The artistic conception of Baguazhang with swaying steps and pushing palms?

Why is the swinging step and pushing palm in traditional Baguazhang called "Green Dragon Returning to its Head" or "Pushing the Window to Look at the Moon"? As the saying goes: "Poetry expresses ambition, and words express emotion." , different words produce different artistic conceptions, and different artistic conceptions express different kung fu and different kung fu effects. The following is what I compiled specifically for you:.

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Baguazhang was created in the late Qing Dynasty around 1866. It is a type of boxing that integrates health preservation, fitness and self-defense. At that time, Dong Haichuan, the founder of Baguazhang, was famous in the martial arts world for his fierce palm skills, flexible and strange footwork, and body movements like a swimming dragon. As an internal martial art, Baguazhang paid special attention to the training of mind, focusing on mind, energy, and strength. The ancients always compared the qi in the body to a dragon lying in the Dantian. Under the guidance of thoughts, the dragon has the power to climb the river and ascend to the sky, swim in the air to explore the claws, hide the essence in the collarbone, and tremble all over. It is so powerful that it disappears and appears suddenly, so it is described as "the dragon sees its head but not its tail".

When practicing Baguazhang, you can imagine yourself as a ferocious and unpredictable dragon. It can travel through wind and rain, carry thunder and lightning, and can reach the moon in the nine heavens above, and the five oceans below. Catching turtles, turning around and suddenly pounces on the prey to strangle and devour it. The actions such as pouncing, biting, tearing and scratching in an instant fully embody the dragon's kingly style and domineering spirit. This kind of ferocious momentum can make the enemy's liver and gallbladder split, and even lose the fighting spirit and lead to defeat. Probably because of this, Grandmaster Dong Haichuan and Grandmaster Cheng Tinghua named it "Qinglong Huitou".

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It is still the same movement. Later, Jiang Rongqiao ***1891~1974***, a famous modern martial artist, studied under Zhang Zhankui, and was proficient in Wudang, Bagua, Xingyi, and Tai Chi. Masters of internal martial arts called it "pushing the moon behind closed doors", and later Baguazhang experts called it "pushing the window to look at the moon" ***See "Guidelines for Baguazhang"***. The latter two names are derived from the words and phrases in "Su Xiaomei's Three Difficulties with the Bridegroom" in the Ming Dynasty story-telling novel "Three Words and Two Pats". The original sentence is: "The moon is in front of the closed door and open the window." The artistic conception is about a full moon. On a breezy night, a girl went on a date with her sweetheart. She was afraid that her lover would see her shy face, so she gently closed the door and shut herself in the room, but she couldn't help but want to take a few more glances at her long-awaited, handsome sweetheart. , so he opened the window sash and peeked secretly under the moonlight. This poem describes the shy and curious mood of the girl in a very reasonable way, and is full of tenderness and sweetness at this time. By reading traditional literature, if we can grasp the girl's mood at this time, she will inevitably have a scream. By the time of the rehearsal, her mood should be happy and her momentum calm. Modern Baguazhang experts have adapted to the contemporary people's idea of ??maintaining health and replenishing Qi and pursuing good health. By changing the name, the ferocity and violence of Baguazhang in the past will naturally be lost, and the feeling of relaxation and joy will be more.

From the above, it can be seen that the evolution from "the green dragon returns its head" to "pushing the window and looking at the moon" actually reflects certain psychological changes of people in different eras. Although the action is still the same action, it is undeniable , under different psychological guidance, people's orientation towards the practical value of martial arts movements has indeed changed to varying degrees to varying degrees.