, Zhao Wenzhuo wore a long gown and showed a Chinese martial arts on the Great Wall.
Zhao Wenzhuo kicks the sword in the air
In particular, the action of kicking the sword in the air makes people admire Chinese martial arts and detonates the cultural feelings of the Chinese people.
On the days when the family and the country celebrate together, in the form of Chinese martial arts, let the Chinese accept the baptism of traditional Chinese culture , and boost the Chinese people's cultural pride, that's good! The method of
is also the usual routine of CCTV.
such as CCTV Spring Festival Gala.
Jackie Chan , Donnie Yen , Zhao Wenzhuo, Wu Jing , Wu Yue ...
They have all appeared on the stage of CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and they are basically dressed in festive traditional Chinese costumes and perform a Chinese martial arts.
2014 Spring Festival Gala, Jackie Chan's martial arts performance "Kim Sum Shu Yun"
2016 Spring Festival Gala, Donnie Yen martial arts performance "Heaven and Earth"
2021 Spring Festival Gala, Wu Jing martial arts performance "Heaven and Earth Heroes", and he played against Donnie Yen
CCTV Spring Festival Gala traffic, Coupled with the glory of kung fu superstars, almost every performance will become a hot search.
Of course it's good!
Because in ordinary people's lives,
we hardly see martial arts!
said "almost" because Chinese martial arts still have a window open.
kung fu movie.
However, this window is slowly closing!
Beginning with " Burning the Red Lotus Temple " in 1928, Kung Fu movies opened an era.
Hong Kong in the 50s-60s, Hu Jinquan 's " Drunk Man ", Zhang Che's "One-Armed Swordsman", let kung fu movies enter the golden age.
A still from "Burning the Red Lotus Temple" in 1928. The reason is clear because "Master" director Xu Haofeng fixed it.
Then, Bruce Lee was born, a real international superstar, he pushed Chinese martial arts to the world.
The word "Kungfu" has become a business card of Chinese culture.
Bruce Lee has become a cultural icon
Bruce Lee is a kung fu actor and a martial artist.
As a kung fu actor, he signed with Jiahe and gave up Shaw Brothers , breaking the tradition of Shaw Brothers continuing to use Peking Opera kung fu actors to shoot kung fu movies, making the film close to actual kung fu combat, photographers often complained that Bruce Lee's legs were too fast , and kicked it without taking anything.
Bruce Lee's dissemination of Chinese martial arts is not limited to the field of movies.
Jeet Kune Do , martial arts philosophy, the rise of mixed martial arts ,
these related kung fu extensions, are the real spread of Chinese martial arts, not Chinese kung fu movies.
Bruce Lee died young, Jackie Chan, Jet Li took over the glory of Chinese kung fu movies.
After the glory, the decline. On
Douban, among the top 12 kung fu movies:
6 from the 60s-70s;
5 from the 90sMinistry;
's most recent one, " Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ", was released in 2000.
and beyond, 0!
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", in 2000, the pinnacle of martial arts movies, whether it is awards, word of mouth, box office
It has been 22 years since we entered the 21st century.
In the past 22 years, among the 10 highest-grossing kung fu movies, only 2 were filmed in the last 10 years, namely 2013's " Grandmaster " (No. 7) and 2017's "Embroidered Spring Knife 2". Shura Battlefield" (No. 8).
Even so, the 8th place "Embroidered Spring Knife 2" has passed exactly 5 years!
In the past 5 years, what have those kung fu superstars been doing?
Jackie Chan is 68 years old, Jet Li is 60 years old, and Donnie Yen is 60 years old.
Recently, Donnie Yen participated in the "Dragon Babu", and it was revealed that "because of his age, his physical strength is seriously insufficient".
You can't ask a grandfather to carry the banner of Chinese kung fu movies.
kung fu movie, also supported by Zhao Wenzhuo, Zhang Jin .
But they can't afford the box office of kung fu movies.
In 2018, Zhao Wenzhuo's " Kung Fu Alliance " was released, with a cost of more than 100 million and a box office of 17.8 million.
