Master has been studying Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan for more than 70 years. He is a successful Taiji master and one of the outstanding descendants of the fifth generation Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan. In his eighties, he still practiced boxing, sword, knife and gun brilliantly. I really enjoyed playing the 85-style traditional Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan with Master. He walked briskly, walking on thin ice; The moves are loose and elegant; Look dignified and quiet, calm and restrained; And sink but not stagnate, coagulate but not stiff, without any modification. Therefore, every time I go to Xuande Taiji Museum, I am particularly looking forward to completing all the training under the guidance of Master.
Today, I was told by teacher Xiaoyu that there was another competition in the near future, so many people came to Xuande Taiji Museum for training. I think it's still early. Go to the back of the boxing gym. I looked up and saw that Master was already at the side of the meeting. Master was dressed in a moonlight Tai Chi training suit, his eyes were still deep and bright, and a whistle hung around his neck, surrounded by a group of people listening attentively to his explanation. Oh! It turns out that the training of the players has already started. After a while, everyone began to practice in different venues and events under Master's arrangement ... Master stood up from time to time or instructed or corrected their movements, while I stood by and listened to Master's explanation.
At this moment, the scene in front of me seems to overlap with the scene when Master first met. I remember that summer, Teacher Ren Xiaoyu encouraged us to take part in the competition. She said that her master Ding Shuide attached great importance to the intensive training of the contestants before the competition, which was very beneficial to improve the boxing skills of his disciples and students. Whenever there is a task to participate in the competition, he will personally train his disciples and students systematically. Teacher Ren Xiaoyu is a disciple of Master Ding Shuide for many years. She worships her master very much, and when it comes to her, her praise is often beyond words. To this end, we signed up, hoping to get her teacher's personal guidance and guidance. In this way, under the recommendation of teacher Ren Xiaoyu, we came to the training ground in Chun Qing Square.
Master was also surrounded by many people in the middle of the meeting that day. His back is straight, his light gray Tai Chi training suit is clean and elegant, his silvery white hair shines in the sun, his eyes are slightly concave, his dark brown eyes are bright, his voice is loud and his mouth is articulate. He is really a lean elder. When we first met, we were a little stiff, but he felt it keenly. He came up to us with a smile and said, "Welcome to training here, and thank you for your love for Yang Tai Ji Chuan. Don't worry, study hard and train well. I will give full guidance. Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan needs everyone to carry forward. "
His gentle smile is modest and pure. I think this is what the ancients said: "The wise are humble and the good are tolerant." The master is a martial artist, but he also has a good cultural accomplishment. When he teaches boxing theory, his thinking is clear, simple and clear, which is especially easy to be accepted and remembered. In the teaching of boxing movements, he always takes pains to demonstrate repeatedly. In the process of teaching, he is very careful, patient and painstaking. He advocated teaching and learning from each other, so that disciples and students could learn from each other and learn boxing together. He carefully observed everyone practicing boxing, pointed out the problems one by one, analyzed the problems, and then corrected them one by one. For students who have not mastered it for the time being, he always tells them not to worry, go back and slowly understand.
He teaches boxing with great care, covering body, eyes, hands, methods, steps and spirit. I remember when he talked about the momentum, he said that we lacked vitality and softness ... He said that the momentum shifted from stillness, just like the rising sun in the morning, and there should be a force accumulating in the body, so we should be full of energy and bright eyes ... He said that we would play routines, even if the actions were correct, it was not enough. Boxing and boxing are two different concepts. Will get an external shape; Understand, that is, through years of training, understand the essence of Tai Ji Chuan bit by bit and practice kung fu well. Therefore, Tai Ji Chuan's knowledge is endless.
Pre-competition training is very intense. After several months of training, the contestants will always lose a few pounds. During this period, Master's hard work is self-evident. Take turns guiding for several hours every day, sometimes I can't even drink a mouthful of water. The disciple next to him looked distressed. He handed me the cup and took a quick sip. We still had a rest. Participants in the training cherish this opportunity to improve their skills, and people keep asking questions. Master took pains to explain his doubts in detail and praised everyone: "Thank you, everyone has worked hard! I am very happy that you love Yang Tai Ji Chuan so much! "
That year, Master should be 85 years old. It's really amazing that players from all over the world can be trained at that age! What is even more touching is that most of the players are apprentices, and some of them are not very familiar with him, but he treats them equally and teaches them wholeheartedly. Every day, I was tired, sweaty and hungry, so I sat next to the venue and ate a bite of bread ... His contribution and dedication to promoting Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan made us who witnessed Tai Ji Chuan feel more cordial and grateful. Now, a few years have passed, and winter has turned into spring. It is admirable that he still devoted himself to training his disciples and proteges when he was in his eighties!
Master said that it is the hardest thing to be a good boxer. It is necessary to have a long-term understanding of boxing and enlightenment, but also to speak clearly and teach well. More importantly, we must have a good body that can withstand the physical exertion of repeated practice and demonstration. He said that the inheritance of Tai Ji Chuan from generation to generation is a very important link, and many videos and texts of the Olympic Games are difficult to express clearly, so we can only rely on word of mouth. If a teacher does not have these internal and external conditions, it is difficult to teach or really teach his disciples well.
