One night in early December, the weather suddenly turned cold, and the north wind howled overnight. Snowflakes floated down profusely, and by the time it dawned, a thick layer had already fallen on the ground.
Wang Chao was awakened by the light of snow outside the window, thinking that it was dawn. But looking at the alarm clock next to the bed, I realized that it was only after five o'clock, and I woke up an hour early.
However, Wang Chao never had the habit of staying in bed. He dressed silently and took ten minutes to wash up. He heard the sound of his parents sleeping in the next room getting dressed, and Wang Chao walked out the door.
Wang Chao is a sophomore in a high school in City C. He is sixteen years old this year. He is average in height, ordinary in appearance, and average in academic performance. His family conditions are that his parents have already been laid off, and their combined monthly income does not exceed 2,000 yuan.
It is precisely because of all this that Wang Chao has a taciturn and introverted personality.
There is a park behind Wang Chao's house. The park faces the river and is densely forested. The place is remote and gloomy. There is a path in it that leads to the school.
Wang Chao likes to walk quietly alone, and doesn't like the road with cars passing by. Every day when I go to school and after school, I take this path.
The park is very quiet, there is no one, only occasionally a few sparrows chirping and jumping on the snow-covered treetops, shaking off the snow on the trees from time to time, which adds a lot joy of life.
However, when Wang Chao walked slowly through a dense pine forest, he found figures shaking inside.
"It's so early, why are people out for activities?" Wang Chao was curious, and tried to look into the woods.
It turned out that the person moving in the woods was a woman in white sportswear, white running shoes, and a neat ponytail punching.
The woman was about twenty years old, and her movements were slow, as if she was playing Tai Chi airs that are popular in society.
But Wang Chao looked at it for a while, but found something different.
Wang Chao found that the woman's eyes were always focused on her moving fingers.
She always stretches out her hand slowly first, and then grabs the head with five fingers like a crosshair, and then withdraws it quickly.
This slowly protrudes out and catches it back quickly, reminding Wang Chao of the action of touching fish when he was a child: first slowly put his hand into the water so that the fish would not notice it, and when the distance is close, he suddenly grabs it. The fish was caught.
Moreover, Wang Chao also found that when the woman was punching, her body kept walking in circles, and her steps were always wading out flat on the ground, with a cautious look, as if she was wading in muddy water.
The woman's posture is not graceful, but between the movements of going out and back, the whole body is moving, and the strength is exerted in every place, which makes Wang Chao feel like he is bulging.
Wang Chao was fascinated by it, and he didn't know how long it had been. The woman stopped moving suddenly, raised her hands between her eyebrows, then slowly pressed down on her abdomen, stepped on the ground with her left foot, and let out a long breath.
Wang Chao clearly saw that a long streak of white air shot straight out from the woman's mouth, like a sudden arrow of air.
"Can you breathe out like this?" Wang Chao was very surprised when he saw such a situation, and tried to breathe out with all his strength.
It's a pity that when the exhaled air met the cold air, it only formed a cloud of white mist in front of him. Then it dissipated.
Wang Chao didn't believe it, so he blew a few more times, which made his heart beat faster, his eyes sparkled, but still only clouds of white mist came out.
Just when Wang Chao was trying to breathe out, the woman came over, smiled and nodded as a greeting. Then he walked out of the woods and went to the other side.
When he arrived at school, Wang Chao didn't listen to any class the whole day. I always think about the scene of the boxing woman exhaling in the morning, and the more I think about it, the more magical it becomes.
He regretted that he didn't go up to strike up a conversation.
The next morning, Wang Chao deliberately got up earlier, and when he passed the park path, he still found the boxing woman.
Wang Chao came closer this time and watched from outside the woods.
Although Wang Chao was watching from the side of the woods, the woman continued to punch undisturbed, until she finished a set of movements, she still raised her hands, pressed her abdomen, stepped on her feet, and exhaled.
