How to evaluate the Wushu spirit represented by a generation of masters

In the film "A Generation of Masters" directed by Wong Kar-wai, Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays Ye Wen, the master of Wing Chun Boxing. Tony Leung Chiu Wai said in an interview a few days ago that when I was a child, I only thought that Kung Fu was a fight, and only the police and bad guys would practice it; Now he knows the true meaning of kung fu through self-study.

In order to better interpret the role, Wong Kar-wai invited Edwin Leong, the last disciple of IP Man. He not only taught Tony Leung Chiu Wai the boxing theory and display techniques of Wing Chun Boxing, but also told Tony Leung Chiu Wai the story of IP Man's founding as a disciple when he was alive, and his unique understanding of the philosophical connotation of Wing Chun Boxing.

Tony Leung Chiu Wai said that it is very important to practice Kung Fu in person, so that you can really get into the role and experience a master's mental journey and his views on Kung Fu. Just reading words is not enough. "I didn't create many people's views on kung fu in the movies, they said it themselves, but this process is for me to experience, try and understand why they think so."

Through several years' practice, Tony Leung Chiu Wai himself has a brand-new understanding of Kung Fu: when he was a child, he thought that there were only two kinds of people learning Kung Fu, one was a policeman and the other was a bad guy. "But when we really understand Kung Fu, it is not as simple as fighting, but a spiritual practice. We can treat others with this attitude and spirit. "

Ye Wen, played by Tony Leung Chiu Wai, was addicted to martial arts as a teenager and was aloof and uninhibited. Indulging in the "questioner" hand after hand, he won one move after another in the Jianghu. It was not until the old man in Northeast China set foot on the Golden House to retire from the Jianghu that he found himself outside the Golden House, where he was obsessed with money and where the Wulin Jianghu was deeper and wider. He was determined to climb martial arts and more Gao Shanfeng.

"What is the spirit of kung fu? How can you call it a grandmaster? When I was young, I thought it was just a fight. I got a lot this time: Kung Fu is a kind of practice and a way of life, and I shouldn't do anything with the hope of winning. You know life is the most powerful. You can finally stand here and still have a good smile. " Tony Leung Chiu Wai said.

Xu Haofeng ("Master" screenwriter and martial arts consultant): My relationship with Wulin has been reported in many newspapers, so I won't say much here. First add a friend of mine to the world of Go.

Friends, at that time, a Go player, Jiang Zhujiu, told me a story from the 1980s. Go veteran participated in the activity, and one character himself liked Go, which was more advanced, and wanted to play chess with the veteran. about

This character is an elegant person. After the chess game was decided, the veteran took out his reading glasses for inspection. A person takes the next step. After the next three steps, he said, "China is too strong, I give up." No one present at that time reacted and thought it was comity. The result was second.

Cuisine is also a three-step process. "It's amazing, but I can't beat you. Please give us your advice. " Give it up. What does this mean? Explain that you are an amateur, I am a professional, and Go is my major. There is no need to play with you.

Play with friends, don't respect yourself, and don't know your position. You might as well stay. This is the top floor.

Teacher Tian Zhuangzhuang told me a folk story. Teenagers go shopping to buy radishes, some of which are slightly wilting. "You sold these to me and I bought them all." I didn't expect the radish seller to be unwilling. "If I sell these radishes to you, people will look down on me when you go back with such radishes."

In the past, the upper and lower classes in China had universal professional dignity, but now this professional dignity is slowly losing. In the case of hidden rules and various irregularities, it seems that only irregularities can make you cheap and talented, which is very important.

Big problem. I was in my thirties and interviewed some Wulin figures. The attraction of Wulin people to me is that they have their own rules of life, their own ways of communication and special respect for their ancestors. At that time, I

When I was studying Xingyiquan, they told me that I admired Yue Fei very much, and the boxing was handed down from Yue Fei. This is different from the inner shock of a junior high school child. If you have sex with people thousands of years ago, you will feel that there is a long thread behind you.

Young people's mental stimulation is very great. But when we were young, we were stimulated by this spirit, and the number of instructions was very small. Everyone blindly pursues self-individuality, but life with self-individuality will have no direction. After the age of 35, there are

A particularly big feeling: I feel that I have to find the support of life. When you are young, hormones are your support and you are still exploring the world. But after this period, sadly, people have no support and don't know their own stories.

