What is Wudang fencing like?

Wudang swordsmanship is a very representative swordsmanship among Wu Tangzong and wudang boxing, and it is also an excellent traditional martial art in China. In the Wulin, Wudang has always respected Shaolin in the south. Wudang and Shaolin are two major schools of martial arts in China, while Wudang sword and Shaolin stick in megatron Jianghu are the representatives of Wudang and Shaolin Kung Fu. Wudang swordsmanship was created by Zhang Sanfeng, the founder, under the influence of Zhenwu Emperor. According to legend, in the Song Dynasty, "Hui Zong called for it, because there were many bandits in the north, the ancestors hit it with a sword, and all the thieves were annihilated." Therefore, Wudang swordsmanship is famous all over the world, with the reputation of "the first sword in the world" and has become the mountain swordsmanship of Wudang Mountain Town, a holy place of Taoism. Wudang sword pays attention to Tai Chi waist, eight diagrams steps, both form and spirit, Wudang God. There is a poem praising Wudang sword that reads:

The sky is full of surprises and the ground is full of dust. In a blow, it seems that you can't see the sword in the breeze, but you can't see people in the light of the sword when you are changing.

Therefore, Wudang sword is omnipotent, because the enemy's situation is changeable, and the clues are unpredictable.

For hundreds of years, due to the mystery of Wudang swordsmanship, it was not until Dan sent Wudang swordsmanship to the twelfth generation that it was influenced by the Taoist principle of "don't talk indiscriminately and pass on skills indiscriminately".

Wudang sword is a light weapon, and its methods mainly include hooking, hanging, pointing, picking, stabbing, lifting and splitting. When practicing, you are required to carry a sword with you, and when using it, you should combine the sword with the body, the body with qi, and the qi with god.

There are many kinds of swordsmanship in Wutangmen, including Taiji Sword, Taiyi Xuanmen Sword, Jiugong Bagua Sword, Eight Immortals Sword, Gongxuan Sword and Longhua Sword. The basic skill is called "Thirteen Tendencies of Wudang Sword Technique".

Wudang taiji sword is characterized by its combination of rigidity and softness, static braking, preemptive strike and four or two thousand pounds. It also has the Taoist qigong skills of cultivating essence, regulating qi, nourishing the mind and tonifying deficiency, and also has the characteristics of strengthening the body, self-defense, stimulating the human body and prolonging life. It is a fencing that integrates martial arts and health preservation.

Wudang taiji sword requires spiritual strength, including chest and back pulling, shoulder sinking and elbow lowering, and action stretching; Requirements include its qi, its shape in the outside, the combination of static and dynamic, and qi. Its action characteristics are like continuous running water, motionless, motionless and moving all over the body.

Taiyi Xuanmen Sword is the swordsmanship of Taiyi Gate in Wudang. Its fencing combines speed, rigidity and softness. When practicing, it is required to carry a sword with you, and to combine form and spirit, spirit and spirit. Liuhe also needs hands, eyes, body, method and steps to be wonderful.

Taiyi Xuanmen's swordsmanship is as dynamic as a dragon coming out of the water and as quiet as a civet cat catching mice. In the action, the hands are divided into yin and yang, the body is hidden with gossip, and the foot is on the ninth palace, which is the best in Wudang sword. It has been the treasure of Wudang Mountain since ancient times.

Jiugong Bagua Sword Array is the sword array that can best show the power of Wudang fencing. According to the orientation of Jiugong Bagua, it is composed of nine people who are proficient in serial fencing. Since Taoist Huangye of Wu Tangmen created this sword array at the end of Ming Dynasty, it has only been used three times in more than a hundred years. Wu Tangmen's serial swordsmanship is famous for its swiftness and subtlety. If a few people who are proficient in serial swordsmanship make it, there is almost no gap, and even flies are difficult to fly.

Wudang Eight Immortals Sword is based on the legendary "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea". Different from Zhang, Zhang and other movements, natural characteristics and manners, combined with the characteristics of Wudang martial arts, fencing is reflected in its shape, martial arts skills are hidden in its posture, and various uses of fencing are put forward.