In 2019, Zhang Jin's " Kowloon Unbeaten " was released, with a production cost of 150 million and a box office of 18.77 million.
Wu Jing has become "Mr. Ten Billion Box Office" in recent years.
However, Wu Jing took the line of family and country feelings and stayed away from kung fu movies.
Can we still see Chinese martial arts in movies?
is hard! It's getting harder and harder!
Without kung fu movies, where can we see Chinese martial arts in our daily life?
community? garden? square?
of course there are! According to statistics from
in 2013, the population of Chinese martial arts fitness exceeded 70 million, with more than 1 million martial arts practitioners in the dan ranks, and more than 250,000 who achieved dan ranks, of which 3,409 were foreigners.
This data comes from Wushu Sports Management Center of General Administration of Sport of China . The data
, I want to tell you, is the population of Chinese martial arts practitioners, the crowd! many!
China has 70 million martial arts fitness population
We have 1.4 billion people, 70 million people use martial arts for fitness,
Is this the prosperity of Chinese martial arts?
In the "China Basketball Development Report" in 2021, China's general basketball population is 125 million, and the core basketball population is 76.1 million!
Chinese basketball can't make it to the Olympics.
Is Chinese basketball booming?
CBA, one of China's professional sports events
Yao Ming certainly doesn't think so.
In Yao Ming's view, China's basketball population has reached a red line!
He believes that the lack of Chinese basketball population hinders the development of Chinese basketball.
The data he believes is that there are only 12,000 professional basketball players registered in China.
Then, how many professional martial arts practitioners are registered in China?
I can't find the number!
There are 70 million uncles in parks and squaresAunt plays Taijiquan , the future of Chinese martial arts depends on the uncle and aunt? Among the 70 million people of
, how many real martial arts masters are hidden in
? How many Ma Baoguo are hidden in
?
If you laugh at these uncles doing Tai Chi in the square,
you may be slapped in the face soon!
Because, they are really the new force of Chinese martial arts!
Chinese martial arts traditions in the park.
Children, young people,
will go to parks and squares to learn martial arts?
very little!
Because of their passion for martial arts, not as good as Taekwondo!
Take Nanjing, the city where I live, as an example.
opens "Dianping" and selects "Sports Training".
randomly appeared in the first 80 training centers:
basketball 21;
physical training 10;
taekwondo 7;
roller skating 7;
table tennis 5;
Of these 5 martial arts venues: Actually, there are only 3, because 1 has opened 3 stores.
In Nanjing, among the number of training institutions,
only 6% of the venues learn martial arts, and the number of
is less than that of taekwondo training.
I opened the Baidu map again,
searched for "Nanjing martial arts", and 99 addresses appeared.
searched for "Nanjing Taekwondo" and 119 addresses appeared.
In the courses of these five martial arts training institutions, there are only "Martial Arts Sanda", "Martial Arts Fighting", "Martial Arts Enlightenment" and other courses.
If you want to learn " Bajiquan ", sorry, no!
Chinese martial arts have no successor, or few successors.
In our life, the most common Chinese martial arts,
are the uncles and aunts who practice martial arts in squares and parks.
But, even if they are really "martial arts masters", what else can they do with Chinese martial arts?
The answer is, nothing can be done.
Because, the art of death is absolutely amazing.
in Shenyang, Zhongshan Park.
83-year-old Bai Guodong is exercising.
is an ordinary bald old man who is hard to find in the lively crowd.
What he practiced is poking and turning the fist.
In 2014, poking feet was included in 's intangible cultural heritage .
But in the park, no one cared what kind of boxing Bai Guodong was practicing, and no one was interested in caring.
The factory where he retired didn't know, and neither did the neighbors.
Screenshot of the documentary "Hidden Martial Arts": Bai Guodong said that he is skilled, but his martial arts are famous.
His master is Yu Boqian , a martial arts master in the Republic of China.
Bai Guodong once learned a set of practical knife skills from his masterIt's called "Knives". Master
passed away more than 40 years ago, Bai Guodong has almost forgotten about this knife technique, and he can't teach it to his apprentices.
