Talking about Chinese Kung Fu in a Japanese dormitory in 2011

○Written by Tang Tao

Japanese universities have a lot of holidays. The year-long holidays are divided into spring break, summer vacation and winter break, as well as Golden Week, Emperor's Day, etc. If you don't take your time, you may not learn anything in school. Therefore, during the summer vacation, apart from making a short-term travel plan, I basically just squatted in Gengyouliao and read.

Although Gengyouliao is not big, because it is located on the outskirts of the city, its silence becomes apparent during holidays. Japanese students have all gone home, and European and American students have returned home after their studies. Most of the students from China are privately funded students. Summer vacation is a good time to work. The school library is closed 24 hours a day during the holidays. At this time, what a person faces is loneliness, and reading becomes the best way to relieve loneliness. Fortunately, the various electrical appliances in Gengyouliao are relatively complete, so heatstroke prevention and cooling are not as severe as living in Shanghai.

By the next semester, that is, when the students were admitted in the fall, five new students arrived at Gengyouliu: from New Zealand, Hungary, Mexico, and a Japanese student who had just returned from an exchange program in Shanghai. The calm Gengyouliao immediately became crowded and lively when so many people came. Kuba from New Zealand is the most active one because he can speak four languages. His ancestral home is Korea. He immigrated to New Zealand with his parents 7 years ago to study English. His university majors are Japanese and Chinese. When Kuba heard my introduction that he was from China, he immediately displayed a golden rooster independent martial arts move and shouted "Shaolin Shaolin". Zuoli from Hungary is a guy who is 1.95 meters tall. Although he is tall, he is much shyer and quieter than the little Simon who came with him. Like Kuba, he is studying in Japan, but he likes Chinese culture very much, especially the Chinese "Tai Chi". In his impression, every Chinese is a martial arts master who can fly over walls and walk over walls with just one punch. Can kill an elephant. As an ancestor of Gengyouliao, I hosted a small welcome party on the playground outside Gengyouliao. There were also a large group of newly arrived girls from Canada, South Korea, and New Zealand present.

Everyone brings his or her own beer and cigarettes. Aniya from Canada's self-introduction impressed me deeply. She said that she had lived in Poland since she was a child. She knew that China's Mao Zedong said "We must liberate Taiwan." She came to Japan because she likes oriental literature. Her favorite is Lu Xun's "Madman" journal". I don’t know if this Aniya is trying to please me as the host, or if she really likes Chinese culture. Anyway, I was so happy that night that I generously gave her the water heater that I had treasured for several months and planned to leave to my junior brother, along with a I wrapped tea leaves and told her that she could make Chinese Kung Fu tea and drink it. She was holding it like a treasure and was so happy.

After everyone finished their performance, Bowser and Zori yelled at me, "Soup, soup, Taichi, Taichi." Although I can't do Tai Chi, I can't be embarrassed among foreigners, and I can't let them lose confidence in Chinese martial arts because of me. In order to promote Chinese martial arts, in fact, before planning the party, I first mentally recalled the scenes from the movies I had watched in China, and then wrote and performed myself, and performed a set of the so-called Chen's 48 Tai Chi style with great vigour. Finally, he mixed in the carp kick and split skills that he had learned in college and performed a dizzying performance, which stunned the two Chinese martial arts enthusiasts. After the party, they chased They asked me if I could accept them as my disciples. They wanted to learn "Shaolin Tai Chi".

I told them that Shaolin is Shaolin and Tai Chi is Tai Chi. They are two different schools of Chinese Kung Fu. I pretended to be mysterious and said: "Chinese martial arts emphasizes cultivation and moral cultivation. To cultivate my skills, It takes three or five years to complete it. I asked them, can they persist for three or five years?

What, three or five years? They looked at each other and answered in unison: Yes.

I know that I am a three-legged cat, but seeing that they are eager to learn, in order to let them know how powerful Chinese Kung Fu is, we tell them that we will start with the basic skills. We will get up at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning and start practicing squats. Horse step.

What is horse step? They asked with confusion.

Horse step is to practice walking like a horse.

Hayi! Understood, master. They made a bow to me and went back to the room contentedly.

As soon as they left, I thought: It’s over, they came to Japan and didn’t learn from Japan. Tea ceremony and flower arrangement, but they want to learn Chinese Kung Fu. I don’t know how they will explain it to their teachers after they return to China.

After getting rid of the novelty of the initial contact, everyone in Gengyouliao followed their own rules. Lifestyle, their days of studying abroad in Japan began with joy, sorrow, sourness or sweetness.

(This article was compiled by me in Japan)