Wudang Eight Immortals swordsmanship consists of eighty-one styles, among which the drunken swordsmanship is the most prominent, with the characteristics of one drunk, one step not drunk, one drunk and one drunk. The movements are simple and natural, with both charm and charm, resembling the style of the Eight Immortals, combining rigidity and softness, like a pearl in Youlong, with diverse applications and distinctive traditional characteristics.

The pure Yang swordsmanship of Wudang Sect, also known as "Eight Steps Pure Yang Long Seal Sword", is one of the secret swordsmanship of Wudang Mountain. In the fencing drill of Chunyang Sword, the key point of practicing the sword is "the wind blows the lotus to stab it", which runs through the fencing methods such as collapse, lifting, beating, hanging, piercing, sweeping, cutting, drawing, washing, frame and pressing. It is known as "Wudang-Huang Ting, three unique skills of pure yang", in which the three unique skills of pure yang refer to pure yang kung fu, pure yang boxing and pure yang sword.

Bai Hongjian in Songxi, Wudang has a long history of inheritance, and the research is widely spread. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the guards of Tianjin Shunxing Escort Bureau spread this sword to Shuntianfu, Sichuan, and the areas north of Tianshui, Qinghai and Lanzhou, and there were many new developments in the circulation.

Wudang seven-star fencing evolved from the astronomical Big Dipper, which is an extremely overbearing fencing. This kind of fencing is divided into seven kinds, hence the name "Seven-Star Fencing". There is no order between the seven swords, and there is no difference between strength and weakness. If they cooperate with each other, they can produce several times the effect. Every time you practice one sword, a person's personality changes, and after seven swords, you become an invincible person.

"Wudang Seven-Star Sword Array" is the treasure of Wutangmen Town, which is mainly used in ancient military arrangements.

For hundreds of years, the martial arts community often only heard its name, but did not see it. According to historical records, the Seven-Star Sword Array takes Beidou, Tian Xuan, Celestial Pole, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Yaoguang as its image positions, and combines the Taoist principles of Yin and Yang, Five Elements and Eight Diagrams to form four basic formations.

Each formation can be subdivided into several formations, which are ever-changing in the process of deduction and have strong offensive and defensive capabilities.

It can be seen from the sword array diagram in the upper part of Wudang Seven-Star Sword Array that the sword array diagram contains celestial pole, eight diagrams and Shu Tian array, which are divided into two images: celestial pole array, five elements Tian Xuan array and seven stars and six rivers Tian Quan array. In the celestial sphere, there are meteors falling into the air, the heavens and the earth are fighting, and the three flowers are gathered in the top formation. The most complicated formation is the Eight Diagrams Array, and the people participating in the drill are distributed in a fan shape, requiring a total of 108 people to participate.

The thirteen potential of Wudang swordsmanship refers to the basic moves of Wudang Sword 13 handed down by Li, the "Wudang Sword Fairy". Li, born in 1885, is from Zaoqiang, Hebei. He was born in a martial arts family and studied martial arts since childhood. He is brilliant and generous. He studied the boxing of Yanqing Gate and Erlangmen since he was a child, as well as Tai Ji Chuan and Bagua Boxing. He is particularly good at fencing. He is not only lively in dancing, but also good at jab, and is praised as "Excalibur" by martial arts circles. He also learned from Yang's Tai Chi master, gained the essence of Tai Ji Chuan, and learned swordsmanship from foreigners in northern Anhui outside the Great Wall.

Later, Li got the sword score collected in the tomb of Gan Fengchi, a great warrior in the south of the Yangtze River, and studied it carefully. Also won its "flying rainbow across the river" swordsmanship, so it ranks first in the world and is known as "Wudang Sword Fairy".

In the late Qing Dynasty, Li graduated from Baoding Guild Hall. After studying in Japan, I entered the Japanese NCO School. After returning to China, he served as a junior officer in the Qing army, and studied under Wudang master Song Weiyi. Since then, Wudang fencing has been in full swing. And became one of the founders of the Central Martial Arts School and the founder of Shandong Martial Arts School.

