China News Service, Heze, April 16th: Fan Qingbin, founder of Songjiang Wushu School: 20 years of running for the Olympic bid for Chinese Wushu
Author Li Mingrui
"Wushu originated in China and belongs to the world." Fan Qingbin, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of Songjiang Wushu School in Yuncheng, Shandong, said in an interview with reporters on the 16th.
Since 2002, he has been running around for 20 consecutive years, calling for Chinese martial arts to become an official event of the Olympic Games as soon as possible, and to promote Chinese martial arts culture to the world stage.
In the southwestern area of Shandong, there has been a saying since ancient times that "one hundred and eight generals of the Water Margin, seventy-two are in Yuncheng". Historically, Sun Bin, Huang Chao, Song Jiang and other influential figures were born here.
Influenced by martial arts culture since childhood, Fan Qingbin started his martial arts career very early.
Fan Qingbin was interviewed by reporters.
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In the 1980s, Fan Qingbin founded Songjiang Wushu School, which was committed to the school-running policy of "building martial arts with virtue, protecting martial arts with culture, nourishing culture with martial arts, and advancing both culture and martial arts".
According to Fan Qingbin, since the establishment of the school, Songjiang Wushu School has cultivated a large number of outstanding martial arts talents, and has sent more than 5,000 professionals to the national team and higher sports colleges, and won more than 2,600 medals in major domestic and foreign competitions.
On February 4 this year, students of Songjiang Wushu School performed the show "Li Chun" at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, stunning the world.
"Beijing is the first city in the world to host both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. Similarly, Songjiang Wushu School has become a school that participates in both the Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony and the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony." Fan Qingbin said.
Fan Qingbin demonstrates martial arts.
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Inheriting and promoting Chinese martial arts has always been the pursuit of Fan Qingbin in his more than 50 years of martial arts career.
He told reporters that in recent years, Songjiang Wushu School has launched a series of "Martial Arts +", and successively established majors such as football, roller skating, and rock climbing, and selected more and more young people with martial arts skills to "change careers" into other projects that are more suitable for them to become talents. Use your own unique way to help the development of Chinese sports and the Olympic Games.
"In addition, martial arts can also be '+ film and television'' '+ tourism'." Fan Qingbin founded Water Margin Seoul, forming a collection of cultural experience, martial arts research, large-scale performances, etc., which is based on ancient buildings and takes Water Margin culture as its connotation. The ancient city of Water Margin in Yuncheng will give full play to the advantages of the source of the Water Margin in Yuncheng, build a whole tourism chain integrating tourist distribution, smart tourism, cultural entrepreneurship, life and leisure, and promote martial arts culture.
Fan Qingbin demonstrates martial arts.
Photo by Liang Ben
"Over the years, I have also organized students to go to Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa and other regions to perform martial arts programs to spread the treasures of traditional Chinese culture." Fan Qingbin said, according to estimates, before the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, he taught more than 2,000 foreign disciples every year, and received research students. thousands of trips.
"Among the students I have taught, Martin from Austria is very impressive to me. After he studied martial arts with me, he returned to Austria to become a professional martial arts practitioner and devoted himself to promoting martial arts culture, which makes me very proud."
"I hope Chinese martial arts will continue to enter the world stage and become an official event of the Olympic Games." Fan Qingbin finally expressed his long-standing expectations.
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