Where did the Emei school of martial arts go

Emei school of martial arts in where to go? Yao Wenjun Emei Wushu, it and Shaolin Wushu, Wudang Wushu tripod and three, is a great treasure in the Chinese martial arts. Currently, Shaolin Wushu, Wudang Wushu enjoys a very high reputation, has produced a huge tangible value in social life, and inestimable intangible value, to promote the development of the two civilizations, have made positive contributions. However, in comparison, Emei Wushu is unusually cold, seems to disappear, far from producing its due effect. In recent years, there have been "qualitative" after the Hong, chemical, word, will, monks, Yue, Zhao, Du eight martial arts schools gathered in Chengdu, known as the Emei school talks, exchanges, meetings, a time to make a big splash, in order to create a strong Emei school of martial arts, revitalize the prestige of the Emei school of martial arts, but so far than the momentum seems to be cold down! However, the momentum seems to have cooled down. Why? We don't know. The reason, I'm afraid, is that Emei martial arts has not yet been really tapped into the result. In the western development of this historical background, in-depth and detailed excavation of Emei school of martial arts, to grasp its cultural connotations, boxing and boxing characteristics, style, so that it will shine again, and better for the construction of the two civilizations, which has become the responsibility of the people obliged to do. Sichuan Wushu excavation and finishing group in 1984, 1987 has come out of the two "Sichuan sports history", summarized and collated 58 local martial arts schools in Sichuan Province, which also contains the Emei school of martial arts. However, the Emei school of martial arts school flow problem written in pieces, not see who is the originator, and only write to the Ming Dynasty, the following almost do not see any continuation, and the other 57 martial arts schools are almost no mention of the Eshun martial arts and Eshun have a direct lineage of the abutters. In this way, people feel that from the Ming Dynasty, I do not know where the Emei school of martial arts to go, has become a major historical mystery. In view of this, some martial arts researchers have raised the issue of defining the Emei school of martial arts. They Emei school of martial arts for the definition of the description: "What is called Emei martial arts? We say that any martial art that has been passed down for a long time in the Sichuan area, that has influence, and that has an heir, as long as it can form its own sect and lineage, that has its own unique system of routines, its own unique method of practicing kung fu, and its own unique technical characteristics and style (including jinfa, stance, techniques, and footwork, etc.) should be called the Emei School of Wushu." And that includes three kinds of cases: First, in Sichuan native, originated and transmitted; Second, the transmission of foreign provinces, but has been a qualitative change; Third, from Sichuan to the field, and the field is recognized as Emei Wushu, but can not be found in Sichuan (such as in Guangzhou, Macao, Hong Kong, Nanyang area popular White Eyebrows, and so on). This statement seems to have become a kind of official conclusion, according to which they have basically categorized the 57 martial arts schools in Sichuan into the Emei school of martial arts. In their definitional statement, they believe that the "unique" is ambiguous, making it difficult for people to grasp. Another they believe that "the provinces have come but has made qualitative changes also belong to the Emei school of martial arts", this statement is too absolute, is not. First of all do not talk about the qualitative changes, if the definition can be, for example, "monks" and other people Emei school, then the problem came out: must be the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, "monks" belongs to Shaolin, the end of the Qing Dynasty, "monks" belongs to Emei school. "belongs to the Emei School. In this way, both cut off the "monks" and Shaolin School of origin relationship, but also make people seem to think that after the late Qing Dynasty only appeared after the "Emei School", and the Emei School and the history of the Emei School in fact what is the relationship between them, will not be able to say. At the same time, according to this definition, shaolin, wudang in a large sichuan has no descendants? This is obviously unreasonable. Therefore, the current "definition" to divide the Emei School method is not scientific. As for the "qualitative change", the definition of Emei Wushu, for example, some Shaolin sects in Sichuan, because of its late Qing Dynasty, "not to practicing kung fu is the main focus, but to fight, the use of the main skills," more than the former stance changes, mainly focus on pounding, focusing on the use of the technical attacks, and less horse stance than before, focusing on the use of the technical attacks. At the same time, the horse stance was less than before, so it was thought that there was a "qualitative" change compared to before, so it should be categorized as Emei School. This is not correct. Any kind of martial arts, it should be said that all have the significance of combat, as for whether to use consciously, whether good, it is another story. But from the "practice power" to focus on "combat", which itself is the extension of its martial arts, deepening, is the subject of martial arts should be meaning, so this can not be called "quality" change. Even in this development process, they absorbed Emei, Wudang some of the techniques, changed some of their own technical characteristics and style, can not be called "quality" change. Because in the long-term interaction of martial arts, the various sects and schools of acceptance, complementary, the result of continuous integration, making the "source" and "flow" of the relationship between the often appear "blue and better than blue "This is not surprising, it is the law of development of martial arts. Such development does not involve a "qualitative change" in the martial arts. If we insist on saying that there is a "qualitative change" in martial arts, there is only one possibility, which is to give up one's own learning, change one's school and learn from others. Therefore, their definition of the "qualitative change" of martial arts sects is also ambiguous and not self-explanatory. At the same time, the definition of Emei martial arts in talking about the formation of Emei martial arts, but also directly to the late Qing Dynasty civil society organizations as the main cause, and clearly will be Hong, chemical, word, will, monk, Yue, Zhao, Du, the eight martial arts sects of the Emei school. This is also inappropriate. In the late Qing Dynasty, after Shi Dakai's secretary, Chen Ran, became a monk and traveled to the west and east