Chinanews.com, Beijing, March 9th (reporter Li Heyu Yiwen) Director Wong Kar Wai wrote when talking about the filming of the movie "The Grandmaster", "There is a saying in the martial arts world: If you never forget, there will be echoes. If you have a breath, click on it." A lamp, where there is a lamp, there are people. He (Ip Man) hopes to pass on his things."

  By lighting a lamp in one breath, Ip Man on the screen is like this, and behind the scenes of the film, Wu Bin, the head coach of martial arts in this film, is the master of the generation who passes on skills like Ip Man in today's martial arts.

martial arts master

  It is not an exaggeration to call Wu Bin a great master of today's Chinese martial arts, or even a "superior master".

  The Chinese system for evaluating the martial arts level of martial arts practitioners is the Duan system.

Officially, there are three levels and nine dans, ranging from one to nine dans from low to high, which is the embodiment of personal martial arts level and ability.

At the same time, whether you have made outstanding contributions to the Chinese martial arts and whether you have continuously promoted the development of martial arts is also the criterion for measuring the qualification of Jiuduan, which cannot be obtained only by martial arts skills.

  In an exclusive interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com a few days ago, Wu Bin said: "Because I have trained some athletes, the athletes have won many championships. (And I) participated in a lot of foreign training and did martial arts promotion work. So I was given the nine-dan. "

Drawing: Yu Yiwen.

  Although he is low-key, Wu Bin is known as a champion coach and a gold medal coach. His disciples have won more than a hundred gold medals in national competitions, and countless champions in various martial arts competitions.

In 1998, Wu Bin led the Beijing Wushu Team to participate in the National Wushu Championships, winning 8 gold medals for men and 11 championships for women.

At that time, the Beijing Wushu team, which had long been famous all over the country, was led and formed by Wu Bin himself from scratch when he was teaching at Shichahai Sports School.

  The members of the Beijing Wushu team under his leadership once traveled to Japan to "repel" the Japanese Shaolin boxing alliance, which claimed to have millions of people, and maintained the authentic name of Chinese Shaolin martial arts.

  According to records, there was another version of the movie "Shaolin Temple" before it was released to the public.

He said, "What kind of "Shaolin Temple" is this? Once it is released, our organization will lose its footing in Japan."

  It is reported that at that time, this martial arts organization in Japan already had millions of people.

As far back as 1974, when Wu Bin visited Japan with the Chinese Youth Wushu Troupe, he and Zong Daochen had "passed the trick", and the two were old acquaintances.

Zong Daochen once said at that time: "Authentic Shaolin boxing is in Japan, not in China."

  Later, the Chinese Junior Wushu Team went to Japan to perform.

This regiment gathered the outstanding players in the domestic martial arts at that time. The Beijing team included Yan Ping, Li Xia, Zhang Guifeng, Sun Jianming, Huang Qiuyan, Hao Zhihua, Wang Jianjun, Li Zhizhou, etc., and other provinces and cities included Zhao Changjun, Liu Huailiang, Wu Jianqiang, Zhang Xiaoyan, Zheng Xiaoping , It can be described as a luxurious lineup, and the members of the Beijing Wushu team make up more than half of it.

Wu Bin.

Photo by Yu Yiwen

  They performed authentic Chinese Kung Fu in Japan, which opened the eyes of Japanese martial arts lovers.

After witnessing the performance of the Chinese Junior Wushu Team, Zong Daochen retracted his previous wild words.

Later, he also led his disciples to China for visits and exchanges many times, and established a good relationship with the Chinese martial arts circle.

  And it was this "Shaolin Temple" that made Wu Bin's disciple Jet Li an instant hit.

"bad old man"

  After being conquered by the Chinese Junior Martial Arts Team, Zong Daochen, who had practiced martial arts in the Songshan Shaolin, put forward some suggestions for revision of "Shaolin Temple", and expressed his willingness to contribute funds to help filming.

Director Zhang Xinyan listened to the opinions of the former, and went to Dengfeng for inspection many times. Every time he passed by Beijing, he asked for Wu Bin's opinions. This is how "Shaolin Temple" came out.

  The master-apprentice story of Wu Bin and Jet Li has long been known to most people.

When he was a martial arts coach at Beijing Shichahai Sports School, Wu Bin selected more than ten children from thousands of students in surrounding primary schools, including Jet Li.

Some people say that Wu Bin's reputation has greatly increased because he discovered and cultivated Jet Li, but in fact, if he hadn't met Wu Bin, it is hard to say whether Jet Li will have future achievements.

  In the early days of Jet Li's martial arts practice, his mother repeatedly asked Jet Li to retreat on the grounds that he was worried about affecting his studies.

It was Wu Bin who expressed his heartfelt affection and mobilized Jet Li's sister to assist in the work to retain this martial arts genius.

After Jet Li became popular all over the country with "Shaolin Temple", it was Wu Bin who resisted all opinions and reluctantly gave up his love on the eve of the competition to give him the green light. Only then did Jet Li later "abandon martial arts and follow the shadows" and become the "Kung Fu Emperor" who went to the world.

Data map: Jet Li.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan

  Wu Jing, another well-known disciple of Wu Bin, described him as a "bad old man": "The word "bad" is a compliment, it means smart, and it is a kind of wisdom. Therefore, he can resolve many things. Those who are not familiar with him may You will think that he is a cold person, but when you get close to him, you will find that he is an old child."

