Saving fight skills with brush and paper
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A CHINESE martial arts practitioner in Hebei Province has written about 400 textbooks in the past 30 years, offering instructions for both “fist” and “instrument” forms of the local martial arts styles.
Wang Changyou, a 53-year-old martial arts practitioner, lives in his birthplace of eastern Hebei’s Cangzhou City, known as China’s hometown of martial arts. He began at an early age and now is a member of the Chinese Martial Arts Association.
Over the decades, Wang discovered local martial arts were mostly taught through physical demonstrations and verbal instructions, but lacked formal guide books.
“This is not a good thing,” Wang said. “There is the chance ... the wrong moves will continue to be passed down from generation to generation.”
And some local martial arts styles have had no pupils at all in recent years. So Wang fears they could disappear.
“There is an urgency to save them for future generations.”
Wang started a huge project in 1986: collecting, recording, and compiling skills and moves of various styles of Cangzhou-originated martial arts.
He used a brush pen to write down key points for each set of movements on rice paper, accompanied by elaborately drawn illustrations, and compiled the written materials into thread-bound books.
He now has 400 guide books covering 12 styles of local martial arts.
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