Chapter 20 With Remembrance 37

There are a lot of people out there doing their best to advocate boxing these days.I remember that there was once before, but at that time, it was the princes and ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty [2] who advocated it, but now it is the educator of the Republic of China [3], and the position is slightly different.As for their purpose, one is two, outsiders will not know. Now those educators have renamed the old method of "Biography of Nine Heavens Xuannv to Xuanyuan Huangdi, and Xuanyuan Huangdi to Nuns" as "New Wushu" and "Chinese Gymnastics", asking young people to practice.I heard that there are many benefits, but the two most important ones are:

One, it is used in sports.It is said that the Chinese have learned foreign gymnastics, but it has not been effective; so they have to learn their own gymnastics (that is, boxing).In my opinion: holding foreign copper hammers or wooden sticks in both hands, and stretching the hands and feet to the left and right, probably because of the development of muscles, there should be some "effect".It's as if it doesn't work!Naturally, I had to change the way to practice the tricks of "Wu Song uncuffed".This may be because Chinese people are physically different from foreigners.

Second, it is used in the military.The Chinese know how to box, but the foreigners don't know how to box; it goes without saying that one day when they meet and fight, the Chinese will win.Even if the foreigners are not "teared off the suet", it only takes a while to "sweep the ground" and they will all be swept away, and they will never be able to get back up.It is better to fight now than to use guns.Although guns and cannons "had existed in ancient times" in China, they do not exist now.If you don't practice the rattan card, how can you defend yourself against guns?I think (they didn't explain it, this is my "understanding"): If you keep punching and punching, you can always reach the level of "guns and guns can't penetrate" (that is, internal strength?).This has been tried once before, in the nineteenth century [4].It's a pity that it was a complete failure of reputation that time.Let's see what happens this time.

[1] This article was originally published on November 15, 1918, No. 5, Volume 5, of "New Youth". 〔2〕The princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty refer to Zaiyi, the Duan Wang of the Qing Dynasty, and Gangyi, the co-organizer of the university.They were all diehards among the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty.After the failure of the Reform Movement of 1898, the diehards headed by Empress Dowager Cixi wanted to depose Emperor Guangxu and make Zaiyi's son Puzhi as the heir to the throne, but they were opposed by the ministers of various countries in China.They "sponsored" the Boxers, advocated boxing, and tried to use the rising Boxers to deal with foreign forces.

[3] Ma Liang, an educator in the Republic of China at that time, the governor of Jinan, wrote a book "New Wushu Elementary Boxing and Foot", which was once approved as a textbook by the Ministry of Education of the Beiyang Government, and some people in the education circle also advocated it. [4] During the Boxer Rebellion's war against the imperialist Eight-Power Allied Forces in 1900, there were "spirits possessed, guns