Zheng Huaixian's Character Experience

In 1897, on the 15th day of the 10th lunar month, Zheng Huaixian was born in Beixin Village, Xin'an Town, Anxin County, into a poor peasant family. When he was young, he went to a private school for two years in accordance with his parents' wishes. Zheng Huaixian talent, the books taught by the schoolteacher, he can not forget, quite favorite schoolteacher. But then he couldn't afford to pay the tuition fee and couldn't continue his studies.

In 1907, on the fifteenth day of the first month, Xin'an City, "out of the meeting", which gave the childhood of Zheng Huaixian with a great shock, from then on, changed the trajectory of his life. At that time, because of the Baiyangdian on a lot of reeds, harvested stacks into stacks of reeds are most afraid of fire, once the fire, the family's stacks of reeds are connected, it can be "fire even camp". For this reason, the folk custom here is to go to the Fire God Temple on the 15th day of the first month to sacrifice the Fire God. To the afternoon of this day, Xin'an city of Shaolin, five tigers, dragon lanterns, running boats, stilt walkers and other ways of flower clubs are going to go out, but the first is the fork will be. Dance fork action is very fancy, including the "cross Phi Hong", that is, the fork from the chest rolled over to the back; through the crotch, that is, the fork juggler's left leg up, the fork from the crotch through the past, and from the right leg through the bottom of the fork; lift the fork, that is, the fork thrown up in the air, juggling the fork people somersaulted just as the fork fell, catch and then juggle ... ... ...Eleven-year-old Zheng Huaixian looked fascinated, could not help but follow the fork will turn the afternoon, the next day went to the fork will be enrolled to learn to play ringing fork.

At the age of 13, he learned the flying fork from Li Erqing, who was known as the "King of Flying Forks" in Xin'an, and also learned the skills of bone-setting and injury treatment, and studied orthopedics and traumatology for 8 years. 18 years old, Zheng Huaixian played the fork with Li Erqing while selling fish, and also sold medicines for bruises and injuries. At this time, he played the fork of the skill has reached the point of pure fire, in Lotus, Yi County area people to see him play the flying fork, flocked forward to buy his fish.

Because of Zheng Huaixian hands live, people and clever, in 1918 was passing through the martial arts master Wei Changyi see, after the master Li Erqing's consent, was Wei Changyi accepted as a disciple, Wei Changyi is good at poking the foot flip, in the north is very famous, and often traveled around to cut the martial arts. Zheng Huaixian studied with Wei Changyi for 3 years. Later, when Wei Changyi was old, he saw that Zheng Huaixian's foot-poking and flipping kung fu was already outstanding, so he introduced Zheng Huaixian to his good friend Wei Jinshan in Beijing, and let Zheng Huaixian learn Eagle Claw Flip from Wei Jinshan. Because Zheng Huaixian is not only smart, but also very filial to the master, so 3 years later, he Wei Jinshan's kung fu also learned in hand. At the same time also learned Wei Jinshan bone skills. Wei Jinshan felt that Zheng Huaixian was too talented, so he recommended Zheng Huaixian to Sun Lutang, the most prestigious martial artist in China at that time, so that Zheng Huaixian could further study with Sun Lutang. Zheng Huaixian then studied with Sun Lutang and continued to learn martial arts and medicine. Under the careful teaching of Sun Lutang, Zheng Huaixian laid a solid foundation in Taiji, Xingyi and Bagua, and further improved his original skills of grappling, flying fork and poking feet, especially the preparation of some rare remedies for bone injuries. In the master's careful teaching, not only in the Taiji, Xingyi, Bagua, capture, flying fork and other aspects of the creation of a strong martial arts, but also its medical theory of medicine has been systematically perfected.

In 1926, Zheng Huaixian was already 30 years old, and Confucius said that he was 30 years old. So Sun Lutang told Zheng Huaixian: "You should not follow me any more, you should go out on your own to make your own way alone." Zheng Huaixian felt that he had not yet learned his teacher Sun Lutang's martial arts and hesitated to leave. Sun Lutang said to Zheng Huaixian, "Go to Shanghai, Cun Zhou is there, you can learn kung fu from him if you want to."

In 1928, Zheng traveled south to Shanghai, and upon Sun Lutang's recommendation, he taught Chinese martial arts at the Shanghai Jiaotong University. He served as a martial arts instructor at the Shanghai Chinese Athletic Association, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Shanghai Xijiang Physical Education Teacher Training School. At the same time, he learned Sun's Baguazhang from his senior brother, Sun Cunzhou. After a few years, Zheng Huaixian's martial arts skills were greatly improved, especially in the field of combat techniques and began to show their prominence. He was soon recognized by Shanghai tycoon Du Yuesheng and became his personal bodyguard.

