Bi Shujin Biography

Yan Jiyuan, June G. Part 1. After many years of classes and research on the history of martial arts, I am more and more inclined to conclude that the differences between Injan Baguazhan and Baguajan are approximately the same as between the Signyan of the Dai and Signyan family. In order to avoid confusion between two styles, in the year, he published a book at his own expense, entitled by Injan Bapanzhan.

He was still very young when his father died. After the death of his father, he began to study with Xiao Haybo, his students to this day call their art his original name - injan Baguazhzhan. Note: Jen Zhichen had three older school brothers. Liu Baozhen also studied with Dui Haichuan, in his later years. The first two had already left their teacher when Jen Zhichen began to engage in him.

They combined the methods of working with the saber of their teachers, creating this new, unique form “Sabe Bagua”, contributing to the treasury of Chinese martial arts. Another reason for the differences is that Liu became a student of the Dun in his later years of teaching, already possessing experience in the practice of Injan Baguazhan, and his Baguajan is quite different from the Baguajan of other students of the Duna, before becoming students of the Duna, trained external styles.

After leaving his teacher, in the year, Xiao Haibo became known in Beijing for his “four feet and two inch sabers of Bapan” this sab was given to him Lee Zheancin. Together, they found that they were practicing the same style. At that time, Chen Pu was already eighty, which means that he began to study this style twenty or thirty years before Lee Zhenzin began to study.

Chen said that he studied this style secretly in a person from Henan's province, on the “Jehol slopes” approx. Thus, the line of hand transmission from Xiao Haybo is very similar to the line from Jen Zhichen, except that it is much richer in terms of technical arsenal. In the year, at the age of sixteen, Jen Zhichen and his brothers, Jen Jen Zhen Zhinhun and Jen Zhikhe, became students of Lee Zhengsin in Weisiain, BA County, and they invited him to their village for teaching.

According to representatives of both branches of style, from Jen Zhichen and from Xiao Haybo, Lee Zhensin was born in a year and began to study martial arts since childhood. His mother’s uncle was a manager at the bureau, and from sixteen to seventeen years old he himself worked as a bodyguard. At the age of seventeen, he followed his uncle in Henan, left his job and devoted himself to the study of Injan Baguajan.

At the end of his training, before parting with his teacher, he told him that a few years earlier, he studied one person, named Dong, from the Zhuzzya estate, Wenan County. In the future, if it has any questions, he can contact the Duna. Lee Zhensin took up the security business, traveled a lot, attended friends and acquaintances, taught in the counties Guan, Jenceu, Wenan and Ba, Hebei province.

They said about Jencin that he could bounce and catch a bird on the fly, and received the nickname “Lee”. He died in the year when the guns of the Alliance of eight nations defeated the boxing uprising of the e -eutoania. Thus, the expressions that he recognized his art “from the transcendental” is, in fact, something like a code that indicates a difficult time. He also said that “art has already been transmitted for three generations, when it came to Dui Manlin.

On the basis of the theory of Fist Arts, the Dongo Chan, developed by him in the later years, he improved his position “Horse Stand of Double Purrening Patterning”, changing the position of the knees in the rack, making them turned inside, and thus turned it into “The position of squeezing the sides of the horse”. In this, he followed in the same way as Ji Lunfan, using and changing these methods in accordance with the principle: “Different songs performed with equal art.

The disciples of the Dun Haichuan also said that Dun studied with the "yellow -haired" Taoist monk in Jiannan. Based on these facts, we can assume that Jianganan is the province of Henan, from where the transmission line of Xiao Highbo arose; This is exactly the same situation, such as a long spear Liu Dekuan from Habay, they call “six patterns of heavenly spear” in Hanani.

It is also difficult to deny the possibility that there were some good reasons to deliberately call “Jiannan”, instead of “Henan”. Based on the facts that Chen Pu and Liu Zyunu studied at Henani, and that Xiao Haibo went to “Jehol slopes” to study Inyan Baguajan, we can conclude that the Taooss, who taught in the province of Henan, not only passed the art of Inyan Baguajan to several students, but, and quite possible, taught people related to people related Anticinsky secret societies.

