Ancient people's internal work and mental method

internal strength exercises the internal organs of the body.

Internal strength is formed through the practice of Qi, which pays attention to breathing and breathing, uses abdominal breathing method, concentrates on it step by step, so as to achieve the purpose of exercising internal organs of the body. Martial arts can improve endurance, combat effectiveness and strong self-protection function.

When it comes to internal skills, people may think of the mysterious things in Legend of the Condor Heroes and Eight Dragons. Many people say that internal strength is simply nonsense. So is there such a thing as internal strength? Of course, the answer is yes. Let's clarify the fact that lightness skill and hard qigong are not internal skills. Although these two kinds of kung fu use gas, they are not used systematically. Compared with the internal strength, it is more inclined to the external strength. Hard work focuses on the flesh, and light work focuses on the waist and legs. Their qi is naturally formed in long-term exercise, not specially practiced. Let me explain them one by one:

First, lightness skill.

There are many ways to practice lightness skill, and most of them are practiced gradually. For example, use a big bamboo basket (about 2 meters in diameter) and fill it with sand. Walk on the edge of the basket, and run when you are skilled. The requirement is not to trample the basket over. Of course, in the beginning, this requirement is easy to achieve. Then take the sand out of the basket with a bowl, and then run. When you are proficient, you can dig out a bowl of sand ... If you practice this way, when all the sand in the basket is hollowed out, you will be as light as a swallow. In this process, you will naturally form an air. As the saying goes, "lifting the spirit and intellectual man fit". But don't try, because no matter how you practice, it is unlikely to reach the standard, because there are some tricks in it that you can't say. If anyone knows these tricks of using gas, if they use these tricks and practice hard, they will be as light as a swallow in a year at most.

second, hard work. Hard work is mostly to beat all parts of the body with wooden sticks and other things, and to use this kind of stimulation to alleviate the pain when the body is hit, which is also called anti-beating practice. The external flesh is practiced to a certain extent, plus the know-how of hard function and qi. The body will also produce a natural internal force.

Maybe you already think these things are amazing, but this is not an internal skill. Because their anger is natural, not out of their own control. So, is internal strength even magical? From the appearance, yes. Scientifically, no. As Luanying said, no one can break the shackles of the laws of natural science. Maybe some things can't be explained by natural science, but no matter what, rice flour can't be turned into nuclear weapons. Internal strength also has its limits. By practicing, a person can achieve all kinds of almost "incredible" points, but the human body will never beat the plane cannon. [Edit this paragraph] The internal strength of the crane boxing course is adjusted, and the internal strength of the crane boxing course uses gas, and the gas sinks into the abdomen. The gas injection does not inject force, so pay attention to the gas injection. And this "qi", according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, refers to the subtle substances that can run and change in the human body, and has a certain running route. Martial artists believe that the movement of qi can be exercised. Practicing qi is qigong, or internal strength. Crane boxing is to practice this kind of spirit. The internal skill practiced by Hequan Dao is a kind of demonstrated skill. Dantian can be divided into Upper Dantian, Middle Dantian and Lower Dantian. He Quan Dao focuses on practicing Dantian, that is, Qihai point in the middle of the lower abdomen, one inch and five points below the navel. When practicing, you should sink your breath and breathe rhythmically. Breathing should be soft, thin, deep, even, thin, soft and powerful. And stay in the abdomen. In this way, the abdomen position is relaxed and tight, and abdominal breathing is performed rhythmically. Constantly doing this kind of exercise will make you feel a stream of warm blood flowing in your abdomen and your whole body will slowly feel hot every time the training starts soon. This is the smooth circulation of qi and blood in the human body, which follows the meridians, goes down from Danri to the foot center (Yongquan point), then goes up through the back and neck until the top of the head (Baihui point), and then goes down through Yanqiao to Dantian, becoming an elliptical circumferential flow form. This kind of qi and blood runs very fast, and it goes round and round. When practicing Dantian Kung Fu, the abdomen should feel full and elastic, which will make the body and skin extremely tough for a long time and withstand a considerable amount of fist impact. As the saying goes, "practice your muscles and bones with one breath inside and your skin with one breath outside" and "practice boxing without practicing until you are old and empty"

