Why do traditional Wushu pull out tendons and bones?

Traditional boxing pays attention to both internal and external training. As the saying goes, breathe inside and exercise your muscles and bones outside. "Stretching tendons and pulling bones" is a method to cultivate bones and muscles.

"Boxing Classics" says: "Leather joints are everywhere". This is the effect of "stretching tendons and pulling bones" from the perspective of boxing. You must be able to let your bones and muscles open everywhere, which is the "ready" state with the biggest change in appearance. With enough energy, there is the power to distribute.

Yijinjing said: "Deficiency in the interior leads to detachment in the exterior". Among them, "external detachment" refers to "easy tendons and bones". Because the bones and muscles of ordinary people are not suitable for boxing attack and defense techniques. Only by using the method of "changing tendons and bones" can we fundamentally change our bones and muscles and achieve a different realm of Wushu. And you can adapt your bones and muscles to offensive and defensive skills. And "stretching tendons and pulling bones" is the "cutting length" of the theory of "learning from each other's strengths" in Boxing Classic. The so-called "broken length" is to "cut off" the stiff strength of the bones and muscles, so that the bones and muscles can be channeled. This is the "yin decline" of "opening the door and closing the door" in Yue Nv's On the Sword. That is to say, "decline" the rigidity of its bones and muscles, so that they can be used for offensive and defensive skills.

The most basic requirement of traditional boxing for the "appearance" of human body is "weak and boneless". Only if one's appearance is "soft without bones" can one adapt to the rule of "using tricks according to changes" when boxing is more proficient in attack and defense. Softness is the use of Tao, so the traditional way of attack and defense must meet the requirements of "extreme softness". I said that "the bones are weak and the tendons are soft, so the grip is firm", and because "the softest and strongest in the world" is China's boxing. Only when one's body reaches the artistic realm of "softness without bones" can one have "softness" and achieve the most direct use of internal force when attacking. Only in this way can we have the magical realm of "stalemate, combination of learning and fighting". The essence of traditional boxing is also here. Tang Shunzhi said: "Even if you bend your back, there is no bone." . Sun Lutang said, "The shape should be like water". They all affirmed that the appearance of traditional boxing "weak and boneless" is the real kung fu.

Why pull out the tendons and bones? Said while pulling out the bone.

Qian Xianyun: tendons, the meridians of the human body, are also outside the joints and inside the muscles. There are hundreds of bones in the limbs, and there are no tendons, meridians and collaterals. They connect the whole body and open the blood vessels, but they are supplemented by gods and cooperate with bones. If a person's shoulders can bear, his hands can shoot, his feet can walk, and his whole body is lively and agile, it is quite stiff.

However, the bones and muscles of the human body are endowed by the fetus, and there are various kinds, such as relaxation, contracture, weakness, strength, relaxation and strength. However, the traditional boxing practice in attack and defense does not allow people's muscles: "relaxation, contracture, weakness, contraction, strength, relaxation and strength". Compulsory boxing takes precedence over Yijinjing, which strengthens the body and helps the outside. Therefore, the ancient sages tried hard to restore the mediation method: the broken tendons are easy to loosen, the weak tendons are easy to strengthen, the slack tendons are easy to combine, the weak tendons are easy to grow, and the weak tendons are easy to strengthen, that is, the body of cotton mud can make stones, so it is not easy to make. The benefit of the body is also the foundation of holiness, and this end is the shape. Therefore, there is a principle of easy tendons, and there is a principle of easy tendons, and there must be a method of stretching tendons.

Qian Xianyun: The reason why he is as hard as stone is "bone", and the reason why he becomes psychic is "joint". The gap between joints and bones is a ravine valley of the human body, and the agility of rotation is noticed by the gods. The artistic realm of "weak and boneless" refers to this. Speaking of the change of "consistent softness"; The spiritual body at the joint is full, shaped like steel casting, such as iron as stone, and cannot be bent and stretched, with complete strength; That is to say, "the joints should be right, and if they are wrong, they will be weak." It can be seen that the bone strength increases and the bone is as hard as stone, which can be obtained by "internal qi entering the bone". The psychic change of joints, "skin joints, everywhere open" has become the greatest dynamic change potential, so that they can instantly reach the appearance of "joint tenon", and the application of internal strength just needs bone-changing kung fu, including the cultivation of various "bone-pulling" techniques.

With the above theory, we can know the purpose of training bones and muscles, but the training of physical fitness and strength can not be completely separated. Therefore, the former sages often combined the cultivation of "bones and muscles", so there is a saying of "stretching muscles and pulling bones", and there have long been sayings of "stretching muscles and pulling bones" and "stretching muscles and pulling strength". In a word, it all means the same thing. It must be clearly understood that the traditional ways of attack and defense in boxing are "showing the internal qi" and "combining rigidity with softness". The perfection and rationality of internal and external collocation are hierarchical. Different levels of cultivation, different artistic realm of kung fu and different methods of cultivation. Therefore, "stretching tendons and pulling bones" is also adapted to their respective internal and external levels, but the methods used are different. And various methods of "stretching tendons and pulling bones" are now circulating among boxers at the same time. Because the level of boxing practitioners is different, boxing practitioners should adopt corresponding methods according to their own situation.