Characteristics of Dongxiang Wushu in Zongyang

Although Dongxiang Martial Arts has no other portal in the national Wulin, it has indeed gained a reputation. Where is its origin, what are its local characteristics, and why can it become a charming family?

Only from the genealogy of Zhou and Zhou in Zongyang can we find the clues of this martial arts system. According to the genealogy of the Zhou family in Yongxing Village, Zhoutan Town, its ancestor "Wen Yi was afraid of being an official dragon and lost his textual research." Solving problems in provincial exams is famous for its dragon and tiger charts. Learn the origin of knowledge, master the history of children, and learn more about the study of Chinese characters. Kung fu changed from thirty-six to seventy-two. In the Song Dynasty, he belonged to Yangdu Lake, Jingqing Township, Tongcheng County, and set up a church to teach students. People from far and near competed to be teachers. "'Jingxiang' is the title of Tongcheng Dongxiang in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and' Yangdu Lake' is the water system of Yaochen Lake and Fengsha Lake in Zhoutan Town and Chenyaohu Town today. It can be seen that Zhou moved to Zhoutan Town, Zongyang County as early as the Song Dynasty and became one of the schools where Dongxiang Wushu originated. According to Zhang's genealogy, his ancestors can be traced back to the generals in Qin Dynasty. The ancestor of the Tang Dynasty was Wang, a famous soldier, who had 15 sons. One of his descendants moved to Jingxian County, Anhui Province, and there were some military commanders in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Jiatian Wu and Tianlu brothers in Jingxian moved to Dashan (formerly known as Fa Hongshan) in Zhoutan Township to settle down. The descendants bred in the mountains are all martial arts masters, such as Zhang Mubin, who was the second martial artist of Jiazike in Jiaqing, Qing Dynasty. Zhang's ancestral martial arts originally belonged to Fujian Shaolin School. (Because my ancestors also lived in Pucheng, Fujian)

About the early Ming Dynasty, the three ancestors of the Zhou family married into the Zhang family, and Zhou's martial arts were mixed with the routines of Shaolin in Henan and Wudang in Hubei, so the "Dongxiang Wushu" sprouted at the end of the Ming Dynasty was already a mixed genre of Nanquan and Beitui. It not only has the characteristics of steady and powerful pace of Nanquan's "fist lying on the cow", but also has the style of somersault of Beipai boxing, and is good at leg skills. Mainly in the middle and low posture, the low plate is the most. Most gait types are horse lunge and foot vibration. Its characteristics are rigidity, quickness, softness, courage and fierceness.

After the formation of "Dongxiang Wushu", it was mainly used to defend the soil, pay attention to practicality and not engage in ostentation and extravagance. Because all the students who practice martial arts are farmers' children, in addition to hundreds of gloves and eighteen weapons, they also combine farm production tools and even daily necessities, turning them from non-weapons into martial arts. When I was in junior high school, there were some Dongxiang students, almost all of whom had studied martial arts in their hometown. There is a routine called "bench flower", which is really unheard of. It teaches you to sit on a long wooden bench. When you meet the need of fighting, remember to turn around and grab the legs of the bench with both hands. Lifting the bench becomes a weapon. Seeing it roll up and down will change many offensive and defensive postures. This is a bench flower.

Rakes, shoulder poles and forks for farm work have been designed by martial arts experts and become routines. When I was a child, I also heard that a farmer's boxing master invented a vicious trick of semi-rake fighting, and his name was semi-rake. In the martial arts movies, Master Gan Long used a paper fan as a weapon and was fascinated. The gods of Dongxiang can also use big towels to wipe sweat and throw offensive and defensive tricks. Unfortunately, Jin Yong's generation has never seen or heard of it. Our Dongxiang Boxing has so many wonders that they can't imagine.

"Dongxiang Wushu" also has many magical and mysterious "Kung Fu" methods, such as lightness skill, and "hanging murals" is one of them. In addition, "two dragons playing with pearls", acupoints, iron sand palms and hard work are all the most difficult to learn. Among the 36 coaches, all of them have mastered different extraordinary skills more or less. Unfortunately, these "skills" have not been passed down in words. In addition, in ancient China, there were always rules of "heirloom" and "heirloom of daughter-in-law", so almost all of them were lost.

Today, we review the martial arts heritage of the motherland, mainly for self-defense and fitness. We can also inject beneficial elements, the essence of classical martial arts, into modern anti-terrorism arrest and armed reconnaissance technology to make it shine again. This is also a very practical "make the past serve the present"!