What is pulse removal? So I began to get in touch with China culture through Wulin, which was a way out for my soul.

"It is the greatest happiness for people who write novels and make movies to change the common sense of the world through their own narrative works."

There are many martial arts cultures. Once a thing is copied in large quantities, an idea can easily become common sense. The key to literary creation is to change common sense. If you change the common sense of the world through your own narrative works, you are writing small.

People who can talk and make movies are the greatest happiness. The happiness of our generation of creators is easier to come by. As long as you make a little effort, you can change your common sense in two ways: one is to put forward your own unique opinions, all by yourself,

This is difficult; The second is to discover some truths. I found that many truths about China are deeply buried in your life. You just need to ask someone ten years older than you. But the trend of the times often forces you to ignore these things.

I found the truth from my own home. I didn't expect grandpa's younger brother to be a figure in the Wulin and have experienced the real Wulin.

When I was a child, I lived in an old man's house. It was a combination of a father from the countryside and a mother from an official family in a new era city. My father is a man of high quality, but after all, he was educated by the rural revolution.

Quality is noble, but the lack of knowledge causes obstacles in life. At that time, I went back to my parents' home from my grandfather's house and gave me a big clock that was one person high. This clock is well-made and exquisitely crafted. But shiny folding chairs were very popular in the 1980s.

It has become fashionable. In order to put the folding chair, the clock was thrown away as garbage. This is a dilemma. Your morality may be noble, but your lack of knowledge will make you confused about new things. My father regrets such a person.

A nobleman was puzzled by two folding chairs. Therefore, from my father's generation to mine, value confusion is a crucial issue. There is pain in life, and the biggest pain is to find that your values are chaotic, so you start looking for it.

From ancestors to history and cultural relics.

There are two kinds of porcelain objects: one is physical objects, such as pens, ink, paper, inkstones, bows and arrows, etc. People in China think that the artifacts themselves have high spiritual capacity, while the ancient people in China regard them as poems. A scholar writes a brush, brushes his character and holds his hair.

The method of using a pen, the cooperation of counting fingers and the technique of whole body think that skills are interlinked with the principle of being a man, so ancient China literati should learn from utensils. So is Confucianism. Where does the Confucian doctrine of the mean come from? The golden mean is archery.

Principle metaphor, bow first, "bow" is heaven and earth, and people are right. The arrow is front and back, but this front and back must be supported by an upper and lower system, and this upper and lower system often comes from the opposite things. An opposite thing is often the root cause. this is

The truth about bows and arrows. China people like to play with utensils, not because of how shiny they are, but because of the interest of ordinary citizens. They play with them, looking for enlightenment and humanity. This is a characteristic of China people.

In addition to physical objects, there are non-physical objects. For example, the posture in Kunqu Opera, Peking Opera developed from a popular art to an elegant direction in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. The main evidence is to move closer to Kunqu Opera, which was performed by scholars.

Yes, Mei Lanfang came out of Kunqu Opera. For example, many characters and lyrics such as "Drunkenness of the Imperial Lady" come from Kunqu Opera. So Kunqu opera is very classic. In addition to music scores, there are postures in Kunqu Opera, and the dynamics of the body is the essence of Kunqu Opera. body

Dharma is a vague object, and the ancients in China regarded it as a legacy craft. From this, you can understand why the troupe should teach its disciples by hand, and master the craft before talking about anything else. Wushu is also a craft and a life.

I don't want to go abroad if I go abroad more often. Why? Some Europeans have his looks. When we go abroad, we wear suits and ties at night and attend film festivals. My tie was tied for me by the driver of the film festival. They got him.

Our "looks", and we in China have lost our "looks". What is civilization? The first is clothes. We lost our clothes. Cultural people and soldiers also lost their status. China Martial Man and Cultural Man

For thousands of years, I have been in a passive state of mind of self-denial.

Let's talk about soldiers first. After the Anshi Rebellion, they felt that there was a saying of "sealing the border", so they consciously suppressed military commanders with civilian officials from the founding of the Song Dynasty. This repression is not only institutional, but also personality. The military commander gave up

Since the Song Dynasty, soldiers have been suppressed in character and spirit, so they have no self-esteem and quickly turn military commanders into powerful soldiers. If a person does not give him a high spiritual status, he will soon gain strength.

