Why does Chinese Kung Fu look so good?

Chinese people on Chinese kung fu is basically divided into two factions, one thinks that Chinese kung fu is purely flower fist embroidered feet, in the look is not useful, the other faction thinks that Chinese kung fu is profound, invincible, I practiced for many years of martial arts, more or less some of the right to speak on the topic, here on my personal understanding, to say the truth about Chinese kung fu.

The origin of Chinese Kung Fu:

There is no doubt that Chinese Kung Fu originated from the actual combat of the ancestors, but at the same time, Chinese Kung Fu is divided into two kinds, one is used in the army, and the other is the Chinese Kung Fu that is common to us nowadays, that is, the folk Kung Fu, why should it be so divided?

Ancient army combat is never like the movies and TV shows, a group of people with swords and guns swarmed, a hacking, this is absolutely the director's ignorance, China's most typical and the most powerful army is the unification of China's Qin army, their standard way of fighting is like this, the front rows of the battle array for the crossbowmen, their side has a short sword holding the shield to cover the shieldmen, the crossbowmen fight in a similar way In the early European musketry, under the unified command of a row of rows to fire, fired immediately after the completion of loading crossbows, behind them is a long to the hand, these long to the hand is not a general long to the use of the long to the long to the long to five or six meters long to the long to the long to the long to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Qin Shihuang Emperor was found in the role of many experts feel puzzled because the long to the long to reach such a length, is impossible to use for combat, but in fact, these But in fact, these long Yu is really used in combat, of course, they are not used for single combat, their role is to deal with the enemy's chariots and cavalry, when the enemy's chariots and cavalry broke through the crossbowmen's blockade, such as tidal wave, these long Yu will form a real "forest of guns", so that the enemy can not get close to. Behind the Changyu were the chariots and cavalry, which were the equivalent of today's armored and mechanized units, and were the mainstay of the enemy's attack.

Through the Qin army we can see that the soldiers in the army did not need each one to have high fighting skills, but each one had to master specialized professional skills, and what was needed more was courage and multi-military synergy, of course, the best fighting skills among them were the infantrymen with shields and short swords, who were the last to deal with the enemy, and played the same role as today's infantry, followed by cavalrymen and charioteers, who were the main force to fight the enemy. are the cavalry and charioteers, but their skills are very different from the infantry, which will be talked about later.

As for kung fu in the Qin Dynasty, it seems to be not very good, the movie "Hero" Chinese kung fu is simply bullshit, the most famous assassins at that time are Jing Ke and Zhuanzhu, their actions have all the successful assassins should have everything, the courage of the people, careful planning, sophisticated weapons and beyond the psychological quality of mortals, but kung fu seems to be not very good, Jing Ke from the King of Qin is so close to the king of Qin, to be really The martial arts masters, do not need to make what the poor dagger, bare hands can be the king of Qin, and Jing Ke and Zhuanzhu are thousands of selected, kung fu is so poor, it seems that at the time of kung fu is certainly not good.

Development of martial arts

Chinese martial arts have developed greatly since the Qin and Han Dynasties, especially during the Tang and Song Dynasties, whether it is right-horse kung fu or punching and kicking weapons on the ground, there has been a great deal of development, let's talk about right-horse kung fu first.

Many Chinese heroes are heroes on the horse, which has Xiang Yu, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Yue Fei and countless others, these people's kung fu is as magical as the legend? The answer is no, especially Guan Yu, he was honored as "martial arts saint", but in fact his weapons are wrong, his famous blue dragon crescent knife is simply a ceremonial weapon, it is impossible to use as a weapon. Cavalry at that time is divided into two kinds, one is light cavalry, the Song Dynasty when Yue Fei's cavalry basically belongs to this kind of, as opposed to heavy cavalry, Yue Fei's rival Jin Wuzhu under the cavalry is this kind of, their cavalry from the warrior to the horse are cloaked in heavy armor, three horses for a group, teamed up with the amazing momentum, then called "iron floating map", in the Song and Jin war period to the Song army to deal a heavy blow. In order to change this situation, Yue Fei's army was formed. In order to change this situation, Yue Fei's cavalry gave up the traditional sword, because the weight of the sword is too light, the killing power of the heavy cavalry is too small, so they switched to the weight of a large but clumsy hammer, mace and other weapons, the book Yue Fei biography said Yue Fei under the "four fierce eight hammers," which is the historical reality, just the weight of the difference, there must be, when the Cavalry combat absolutely nothing fancy tricks, both sides of the trick is very little but to be practical, than the main strength and speed, which and the medieval European fighting style is no different. At the same time, Yue Fei's infantry in order to combat heavy cavalry, but also used the famous "hook and sickle gun abduction team", with this method of attacking the "Iron Futu" horse legs of the relatively fragile defense, but also received a miraculous effect.

