Internal strength: efforts to exercise internal organs of the body. Internal strength is formed by practicing qi, which pays attention to breathing and breathing, adopts abdominal breathing, concentrates on work step by step, so as to achieve the purpose of exercising the internal organs. Wushu can improve endurance, combat effectiveness and strong self-protection function.
Speaking of internal skills, you may think of those mysterious things in The Legend of the Condor Heroes Eight Dragons. Many people say that internal strength is nonsense. So is there such a thing as internal strength? Of course, the answer is yes. This article is called an introduction to internal work. If there is no internal skill, it is also a brief introduction to X ~ ~, then I will talk about it. Let's clarify a fact first. Lightness and hard qigong are not internal skills. Although these two kinds of kungfu use Qi, they are not used systematically. Compared with internal work, I prefer external work. Heavy work focuses on the body, while light work focuses on the waist and legs. Their qi is naturally formed in long-term exercise, not specially practiced. Let me explain one by one:
First, lightness skill. There are many ways to practice lightness skill, most of which are gradual. For example, use a large bamboo basket (about 2 meters in diameter) filled with sand. Walk on the edge of the basket and run when you are skilled. The requirement is not to step over the basket. Of course, in the beginning, this requirement is easy to achieve. Then take the sand out of the basket with a bowl and run. You can dig out a bowl of sand if you are skilled ... If you practice like this, you will be as light as a swallow when all the sand in the basket is hollowed out. In this process, you will naturally form an air. As the saying goes, "lift the spirit, fit the intellectual man fit". But don't try, because no matter how you practice, you are unlikely to reach the standard, because there are some tips you can't say. Anyone who knows these tricks of using qi and practices them hard will be as light as a swallow at most 1 year.
Second, work hard. Hard training is mostly to hit various parts of the body with wooden sticks and other things, and use this stimulation to alleviate the pain when the body is hit, which is also called anti-beating practice. The outer skin and flesh are practiced to a certain extent, plus the know-how of hard work and gas. The body also produces a natural internal force.
Maybe you already think these things are amazing, but this is not internal work. Because their anger is natural, not uncontrollable. So, is internal strength magical? From the appearance, yes. Scientifically, no. As Luan Ying said, no one can break the shackles of the laws of natural science. Maybe some things can't be explained by natural science, but in any case, rice flour can't be turned into nuclear weapons. There are limits to internal strength. Through practice, a person can reach all kinds of almost "incredible" levels, but the human body can never beat the plane cannon.
Before talking about internal strength, let's talk about something that natural science can't explain:
First, the acupoints and meridians of the human body. Most westerners don't believe this, while China people basically believe this. Anatomically, it cannot be explained, but the existence of acupoints and meridians is certain. India also has a theory similar to acupuncture points in yoga. Yoga holds that there are 14 life energy points on human spine, and the practice of yoga is to stimulate these 14 energy points, so as to achieve the effect of strengthening the body. China's acupoint theory is more detailed. Acupoints exist not only in the spine, but also in other parts of the body. Meridians play a role similar to programs. Eight strange meridians run through human acupoints.
Second, qi. Many people in China don't believe in gas, mainly because they have never seen it. Of course, qi is invisible. I haven't seen it, but I've experienced it myself. Its existence is also certain. Even Chinese medicine has many theories about qi and blood.
Let's talk about internal strength theory first. Each family's internal strength theory is different, which means that each family's internal strength method is different. There are many martial arts schools in China. There are tai chi, octupole, form and meaning, gossip and so on at home. No matter what kind, there is a so-called "gas fist", and every move must be quiet for a long time. This is the cultivation of internal strength. In jargon, this is called "Gong Zhuang". Junior Gong Zhuang is just to experience Qi. For example, in a certain posture, you should feel the hot air spread from your feet to your waist. If you feel this way, you have practiced correctly, if not, you have practiced wrongly. When you are familiar with the internal force of walking, practice the more advanced Gong Zhuang. At this time, the methods of various factions are involved. How to guide and control one's internal forces, and how to make them run in the body.
The highest state of internal work is called "knowing the body", which means "the body itself knows the movement of Qi". To put it more bluntly, it is called "opening the second pulse of Ren Du". This statement is not unreasonable. People who study Chinese medicine have all studied acupoints, and there is a formula about the sequence and time of qi and blood running in human body. Which viscera to run at noon, which viscera to run at noon ... one day 12 hours so run all over the body. This is a Sunday (congenital big Sunday). This week was born to keep running. It takes an hour for a person who practices internal skills to control the internal forces to run quickly in the body to complete the operation that should be completed in one day. Can he still be like a normal person? And this Sunday (Sunday the day after tomorrow) is divided into two kinds, one is a big Sunday and the other is a small Sunday. Small Sunday means that the control of qi and blood only bypasses Ren Du (starting at Baihui point on the top of the head and ending at Yin Hui point on the crotch). The middle line in front of the body is ren meridian, and the middle line behind it is du meridian), and the long work is fast and slow. Big Sunday refers to controlling qi and blood to bypass all meridians of the whole body, fast and slow. This level of internal cultivation can only be achieved by people who know the body.
People who achieve "body knowledge" really give people an unfathomable feeling. There was a famous Taiji master (deceased) who was over 1.6 meters tall. Before his death (when he was over 80 years old), a strong man with a height of 1.9 meters pressed his arm with both hands and pressed him with all his strength. The old man just gave a cry and ejected the strong man more than 2 meters with internal force. This is the power of knowing the body.
In addition, there is also an internal skill that is not used to hit people. Wu Tangmen has a kind of kung fu called "Cold and Summer Iron Cloth Kung Fu", which was founded by Zhang Sanfeng. Practicing this kind of kung fu can make people not afraid of cold and heat, and they can travel around the world in four seasons with only their clothes on. This kind of internal strength involves not only the theory mentioned above, but also the unique world outlook and health preservation theory of Taoism. I won't repeat it here. But again, there is a limit to internal strength. Like I am in Changchun now, it often snows and the weather is cold, but I still only wear shirts and coats, not sweaters and down jackets. Iron cloth shirts are tougher than me in hot and cold weather, but it is impossible to explore the South Pole with only a pair of shorts.
The above explanation of internal strength comes from books and folk legends, without textual research and scientific basis.
Internal strength comes from China Wushu, and there are many profound points worthy of in-depth study and textual research.