Master is a respected and rare master of Tai Chi. He is thoughtful, intelligent, rational and speculative, and his dissemination of Tai Ji Chuan Thought is very suitable for contemporary reality. He said, "Tai Ji Chuan is Kung Fu, a kind of martial arts. It can fight, but it is not violence. Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan never bares his teeth, but he is restrained and not exposed, which contains profound traditional culture of our country; It is boxing, but also art, Chinese studies and philosophy. Practicing Tai Ji Chuan will make people feel like running water, and at the same time, they will be happy and full of energy. Tai Ji Chuan should be liked and loved by more and more people. Only regarding Tai Ji Chuan as a martial art will imprison its development and promotion. "
I have seen many drills by famous Yang Tai Ji Chuan artists, and the aesthetic feeling of walking is somewhat different from that of the master. I have participated in several competitions, and people often ask me at the end, are you under Ding Shuide? The answer is, they will say, oh, no wonder. Ding Shuide's disciple and protege, Yang Tai Yoshikawa, played beautifully and uniquely! In Hangzhou, all over the country, and even abroad, the disciples and proteges of Tai Ji Chuan Pavilion in Xuande, Hangzhou participated in various Tai Ji Chuan competitions, all of which were brilliant. The Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan rehearsed by them is full, steady, tall and straight, full of tenacity, elegant and handsome, which fully shows the natural fluency of Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan's softness and rigidity, and the ease of holding on to one.
Thanks to Master's unremitting efforts, boxing gymnasiums and Tai Chi teams named after Xuande have sprung up and blossomed everywhere ... This series of achievements of Master reminds me of a summer many years ago. I saw a towering tree in the civilized virgin forest of Quzhou, standing upright in the scorching sun. The towering canopy is swaying, and the lush branches and leaves are sprinkled on the underground trees, sheltering many creatures. As soon as we are tired from walking, we sit on the huge and vigorous roots to rest, which is cool and comfortable. Why do you think of that tree at this time? Because I think that a towering tree must have strong and developed roots, deeply rooted in the earth, in order to flourish and survive for thousands of years. Do they have nothing in common?
On that day, I saw a WeChat video introducing Master's idea of spreading Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan: benefiting the people! This concept is pure compassion, which makes us deeply understand the mind of Tai Chi masters who "worry about the world first". Life is the most precious thing for people, not health. However, years, environment and many other factors are eroding people's health. Master said: "The development of Taiji Chuan is no longer a stunt to defeat the enemy, let alone the knowledge of life and death between people in Wulin. Instead, it inspires people to practice Tai Ji Chuan, know how to use the way of natural changes of Yin and Yang to cultivate body and mind and serve people's health. Let Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan become a way to pursue physical health and spiritual sublimation, and achieve the unity of will, morality, cultivation and health preservation through theoretical and practical study and tempering. "
Master has worked hard to inherit and carry forward Yang-style Tai Ji Chuan for more than 70 years. His aim is to inherit the quintessence of Chinese culture and promote Chinese studies, and his aim is to make Tai Ji Chuan benefit the people. He established a museum in Longshan, which is of far-reaching significance. Its purpose is to keep his disciples and students away from the hubbub, get close to nature, understand the changes of Yin and Yang in heaven and earth with the way of nature, and understand the true meaning of Taiji Chuan with the way of nature. There is a cloud in China's traditional health books: "Disturbance leads to all diseases, while security leads to all diseases!" It is to teach people to be pure and indifferent, calm and wise. Therefore, peace of mind is the primary condition for physical and mental health. In other words, choosing the quiet environment of Longshan to practice Tai Ji Chuan can help disciples and proteges get peace as soon as possible, and peace is the first condition of Tai Ji Chuan, and it is a stepping stone to get a glimpse of Tai Chi.
Tai Ji Chuan is rich in China traditional culture, which is the product of 5,000 years of historical and cultural accumulation. For example, we should not be too obsessed with ourselves, which is the same as releasing our obsession at home. Tai Ji Chuan pursues quietness in motion, letting nature take its course, which is in the same strain as Taoist practice methods; Similar to the Confucian doctrine of the mean. A person's life is full of twists and turns, just like a set of Tai Ji Chuan. Through practicing boxing, we understand what it means to be calm, neither humble nor supercilious, to be leisurely, to stretch with joy, to give up who I am, and to be happy with everything. ...
Recently, I saw a statistic (said to be done by Americans) that 3,000 people practice yoga and 3,000 people practice Tai Ji Chuan. After a year's examination, I found that Tai Ji Chuan has better effects on chronic diseases, pain relief and insomnia than yoga. So at present, the United States is even considering legislation to promote Tai Ji Chuan.
Tai Ji Chuan's outstanding inheritors are the most precious wealth in the Tai Ji Chuan system. They lead a generation of coquettish, handed down from generation to generation incense. I am honored to worship under Master's door, and I am proud that Yang Tai Jichuan has such an excellent preacher.
"The day is over, the month is the same, I fly to Wan Li; Live, celebrate, and invite the moon to stay in the depths of Qingshan. " Finally, I used the lyrics of the theme song "Tai Chi Master" because I felt that the lyrics were tailor-made for Master. ?
? Tong Jinxian
20 18.6.26