The breath she exhaled met the cold air, and it still turned into a thin and long white line, shooting straight out far away. Like an arrow.
After punching, the woman nodded and smiled at Wang Chao, the judge, with a friendly expression. But he still didn't speak, and left just like yesterday.
It was like this for several days in a row, Wang Chao got up early every day, and immediately went to the park to watch the woman boxing, and found that no matter how early he got up, the woman was always there. It was only at six o'clock in the morning that he left on time.
Wang Chao mustered up the courage to strike up a conversation several times, but he couldn't say what he said.
Every time the woman finishes punching, she smiles and nods to Wang Chao, her expression is still very kind, which makes Wang Chao feel like a big sister.
After a week like this, although the two did not speak, Wang Chao felt familiar, and finally went up to strike up a conversation when the woman was about to leave: "Sister, what kind of martial arts are you practicing?"
The woman smiled: "I play Chinese martial arts."
"National art..." Wang Chao has also read many martial arts novels, and only knows some messy martial arts, such as "Nine Yins and White Bone Claws", "Eighteen Palms of Subduing the Dragon", "Toad Kungfu" and so on.
Wang Chao also knew that these things were fiction. However, the national art has never been heard of.
But Wang Chao saw the woman's boxing practice for a week, and thought it was amazing. Compared with karate, taekwondo, muay thai, and Sanda outside, it was much better.
"What is Guoshu?" Wang Chao asked.
The woman still smiled: "The martial art that only kills the enemy and does not perform is called national art."
After Wang Chao heard this, he felt more powerful, "Sister, can you teach me?"
The woman carefully looked at Wang Chao from top to bottom, and nodded, "You followed me for a week, and you still have some perseverance. What's your name?"
"My name is Wang Chao. I am sixteen years old and a sophomore in high school. What is my sister's name?" Wang Chao reported his name.
"My name is Tang Zichen." The woman always smiled.
Wang Chao found that the skin of Tang Zichen's sister was smooth without any blemishes, just like jade.
"Your foundation is not good. You have never practiced before. Your waist, legs and feet are thin. If you want to learn, let me teach you how to stand up."
"Stand on horseback!!!!" Wang Chao's head grew a little big when he heard it: "Sister Chen, you know how to do this, do you still need to teach?"
"Oh! Then try standing up for a while." Tang Zichen took two steps and motioned Wang Chao to squat down.
Wang Chao immediately threw off his arms, squatted halfway, raised his hands out flat, and remained motionless, squatting flat and steady. "Sister Chen, is that so?"
Tang Zichen didn't speak, but just watched with a smile.
After a while, Wang Chao's knees began to feel sore, and after a while, his legs began to tremble, his waist became sore, and then his whole body became hot, and his forehead was covered with sweat.
Wang Chao knew he couldn't hold on any longer, so he stood up and rubbed his sore knee, "Sister Chen, is that so?"
Tang Zichen shook his head: "If you stand still like this, you will only strain your lumbar muscles. Horse stance, horse stance, the important thing is the word "horse", you have to stand out like a horse."
"Stand up?" Wang Chao couldn't understand.
"Have you ever seen someone riding a horse?" Tang Zichen lost his smile, "A person gallops a horse, and his body heaves with the horse. The horse step is the foundation of boxing that the sages learned from riding a horse, so when standing, you must Standing together and standing up and down, a horse stands out of thin air."
"When a person gallops a horse, the ups and downs are supported by the horse, so there is no effort, but it is different on flat ground. Your ups and downs are like integrating the horse into your body. You stand motionless, The center of gravity of the body is placed on the knees, and if you squat for a long time, your knees will definitely have problems."
"Is there such a reason?" Wang Chao never imagined that there are so many things contained in a simple gesture.
"Look at how I'm squatting."
As Tang Zichen said, he also took a stride. Wang Chao only saw her body rise and fall slightly, just like a breeze blowing water waves.
"Come on, come squat." Tang Zichen demonstrated, and Wang Chao followed suit.
