? Hakka Kung Fu Dance of Qilin

The Qilin dance is a traditional Hakka folk culture. In Pengshan, Longgang District, the heirs of Zhulin Temple who practiced Mantis Boxing must practice Qilin Dance to strengthen their kung fu. Pengshan is the unicorn dance and mantis boxing as a project, declare municipal intangible.

A golden and black trimmed triangular flag fluttering in the wind. Under the banner, suona, gongs and other musicians lined up, more than a dozen dressed in short lapel kung fu suit of the young and strong students, ring arm chest tiger, the crowd is sitting in the middle of a thin elder, fifty years of age, although the face of the calm, but between the eyebrows is through an unapproachable hegemony!

The above scenario, which usually appears in martial arts novels, is actually a reporter not long ago in the pingshan Dawanshiju to participate in the Zeng clan descendants of the ancestor worship conference to see. This seated elder, is China's Jiangxi Zhulin Temple Mantis faction of national martial arts Federation President Huang Yaohua, who was invited to lead his disciples in the Dawanshiju Zeng's ancestor worship conference on the unicorn dance and boxing performances.

Recently, the reporter learned from the relevant departments of Ping Shan that the unicorn dance and mantis boxing in Ping Shan are preparing to apply for the municipal intangible list of life rituals and customs program. In Ping Shan, many important occasions, such as weddings, major festivals, ancestor worship and other activities, are required to perform Qilin dance, and in this regard, the authority when the first push Huang Yaohua master, he is also "municipal intangible items representative of the heir apparent".

In Pingshan, Huang Yaohua master's flag dance where, where there is a wonderful Qilin dance performance.

"Dancing Qilin is not a flower show"

"This dance Qilin, not Qilin dance!" Half a year ago, when the reporter first went to Pingshan to interview Master Huang Yaohua, Master Huang corrected the reporter's mistake very seriously. At that time, Master Huang was sitting in his Chinese medicine clinic full of bottles and jars specializing in bruises and snakebites. Master Huang was the first outpatient doctor of Chinese medicine at Pingshan People's Hospital, and after leaving his job, he studied his ancestral medical skills and boxing at home. His Chinese medicine clinic is also the Pingshan branch of the Praying Mantis School of Martial Arts, also known as Wuzhen Hall.

According to the introduction, the Qilin dance is a traditional Hakka folk culture. The Qilin dance has two main purposes, one is to participate in major festivals, such as housewarming, wedding, celebrating a good year, etc., and the second is to practice martial arts to strengthen the body. In Pingshan, the practice of mantis boxing Zhulin Temple heirloom must be practiced dance unicorn, so the dance in Pingshan unicorn and mantis boxing is inseparable, in the declaration of municipal intangible cultural heritage, the two are also declared at the same time a project.

With Jiangxi Zhulin Temple Mantis School of national arts corresponding to the long history, the dance of the unicorn is no lack of mystery, which has a lot of jianghu rules. Zeng Xudong, who is in his early thirties this year, is now an outstanding member of the Pingshan branch of the Jiangxi Bamboo Forest Temple Mantis School of Chinese Martial Arts. He remembers that 20 years ago, during a Chinese New Year, a Qilin from a foreign village passed by Ping Shan, and his master and senior brother brought him to dance the Qilin to meet them. At that time, his master told them, "You have to look me in the eye!" Dong said that his master was referring to the color of his eyes to see if the other party knew the rules. The Qilin dance is different from the lion dance in many ways: two lion dancers meet and greet each other, while two Qilin dancers meet and respect each other by lowering their heads as low as possible until they touch the ground and can't go any lower, and then the two Qilin touch their heads affectionately and greet each other mouth-to-mouth as if they were kissing and hugging each other. If one side of the head high, is a great contempt for each other, is a serious provocation behavior, the next inevitable fists and feet, knife and stick to see each other.

Because of this, Huang Yaohua master corrected the reporter, "not the unicorn dance but the dance of the unicorn. He said, now the Longgang area, there are many cultural organizations performances also perform the dance of the unicorn, but they dance the unicorn is rearranged by the dancers "unicorn dance", is a dance, which also draws on some of the action of the dance of the lion, focusing more on artistic beauty, but for the authentic dance of the unicorn of the martial arts, but the rules are bad!

In April this year, the reporter participated in the China Jiangxi Bamboo Forest Temple Mantis National Martial Arts General Assembly held in Hong Kong. At the meeting, from mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Europe and the United States and other countries **** more than 30 praying mantis boxing school hall representatives brought more than 30 dance unicorn team, they show their hands is very eye-opening.

Mantis disciples active anti-Japanese

According to the introduction, the mantis fist was created from the Shaolin monk San Da monk (or Dabao). Around the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are Jiangxi Bamboo Temple monks, that is, the first generation of the heir Li Zen Shi, also known as the red plum monk, with this door skills, often south of the Jiangnan belt, practicing medicine to help the world. Li Zen Shi original name Li Guanqing, the end of the Qing Dynasty, he participated in Shanxi Wutai Mountain, an anti-Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty organizations, and then because of the Qing *** suppression of the exile to the Bamboo Forest Temple in Jiangxi Province, the establishment of the martial arts museum, the surface of the museum to teach students, in fact, to contact the members of the lost. Accidentally in Huiyang County, Guangdong Province, received the disciple Zhang Yaozong, and brought back to the Jiangxi Bamboo Temple to pass on the art. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zhang Yaozong returned to his hometown of Huiyang, Pengshan Town, opened a medical hall martial arts hall.