In 1936, Zheng Huaixian became one of the members of the national martial arts team to perform at the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin with the third place in the overall score. Zhang Wenguang, the first overall score of the trials and the second Wen Jingming admire Zheng Huaixian's unarmed kung fu, that all the members of the team to go Zheng Huaixian is the first in terms of sparring, on the wrestling Zhang Wenguang is the first in terms of big gun Wen Jingming is the first in terms of strength, Kou Yunxing is the first. Before the trip, Chiang Kai-shek, Soong May-ling and his wife specially in Nanjing Executive Yuan grand reception, and together with a group photo. This performance was the first time that Chinese martial arts were collectively shown in front of the World Sports Congress, and the performance was very successful, and the flying fork it performed was one of the most sensational programs at that time. For the country to win the honor, so that the scene to watch the Nazi leader Hitler marveled.

After returning from the Olympics, Zheng Huaixian became so famous that he was appointed as a national martial arts instructor at the then Whampoa Military Academy, where he trained the 17th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd cadets. In the national martial arts museum, Zheng Huaixian often exchanges with his senior brother Zhu Guofu, learning from each other, Zheng Huaixian to Zhu Guofu to learn Western boxing and Japanese cleaver sword, Zhu Guofu to Zheng Huaixian to learn Bagua boxing and grappling.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zheng Huaixian was employed as an instructor at the Central Military Academy to teach combat techniques. During the period, Zheng Huaixian and Zhu Guofu, Zhu Guozhen, Zhang Yingzhen, Zhang Yingjian, Zhou Jiannan, Li Yaxuan and other gold orchids. Mutual learning, mutual exchange, mutual sharpening. Often participate in exchanges together with Xu Zhedong, Hong Maozhong. Among them, whether in sparring techniques or in the push hands, Zheng Huaixian's winning rate is the highest, get the unanimous praise. Therefore, Zhu Guozhen, Zhang Yingjian, Zhou Jiannan, Hong Maozhong and others learned Sun's Taijiquan and Sun's Baguazhang systematically from Zheng Huaixian. Later, Sun's Taijiquan in Taiwan was mainly from the lineage passed down by Zheng Huaixian.

In 1944, Zheng Huaixian taught at Chengdu Physical Education College (after liberation, in the early 1950s, Chengdu Physical Education College was changed to Southwest Physical Education College, and later changed to Chengdu Physical Education College), and taught Sun's Baguazhang with the techniques of Sun's Baguazhang. He was renowned in southwest China for his Sun's Baguazhang technique and kung fu. Praised as the first person of Baguazhang in five provinces in southwest China. Zheng Huaixian gossip boxing live step push hands, gossip boxing scattered hands, fast wrestling, capture for the Southwest martial arts stunts, Zheng Huaixian life's most treasured three major stunts is Sun's gossip boxing, flying fork, capture.

Cheng Huaixian in the southwest for more than 40 years, the three great arts known throughout the country. Especially gossip boxing control skills, is Mr. Sun Lutang original Taiji, gossip fusion of skills, Zheng Huaixian get the true tradition, using the flash earn Tengnuo arbitrary, go dip control of people at ease. Zheng Huaixian also good at unloading bones, hit points, capture, wrestling and poking feet flip son, and Bagua boxing, its combat technology is very comprehensive, technical strength superb.

In 1953, as the Southwest Team Wushu chief coach to lead the team to participate in the National National Forms Games.

In 1956, due to the national sports authorities to carry out anti-real kung fu campaign, therefore, the study of technical combat arts and their teaching has no corresponding environment. So Zheng Huaixian shifted the focus of his research to sports health care. Under the care and instruction of Marshal He Long, the director of the National Sports Commission at that time, and with the approval of the relevant departments, Zheng Huaixian founded the Hospital Affiliated to Chengdu Institute of Physical Culture and Sports in 1958, and served as the director of the hospital, successively for 23 years. 1960, Zheng Huaixian founded the Department of Sports Health Care (renamed as the Department of Sports Medicine in 1978) and the Research Laboratory of Sports Medicine, served as the director, and taught the orthopedic bones, massage and injury medicines which had united his lifelong efforts. He personally taught his life's work of bone-setting, massage and medication for injuries, and devoted himself to the research, teaching and clinical work of diagnosis and treatment of injuries, traditional Chinese medicine and massage. Over the past decades, the Department of Sports Medicine and affiliated sports hospitals have trained a large number of Chinese orthopedics and sports medicine talents for the sports system and health system, which have spread to the four corners of the motherland. Some of them have also traveled far and wide to promote Chinese medical skills in foreign countries for the benefit of all mankind. Under his leadership, Chengdu Institute of Physical Education has gradually established and formed a national sports medicine base integrating medical treatment, teaching and scientific research and featuring traditional orthopedics and traumatology.

