to catch. Raise your hand and relax, and the person will be turned upside down. Is it not that the situation is the same as that of people and that the knots are different from those of people? Therefore, the footwork of the various families was re-adopted, and the advantages and disadvantages were repeatedly deliberated. The result is unsurpassed also. This secret is true. Yu Deqi did not dare to be selfish, drawing tricks, and publicizing comrades as the steps of the path.
Qianlong 癸酉 (1752) learned the good wheel after the mid-autumn moon and day.
The discussion of the importance of footwork by the mianzhang ancestors
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Considering that many young people now have a poor foundation in ancient Chinese, I will translate it in the vernacular:
People who often listen to people who study calligraphy say: Those who do not know the six books cannot write with others. I said that the experts who practice boxing and martial arts, those who do not have the "three laws", especially cannot be called sectarian.
What is the "Three Laws"? It is "technique", "body method", "footwork". Among these three methods, if any of these methods have not been refined, they cannot resist the enemy's attack. Those who do not have the three methods, that is, although they have begun to learn boxing, but have not yet started, there is no difference between people who do not know boxing at all.
However, among the three methods, the most important is footwork. With the step as the main body and the hand as the use, the technique is just a specific technique. Take the analogy of a big tree, footwork, is the root of the tree. The body is the trunk. The technique is the branch. People with clumsy footwork are like a tree without roots, so that the branches lose their attachment.
Although it is said that the hand is the portal, used to cover the whole body, of course, can not be ignored, but if it is not supported by the rotation of the body loop, it is impossible to resist the opponent's attack with only the hand. However, although the body and hands have the skill of round life, if there is no footwork on the many advances and retreats and bearing, it is ultimately difficult to avoid the impact of the opponent and cannot escape the axis of the opponent's straight line attack. Even if you can tilt your body and flash sideways, twist the oblique side of the waist, but the manual and the feet do not respond, the body rotates and the footwork is slow, the up and down contradict each other, the advance can not advance, the retreat can not retreat, how can you defeat the enemy! alas! Nowadays, people who practice boxing only specialize in advocating heavy techniques, (the word "耑" is equal to "specialization") without understanding the subject of martial arts and only pursuing the use of techniques, and even putting footwork aside and not talking about it, it is as if the roots are lost and only the details are sought, in the vernacular it is "throwing away the watermelon and picking up sesame seeds".
Moreover, the purpose of "crossing the horse and opening the bow" was lost a long time ago. The squirming and trembling of the bones of the body and the knowledge of luck are difficult to see in the world. Therefore, those who practice martial arts have been obscured by the true meaning of partial flickering and moving, and there is no magic recipe for undulating and sticking. (Undulation refers to the "ups and downs and ups and downs" of the stretch, that is, the body sinks down when the hand is up, and the body rises when the hand goes down, so as to overcome the top strength and unload the enemy.) Now these people do not pursue the strategy of bone joint squirming, but only the method of practicing strength. If you ask him about his body, he doesn't know what it looks like, and he doesn't know what the norms are. Or, if you can slightly squat and sit on the hind legs, it is considered to be "good body". It is common for guys with "three-legged cat" kung fu, pretending to be boxers, showing off the kung fu of "Sanjia Village" to talk big, teaching people to pose "sitting on horses", telling people to separate their feet and eight characters, straighten up and sit down, like an old man squatting in the toilet. (Sitting on a horse and opening a bow posture is a reserve posture for the enemy with a fist, and it will be discussed in the future, which is by no means a "horseback squat style", which is too far away.) These boxers also teach students to squat down until they can't push. It does not talk about how the footsteps advance and retreat, how the body is moral, the posture of "sitting on the horse and opening the bow", what the name means, how this technique is used, and there is no point in these tendons, so that the students are recklessly blind. (In fact, these boxers themselves do not understand)
Another example is to teach people to swing the "front bow and rear arrow" posture, first help the student's body, throw it forward, step out on the front foot, and swing a fist, like a cross screen. Then bend your foot on the student's hind legs to see if it is hard. The students were taught: "This place must be the strongest, otherwise I am afraid that if someone kicks in the back, he will fall out." This kind of discussion almost makes people laugh and squirt out their food. (Now there are many such disciples, and the "front and back arrows" step sounds similar to the "front bow and rear arrows", but in fact it is completely different.) ）
If you talk about the technique, you will go on a rampage, and you only know that heaviness is the power. When it comes to footsteps, I only know how straight in and out, and I praise myself, how fast it is! (Now there are not a few people who hold straight forward and straight out) Where do they know that the footwork is infinitely mysterious, just like Lao Tzu said, the world is like a big empty bag, and it cannot be seen to the end. There are many "odd and positive sides" ("positive" is a straight step in the middle door, "odd" is a diagonal step, the battle not only needs frontal attack and defense, but also needs to win by surprise. "Anti-replication of the righteousness of victory", (positive and strange, strange and return to positive, positive and strange use, in order to defeat the enemy and win.) These strategies, these deep meanings, can only be understood, indescribable. If you are able to exhaust the magic of the martial arts, I don't believe it.