According to the information: "After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, Zen Master Li felt that the world was in danger, and set up a branch of Bamboo Grove Temple Mantis Pai all over Danshui, Pingshan, Kowloon, Kwai Chung, etc. The people who got their skills afterward were Pingshan, Kowloon, Kwai Chung, etc. The people who got their skills afterward were Pingshan, Kowloon, and Kwai Chung. Later, the techniques were acquired by Huang (Gong) Yuk-kuang and Lin (Gong) Sheng, both of whom were from Ping Shan." The Wong (Kung) Yuk Kwong here is the father of Wong Yiu Wah, who was a disciple of Cheung Yiu Chung and the third generation of the Praying Mantis School. After Huang Yuk-kwong became successful, he was commissioned by his master to return to his hometown in Pingshan to open a pavilion to teach his students. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, Huang Yuk-kwong opened martial arts centers all over the world and *** the Dongjiang Column had close contact with them, and they sent medicine and medicine for the guerrillas to treat the wounded in a timely manner. After the liberation, Huang Yuk-kwong was placed in Huizhou People's Hospital as an attending physician. 1962, Huang Yuk-kwong moved to Kowloon, Hong Kong, and later established the Chinese *** Art Mantis Fitness Institute in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, the New Territories, and other places, to continue to study and develop the true martial arts and Chinese herbal medicine.

90-year-old martial arts master

At the VIP table of the inaugural meeting of the True Praying Mantis National Martial Arts Association at the Bamboo Grove Temple in Jiangxi, there was an old lady with crane hair and a youthful face. Many guests have to take pictures with her, even this year's 81-year-old Pan Guanqing old man in front of her, but also to perform the ritual of discipleship, taking pictures of the old lady sitting in the middle, Pan Guanqing service stood on one side. This old lady is Huang Yukuang's widow, this year's 90-year-old Li Simei. Li Si Mei is also a martial arts seniors, although now Songling Heshou no longer dance sword and gun, but the Jiangxi Bamboo Temple Mantis School heirloom in the older, know the old man's power.

Pan Guanqing old man's son, Pan Wenhui, is the head of the Ping Shan Zhongxing community, but also the inheritance of traditional Hakka culture such as the dance of the unicorn in Ping Shan. He recalled that when he was in his teens, he and a few of his buddies had watched old man Li Simei practicing martial arts. In the orchard behind the house, Li Simei put a pair of swords to dance impermeable, dancing to *** let the onlookers of the children to splash water on her, the sword stops when the body is missing a drop of water. Pan Wenhui said: "This is more than 40 years ago, some of the details I do not remember very clearly, but splashing this thing I remember very clearly." Pan Wenhui also remembers that day, the old lady also performed another stunt - iron whip to beat copper money. She was holding an iron whip of about 1 meter long connected by 5 sections of iron rods, so that Pan Wenhui several small children to throw coins to her, the old lady a whip to fly one, very accurate. Pan Wenhui also only this time to see the old man practicing martial arts.

According to reports, ping shan declared municipal intangible cultural heritage of boxing, is the jiangxi zhulin temple true mantis boxing, boxing set of eight: the first single pile, the second double pile, the third three shear shake bridge, the fourth three shear shake hand, the fifth four boxing, the sixth live step boxing, the seventh eight boxing, the eighth plum blossom boxing. Boxing is characterized by swallowing, spitting, sinking, floating, shocking, bouncing and rubbing for luck and exertion, and by short-range power generation, which strengthens the body and is highly technical and combative. In terms of equipment, sticks, knives, swords, guns, etc. are all characterized.

Protecting Hakka culture

In an interview, a reporter asked Master Huang Yaohua's son, "Have you practiced Mantis Fist?" He replied indifferently, "You have practiced Mantis Fist. He replied indifferently, "I'm not interested at all!"

Pan Guanqing is a direct disciple of Huang Yuguang, Huang Yaohua's eldest brother. He said that the practice of martial arts is a very hard thing, but now the young people can be so hard too few, the entire Ping Shan adhere to the practice of praying mantis boxing, but only twenty or thirty people, because today's social environment is not the same, the young people's life is colorful, entertainment and more. Pan Guanqing is now the general counselor of the Ping Shan branch of the Jiangxi Bamboo Temple Mantis National Art Association, and although he is 81 years old, he still insists on guiding his disciples to practice martial arts.

Pingshan Street Office in the City Bureau of Culture to declare the municipal intangible cultural heritage list of information, in particular, emphasized: "Hakka folk traditional culture dance unicorn and boxing, although some enthusiasts in the vigorous support, do a lot of excavation, rescue work, but there are still a lot of problems: First, the survival of the traditional culture, the development of the social basis of the changes that have occurred. Some traditional folklore is becoming increasingly diluted; secondly, some masters who are quite accomplished in Qilin dance have passed away one after another due to old age, and some stunts are difficult to be passed on; thirdly, with the development of the society, in particular, the culture of Qilin dance has shown indifference." Hakka Qilin Dance and Boxing have a history of more than 200 years since they were formed in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and they occupy an important position in the whole Hakka culture, epitomizing the traditional Hakka culture. The protection of traditional Hakka culture has come to the point.

According to reports, Pengshan Street Office since 1996 has begun to take measures to dance Qilin and boxing and other traditional Hakka culture to excavate and protect. By the *** funded year-round "Dancing Qilin" competition activities, and this activity will be included in the streets of the Office will be organized. In addition, the street office also organized a group of people for professional skills training, the traditional dance of the unicorn filmed into the VCD, the collection of perfect data.

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