These examples show that in those days there were quite a few hermits and masters, such as Chen Pu and Li Zyunu, who taught martial arts. Also, antician societies, such as the Golden Elixir Bagua sect, from which Xiao Haybo studied on the slopes of Jehol, were also probably quite numerous.In the year there was a riot Taypin Tiango, the uprising of the trigram in the year in the counties of the Sin and the CU in the west of the province of Shandun, the uprising of the nannies in the year spread on both sides of Yanjzi, the uprising of the golden electric Bagua in Jehol, in the year - the uprising of the own aujan.

In the Bagua sect, martial arts were used to rally people, and the style they practiced was injan Baguajan. Many peasant movements, such as the Bagua sect, had periods of rise and decline, in those conditions, few took the courage to declare themselves that he studied martial arts, and his style was “Inyan Baguazhan” and this undoubtedly led to difficulties in preserving and transmitting the style, threatened the life of its practitioners.

And yet, to argue that someone, hiding the name of his teacher, called the other is to go against the traditional understanding of the values ​​of the world of the martial arts of China. For this reason, Chen Vantin never mentioned the Temple of Cianzai, and at present even the Chen members themselves do not know about this, which led to the existing historical confusion now. Only thanks to the documents of the family found in the village of Tan, we now know the real story.

During the Qing dynasty, participation in such uprisings was seen as a severe crime and always steal the death penalty. The fact that Dun Haichuan and Lee Zhensin never publicly called their teachers can just say that they were related to antician secret societies. Nevertheless, they both said that they learned from other people, and did not attribute to themselves the creation of art, that they say that they followed the ideals of the military ethics of that time.

When I studied Inyan Baguazhzhan Bapanzhan in Hebey, my teacher Liu Jen Zhinen, my teacher, and other students of Jelen told me such a story: the founder injan Baguazhzhan was a member of the secret antician society whether it was Tainkin Tiango, the nanny or the Golden Elixir Bagua sect is unknown. Dun Haichuan studied some martial arts in his youth, in his hometown.

After the age of majority, he left his home and went to travel, having met his teacher in Henan in Injan Baguajan, from whom he studied this art for many years. Later, on the instructions of the Anticinian rebels, he was sent to Beijing to make an attempt on the emperor. To get the opportunity to get closer to the Qing Emperor, he castrated himself and became an eunuch in the family of Prince Su, where he was waiting for a chance to accomplish his mission.

Later, when it became clear that the task of this secret society would not be crowned with success, because it is extremely difficult to approach the emperor, he refused to make an assassination attempt. Thus, in the year, at the age of fifty, Dun Haichuan discovered that he owns martial arts and began to take students. But in order to avoid suspicions in connection with his teacher with anticae secret societies, he changed the basic principles of his style, disguising all the basic training methods of Inyan Baguazhan, adding eight movements, from Bafanzuan, the style that he taught in his youth in his hometown, and putting them on the fifth step from Injan Bagujan, the “circular step of the bowl.

Earth ”, added several repetitions. These eight movements were performed in a circular step, the method of movement was the same, but the positions of the hands changed; Later, these movements were further developed. Thus, what Dun Haichuan taught from the original injan Baguajan, and he managed to remain loyal to his teacher and antician society without teaching pure injan Baguajan.

Note: Bafansyuan, the style of Dong Haichuan, included “four soft paths” and “four heavy paths”. Also, Liguntsyuan, Detoucun, studied there. One of the branches of his family, who eventually moved from Kaikou to Zhuzzyau, is practiced by Liguntsyuan, three paths of Huntsyuan, Jinantsyuan, synmantsuan and others. When he began to teach, most people who became his students were already engaged in any martial art before coming to him.

He creatively approached their experience, adapting it to the Baguajan requirements, adding their technical knowledge to the style and changing their technique in accordance with the principles of Bagua to watch Tszymin “Baguazhan Minjia Ishi”. Passing on the teachings, he “at first explained the basic principles, and when the students understood them, he himself demonstrated them in practice” to watch Gumin “Bagua Zuansha Zchen”, p.

Thus, his students, understanding the basic principles and applying them to their technique, created various options for 64 palms. And already in the first generation of students of Dong Khaychuan, different Bagua systems arose. This practice of absorption and processing of various systems continued with students of the second and third generations. Not only the technique has changed, but also the name of the style, so injan Baguajjan became Bagujjan.