It is difficult to count all kinds of paradoxical fallacies that have spread, and a few examples or two can see the errors in the study of martial arts.
Yes, although the technique should be heavy, it is necessary to skillfully use the technique of "tricking and pounding" in order to defeat the enemy. ("Trick-or-treating" is to hit the enemy's weak links by flickering and moving, avoiding the real and the virtual.) Although the body method is more expensive than low, if there is no undulating curl, how can it operate the body, have the power of expansion and contraction, and accurately grasp the subtle use of yin and yang illusion. (What is said here is that the body method is not only a "low" problem, but more importantly, "undulating curling", undulating is the contradiction between the hand up and falling, the hand falling up, and the curling shu is the turning and swallowing of dantian, which is the source of the internal force of softening and shaking.) Even more so, as soon as the hand moves, the body must also be rotated, and the steps are also rotated. As soon as the fist is thrown, the elbows and shoulders must also be attacked with the front. (This is "rectification," which points out the principle of "moving with your hands.") Don't stand there and don't move for a long time. Some people even emphasize not to move, saying that it is unstable to move. Some of them also move, but they stop at a step. The "Don" in footwork will also affect the appearance of "Don" in the technique. ）
Only by taking advantage of the situation can we not work hard with people and be strong and soft, and can we be called a strange trick to resist the enemy. Circle the live, up and down mediation, almost worthy of the mysterious use of the hand.
As for footwork, it's more than just fast. ("Oh" = more than that) especially should be "frivolous and strong", the main point is "hanging with the real finger", (listening to the "five fingers grasping the ground", "landing on the ground" preaching, suddenly hearing the ancestors' "with the real finger hanging", "frivolous and strong", must feel very "different", in fact, that is the real footwork. We will talk about it in detail in the future. After understanding the various footwork of Mianzhang, you will feel how stupid it is to "grasp the ground with five fingers" and "take root on the ground". This footwork is very calm, but it can be easily rotated and moved. At the same time as changing steps, it is accompanied by methods such as skimming the knee and hooking, and techniques such as heels, tiptoe kicks and kicks are accompanied by footwork forward, and these attacks do not have to wait for the "intention" to issue instructions before coming. (The word "descending" in the original text, only the right half, also pronounced "descending", is the meaning of "descending") Facing the front, touching the enemy and changing, rigid and soft multiplying, Pi Gang I soft, Pi Rou I just, he paused slightly, I stuck my hands and went straight in, found that he was very stiff, I went with the trend obliquely, the left "of" became the right "Xuan", the right "Xuan" also returned to the left "zhi", using the partial flickering, dodging the shadow and stumbling Dafa, skillfully defeating the opponent. This is called the method of "letting the middle not let go", "attacking without attacking", "making something out of nothing", and "being reborn in the end". With the skills of the lower enemy, it can be called footwork. Where is it just fast! (Footwork, not only fast, but more importantly, the change of angle, as well as the use of dark legs and dark knees contained in footwork.) ）
However, it is necessary to concentrate on practicing, ("耑" = special) morning and evening without interruption, quietly living and going out less, not greedy and chewing, and not feeling confused because you can't digest too much. To be able to practice to such an extent. Where can beginners talk about footwork?