When people grow up to adulthood, more yin flourishes and yang declines. This "yin exuberance" refers to the body's strong appearance, and this "yang decline" refers to the lack of qi in the body. If the internal qi is insufficient and the qi and blood can't reach the four tips, many people will be sick. Therefore, the method of weakening the compliant body should be used to help the growth of internal qi, and finally the balance between appearance and internal qi can be achieved. The purpose of this practice is also. Scholars must know.

Therefore, if you watch the teacher, you can relax, jump and jump, alternating speed and hardness, and try your best to imitate before reaching the balance of yin and yang. Not only can you keep fit, but it will hurt your health! Therefore, learning to practice crane boxing must follow the rules and not be rushed.

Before talking about internal strength, let's talk about something that natural science can't explain:

First, acupuncture points and meridians of the human body. Most westerners don't believe this, while China people basically believe this. It can't be explained anatomically, but the existence of acupoints and meridians is certain. There is also a theory similar to acupoints in yoga in India. Yoga believes that there are 14 life energy points on the human spine, and the practice of yoga is to stimulate these 14 energy points, thus achieving the effect of strengthening the body. China's acupoint theory is more detailed. Acupoints exist not only in the spine, but also in other parts of the body. Meridian plays a role similar to the program. The eight strange meridians run through the acupoints of the human body.

second, qi. Gas is such a thing that many people in China don't believe it, mainly because they have never seen it. Of course, qi is an invisible thing. I have never seen it, but I have experienced it myself. Its existence is also certain. Even Chinese medicine has many theories about qi and blood.

let's talk about the theory of internal strength. Each family's internal work theory is different, that is to say, each family's internal work method is different. There are many martial arts schools in China. There are taiji, octupole, form and meaning, gossip and so on in the family. No matter which one, there is a so-called "gas boxing", and every move has to be static for a long time. This is the cultivation of internal strength. In jargon, it's called "Gong Zhuang". Primary Gong Zhuang is just for experiencing qi. For example, in a certain posture, you should feel the hot air spreading from your feet up to your waist. If you have this feeling, it means that you are practicing right, but if you don't, it means that you are practicing wrong. When you are familiar with the walking of internal forces, practice more profound Gong Zhuang. At this time, it involves the methods of various factions. How to guide and control your internal force and how to make it run in your body.

The highest state of internal skill is called "body knowledge", which means "the body itself knows the movement of Qi". To put it more bluntly, it is called "opening the second pulse of Ren Du". This statement is not unreasonable. People who study Chinese medicine have all studied acupoints, and there is a formula that talks about the sequence and time of qi and blood running in human body. Which viscera does it run to at noon, and which viscera does it run to at noon ... It just runs all over the body at 12 hours a day. This is a Sunday (congenital big Sunday). This Sunday is born to keep running. A person who practices internal skills controls his internal forces to run quickly in his body, and takes an hour to complete the operation that should have been completed in one day. Can he still be like a normal person? And this Sunday (Sunday the day after tomorrow) is divided into two kinds, one is a big Sunday and the other is a small Sunday. Small Sunday refers to the control of qi and blood only bypassing Ren Du (starting from Baihui point on the top of the head and ending at Huiyin point on the crotch). The central line in front of the body is ren meridian, and the central line behind the body is du meridian), which is fast but slow in long work. Big Sunday refers to controlling qi and blood to bypass all meridians of the body, which is fast but slow. This level of internal cultivation can only be achieved by people who "know the body".

