Chinanews.com, Chengdu, March 27th, title: Sichuan Lulin School Wushu Inheritor: Passing on Chinese Wushu and promoting chivalry
Author Shan Peng
Two waists, one seal, a hundred steps through Yang, hanging elbows and meridians, reining the horses... On the 27th, in a martial arts hall in Wenjiang District, Chengdu, more than a dozen martial arts teenagers were scowling and looking vigorous. Under the guidance of Ran, he practiced the "Golden Sabre Scabbard Boxing", a martial art of the Green Forest School.
Li Yangran, who is in his 30s this year, is the sixth-generation inheritor of the Green Forest School of Wushu. He has been practicing Wushu for 20 years.
The Green Forest School, with a history of about 130 years, is a traditional martial arts school that originated in Zhaogongshan, Sichuan during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.
This school combines the strengths of the two schools of traditional Chinese martial arts, the north and the south, and enjoys the reputation of "green forest little hands" in the Sichuan martial arts circle.
Due to the strong summary of traditional Chinese martial arts culture, coupled with the emergence of masters of all dynasties and their wide influence, the Lulin School of Wushu was listed in the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province in 2009 after being declared by Yucheng District, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province.
Li Yangran teaches young students to practice martial arts in a martial arts hall.
Photo by Wang Lei
According to Li Yangran, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a group of martial arts practitioners from various schools gathered in the area of Zhaogong Mountain, the highest peak of Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan.
Zhaogong Mountain has high mountains and dense forests and dangerous terrain. In order to summarize and create a martial arts routine suitable for fighting in the mountains and forests, Liu Zhong, the leader of Juyi at that time, studied and studied together with many heroes, and gradually formed the green forest martial arts.
"The Green Forest School of Wushu draws on the strengths of others, and its biggest feature is that it removes the tricks of various martial arts, and extracts the most useful routines for actual combat." Li Yangran said that the Green Forest School's martial arts movements are small and changeable, the moves are tight and continuous, and they are good at Hit the vital parts of the human body, and advocate more punches and less legs, and close-fitting bunts.
Li Yangran, who was born in Ya'an, Sichuan, has been passionate about martial arts since childhood. At the age of 13, he studied under He Sanjinmen, the fifth-generation inheritor of the Lulin School of martial arts. "When I was practicing martial arts, my teacher taught me Kungfu on a hill in the suburbs of Ya'an. Every morning Before dawn, he would go to the mountains to fly birds, and I had to get up early to find him. I practiced kung fu for two or three hours every day and then went to school in the mountains. This state lasted for several years.” Li Yangran recalled.
Li Yangran demonstrates Lulin martial arts.
Photo by Wang Lei
However, Li Yangran also admitted that with the changes of the times, the martial arts of the Green Forest School gradually declined.
On the one hand, due to its origin in the inland, the opportunities for Lvlin martial arts to communicate and learn from the outside world are relatively limited;
As the only provincial-level non-genetic inheritor of Lulin School Wushu at present, Li Yangran feels a great responsibility: "Lulin School Wushu, as one of the local traditional Wushu schools in Sichuan, has distinctive Sichuan Wushu characteristics. We will continue to inherit and develop this school in the contemporary era. , it is a good inheritance for Sichuan martial arts culture."
In order to promote the foreign exchange of Green Forest martial arts and expand its popularity, Li Yangran successively established the Green Forest martial arts performance team and cultural communication company, and participated in many large-scale performances, including Kelly, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair who visited Sichuan in 2011. Blair's finale performance.
Nowadays, under the background of the transformation of many traditional martial arts from actual combat and self-defense to national fitness, Li Yangran is also the "Martial Arts Instructor" of many schools in Chengdu, promoting the "Martial Arts" adapted from the Green Forest School of martial arts among middle and primary school students. At the same time, Li Yangran opened a martial arts hall in Chengdu, opening the door to Chinese martial arts for some young people who have been interested in martial arts since childhood. Finding a successor is my biggest wish." Li Yangran said.
Li Yangran demonstrates Lulin martial arts.
Photo by Wang Lei
In addition, Li Yangran also went to Japan, Thailand and other countries to learn martial arts and exchange martial arts culture with local "martial arts masters".
In Thailand, he also found another way to promote traditional martial arts.
"Competitive transformation of traditional martial arts is a way to continue the vitality of traditional martial arts. For example, Muay Thai, as a traditional Thai boxing type, has successfully transformed into modern fighting on the basis of retaining the ancient Muay Thai culture and characteristics, and has taken a place in the world of fighting. "Li Yangran believes that at this stage, traditional Sichuan martial arts has not yet tried to transform into competition. If the two are combined, there will be a chance to "collide" with the development opportunities of Lulin martial arts.
"Green forest martial arts has unique cultural value. This martial arts school named 'Green Forest' integrates the culture of chivalry into its spiritual core." Li Yangran said that while promoting and inheriting Lulin martial arts, he also hoped to promote the Green Forest martial arts. The way of chivalry advocated by martial arts and the cultural value of helping others and being kind to others have been carried forward.
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