After this, there was another history-changing battle between the light cavalry and the heavy cavalry, which was a battle between the invincible Mongol cavalry and the European heavy cavalry, and this battle made the heavy cavalry finally quit the stage of history. The reason why the Mongol cavalry was invincible was not because of their swords and spears, but because of their bows and arrows. The Mongols had the longest-range and most lethal combination bows of their time (this weapon usually consisted of an animal tendon on the back, a layer of horn on the bow's belly, and a wooden frame in the center. The pull of this bow was between 50 and 75 kilograms, and it was short enough for the cavalry to use freely. Arrows from this bow had a range of up to 300 meters and could penetrate even the thickest armor if equipped with a sharp metal arrowhead). This, combined with the Mongol cavalry's locomotive power, allowed the Mongols to move across Europe and Asia unstoppable. The Mongols were very good at what the ancient Romans called the "Archery of the Sabbaths," in which the rider would flee while shooting arrows at the enemy in the rear. (The Mongols called this method of warfare "Mangougou".) The essence of this tactic was that the rider would shoot arrows from the back of the enemy while fleeing. The essence of this tactic lies in attacking the enemy from a distance, attacking the enemy continuously, and not giving the enemy a chance to fight back. Under this kind of attack, no matter how strong the enemy's spirit and armor are, it is only a matter of time before they completely collapse. At that time, most of the European knights were equipped with heavy helmets and armor, although they were very powerful in close combat, but their mechanical power could not be compared with the Mongolian cavalry. If they ran into the Mongol horsemen, not only could they not catch up with them, but they could not even escape from them, and they were only targets for arrows. Moreover, the Mongol cavalry did not rely on the strong attack like the European knights, and they only fought with the enemy when they killed half of them with their bows and arrows first. 1241 April, the Mongol cavalry relied on this method of warfare to break the 100,000 Hungarian army (led by the Hungarian King Béla IV), which was the most elite army of Europe, and killed more than 70,000 of the enemy, and played the song of "The Red Danube" with their bows and arrows, which was almost the same as the "Red Danube". Danube" with bows and arrows, almost completely wiping out the European resistance. Had it not been for the untimely death of Vogtai, the yellow man would have unified the entire Eurasian continent 800 years ago.

And this period of boxing and kung fu also developed to a peak, which is the most typical example is the "Water Margin", the book of boxing, weapons, lightweight and even sumo wrestling have a wonderful description, in which Wu Sung drunkenly beat Jiang Men Shen a, written extraordinarily vivid, can be seen Shineean can be better than the Jin Yong a lot, he has a minimum understanding of the martial arts, the depiction of kung fu, although there are exaggerated elements, but it is not too It can be said that kung fu at that time was indeed very powerful. It can be said that the kung fu at that time was indeed very powerful, because the kung fu at this time only seeks to be practical, never for the sake of looking good, these kung fu are countless people's lives in exchange for, they often have to fight with people with their lives, never have the slightest negligence and blunders, and this situation has lasted until the modern times, Chinese kung fu has always been in the development, and gradually perfect, but with the end of the cold weapons era, Chinese kung fu began to to decline.

