Ba Duanjin's Emotional Prose

I'm staying at a villa hotel. Walking into the villa hall, you are greeted by a beautiful calligraphy with a mirror screen. When you look closer, it turns out to be the formula of Ba Duan Jin Kung Fu: "Hold three jiao in both hands; Opening the bow left and right is like shooting an eagle; Regulating the spleen and stomach must be carried out alone; Looking back after five pains and seven injuries; Shake your head and wag your tail to get rid of your heart; Hands full of feet and strong kidneys and waist; Fists and bright lights increase strength; Behind it, nothing goes well. " I was amazed at the elegant style of the mirror screen, and even more impressed by the calligraphy of this seal script as a soft brocade, which made people fall in love at first sight. A closer look shows that this seal script is written on a tapestry, spinning the Preface to Mawangdui, and there are silk painting figures practicing "Ba Duan Brocade" on the tapestry, which is really wonderful. Perhaps my bones are deeply permeated with a strong flavor of traditional Chinese medicine, or maybe I inherited it from my old father of traditional Chinese medicine, which makes me have special feelings for traditional Chinese medicine. Soon, the short "eight brocade" has been memorized.

Once again, I met Ba Duanjin, a proud female disciple who went to Shaoguan to visit her father, Dr. Jiang Hanqi, and now a famous old Chinese medicine lady in Shaocheng.

Last winter, we finally contacted my father's favorite apprentice, Sister Xia, and made an appointment to visit Shaoguan. On this day, four sisters Jiang drove back to Shao from Shenzhen and came home with a personal letter specially bought from Hong Kong. When we came to Xia Jie's home, we heard a melodious and ethereal national music "Mountain Flowing Water" coming from the living room. We pushed the door and went in, only to see Xia Jie practicing martial arts, so we sat on the sidelines and didn't dare to disturb. At the end of the song, Xia Jie's cheeks were flushed and his forehead was slightly sweaty. She walked up to the fifth sister who looks like her father and couldn't help saying, "Teacher, you are so much like a teacher ..." Suddenly, our eyes were filled with tears of excitement. ...

After warm and cordial greetings, Xia Jie told us that she had just practiced the "Eight Brocade" taught by her father himself. In Xia Jie's narrative, the people and scenery of that year naturally floated between our thoughts …

That year, Xia Jie, who had just graduated from a Chinese medicine school with excellent results, was full of ambition, thinking that he would stay and teach, but he was not allowed to stay. It is said that she only accepted boys at that time, and she was depressed. Xia Jie came to my father's clinic to complain. My father is demonstrating "Ba Duan Jin" Qigong to several patients. When she saw the arrival of Xia Jie with melancholy eyes, she went over to her and said, "Don't worry, don't worry! Come on, let me teach you a set of' Baduanjin' Qigong first. " After her father taught Xia Jie to practice the routine of Ba Duan Jin, he told her to remember the formula of Ba Duan Jin Kung Fu before coming to him. The clever Xia Jie recited the eight-paragraph formula fluently in the blink of an eye. At this time, my father borrowed eight paragraphs to solve the confused Xia Jie.

When Xia Jie came to his father's clinic again, he saw that his father was practicing Ba Duan Jin and was still mumbling the formula of Ba Duan Jin: Being a man is like "holding the sky with both hands"; Choose a good target, such as "opening the bow left and right like shooting an eagle"; Adjust the mentality of "regulating the spleen and stomach must be mentioned alone"; Take care of the overall situation, such as "five strains and seven injuries looking back"; Eliminate troubles such as "shaking your head and ending your heart"; The basis of the disk is as follows: "hands full of kidneys and waist"; Strive for the upper reaches, such as "clenching fists and glaring to increase strength"; Everything is like "the seven lumps behind the illness have disappeared." When my father saw Xia Jie after practicing this group of Qigong, he kindly said to her, "You can't stay in school. It's not your fault. Social bad habits, improvisation, and learning skills, such as brocade, are expensive for a long time. " After listening to his father's two explanations, Xia Jie got the message and left the clinic with a smile.

This seemingly simple past reflects my father's calm style of dealing with people and contains his deep feelings for his disciples. "Baduanjin" is not only a fitness exercise for breathing, inhaling, exhaling and accepting physiological adjustment of human activities, but also a panacea for calming the nerves and nourishing the heart. To my regret, I couldn't catch up with my father to teach Ba Duan Jin himself. Perhaps, I can only borrow other people's stories to pour a wall in my heart!