"Breaking a knife" is about to be lost.
in Beijing, in a grove on the edge of the Fourth Ring Road.
48-year-old Liu Baolong is practicing boxing with three or five people.
He was wearing a red tracksuit and white sneakers, lean and capable.
In the eyes of outsiders, these people just punch a few times, chat for a while, lean on a tree, and then go home for dinner.
Liu Baolong has been renting for more than 20 years. The place where
rents a house is an urban village that is facing demolition.
He makes a living by driving online car-hailing, his wife is a supermarket tally clerk, and his daughter sells insurance.
Screenshot of the documentary "Hidden Martial Arts": Liu Baolong is teaching boxing
, an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, who practiced Xiaojia Bajiquan in Mengcun, Cangzhou, and was taught by Wang Shusen, the seventh-generation descendant.
For Liu Baolong, martial arts is just a hobby.
Perhaps, where do they live after the demolition of the urban village is a more important issue.
The stories of the above two people are from the CCTV documentary "Hidden Martial Arts". The documentary
took 3 years to shoot. It visited hundreds of martial arts practitioners from north and south, and opened up the original ecology of Chinese traditional martial arts. In the
documentary:
Zhao Xiaozhang of Tianshui, Gansu Province, the descendant of the Black Tiger Stick.
relies on planting cherry trees to support his family. The pressure of
's life makes him have no time to learn stick skills .
Hu Youlai, the 6th generation descendant of Guangdong Caijiaquan, collects medicine for a living.
collects and sells medicine all day, taking care of her sick daughter.
As for martial arts, as for the 7th generation descendant, he has no time to take care of it.
Gansu Tianshui's shell stick successor Gao Shiding , he is very old.
He broke the stereotype of "non-foreign surnames are not passed down".
However, very few young people came to study.
because they go out to work and make money.
Many types of Chinese martial arts are facing the sadness of "the death of the human being".
Wushu professional team, busy competitive Wushu and Sanda ;
2008 Chinese Wushu failed to become an Olympic event.
And the folk foundation of martial arts is far behind.
In contrast to the situation of traditional Chinese martial arts, martial arts practitioners are faced with the predicament of survival, the inheritance of martial arts is fragile, and the practice is out of touch...
From 1982 to 1986, the State Sports Commission conducted a round of excavation work on a large scale of boxing, and identified 129 Chinese martial arts. Boxing.
selected boxing styles must meet three criteria: orderly origin, clear boxing theory, unique style, and orderly inheritance.
This is a very high standard, and many traditional martial arts cannot be included in this list.
These 129 boxing styles, how many people still inherit it? How many of
are on the verge of being lost?
For many people who practice martial arts today,
martial arts can neither settle down nor support their families, and the only remaining option is to give up.
Will Chinese martial arts die?
of course.
live and die, flourish and die.
also may not, with a facelift and a new life.
For example, archery, taekwondo, judo , fencing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu , Philippine short stick , they are not only high-level Olympic events, but also very down-to-earth and become a sport that ordinary people like.
Since 2006, the state has successively approved five batches of national intangible cultural heritage lists , with a total of 1557 items, including 53 martial arts items , including Shaolin Kungfu, Wudang Wushu, Taijiquan, Cangzhou Wushu , Red fist , Bajiquan, poking feet, Liuhequan and so on.
Among them, Tai Chi was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO. The inclusion of
in the "intangible cultural heritage" itself means that the inheritance is fragile.
Tai Chi will be selected as a world-class "intangible cultural heritage" in 2020. Are you happy or sad?
For martial arts, it is also a good thing to be selected as an "intangible cultural heritage".
The country's attitude towards "intangible cultural heritage" is of course protection.
But if the "intangible cultural heritage" itself does not have enough vitality to develop, this kind of protection will become "hospice care".
My hometown, Huainan, Anhui Province, the traditional tofu production skills are included in the fourth batch of "intangible cultural heritage" list.
However, this production process has been unable to meet the needs of modern commercialization.
There is no one, you must eat tofu made by traditional techniques.
Finally, we can only see it in museums.
I love Chinese martial arts and I don't want to see it in museums in the future.
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