Brief introduction of Dongxiang Wushu

origin

According to the genealogy of the Zhou family in Yongxing Village, Zhoutan Town, its ancestor "Wen Yi was afraid of being an official dragon and lost his textual research." Solving problems in provincial exams is famous for its dragon and tiger charts. Learn the origin of knowledge, master the history of children, and learn more about the study of Chinese characters. Kung fu changed from thirty-six to seventy-two. In the Song Dynasty, he belonged to Yangdu Lake, Jingqing Township, Tongcheng County, and set up a church to teach students. People from far and near competed to be teachers. "'Jingxiang' is the title of Tongcheng Dongxiang in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and' Yangdu Lake' is the water system of Yaochen Lake and Fengsha Lake in Zhoutan Town and Chenyaohu Town today. It can be seen that Zhou moved to Zhoutan Town, Zongyang County as early as the Song Dynasty and became one of the schools where Dongxiang Wushu originated. According to Zhang's genealogy, Tianwu and Tianlu moved to Zhoutan in Yuan Dynasty and brought South Shaolin Wushu to Fujian. Since then, after the spread and integration of Zhou and Zhang families from generation to generation, the wind of martial arts has continued. In the early Qing Dynasty, around 50 miles around Zhoutan, residents competed for martial arts, and the wind of martial arts spread throughout Dongxiang, forming "Dongxiang Wushu".

trait

In the heyday of Dongxiang Wushu development, Zhou, Zhang, Lu, Deng, Xie, Wang, Wang and Wu, who settled in Yongxing, Dashan, Pengqiao, Shiwan and Wuqiao villages in Zhoutan Town, were all addicted to martial arts. Every family is equipped with knives, guns and sticks, and their experts are like clouds.

Dongxiang Wushu is a combination of "southern boxing and northern legs", with special emphasis on achievement. Although there are not many boxing and mechanical routines, they are more complicated. They are good at cracking the opponent's formation and the number of moves, disassembling Sanda and integrating attack and defense.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dongxiang Wushu was eclectic in both north and south. In daily life and agricultural production, many new boxing techniques have been created, all of which show profound skills. Ordinary production and living tools can be used as weapons, such as: three palms, three steps, three cannons, double covers, swordfish, melon throwing, walking bucket and so on.

Dongxiang Wushu is dominated by low posture, and its walking is mostly field-shaped and zigzag. Most of the steps are horse stance and shaking feet, and the turning range is small. Call the bull to lie down and explore the Longtan. The main body movements are fist, palm, elbow and upper limb movements. Powerful, quick and flexible punches. Seemingly unpretentious, it is actually exquisite. It is often possible to defeat the enemy with one move and win with one hand, forming its own characteristics. Therefore, there is a proverb in Dongxiang that "every village has good fields and every village has good fists", which can be seen.

In Zongyang County (formerly Tongcheng), Anqing City, the hometown of Tongcheng School, which dominated the literary world for 300 years, there is also a martial arts atmosphere. There is a local saying that "Wen Dou can't compete with Nanxiang and Dong Xiang". At the 20 13 China Sports, Culture and Sports Tourism Expo, Dongxiang Wushu from this county was awarded the first batch of "China Sports Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Promotion Project". 165438+ 10/2, the reporter made a special trip to Zhoutan Town, Zongyang County, the birthplace of Dongxiang Wushu, and found that Dongxiang Wushu, once famous in rivers and lakes, was facing the dilemma of being lost and needing urgent protection.

The wind of martial arts still exists.

Children go to school in physical education class for martial arts.

Zhang, the old headmaster, is also the inheritor of Dongxiang Wushu. He told reporters that Dongxiang Wushu has always been one of the contents of physical education class in Pengqiao Primary School. Zhoutan Town, known as the hometown of Wushu, is the birthplace of Dongxiang Wushu. 1165438+10/2 at 4: 30 in the afternoon, just after school, Zhang, the old principal of Pengqiao Primary School in this town, was teaching Dongxiang Wushu in the drizzle. There are nearly 20 young "Kung Fu fans", all of whom are students above grade 3.

Walking in Zhoutan Town, you can feel the local martial arts everywhere. Every family has a knife, every family has a gun, every family has a stick, and elderly people, regardless of sex, fight a few punches in the metropolis. In the big mountain village of the town, boxing scores are printed on the cultural wall. There is also a Guan Gong Dao with a history of hundreds of years in the martial arts school, which is the weapon of Zhang Mubin, a martial artist in the Qing Dynasty.

The old man visited the hut and learned stunts.

Zhang Genmiao, 69, is the chief inheritor of Dongxiang Wushu. He has been busy with one thing these days-learning from the teacher.

Zhang Genmiao told reporters that he is trying to learn "towel flower", which is a kind of kung fu with a towel as a weapon. Only 82-year-old Mr. Zhang in the village can do it, but he still retains the tradition of old boxers and has no chance to teach boxing. "I went to his house as soon as I had time, and I can't remember how many times I went. I believe that hard work pays off. "

According to Zhang Genmiao, Dongxiang Wushu has more than 30 routines, and now there are only about 20, and many unique skills have been lost.