of Sichuan to gather people and contact martial arts sects to fight against the Qing Dynasty in the form of the Brotherhood. He once inscribed a poem on the wall of the Buddhist temple at Shao'e Mountain in Yibin, which reads, "The right to a branch of the Lin Gong, the Wenshan Cangshui is my teacher". In his book "Fist multiplication", he began with "A tree blooms five flowers, five flowers and eight leaves support. The moon of Emei is bright, and the wind and righteousness fill the river". Among them, "a tree" refers to the Emei martial arts; "five flowers" refers to the irrigation county of Qingcheng, Fengdu Qingniu, Tongjiang Tiefo, Kaixian Huangling and Fuling point of easy five contact place; "eight leaves Eight leaves" refers to the Sichuan martial arts in Hong, chemical, word, will, hate, Yue, Zhao, society eight sects. The meaning of this is to say, to Emei faction as a banner, to five places as a contact point, unite the strength of the eight schools of boxing, and strive for popular support, *** with the anti-Qing struggle. Visible, this is the composition of the form of Sichuan Brotherhood, should be seen as a very political color of the folk anti-Qing organization. However, in the study of martial arts schools should not be affected by this club and political color. It is because the decision to divide martial arts schools is based on the differences in the concepts of boxing and kung fu, as well as the differences in the characteristics of styles. From this point of view, it would be worthwhile to study whether the Hongmen, the Sangmen, the Yuemen, the Zhaomen, the Dumen, etc. belong to the Emei School. For example, from the point of view of boxing, Hongmen, founded in the late Ming Dynasty. Mainly for the civil religion martial arts; monk door, founded in the early Qing Dynasty, mainly for the Buddhist martial arts; Yue door, is the Southern Song Dynasty Yue Fei created, mainly for the Shaolin martial arts; Zhao door, created in the Northern Song Dynasty, is the northern faction of the Long Fist martial arts and the merger of the Shaolin martial arts; Dumen, created in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, is the Shaolin Temple in Fujian Buddhism Hongmen boxing, which is the Taoist Shenyimen, the expectoration of the faction of the martial arts, and the merger of the Shaolin martial arts. All of these are distinctly different from the Emei School of martial arts. Therefore, the "Brotherhood" of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is by no means equivalent to the "Emei School". If, the Brotherhood of Hong, chemical, word, will, monk, Yue, Zhao, Du eight sects belong to the Emei school, then, in its martial arts sources need to be resolved on two issues; First, Zhan Ran masters such as boxing is Emei martial arts, and in these eight sects whether there is its practice of the passer; Second, Zhan Ran masters is how to teach Emei martial arts to these eight sects. However, according to the existing information can not answer these two questions. Therefore, the monk, Yue, Zhao, Du, Hong, chemical, word, will be characterized as eight major martial arts sects ?3mei school of martial arts ", it seems far-fetched. Emei martial arts have existed since ancient times. It originated from the Taoist disk broken martial arts, for the pre-Qin period of Laozi in the Emei mountain nine old hole monasticism created. "Pan Broken" is the original and basic type of Emei Wushu. The "disk" refers to the disk work, talking about "winding" strength, is a protective maneuver; "broken" refers to the work of striking, talking about "brittle The "break" refers to the power of striking, speaking of "brittle" strength, which is an offensive technique. Plate breaking techniques of offense and defense as a whole. Tips cloud: "not disk not broken, disk with broken, also disk also broken." It is the source of all subsequent offensive and defensive techniques. Emei Wushu takes Taoist Wushu as its foundation, from which it absorbed the strengths of the folk religion and later the devil's religion and Buddhist Wushu, and constantly enriched and developed itself, practiced both internally and externally, and knew well the fighting methods of the north and south schools, and formed a school of its own. Moreover, in the idea of fighting, Emei school of martial arts is to Laozi's theory of fighting and the law of fighting as a guide, which is mainly manifested in two aspects: one is to pay attention to the "soft and weak over the strong", to achieve the fighting method of "soft and strong", to achieve the power of force to fight, the four two thousand jin; The second is to pay attention to the law of fighting, is to follow the "see the real is to fight", "to pile hit pile", "movement in the fight", "static braking ", "see the opportunity to hit the opportunity", "hit no absolute hit", "no hit" and other laws of fighting. At the same time, in the fighting method, Emei Wushu is unique in three ways: First, Emei Wushu has a unique walking disk kung fu. It not only runs through the soft and weak over strong things (or "realize") the rationale for boxing fighting concept, but also reflects the movement in the fight fighting law; Emei school of martial arts to pay attention to more fingers, palms and "phoenix eye hammer", and more to hit the acupoints; Emei school of martial arts to pay attention to the force of method Thirdly, Emei School of martial arts force method is concerned about the shoulder without force, avoid using brute force, rigid force, dead force, pay attention to hit "inch", hit "brittle force". All these can be regarded as the distinguishing features of Emei School of martial arts from other martial arts schools. Emei school of martial arts seems to be caused by a break in the generation, break in the file of the situation, the reasons for this are many and varied. It is mainly due to the long history, wide area, complexity of the sects, negligence of research. But as long as the painstaking, in-depth investigation and research, compared to the Emei school of martial arts concept and its boxing, boxing characteristics, style, it is difficult to figure out the origins of the relationship between the various schools of martial arts, can be properly resolved Emei school of the broken generation, broken file problem, and then show the Emei school of martial arts should be the original color. Therefore, today's big understanding of Emei school, just a check its "source", clear its "flow" of the problem, rather than a to make what it is "qualitative" and "definition". The problem of "definition". In the long history of the development of martial arts, schools among schools, large schools in small schools, complex and sensitive, not surprisingly, but trace the origin, can be found on which they grow, the development of a "root". {This article was published in the martial arts magazine, No. 7, 2004}