I have the honor to personally experience the winter in Jinan written by Lao She. There is neither the cold in the north nor the wet cold in the south, only the unique warmth and clarity of Quancheng. Quancheng square, passing through the center of Jinan, is not as crowded as expected, and Baotu Spring Park next to it looks a bit deserted. There are few tall buildings in Jinan. It is said to protect underground springs. Compared with Beijing, the streets in Jinan are narrow and crowded, but the people in Jinan are absolutely enthusiastic.
I made an appointment with Haitong for an interview, so I began to prepare in a hurry. According to the address provided by Yu Hai, the reporter found a community without luxury buildings, senior private cars, security guards, cross-examination and complicated admission procedures. Yu Hai's family lives in the dormitory of Shandong Sports Vocational and Technical College.
People and things.
It is Yu Hai's lover who opens the door. After I came in, she stood at the door and looked out from time to time. I think it's strange. Before I could ask questions, she asked me, "Are you alone?" I answered truthfully, yes. Yu Hai greeted me like an old friend when he saw me, because we once met at the recording site of Art Life. He asked the same question, and then he said, I told my wife yesterday that you would come for an interview today. I estimated that two or three people would come anyway, so I asked her to go out and buy three new pairs of slippers, and you came alone! Put on new slippers and walk into a clean but not luxurious home in Shanghai. The trophy displayed at home tells the story of Yu Hai's past glory:
Yu Hai is from Yantai, Shandong. 1954 Learn authentic mantis boxing from Mr. Lin Jingshan, a master of seven-star mantis boxing. 1958 broke through the third level in the national, provincial and municipal Wushu competitions, was recruited by Shandong Sports Technical College with excellent results, became a national official Wushu athlete, and began his brilliant Wushu career. 1958- 1966, represented Shandong Wushu Team in major competitions held in East China and the whole country, and won many championships in fencing, cudgel, mantis boxing and all-around competitions. From 1966 to 1986, he served as the captain and head coach of Shandong Wushu Team, leading Shandong Wushu Team into the national advanced team, and was praised as the "big brother" team by the national Wushu community. After 1987, he became a senior coach consultant of Shandong Institute of Physical Education.
The cup for drinking tea in the sea cannot be described by a word "big". Big enough to block half of people's faces. Yu Hai said he didn't drink, but he used to smoke. Since he quit smoking, now he has a hobby of drinking tea. He likes to drink Tieguanyin, which is a kind of tea with mellow, fresh and lasting fragrance. Most of the space in the cup is occupied by curly tea leaves, which slowly spread out in the water, and the story of Yu Hai begins.
The name Yu Hai has been quite loud since the film Shaolin Temple, but he also has a little-known original name: Yu Paradise. His Christian parents gave him this name. During the "Cultural Revolution", this typical "four old" name became a negative textbook. External pressure forced Yu to change his name. At that time, he paid great attention to the relationship between fish and water, so he changed it to Yu Hai, which means "Fish cannot live without water".
Bald head and cassock are most of Yu Hai's appearances in film and television dramas. This is the image of Yuhai in Shaolin Temple more than 20 years ago. By the end of this year, he was still bald. Yu Hai said, in fact, when I was young, I had a thick head of hair, and then it began to fall off and became very sparse. You might as well shave off your hair as it does. Slowly, Yu Hai discovered the benefits of baldness, which was convenient and easy. He said with a smile, I feel very good now. I wash my face and wipe my hair every morning, even saving shampoo, that is, I have to wear a hat when I go out in winter.
In China, "no wine, no table", but this generous Shandong man doesn't drink. I don't agree with the practice of "feeling deep and stuffy" advocated by modern people. Due to too many injuries left by previous training, every winter is Yu's rest time, that is, during this time, Yu hardly takes scripts and does not participate in too many social activities. In the past three years, he has faded out of the film and television circle. Yu Hai has always said that filming is just his hobby, and he has always been a martial arts teacher and a sports worker.
