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Since ancient times, many people in China have dreamed of getting a secret book of martial arts and practicing a set of world-beater martial arts. In martial arts novels, it is not uncommon to fight to the death for a martial arts cheats. Is there really such a fascinating martial arts secret in the world?
Yes, in the collection of the National Library of China, there is indeed such a "secret book of martial arts", which is the "Geng Yu Shu" compiled by Cheng Zhongdou, a martial arts master in the Ming Dynasty.
Cheng Zhongdou, a native of Xiuning, Anhui Province, was born in a merchant family, but he had no intention of being a businessman. As a teenager, he danced with a gun and made a stick. According to historical records, he is "a famous teacher who walks Wan Li Road to seek truth."
By chance, Cheng Zhongdou was entrusted by his father to deliver goods in Beijing. When I passed the Shaolin Temple, the holy place of Wulin, I couldn't help admiring the monks' high martial arts. Now he stays to study with the teacher. During his stay at Shaolin Temple, Cheng Chongdou studied stick skills from the monks Hongji and Hong Zhuan. 10 years later, he finally got the true biography of Shaolin Temple's stick technique, and defeated the puppet mechanical system of Shaolin Temple by himself, thus successfully starting his career.
From then on, Cheng Chong-dou wandered the rivers and lakes, and became famous in Wulin with the white eyebrow stick of Shaolin. Later, he learned a good marksmanship from Li of Henan Province and became a martial arts master who was killed by a stick.
Cheng Zhongdou is good at using a variety of weapons. In addition to guns and sticks, his single-handedness is also superb. I have studied the Wulin all over, and my swords, spears and clubs are all excellent. I can achieve mastery through a comprehensive study and bring forth new ideas, and I have become an outstanding family. Cheng Bocheng, a member of the clan, was once praised as: "When he struck a thorn, he was not brave enough, despite the landslides and tidal waves."
Cheng Chongdou has been wandering in the Jianghu all his life. In his later years, he returned to his hometown to give lectures and teach arts, and organized his children to guard the village, ensuring the peace of his hometown Xiuning. It was praised by Hou Anguo, the local county magistrate: "Although there are less than dozens of children in Zong Yi, they can be used as thousands."
In the first year of tomorrow (162 1), Cheng Zhongdou finished the book "Tillage Technology" at the age of 60. The Remnants of Farming Method consists of three volumes: Explanations of Shaolin Clubbing Sect, Selected Long Gun Method, Selected Single Knife Method and Zhang Palm Method, which respectively describe the making and skills of four weapons: stick, gun, knife and crossbow.
After the publication of this book, it became a relatively complete martial arts monograph after Qi Jiguang's New Book of Ji Xiao, which had a great influence on the development of martial arts in later generations. Among them, The Selection of Long Gun Method has become a valuable material for studying Shaolin marksmanship. ?
As we all know, Shaolin monks are good at using sticks. Therefore, Shaolin Wushu must be called Shaolin stick method. On the east wall of the White Clothes Hall in Shaolin Temple, there are two Qing Dynasty murals "Thirteen Stick Monks Save the Tang King", which describe the story of Shaolin monks saving the Tang King Li Shimin with sticks.
Cheng Zhongdou, who was passing by Shaolin Temple at that time, saw Shaolin monks' excellent stick skills and immediately decided to stay and study, showing the great charm of Shaolin stick skills. Interpretation of Shaolin Cudgel was written by Cheng Zhongdou according to the oral knowledge of teachers and monks in that year.
Shaolin stick technique is explained in three volumes. The book not only lists the stick spectrum of each stick method, but also draws a schematic diagram of the route. At the same time, supplemented by formulas, it is the earliest schematic diagram of the technical route of sticks so far. Not only that, the book also put forward the viewpoint of "Lu sticks to Tao" at the earliest, such as "the stick spreads the six meridians" and "the big witch also has six meridians". The "road" here is similar to today's "section", which makes the system of traditional Wushu stick method more perfect.
Wulin is known as "southern fist and northern leg" and "eastern cannon and western stick". According to experts' research, the "Fifty-five diagrams of stick potential" mentioned by Cheng Zhongdou in Detailed Explanation of Shaolin Stick Technique is actually the Apocalypse stick, which is known as the first of the "four famous sticks" in Northwest China.
On the basis of stick technique, Shaolin Temple absorbed the essence of various marksmanship, and formed a unique style of Shaolin marksmanship with guns as the mainstay and stick technique as well as gun stick. The first generation marksmanship of Shaolin Temple is the original marksmanship of Menglu Hall by Master Hong Zhuan, a monk of Shaolin Temple. Master Hong Zhuan is the master of Cheng Chongdou.
Cheng Zhongdou created Cheng Zhongdou's marksmanship on the basis of Master Meng Lutang's marksmanship. From then on, Cheng Zhongdou's marksmanship and Master Meng Lutang's marksmanship system formed in Shaolin Temple.
On the basis of inheriting Meng Lvtang's marksmanship, Cheng Chongdou highlighted the characteristics of big seal, big chop, sudden collapse and hard binding, which organically integrated strength and skills and improved the overall power and practical value of Shaolin marksmanship.
In addition, Cheng's marksmanship is also compatible with Li Henan Foucault's "Yu marksmanship". The book gives a detailed description of the equipment, characteristics and contents of "Henan marksmanship".
Another volume, Selection of Single Knife Method, was written by Cheng Zhongdou according to the teaching of Liu Yunfeng, a famous Japanese knife master in Zhejiang. Because the teacher's instructions are "powerful and nameless", in order to "make the learners easy to remember", Cheng Zhongdou "draws according to the situation and draws its name", not only with Liu Yunfeng's single-knife method, but also with action instructions, he compiled a drill routine and put forward the idea of segmented drill.
The Japanese knife method described in The Selection of Single Knife Method is "using one knife with both hands". Because it originated in Japan, it is called "Japanese Knife", but according to experts' research, this knife method of "using one knife with both hands" existed as early as ancient China.
The explanation and illustration of "Geng Yu Shu" are parallel, the former stresses the main points, while the latter shows pictures and devices, and the two complement each other. It can be seen that Cheng's superb skills also reflect the idea of both offensive and defensive, equal emphasis on routine drills, and emphasis on the coordinated use of various weapons.
In addition to various weapons techniques, the remaining techniques of farming also recorded a powerful and portable method for making new crossbows. In the book "Zhang Xinfa", not only the component shape, manufacturing method and using method of this crossbow are explained in detail, but also the whole picture of the crossbow machine is drawn, showing the "scattered drawings" of important components such as box, hook and dial machine, and even the size and manufacturing are explained in detail. As a result, "when a book comes out, the people who created it are still using it, and the people who changed it are still using it" quickly spread among the people.
Twenty-three years after the publication of Gengyu Shu, the Qing army entered the customs and the Ming Dynasty perished. Fortunately, Chinese civilization has been passed down from generation to generation. After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, this legendary martial arts secret book is now lying quietly in the National Library of China, avoiding disputes in the Wulin. As a part of Chinese civilization, it is carefully protected and collected.
I hope you are satisfied!