Chapter 46 Three articles on football · I wish the rivers and lakes are like greenery

These are three articles about football. The cycle of the World Cup and the European Cup is four years.If you put it in the martial arts arena, this is too short a time, too short to count heroes. In the rivers and lakes, what can you do in four years?According to old monk Cheng Guan, a theorist of Li martial arts, "It takes seven or eight years to learn the Wei Tuo Zhang or the Great Mercy and Great Compassion Thousand Hands, smart and hardworking."It can be seen from this that four years is only enough to learn half a set of Wei Tuo Palm - even Xu Zhu who just debuted is not as good as Xu Zhu, when Xu Zhu first came out he knew a set of Wei Tuo Palm and a set of Arhat Fist at least. !

This is why competitions like Huashan Lunjian often last for twenty-five years.Only when it is brewed for a long enough time can a new generation of heroes grow up. How many days did it take for "Northern Beggar of Xidu" to be replaced by "Northern Man of West"?That was a full fifty years. However, how can we wait for twenty-five years when we are so impetuous and short-lived?The four-year cycle is the limit of our patience. We have no chance to experience what it feels like when Huashan Lunjian comes; but only when the big ball game comes every four years, I will feel a surge of excitement and feel a bloody battle is coming.For us martial arts fans, this kind of atmosphere is familiar—in front of Juxian Village, in the crouching demon circle, on the top of the light.

We know that the winners are in those thirty or twenty teams, or to a lesser extent, in those five or six teams, but we cannot be sure who they will be; we don't know the group of young people who seem to have unlimited potential Here, who will be as sleepy as A Niu, and who will be as strong as Zhang Wuji. I often sigh how similar martial arts and football are, except that the sword gave way to the ball and became the most obsessed game for men; Angular and the least harmful shape, it is designated as a weapon for soldiers in life-and-death duels. About 600 years ago, an oriental writer named Luo Guanzhong tried his best to beautify the bloody fight with poetry-"The world is divided into black and white, and they fight for honor and disgrace." Who would have thought that this scene would change from the beautiful imagination of the ancients to Reality on grass today?

About four hundred years ago, a Western writer named Shakespeare once wrote a heartfelt praise of power - "The world is like my oyster, I can pry it open with a sword." How did he know that he would conquer the world in the future? You don't have to use a sword, but you can also use a ball? After all, the stadium is not a rivers and lakes.The rivers and lakes are very dangerous, but the court is very gentle - no matter how cruel, it is just the ear of an anti-aircraft gun facing Tafarel; no matter how angry, it is just the ear of a head hammer aimed at Materazzi's chest.The least blood is exchanged for the greatest pleasure in the world; the smallest battlefield is to win the most noble glory of life, why not the soldiers?Why not the spectators?

Jin Yong once wrote all about martial arts, but the most beautiful ending he ever described was "Yelu Hongji said: 'In my life, I will not allow a single soldier from the Liao Kingdom to invade the border of the Song Dynasty'". And in my imagination, the most beautiful ending is: Zuo Lengchan took out a ball and said, "Mr. Yue, the leader of the Five Sacred Sword Sect belongs. Let's play a game to see the truth." Humanity is green like rivers and lakes, I wish rivers and lakes are like green grass.