Professional coach amateur actor
Although film and television is just a hobby for Hai, Hai has never neglected his fans and friends who love him. He said that sometimes, this face can bring him some convenience, but it also brings him a lot of trouble. Especially in public, the distinctive features make it easy for everyone to find the rest from the crowd. So what followed was signing autographs and taking photos with fans. Even if Yu Hai is tired and has ideas in his heart, he will meet the requirements of fans. He said, "I will always remember that sentence,' No fans, no movie stars' and' It's really hard to be a deputy under fame'."
Although filming in the sea is an amateur, he has encountered many dangerous things. Time was tight when shooting Shaolin Temple, and there were many circuses in the film. He only spent two mornings practicing riding, and then he devoted himself to filming. There is a scene in the film where the sea is flying on a small road. His horse runs very fast. When he turned the corner, he didn't expect an poplar tree to stand in front of him. It is too late to take over Xinjiang. His body flew out. Yu Hai instinctively protected his head with two arms, but the arm used as a protective device was not spared: his wrist and elbow were dislocated and his left hand was broken.
After many years, Yu Hai was a little scared to mention this dangerous situation. After all, he is a Wulin. At this time, he used his quick wits to ease his pain. He was glad that he had a quick reaction, otherwise it was not his two arms that were damaged, but the horror of his head being bumped into the neck cavity.
Time did not allow him to recover, but forced him to continue filming with injuries. 1984 The film Shaolin Kid was shot on location in Huanglong Cave, Hangzhou, and the thermometer at 50 degrees Celsius was broken. Every day, several spectators who hide in the shade faint. Such hot weather always makes people flustered, and they have to make a film. The terrible Yu Hai broke his right leg while fighting with "bandits" and had to go to the hospital for surgery. Later, he returned to this place with a plaster model. In less than two weeks, Yu Hai dragged his injured leg and continued filming. Said these dribs and drabs, Yu Hai just put it into a smile.
Yu Hai was the captain and head coach of Shandong Wushu Team, and trained many excellent Wushu athletes for the country and Shandong Province, including his son Yu Tao. Yu Tao began to learn martial arts with his father at the age of 9, from 1983 to 199 1 year, and won several championships in major national martial arts competitions. In particular, the drill of the techniques and routines of the family martial arts "Mantis Boxing" won its essence and connotation by his father's words and deeds, won the championship in various competitions for many times, and made friendly visits and performances in Japan, Iran, Europe and America for many times, which was well received. 1989 achieved the highest level of Wushu athletes in the national Wushu championship-the national master standard, and was awarded the title of "Wuying" by the State Sports Commission. Yu Haibei was gratified that he inherited his father's career. Now Yu Tao has opened a sports cultural exchange center, aiming at advocating Wushu fitness and promoting Wushu spirit. When it comes to his son, Yu Hai's face shows the tenderness that is rare for a martial artist.
Practice "mantis boxing"
Speaking of Yu Hai's housekeeping skills, it must be "mantis boxing". 1954, 12 years old, Mr. Lin Jingshan, a master of seven-star mantis boxing in Yu Hai, studied authentic mantis boxing. Seeing the screen flying over the eaves and mastering all kinds of weapons makes me envious. I don't know. As a martial arts athlete, he experienced many pains and hardships, and suffered many loneliness and loneliness. The pain caused by practice still afflicts the sea. Whenever the weather changes suddenly and it rains repeatedly, there are almost no painless joints on the sea.
In order to understand the essence of "Mantis Boxing" more accurately, Yu Hai once lived in a room with hundreds of mantises, studied every move of this insect and learned the essentials of "Mantis Boxing".
In 1980s, as the captain and head coach of Shandong Wushu Team, Yu Hai often trained with students. The environment was not as good as it is now. Most students are outdoors, climbing mountains and running. Leading the students to run on the nearby mountain, Yu Hai found many mantises on the mountain, so he caught a few during the break. The students were very curious when they saw the coach catching mantis. After Yu Hai told them his purpose, the students also used the training break to help him catch mantis. Many hands make light work, so that Yu Jiping can take a dozen to dozens of mantis back to the dormitory every day.