Change. China experienced it in the 1980s. Of course, several times in the whole historical process, for the sake of the country, such as Qi Jiguang, a generation of famous soldiers appeared. If you don't give it to them, they will be abandoned soon.

Scholars in Shunzhi period were still good. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, several great scholars, such as Huang Zongxi and Qian, made anti-Qing remarks, but if they were allowed to govern the country, it would have an impact on society. After Kangxi, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties deliberately suppressed the essence of literati.

Jesus Christ. The civil service system also has a set of methods-Hutong Bagua Method. In the past, China literati were not harassed by rumors in secular alleys. There used to be a saying that "rumors stop with wise men", and others would look down on spreading all kinds of gossip. This was before.

China's tradition, self-protection system and folk honor system are all complete. Later, the citizen class played gossip in the alley. In order to find spiritual balance, boring people fabricate all kinds of gossip to vilify and dwarf literati. this

This trend has continued until now. Now I am being interviewed and someone asks, "xu teacher, can you explain a joke?" I said, "since it's a joke, there's no need to explain." Because I lost my insight.

The three generations of the Qing Dynasty (Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong) dealt a great blow to the literati's spirit, but one thing was contrary to many historical books in terms of national strength, that is, during Daoguang and Xianfeng years, we thought it was declining, and the first three generations did not have Sheng Shichang.

Sheng, especially during the Xianfeng period, the British and French allied forces came in. But in the cultural system, it is the opposite. Emperor Daoguang and Emperor Xianfeng were weak and had no way to control the intellectual class. At this time, China literati regained their vitality. middle

There is a great national painter named Huang, who wrote in Quotations of Yellow Painting: There were many great painters in Daoxian period. The level of these great painters has surpassed the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". Why are there no shadows in later generations?

A ring? Because there were great painters and no first-class painting critics at that time, the whole class denied its own cultural traditions because of internal and external troubles. Therefore, these painters whose actual level exceeds that of Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics are unknown in later generations. In his quotations, Huang

Write down the names of these painters in detail.

My definition of the model of the Republic of China is that during the reign of Daoguang Xianfeng, China recovered its vitality and had the ability to tolerate western culture, so people in that era had dignity. It's a pity that in the days to come, we seem to have lost this vitality and are completely one-sided.

During the Republic of China, Wulin was called Lin, and "Lin" used to be used by intellectuals, such as Shilin, (a first-class calligrapher's senior salon). The reason why we give such a high vocabulary to kung fu practitioners is because after the late Qing Dynasty, we have been

The repressed military commander system and literati system began to feel the strong demand for the integration of civil and military affairs. Since the Song Dynasty, the main strategy supported by the Qing government and the Ming government is to separate civil and military forces and suppress them separately. During the Republic of China, it became a kind of social knowledge and culture.

Wu must merge. Sun Yat-sen is a "strong country, strong species" and has a strong military style in big factories. There are many national quintessences in China, but the word "martial arts" is for martial arts. Chinese opera and Chinese medicine cannot be called "national arts". Only Wushu can become a national martial art and become first-class.

Some politicians spent money on martial arts, such as Feng Yuxiang, Feng Zhangguo, Sun Yat-sen, Beiyang government and Nanjing government.

"It is a thousand-year tradition to separate literati from martial arts. In the Republic of China, China people began to find their own national self-confidence. "

If IP Man and Hong Kong Martial Arts later arrived in Hong Kong, what impact would it have on the martial arts? They started the rise of private martial arts schools. During the Republic of China, the martial arts school was a national unit, and the academic system was the high school system like the middle school attached to the Academy of Fine Arts. Wu Ge at that time.

People are in high positions because a nation needs to establish a strong image when it is in a weak position, so that the nation can go on. For example, in Japan after World War II, American soldiers raped women casually in the streets. In the 1980 s, I

The Japanese film Song of Straw Hat watched by children completely broke the Japanese spirit. At this time, we need Bushido novels and samurai movies, because the disadvantaged groups want to establish a strong national image. So in the film culture,

An American cultural scholar said that "because of the influence of samurai movies, it seems that the whole world hates Japanese, but the whole world likes Japanese samurai", which is very strange in the world. This is quite absolute, but there is such a comment.