It is precisely because footwork is closely related to the body, it is necessary to exert gravity, learn the footwork to the hand, and first take root before you can speak boxing.
Therefore, the sages of the ancestors determined that the "triangle step" and "Mei Xuan step" were indeed the program of boxing skills. The origin of this matter has been a long time ago, and the images and oral tips have not survived, only by oral transmission, and there are inevitably errors and loopholes. In addition, people who learn mianzhang advocate the pursuit of wonderful plots, so they add branches and leaves, divide into branches, and form a family. So there are "cold chicken step", "one word step", "inner eight characters", "outer eight characters" and other steps. These steps are no longer the original form of Zhang's, and the names are different. (These steps are all in Cao Huandou's "Fist Classics and Fist Technique Preparations", which are no longer Zhang's original steps.) These people only know how to show off their dexterity, and do not want to think about whether this thing is dry or not, but instead rely on this superficial doctrine and deeds, ("hookers", "hooks" also, and behaviors also. Nor do they wonder if these things can work, so they attack and slander each other by falsehood. This makes people who learn boxing often have doubts. There are many people who like to talk about footwork, eight or nine out of ten people, but there are very few people who really explore the source and study it in depth, and there is not a single one in a hundred people! There is no truth to ask.
Only our Huizhou (present-day Huangshan City) Jixi (30 kilometers west of Huangshan City) Itch Sheng (Xiucai) Mr. Zhang Hengqiu, the magic of boxing, is the system of the world's famous masters, "triangle step" and "Mei Xuan step" method, into the left and right "Xuan Bu", deduced very exquisitely, formed a certain theorem, and drew a map, marked the recipe. Thus opening up the unexplored secrets of the ages, so that those who learn boxing have found a clue. The mystery of this kind of footwork is not something that cannot be attained by a person who has worked for a long time, nor is it a person who is both talented and excellent, and he cannot understand it. If it was a stupid and stupid stunned person, it would be even more difficult to understand, so there was no need to tell him this.
However, I often read Zhang Hengqiu's "Book of Fists", he speaks in detail and thoroughly, every word is magical, every technique, every usage, is very detailed, and shows you the techniques of use. Nowadays, there are many people in the four directions, who advocate his teachings, but often speak of the same source, but there are different schools of boxing, and the techniques he uses are completely inconsistent with what the book says. Why? In short, people who practice martial arts may be reckless, or even illiterate. Because I have not studied Zhang's book, how can I study it in depth? It is nothing more than oral instruction, just like drawing gourds. Coupled with the secrecy of the master who passed the fist, the person who learned boxing did not make any effort, lost some of the main points of this fist, lost the true meaning of this fist, at first it may be a little mistake, the more it is passed on, the more wrong it is, and later it is a difference of 108,000 miles. It is also possible that the copied drawings are wrong, and they are wrongly transmitted, and they have been circulated for a long time, and there is no correct thing at all. It can be seen that the things that come out are no longer the real Mianzhang Fist, and those who learn boxing can get complete things and reach a certain level!
Later, Liang Lun recounted the process of learning boxing from Zhang Hengqiu and learning the "Xuanbu" from Zhang Hengqiu's disciple Hu Daosheng. Basically, he met Zhang Hengqiu in 1742 and studied for three months. Zhang Hengqiu was supposed to be 72 years old at the time. After another ten years, Zhang Hengqiu had passed away, and he met Hu Daosheng again and taught him the "Xuanbu". The next year, he drew out these real footwork drawings and added explanations for everyone to learn, which shows that the ancients were not as conservative as we are now.