Look at Yu Hai's dormitory again. The room was crawling with mantis. There are hundreds at most on tables, mosquito nets and lampshades. On the floor, the body of mantis often appears. After all, the room is occupied and not suitable for these little guys.
At that time, the greatest pleasure in peacetime was to tease mantis. I've heard of people who raise and fight cricket, but I've never seen anyone who teases mantis. Yu Hai was alone in the dormitory, so he fought mantis with a piece of grass. You look at me. Look. Don't think he is having fun. In fact, he is interacting with mantis. Every movement of mantis, how to attack, how to defend, where to turn his head and where to move his body, are printed in Yu Hai's mind. According to the mantis's reaction and movements, Yu Hai devoted himself to research, repeated practice and summary, and finally improved and innovated the original "mantis boxing". With his efforts, "mantis boxing" has been developed and carried forward. He is also known as the master of mantis boxing.
Careless little hero.
When it comes to martial arts, we have to mention the film Shaolin Temple. That is a movie with martial arts players as the main actors. Of course, the actors include Jet Li, a world-famous action star. When it comes to Jet Li, Yu Hai always calls him "Xiaojie". The last time I saw Xiaojie was when we recorded Art Life together in Beijing.
Actually, it's not the first time that Yu Hai and Jet Li met while filming Shaolin Temple. In 1970s, the door of China was slowly opened to the world. Yu Hai has led many China Wushu delegations to visit foreign countries. One of the members of China Wushu delegation is Jet Li, who won the national Wushu competition. At that time, Jet Li was still a child in his early 10, and he had a lot of troubles when he visited abroad.
Yu Hai is notoriously strict, and the punishment given to him is very reassuring. It happened that he met a naughty boy like Jet Li. Before going abroad, the coach explained to the team members. After going out, if someone asks you a question and you don't know how to answer it, you interrupt others and say, "It's a beautiful day today …". I can hardly do it. When Jet Li arrived in the United States from Mexico, he found something different as soon as he arrived at his residence. Only the captain's room has a fruit basket, but the player's room doesn't. So Jet Li used his head and said loudly in the room, it's unfair and unequal. Why is there no fruit basket? After he shouted, there was really an extra fruit basket in each room. At that time, Yu Hai wondered why there was no room when I first went, and there was a fruit basket two days later. Jet Li kept this secret until he started his own company and made a movie. Jet Li invited Yu to participate in the martial arts action design of Tai San Feng, which was a slip of the tongue when chatting with Yu. Yu Hai couldn't laugh or cry after listening, and Yu Hai also participated in the filming of Shaolin Temple because of this visit. On the way, the deputy general manager of Hongkong Yindu organization noticed him and Jet Li.
A few years later, when the organization planned to make a film about Shaolin Temple, it thought of them two. No one expected that this film would be an instant hit and keep the highest box office record in Hong Kong for many years. Jackie Chan and Liu Jialiang released Eighteen Martial Arts and Dragon Master at the same time. The investment was 10 times that of Shaolin Temple, but the box office was far behind.
postscript
The wall clock in the living room rang 12, and my conversation with Yu Hai ended. During the conversation, Yu Hai's lover kept asking me to eat some fruit and drink some water. Finally, I had to stay for dinner, but I couldn't help it, so we found a small restaurant to eat hot pot. When eating, I can feel that Yu Hai cares about people. He knows what his lover likes to eat and what he doesn't like to eat, and he will ask my advice and ask me if I have any taboos. I also put some vegetables in my lover's dishes from time to time. A martial arts Shandong man with such a delicate mind. But in the curling steam from the hot pot, I vaguely saw his hands shaking. I don't know if it was left by years of strenuous exercise.
He and his lover stood by the side of the road and sent me to a taxi, then called me back. The driver asked me before the car drove to 10 meter. Isn't that the man who has been playing the monk? I smiled, yes. The driver said with a surprised face that he used to live in Jinan.
The hurried trip left me no time to see the beautiful Jinan and enjoy the happiness brought by the spring water. But in this city, I saw the ordinary life of a generation of Wulin masters.