Wudang fencing has thirteen potentials: drawing, taking, lifting, dividing, hitting, stabbing, clicking, collapsing, stirring, pressing, splitting, cutting and washing. Interpretation of Huang s Essentials of Wudang Swordsmanship;

"Pumping" can be divided into two ways: up pumping and down pumping. Its formula is that the palm of the sword is down, the back of the hand is up and the tip of the sword is forward. Aim at the upper or lower part of the enemy's wrist and pull it to the right; "Belt" can be divided into straight belt and flat belt. Straight belt means that the palm of the sword holder is inward, and the sword leans back with him, which is convenient to bring back. Flat belt means that the palm of the sword is up, the back of the hand is down, and the tip of the sword is pulled horizontally to the left.

"Mention" can be divided into two ways: premise and post-mention. Its formula is: the palm of the sword holder turns outwards, the tip of the sword leans forward and downwards, and is held on the wrist. Provided that the center of gravity moves forward or forward; If the center of gravity moves backwards or retreats, it will be lifted backwards; "Case" can be divided into two methods: the lower case and the turn case. In the lower grid, the palm of the sword holder is inward, and the sword is inclined from bottom to top. Turning the grid means that when the enemy approaches the enemy, the enemy dodges in front of him, and the sword holder turns the palm inward to the palm outward, so that the sword turns the grid from the bottom to the enemy's wrist.

"Strike" can be divided into two ways: frontal strike and counterattack. Forward stroke means that the palm of the sword holder is upward, and the blade is parallel to the ground and stabbed forward. Counterattack refers to the attack in which the tip of the sword is concentrated on the outside; There are two ways of "stabbing": horizontal stabbing and flat stabbing. Side stab means that the palm of the sword is inward and the sword is facing forward. Flat stab means that the palm of the sword is up and the sword face is flat and straight forward.

"Point", the palm of the sword holder is inward, the sword face is vertical, the body arm is motionless, and the tip of the sword clicks the enemy's wrist from top to bottom with wrist force; "Collapse" can be divided into two methods: direct collapse and reverse collapse. Forward collapse means that the sword holder holds his palm inward and his arm still, and uses wrist force to make the tip of the sword pick the enemy's wrist directly from bottom to top. Collapse prevention means that the palm of the sword holder turns outwards, and the body and arms are motionless, so that the tip of the sword can directly pick the enemy's wrist with wrist force from bottom to top; "Split", the palm of the sword holder is inward, and the sword is split straight from top to bottom.

"Cutting" can be divided into four types: flat cutting, left cutting, right cutting and reverse cutting. The palm of the sword holder is inward, and the blade cuts the enemy's wrist forward to be flat; Flicker to the right, and the sword cuts the enemy's wrist to the left; On the contrary, it is a right section; The palm of the sword holder turns outwards, and the sword cuts the enemy spirit from bottom to top as a counter-cut; "Mixing" can be divided into two ways: horizontal mixing and direct mixing. In the twist, the tip of the sword goes around your wrist, and your wrist should avoid the tip of the opponent's sword. The side twist is horizontal stirring, and the front twist is direct stirring; "Press", the palm of the sword holder is downward, so that the body of the sword directly presses the enemy sword; "Wash", the palm of the sword holder is outward, and the sword face is lifted vertically from bottom to top.

Sancai Sword also belongs to Wudang Neijia Sword, which was created by Li. The three talents, namely genius, geographical talent and talent, are profound in theory and combine the Taoist theory of yin and yang with the concept of harmony between man and nature.

Sancai Sword is a kind of fencing which combines some characteristics of Shaolin Sword and Taiji Sword. The routine is popular among the people, and it is very ornamental and aggressive. Sancai sword is faster than Taiji sword, but slower than Shaolin sword. The combination of rigidity and softness requires the sword dancer to dance with his hands alternately. The sword flowers are dazzling, the sword dancers are fast but not chaotic, and the swordsmanship is sharp and stretching, revealing a bitter beauty.

Because the Sancai swordsmanship has absorbed the characteristics of Shaolin swordsmanship, Shaolin swordsmanship is only good at foreign swords. After mastering the essence, swordsmen can not only attack and defend with swords, but also achieve the purpose of strengthening their bodies and defending themselves without swords.