Cheng Huaixian on Chinese orthopedics and traumatology attainments are very deep, known as the "bone injury saint", efficacy as God. Such as the treatment of acute lumbar injury patients, a few moments of effort, you can make the back in the patient to recover as before, walk out on their own.

Cheng Huaixian created Zheng's injuries academic is a combination of all the long, combined with many years of clinical experience and become. Summarized Zheng's orthopedic 12 methods, touching and pinching and pressing and pulling the top, plus end send moving shaking and spinning hanging; Zheng's injury massage 13 methods, stroking, kneading, pinching, kneading, rubbing, friction, pushing, shaking, shaking, lifting the bullet, vibration, knocking and pressing; original meridian massage 8 techniques, Mo push and hold, divided into kneading and pinching: summed up Zheng's experience of injuries 55 acupoints.

Zheng Huaixian treatment of injuries, attach importance to function, emphasizing the treatment of tendons. Pointed out that the bone as the main trunk, section for the hub, tendon for the move, if the fracture dislocation does not treat the tendon, ten treatment eighty-nine difficult to bend; emphasis on comprehensive treatment, emphasizing external treatment; emphasis on the combination of doctor and patient, emphasizing the treatment of the "heart and soul"; advocate the doctor to practice strength, technique, memorize the anatomy, prescription drugs and other basic skills. He created "No.1 New Injury Medicine", "Shuhu Wine", "Iron Bullet Pill", "Sanqi San", "anti-osteoplasia pill", "the first living cream", "tiger bone papaya wine" and other Zheng's prescription, with its unique efficacy, for millions of patients to relieve the pain.

Zheng Huaixian noble character, despise money and fame, integrity and kindness. Strong martial arts, good to fight injustice, in addition to violence and peace of mind, there is the wind of the Yanzhao hero; excellent medical skills to help the poor, compassionate patient, worthy of a generation of good doctors. He does not distinguish between the rich and the poor, officials and civilians, are treated equally. Whether on or off duty, as long as the patient to find him, he must kindly ask, carefully diagnosed, never perfunctory. To distant places to seek medical treatment, he also replied to the letter, and sent to the external application of traditional Chinese medicine and internal medication, benefiting many patients. Zheng Huaixian main works are "orthopedics", "injury diagnosis and treatment", "injury massage", "sports traumatology", "practical injury Chinese medicine and prescription", etc.; to participate in the preparation of the "Encyclopedia of Chinese medicine - sports medicine", "Encyclopedia of Chinese medicine - Chinese medicine and injury science" part of the entry and served as an editorial board member, **** more than 1.3 million words, was awarded the 1978 Sichuan Provincial Award for Major Scientific and Technological Achievements. Among them, "Orthopedics" has high academic value and has been translated into foreign languages and spread overseas.

Zheng Huaixian not only in expanding the medical function of traditional martial arts has made an extremely important contribution, and their own martial arts experience, the courage to practice, insightful and outstanding skills, formed their own unique style of martial arts, characterized by: calm momentum, strength and penetration, the body of the spirit of the law, the playing method is accurate, will be a move to control the enemy and the wandering fight walk control combined into one. It combines one move to control the enemy with a wandering fight. The skills of dipping, dodging, walking, penetrating, dropping and holding are brought to a very high level. In the martial arts training also summarized a set of their own unique training system. He Sun's Xingyi, Bagua, Taiji three fists as the skeleton, the integration of the poke foot, turn the son, the Eight Extremes, chopping sword, big gun and other skills, molded into a training system. Formation of the structure of strength from nothing, rigidity and flexibility, both short and long, static and dynamic as one. Zheng Huaixian's noble martial virtues, his pioneering and development of the medical functions of martial arts, and his fusion and exploration of martial arts training systems established him as one of the most outstanding Chinese martial artists of the twentieth century.

After liberation, Zheng Huaixian was elected chairman of the Third National Wushu Association and president of the Chengdu Sports Medicine College. The position is prominent, for the modern martial arts sector of the leader. 1981, at the age of 84 years old died in Chengdu due to coronary heart disease. December 2003 to comply with the requirements of the central scientific research institute reform, Chengdu Sports Hospital transferred to Sichuan Province, renamed Sichuan Orthopaedic Hospital, the other name of the Chengdu Sports Hospital, Chengdu Institute of Sports Trauma.