"When squatting, you must first reach the soles of the feet. When you get up, the five fingers on the soles of the feet should be like chicken claws. When you dig the five toes, you will affect the bones and muscles of the calf, and the knees will naturally stand up. , Tighten the thighs, lift the waist, and tighten the abdomen. This is vigorous."
"Fold down, you have to learn from ducks and geese with the soles of your feet, loosen your flippers, and your five fingers. In this way, when your knees are loose, your thighs are loose, your waist is sitting, and your belly is bulging."
"During this slight ups and downs, the center of gravity of the whole body is constantly shifted, so that the center of gravity does not always fall in one place and cause physical damage."
Wang Chaoyue felt more and more reasonable after listening to it, nodded again and again, and acted according to Tang Zichen's words.
At first, Wang Chao couldn't do this ups and downs at all, but Tang Zichen was by his side, and whenever Wang Chao's energy didn't reach the position, she would kick him with her foot.
The place where Wang Chao was kicked felt like being pricked by needles, his muscles were stimulated, and all the strength in his body was in place with a click.
"The range of ups and downs should not be large, just one inch from the toes. When you go up and down together, you must always squat precisely at this inch distance. The more precise the better!" Tang Zichen was very strict when teaching.
Sure enough, after learning the ups and downs, Wang Chao's standing time was extended by more than 20 minutes from the original five minutes.
But after 20 minutes, Wang Chao felt a little dizzy. This ups and downs were like seasickness, and his stomach was churning.
"Do you feel dizzy, like seasick, and want to vomit?" Tang Zichen seemed to know how Wang Chao felt.
Wang Chao nodded quickly.
"You don't need to stand up. Get up. Your lower body posture is in place, but your head is not in place. When you stand, your head should be in the air."
"What is lingkongxuding?" Wang Chao stood up and gasped for a long time before suppressing the nausea.
"This is a term in the Bagua Xingyimen Boxing Sutra, and it is difficult to explain. Come with me." Tang Zichen thought for a while, "You will know when you go to the embankment of the river!"
Outside the park is a big river. The reinforced concrete embankment newly built in the past few years has a high bulge, and there are dozens of concrete steps to climb the embankment, which are very steep.
Tang Zichen grabbed Wang Chao and stepped onto the embankment quickly.
Wang Chao's knees were terribly sore just now when he was standing on horseback. Now that he had gone through such a toss and climbed dozens of steps of concrete buildings, his knees were so sore that he could hardly even stand up.
"Look at this river view!"
Tang Zichen did not wait for Wang Chao to rest, and pointed to the vast river ahead.
Wang Chao also looked at it, only to feel that the river was running forward, extremely vast, the water splashed on the bank, and the snow on both sides of the river, the scenery was very pleasant.
Looking at it, Wang Chao felt much more comfortable all over his body, his legs were no longer sore, and his waist was no longer painful.
"Ascend to look far, and once the vision is widened, the mood will be relaxed, and the fatigue will be relieved. This is the volleyball." Tang Zichen really talked to Wang Chao like a big sister.
"When a horse is galloping, one's field of vision is particularly broad, so that riding a horse does not feel tired. In the same way, when a person is seasick, standing on the deck, blowing the wind, and looking into the distance will not make him feel dizzy."
"So, when standing on horseback, you should not only stand up and down, but also keep your strength in place, and also open your eyes wide, with the artistic conception of climbing high and looking far away."
"This kind of horse stance is considered to be standing correctly. These are the truths in life, but people usually ignore them. It is the sages who summed them up and integrated them into martial arts. Martial arts is not a myth, it is in the In life, as long as you pay attention, you can turn decay into magic."
Hearing these words, Wang Chao seemed to understand a lot at once.
He felt a door he had never seen before slowly opening to him.
"I've told you both the principle and the posture. You should practice for half a month. After half a month, I'll wait for you here and see how you stand up." Tang Zichen turned around and got off the embankment after finishing speaking.