Mao Hongen

### Later Years; Huo Style Baji

Huo's Baji Boxing was introduced to Fushun in the 1950s, and the first teacher **Mao Hongen** made outstanding contributions. Mao Hongen (1914~2003) learned foreign boxing from a young age. In 1933, he was selected as a staff member of the General Affairs Office of the Imperial Palace of Changchun. Post: The disciple who enters the room, practices Bajiquan, and focuses more on "bag punching", "pumping piles", "relying on piles", "holding the ball", "carrying the ball", "palm board", and "beating bow ", "Smashing the stool (throwing iron sand palm)", the Bajiquan skill training method is basically completed. During a visit to the National Day of the Puppet Manchukuo in the 1930s, Teacher Mao saw a Japanese soldier beat a poor Chinese man with a war scabbard. He suddenly got up, grabbed the scabbard, and kicked the Japanese soldier. The Japanese soldier saw him wearing a palace uniform. Hold your head and scurry. While working in the imperial palace, someone told the Japanese staff "Masao Iwasa" that Teacher Mao was a disciple of Huo Diange, and "Masao Iwasa" was a master of Japanese judo 8th dan and never convinced Chinese **martial arts** . One day he fell from behind Teacher Mao's neck and hugged him. Teacher Mao became angry and threw the Japanese from the back to the front with an Octopus fist. The Japanese became unconvinced again and were thrown out again. After a few rounds, Mr. Mao was finally thrown out dozens of somersaults in a row, and he was not allowed to stand. A few days later, the Japanese "Masao Iwasa" brought in his teacher "Yamada" in the eighth-dan karate, and competed with Master Mao. In the reception room of the General Affairs Office, "Yamada" was caught by Teacher Mao and hugged his elbow with Bajiquan. He squeezed in, repeatedly fell "Yamada", "Yamada" got up and continued to fall, refused to admit defeat. Teacher Mao forcefully threw "Yamada" onto the long mahogany chair in the reception room and smashed the chair. Then "Yamada" gave up. Because the chair could not be repaired, the General Affairs Office bought the chair again.

  In 1954, Master Mao went to Fushun to earn a living. Professor Zeng's protégé Fang Zhiyu was his disciple. His boxing method inherited the simple legacy of Huo's Bajiquan. Later, due to historical reasons, Master Mao was labeled as a rightist and sent to the countryside. When picking soil for the construction of the reservoir, some people showed themselves, picking the soil and playing the basket, Mao Shih, throwing away the poles, holding the soil basket with both hands, and going back and forth several times faster than others. Everyone was amazed when they saw it. The skill is so great that he has 44 jins in one hand and 88 jins in both hands.

    In 1979, Master Mao returned to the city, and his fame became very popular in Fushun Wulin. I met in Master Mao in 1984, and I met each other late. In the early years, I had practiced many kinds of foreign boxing and equipment, but I couldn't be true in terms of strength. After studying with Master Mao, I learned the Huo’s Bajiquan, guided by the teacher, and found a simple way to exert strength, quickly gaining internal strength in a short period of time, using the waist as the axis to develop the strength of the waist. (I have studied martial arts for many years, but rarely Waist axis force), the force is greatly improved. In the 1970s, Master Mao once wrote a book about Taoist "Four Meridian Movement Hunyuan Gong" exercises to introduce everyone to practice. This exercise is widely promoted in the city employee sanatorium, and everyone has a significant recovery effect after training. This exercise not only has health care effects, but also releases internal energy. "If you want to master the boxing method, you need to have any supervision, take the pulse and practice, and revolve in it." On the basis of Bajiquan, Master Mao worked hard to study this method. You can practice both ups and downs. The internal organs can play a massage role. Feeling angry, up and down, left and right, can be turned inward, it is really a wonderful method.

  Master Mao once created his "eight-handed absolute". This eight-handed move is the key to controlling the enemy. Only one move can kill or maimed or make people faint, but this move must be effective in order to be effective. The existing dictated heart tactics remain in the world. Master Mao has a unique understanding of the essence of Bajiquan: "splitting, smashing, smashing, picking, touching, squeezing, leaning on". Only one or two formulas can be used for demonstration and understanding, easy to learn. Master Mao not only has attainments in Bajiquan, but also has great inheritance and development in Taijiquan. When he was in the imperial palace in his early years, he learned the 85 styles of Yang Taichi Taijiquan from Chen Youmin in the palace. Chen studied with Yang Chengfu when he was in the Beijing Forbidden City Fire Brigade. This boxing master likes to practice all his life. When we met, Master Mao blended health-preserving and fitness-strength techniques. He used Bajiquan theory and Taijiquan theory to talk to each other, practice each other, and use the two boxing alternately. He was really a master of martial arts.

  Master Mao often teaches us in martial arts, "There are hard and no soft is a hard fist, there is a soft or no hard is a soft fist, and both soft and hard are a good fist." When using equipment to practice, Master Mao teaches us to start from the light and reach the weight. . Only when you use it lightly, you have to use it quickly, and swing it freely, in order to win with skill. When practicing boxing, it is necessary to combine movement and static alternately, one tightening one loosening, one sending and one closing, one opening and one closing. When you practice accurately, you should experience the advanced stage of boxing. The way of boxing is "opening and closing of virtual and solid" is the classic of boxing. .

  This experience shows that there are many misunderstandings in my country's folk martial arts (except for majors) at this stage, losing to boxing, losing to taekwondo, and wrestling. The ancients’ "strikes to injure people", "strikes for a long time", and "flicks and sends out more than a thousand people" are rare in the world. Since the 1950s, folk martial arts practitioners mostly strive to strengthen their bodies and defend themselves. There are very few people, a good teacher is rarely a good student, and a good student is rarely a good teacher. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the political situation changed. Most martial artists were amateurs, and many people missed the opportunity. After the reform and opening up, few people can earn a living by martial arts in Northeast China. The martial arts venues and equipment are inadequate. Most people only practice routines and do not seek skills. They often practice self-study without fighting. One is to practice it for outsiders, and the other is that there are many self-defense tactics and few attacking tactics. They are only for people to watch, and they don’t know its usefulness. They lose the anti-antigenic appearance of national martial arts, charging and defending the country. It has been pure skill for decades. It is a pity that people have been the first to take a lot of shots. There are very few who can really fight and win. That's why there is a loss. It is a pity. To promote Chinese martial arts, it is necessary to strengthen the practice and confrontation practice of kung fu, fully master the four major skills of "kick, hit, wrestle, and take", and flexible use is the real Chinese kung fu. These four skills cannot be separated, and only after proficiency can you experience the advanced stage of long-term attack. Over the years, under the guidance and inspiration of Master Mao, I have a new understanding and improvement of the true meaning of Chinese Kung Fu.

  In the early 1990s, Master Mao passed the "Yin-Yang Yi Qigong" created to his disciples. This gong is of great benefit to the health of middle-aged and elderly people. This gong is the crystallization of Master Mao’s lifelong martial arts practice. , Which made him healthy at the age of 88, agile, piercing eyes, not deaf or dazzling, he reads and reads newspapers, and never wears reading glasses. This technique is now widely circulated among the disciples. Master Mao died in the winter of 2003 at the age of 89. I would like to take this as a nostalgia.

  The Bajiquan disciples of Mao Hongen in Fushun City include: Fang Zhiyu, You Baoguang, Mao Xin, Wu Yingnan, He Yufa, Ju Dexin