This is like how the Waykhan changed the name of the style that he developed, from the “blue” to “Siniitsyuan”, after the main methods of teaching the Signitzuan of the Dai family were hidden.So what were these teaching methods that Dun Haichuan hid? When I studied Inyan Baguazhan with Master Liu, I understood the simplicity and depth of style well. This is a very methodically developed training system; The most important is the first stand, the “horseman stand”, which works well with the whole body.

The student must train this position for three years, just like in the Signitzuan family, give the position “sitting monkey”, developing the power of the legs first. The sequence of stages and requirements for the learning process reveals an amazing similarity between these two styles. After three years of training, the horseman rack, the body acquires the desired quality style of the buttocks, compressed, the tailbone is put up, three bows are stretched - it looks like “five onions” in Tai Chi and blue.

The next stage of practice is the “eagle stand”, the lower back and shoulder methods are trained in it; The third method is “piercing the palm”, trains the technique of the palm. All this is done on the spot, in the rack of the horseman. Next is the first method of displacement, but this is not walking in a circle, this movement is straight, forward and backward, it is called “free movement” and in this step the shock technique is trained.

After that, they begin to walk in a circle with a change in the direction of movement, in the position of the "Chalice of the Earth". The hands are performed by the “single palm of Jin” - the front hand performs the “piercing palm”, the palm is turned upward, and the rear hand in the position of the “falling eagle”, the palm is turned down, this differs from the position of the hands that Dun Khaychuan taught, with the palms facing down; The steps of the step are also different, in Dong Haichuan it is a “step whipping dirt”, which came to his Bagua from Signitzuan.

The fifth step method. The sixth method is called the “Dragon Step” and serves to study the body. Piercing to the left and right, he studies movements in a circle at a much deeper level. The seventh method is called the "Monkey jump"; This position trains the methods of the hands in the rack of the "Chalice of the Earth". The eighth method is called "break into the forest"; It consists of “enter the forest with three piercing palms” and “sit in the forest”, and includes all the previous seven methods.

The previous seven methods are freely transferred to each other and are united in this eighth method. Thus, eight methods injan Baguazhan are very different from the eight palms of the Baguazhan, which are simply different technical actions of the palms performed in movements in a circle. This is that Dun Haichuan hid, teaching Baguajan. Those eight palms that he taught - nothing more than separate techniques made by his palms imposed on the basic step.

Subsequently, his students developed their own options for eight palms, based on their old experience and their strengths and weaknesses, however, the difference is only in the technical actions of the palms, but not in the methods and principles of teaching. This can be compared with the methodology of teaching fists of five primary elements in Siniitsuan; In Baguajan, the student begins to train with studying eight palms moving in a circle.

Thus, Baguazhzhan and the original injan Baguazhzhan Bapanzhan are quite different from each other. This difference can be seen when comparing photos of Jen Zhichen with photographs of old Baguajan practitioners; Differences in Shainf and the use of force are visible very clearly. Injan Baguazhzhan methods, which was taught by Lyzhensin, are slightly described above; Practice in a fixed position, methods for studying the lower back, legs, body, hands, practice of applying the technique of hands, and climax - a spontaneous change in positions with a variety of movements of “break into the forest”.

This sequence of the training process shows the systematicity and a clear methodology for teaching martial art. Jen Zhicheng also showed some types of paired developing of these methods, 24 doses, and working with such weapons as a long saber of 4 feet and 2 inches, known as “Injan saber that breaks the plum flower”, and a nine -foot spear, called “a spear of five tigers, Inyan Bagua, piercing the forest.

If you cut, with rotation and at one point, your opponent will not be able to avoid a blow, no matter how quickly it retreats. Cut up and “quickly cut” - relate to “sharpening”, “combing the mane” protects the legs, cuts like water a dragon. The nature of this method of the saber is wonderful, entering the battle, you will rush forward like a real hero. The song instruction describing the spear method: a nine -foot two -handed spear - the king of 18 types of weapons.

When you master the subtleties of this spear method, you will become famous among the ten thousandth army. These methods of sabers and spears are very simple; After studying them, they can be used in many options. Based on the preserved documents, we can say that injan Baguazhzhan is perhaps the most compact and detailed designed system among Chinese martial arts.