It has been a tradition for thousands of years that we make scholars and martial arts people feel inferior and separate them. In the Republic of China, China people began to look for their own national self-confidence, which is optimistic. The pessimistic side is very bad, when western languages

Gradually occupy a strong position unreasonably. The so-called "unreasonable domination" means that if you want to dominate, you must introduce western culture systematically, without cultural hegemony, but give western culture a hegemonic position in China.

It was caused by westerners, not by many foreign students at that time. International students who have often studied abroad for several years may have mastered a new subject and a new popular saying. They are not very proficient in this set of things, but it is right to return to China.

Old gentlemen who read widely have an irresistible destructive power, which actually occupies great power in front of these old gentlemen. At that time, the whole world liked young people and the west. So people with western backgrounds change with their own cleverness.

Not only academic, but also political theory, so I won't give an example here.

I have been thinking: where does the power of this culture come from? I think it lies in public opinion. Public opinion in the late Qing Dynasty was out of control, so from Liang Qichao's generation, people with new ideas were just like the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Assassination,

Become the main political means. At that time, lies were used to achieve their goals. In this way, the traditional China people lost their moral standards. What were people like in China before? The west recognizes that the political and theoretical methods are the same as those at home.

The way of civilians is completely different. Politicians can be cunning, cunning and tricky. The poor are another kind of people. In other words, political morality and people's livelihood morality are two kinds. But China has always been unified at this point, and I

The morality of life is political morality-self-cultivation, family harmony and moral consistency. If a person does something with a lie, the education he received from childhood has a strong political and spiritual binding on him. This is also

A plot written in The Grandmaster: Mr. Gong Er takes revenge on Ma San, but Ma San is a traitor, so he can use soldiers and point a gun at him directly. How can a common people compete with people with military background? Compared with morality and reason

Quantity. So there was a scene in which Gong Er went to Ma San's house. Ma San was afraid to see him and hid in the house. Gong Er said, "Here, I won't break into your house." This sentence means that when we do things, we must abandon our own army.

Background. In this way, ordinary people have a platform to compete with the military and politicians.

Xu Haofeng: Same theme. Now, just calm down and ask your family, and we can catch the phenomenon that is usually overlooked if we look carefully. For example, the separation of civil and military affairs is achieved through the political situation.

Let the military and civilians separate. However, the powerful subconscious of the people still exists, for example, on the stage of Chinese opera, the actors come in and out: out of phase. "Going out into the phase" is about the combination of military and civilian taxis. Going out to fight is a general, and coming back is governance.

The stage of the country. A strong people's system still exists.

In the 1980s, I studied art with some old folk artists. The old artist told me that civil and military arts were originally integrated into one, and many times grammar and martial arts were one law. For example, literati practice calligraphy, whether it is writing big characters or seal script.

Books and cursive scripts must first face the problem of opening their eyes, and grasp its laws in special applications, which is difficult to practice by themselves, so we must find shortcuts. So at that time, the method of writing calligraphy was rotating drum, which is the method of writing calligraphy. It is also a push in martial arts.

The method of holding hands and practicing footwork is exactly the same as martial arts. Moreover, martial arts needs to be practiced, and the spirit is too weak. How to practice? Knowing how qi permeates the sound, you can know your own qi for the first time. So in martial arts,

There is a "sound test".

For those who study traditional Chinese opera, the older generation of traditional Chinese opera actors use this method. Students of Chinese Opera Performance Department often get up in the morning to practice morning exercises, and often pronounce "night". This is the same as Wushu. Why are they different in various pronunciations?

The word "night" in the choice of words? Because through practice, I found that I can only use the word "night". When I breathe out, I will go back by myself, and I can't use other sounds to realize the roundabout information. "Ah" and "digging" cannot be realized. So don't look at martial arts.

Achievement is limited. As I said before, China people are a nation that pursues "enlightenment" in their life. The biggest difference between Wushu and boxing and judo is that only China martial artists dare to say "walk, live, sit,

You can practice lying down "We dare not practice gymnastics and boxing. We have our own way, and we play with another thing.

In the past, ordinary people often said that "no matter how poor you are, you can't eat the rice that cats eat and bake the fire of electric lights." So it's for the human spirit. There are some in the west, but China is stronger. Therefore, I quite agree with Hao Feng's statement about China samurai club. Samurai spirit is beyond matter, but this thing is caused by matter. Hao Feng's talk about "enlightenment" is remarkable: seeing yourself, seeing the world and seeing all beings.