The Decline of Chinese Kung Fu

In the days when I was learning martial arts, I mainly practiced the so-called sets, and the coach's requirements were that the movements should be generous, high in the air, and stable on the ground, but the offensive and defensive meanings of the movements were hardly taught, and in order to pursue the so-called beautiful, many of the movements have been changed out of shape, such as the "spinning kick", which was originally an effective way of attacking and defending the opponent. For example, the "whirlwind foot", which is a very vicious attack footwork, but now it is required to land to catch a split, which is simply nonsense, this kind of leg is absolutely looking for death in actual combat. Again, such as before and after the leg sweep, in actual combat as long as the sweep through more than half a circle to knock down the opponent is enough, turn to a circle and a half what is the use? After sweeping the leg there must be a follow-up action to give the enemy a continuous blow, what is the use of posing? Such examples are countless in the modern martial arts routines, there are many moves you simply can not see what it is the original meaning of attack and defense, it is not an exaggeration to say that the so-called martial arts in the Chinese gymnasiums now, is just a kind of dance similar to martial arts, there is no combat, including Jet Li, including the martial arts athletes, basically are all silver wax gun head, in the look is not useful, if Jet Li is not convinced, you can casually If Jet Li is not convinced, he can just find a free sparring competitor of the same level to fight, preferably a no-limit fight, and I guarantee that he will be crippled if not killed.

Chinese kung fu is the ancient people with their lives to fight out, to develop must fight out, I once learned a set of traditional routines called "folding around the hand", the action is very simple, each section consists of four or five actions, similar to boxing combinations, through a combination of several actions to the opponent to the successive strikes, the action, although insignificant, but extremely fierce and insidious, and the action is very simple, but the action is very simple, and the action is very simple, and the action is very simple, and the action is very simple. But extremely fierce and sinister, its purpose is only one, is to cause people to death, in China, there are many such traditional routines, but do not get attention, because this fighting skills are now basically not used. In fact, this is also the case in foreign countries, Japan's judo on the sake of completely, eliminating some may seriously harm the opponent's anti-joint movements, in the early judo, this kind of opponent can be maimed or even death of the action is very much.

Now the martial arts only heavy form and not heavy meaning, only seek to look good and regardless of the actual combat, and more and more difficult to come, is to gymnastics and acrobatics direction, has completely detached from the significance of the martial arts, which is why the Chinese martial arts masters, in the face of foreign experts in the actual combat fighting masters are always in the wind of the reason. Wushu due to fight and born, due to fight and rise, leaving the actual combat, wushu does not have any value of existence, its difficulty than gymnastics, thrilling than acrobatics, I really do not know what such a martial arts should be called.

Wuxia novels and movies on the harm of martial arts

Remember when I watched the "Volleyball Women" when I was still young, but I still feel very shocked, not that it is shot how good, but I feel that it is nonsense is also too far, we were with the women's volleyball team in a pavilion training, every day to see them practicing that a few actions, as for the "thunderbolt" that action, not to mention that "thunderbolt" that action, not to mention that "thunderbolt" that action, not to mention that "thunderbolt" that action. As for the action like "thunderbolt from the sky", not to mention the women's volleyball team, that is, the gymnastics team rely on the springboard can not do it, if the women's volleyball players dare to do this kind of action, down to the certain dead. Chinese martial arts novels and martial arts movies depicted in the martial arts, basically belongs to the volleyball women type, look is very beautiful, is simply nonsense, but they have caused a lot of people misunderstanding, that martial arts should be so, at the very least should be about the same, in fact, the difference between the famous is too far away, is not the same thing, especially Jin Yong martial arts depicted in the two men can put a set of palm hand to hand from the first move to the The eighteenth move, you think the other side is a dead man ah! Look at you play here, Jin Yong novels if one percent is true, now the Olympic gold medal will have to let the Chinese package, as for the "Hero", "Ambush", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and so on, look at a fun okay, really when it is to take it seriously, simply want to see in the Olympic Games women's volleyball game in the clear sky thunderbolt as retarded. While martial arts novels and movies let the world know about Chinese kung fu, they also deepen the world's misunderstanding of Chinese kung fu, and even greatly distort Chinese kung fu, and this distortion has largely hindered the recovery and development of the martial arts.

Chinese kung fu is popular in China's various techniques of fighting the general term, of which the horse fighting has been lost, which is why in the movie and television works rarely see the scene of the horse fighting, and even two members of the horse generals can fly down from the horse chopping a gas reason. And other fighting arts due to the lack of combat, but also in name only, in training, there are few focus on the actual technical skills training, because this training is very hard and cruel, a lot of training methods have now been lost, I myself have practiced more or less a few years of martial arts, at least one of the martial arts, martial arts today's predicament is also very saddened, but martial arts if you do not fight out, but also rely on several If the martial arts do not really fight out, still relying on a few flower frame star face, Chinese kung fu on the road to extinction is only a matter of time.