  This kind of cleverness makes Wu Bin always at the forefront of spreading Chinese martial arts.

Wu Bin, who has trained many "stars" under his sect, is actually the first person to be "electrically shocked" in the Chinese martial arts world.

  In the early days of reform and opening up, Phoenix Film Studio released the film "Treasure Beyond the Great Wall", which was shot and produced much earlier than "Shaolin Temple".

Under the unified arrangement, the National Sports Commission sent martial arts coaches and athletes to Hong Kong to assist in filming.

Wu Bin is the head of the coaching staff, Wu Bin's disciple Wang Qun is the buffoon, and Yan Ping and Chong Honglin are the thugs.

This is also called by the media as the first official contact of the Chinese martial arts circle with Hong Kong martial arts films.

  In the case of insufficient manpower, Wu Bin came to the rescue temporarily, shaved his head, and played the role of an old monk escorting the relics.

It was at the same time as filming "Treasure Beyond the Great Wall" that Zhang Xinyan found Wu Bin and also chose Jet Li. Wu Bin also recommended his colleagues Yu Chenghui and others to form the team of "Shaolin Temple".

Wu Jing and his teacher Wu Bin

  It was also this kind of experience that made Wu Bin urge his disciple Wu Jing to start his career in film when he discovered his disciple Wu Jing's interest in movies in the future.

  Wu Bin recalled that when he checked the dormitory, he found that Wu Jing often read some books about movies and studied acting and filming.

Wu Bin is very supportive of this.

  "Wu Jing said that he likes to watch movies. I told him that you watch martial arts movies and how good Bruce Lee is. Your (Wu Jing) brother Jet Li is very popular. It's good that you have this hobby, at least you have yearning. I will Tell Shaolin Temple director Zhang Xinyan about this."

  Wu Jing, like his senior brother Jet Li, became a kung fu actor and made "Wolf Warrior", which was once a box office miracle in the future.

Master Wu

  Wu Bin was deeply impressed by the half-year experience of filming "Treasure Beyond the Great Wall".

He realized that: first, to promote martial arts to the world, the film and television martial arts film must be followed, and it must be done well.

The second is that engaging in martial arts movies and television is a way out for veteran athletes to retire in the future.

  Under such thinking, with Jet Li and Wu Jing successively "playing" in the film and television industry, the Beijing martial arts team seems to have become the cradle of champions, and the processing factory of martial arts film and television stars. Li Zhizhou, Sun Jianming, Huang Qiuyan, Kou Zhanwen, etc. have been "electricized" , became an important force in martial arts films of that era.

Sun Jianming, the Eighth Duan of Chinese Wushu, held a public performance commemorating the 30th anniversary of his trip to Japan to promote Chinese Wushu in Tokyo, and Wu Bin attended.

Photo by Yin Fagen

  Wu Bin, who is becoming more and more famous in the domestic martial arts circle, set his sights further afield.

  He has participated in research and exchanges in the United States more than once, with the purpose of promoting traditional Chinese martial arts overseas.

In his early years, he planned to use the craze of Kung Fu movies to promote Chinese traditional martial arts to the western entertainment circle. For this reason, he also specially planned to shoot the Beijing Wushu team promotional video, trying to use modern means to package martial arts.

  After Beijing's successful bid for the Olympics, he seized every opportunity to introduce and publicize the significance, current trends and future activities of Wushu's application to the Olympics to overseas people.

Although he failed to achieve his wish, Wushu still had the opportunity to be displayed on the stage of the Beijing Olympics as an unofficial competition.

Wu Bin himself was also able to become the torchbearer in the Beijing Olympic torch relay.

  Lighting a lamp with one breath, thanks to the efforts of Wu Bin and other Chinese martial arts experts, Wushu will be included in the official event of the 4th Youth Olympic Games in 2020. This is the first time that Wushu has become an official event of the Olympic series. It will appear in front of the world at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games.

  In order to allow more overseas people to master and like traditional Chinese martial arts, he often went to the United States to give lectures in the early years. He also specially compiled martial arts teaching materials that are easy for local audiences to master.

  These routines are neither competition routines nor traditional routines.

Wu Bin explained: "Americans know martial arts mostly through martial arts movies. When teaching him, tell him that this is the action of a certain character in a certain movie. He will especially love to learn it."

  Wu Bin will also increase or decrease equipment movements according to the content of popular local Kung Fu movies when teaching. This method of teaching according to needs is welcomed by local students.

  Wu Bin's home keeps many children's crayon drawings and other farewell gifts from American elementary school students. Among them, there are many fly swatters.

  This originated from a teaching in the United States, when he lived in a place with more mosquitoes.

When he returned to teach there again the following year, the students were worried that mosquitoes would bite the gift given by Master.

Wu Bin said that this is very interesting. The information they convey has personality and does not pay attention to form.

He understood the true feelings of the children, so he brought them back to China from the other side of the ocean, and cherished the care of his disciples.

  In the United States, people call Wu Bin "Master Wu", but he does not admit that he is a master.

He once commented on himself as: well-informed, quick-witted and eager to learn, although he is nearly seventy years old, but in good health, he can give full play to his martial arts career.

  These evaluations still apply to him today, the only difference is that Master Wu is now over eighty years old.

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