People who achieve "body awareness" really give people an unfathomable feeling. There was a famous Tai Chi master (deceased) who was over 1.6 meters tall. Before his death (he was over 8 years old at that time), a strong man with a height of 1.9 meters pressed his arm with his hands and pressed him hard with his whole body. The old man just shouted and used his internal force to pop the strong man more than 2 meters away. This is the power of "knowing the body".

in addition, there is an internal skill that is not for hitting people. There is a kind of kung fu called "cold and summer iron cloth" in wu-tang clan, which was founded by Zhang Sanfeng. Practicing this kind of kung fu can make people not afraid of cold and summer, and they can travel around the world only wearing light clothes at four seasons. This kind of internal work involves not only the theory mentioned above, but also the unique Taoist world view and health preservation theory. I won't repeat it here. But again, there are limits to internal strength. Like I am in Changchun now, it often snows and the weather is cold, but I still wear only a shirt and a coat, not a sweater and down jacket. Iron cloth is tougher than me in cold and hot weather, but it is impossible to go to the Antarctic expedition only wearing a small pair of shorts.

The above is the legend that the explanation of internal strength comes from books and folk, and there is no textual research and scientific basis.

Internal strength comes from Chinese martial arts, and there are still many profound points worthy of further study and textual research.

It is similar to Qigong.

China's internal strength should have been born in 1932, and its "inventor" is called Li Shoumin. Li Shoumin also has a pen name "Huanzhu Louzhu", and he and Zhang Henshui are both leading figures in the novels of Yuanyang Butterfly School in the early Republic of China.

Li Shoumin's masterpiece is The Legend of the Swordsman in Shushan, but his most famous achievement is to create a literary genre of "martial arts novels", which combines the myths, strange tales, swordsmen and swordsmen in ancient legends, and creates a prosperous martial arts novel, setting a precedent for a generation.

Li Shoumin first mentioned "internal strength" in Nineteen Heroes of Qingcheng Mountain, and then he further improved the "internal strength" and "theory" in books such as Seven Girls of Wudang and Biography of a Real Man with Long Eyebrows. In the book, he puts forward the "theory" that wu-tang clan is "Kung Fu at home" and Shaolin School is "Kung Fu at home". After liberation, Li Shoumin changed his name to Li Hong, and in 1956, he began to make a profound self-criticism on his own creation of "sealing capital to repair poisonous weeds" in the newspaper under the instructions of his superiors. Five years later, he was "criticized" to death by revolutionary teenagers.

While Li Shoumin was being criticized, Hong Kong and Taiwan writers Jin Yong and others began to take over Li Shoumin's banner, deepen his "theory" of internal strength, and started to establish various martial arts schools. As a result, this novel school founded by Li Shoumin developed and became independent from the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School, and became a "martial arts novel" which was later talked about by the mainland.

When Li Shoumin died, martial arts novels sprang up like mushrooms after rain. Some good people made them the heads of the major martial arts schools according to the martial arts schools founded by famous martial arts writers or the schools that the protagonists set in their books preferred. For example, Liang Yusheng, who founded a Tianshan School in his book, likes to set the protagonist or positive figure as a disciple of Tianshan School, so he is called "the head of Tianshan School". This is the so-called martial arts writers' abuse of the heads of eight sects, ten sects and eighteen sects.

It is said that a martial arts writer named Liu always prefers to feed the protagonist some ancient vegetables in his books, such as ancient tomatoes (often written as Cabernet Sauvignon or Zhu Guo), or ancient eggplant (Kunlun purple melon), etc. Therefore, after he was appointed as the head of a certain school, he was nicknamed "the head of the wild fruit school" and also called "the head of the ancient vegetable school". Then, those writers who also prefer to feed ancient vegetables to the "pig's feet" in the book are also collectively called "wild fruit disciples"

Before Li Shoumin was born, or before Nineteen Heroes of Qingcheng Mountain was born, China would never have "internal strength". Before that, the theory of "internal strength" was never mentioned in China's ancient novels, so in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was born in the early Ming Dynasty, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had no internal strength. Even the immortals in Romance of the Gods and The Journey to the West can't do internal work. That's when wudang zhang sanfeng was alive!

Until the Qing Dynasty, the chivalrous men in The Legend of Heroes of New Children could not learn internal skills.