Shi Zhenjun 释 贞 俊
"In motion he is like a wave and at rest as a mountain, like a monkey in the rise and fall like a magpie. In the self-installing it's like a cock and standing like a pine-Stay, with the clamping force as a sheet and turning like a wheel, he is quick like the wind and controlled like an eagle, light as a sheet and heavy as iron. "
Of the outstanding masters of the Shaolin temple are the records of their kung fu film before the middle of last century, an absolute rarity. Thus, only this description is to get an idea of the to receive special features in the style of kung fu master Zhenjun, whose life extended beyond the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese Republic. Today, we fortunately have the means of cinematic documentation available to the master of kung fu - if they are ready to show it - to hold and own vision and assessment to the public.
Zhenjun, with the secular surname Li (李), was 1865 in the village Yuwan (玉 湾村), which belongs to the circle Yanshi (偃师 县) Chinese province of Henan, was born. 1872 was Yanshi it in a severe drought that led to high indebtedness of the municipalities and the people barely had enough to survive. His mother sent him reluctantly out of the house and brought him to the "Monastery of the stone sink" (石沟 寺 shigou si) to leave him there as a student in the custody of the dharma Chunyang (淳 阳 法师). This gave the young novice named Zhenjun. 1879 Zhenjun came to the Shaolin monastery and asked the Grand Master Jiran (寂然, 号 晓 空) as his students learn Kungfu may be. He practiced diligently the fist forms Dahong Quan (大 洪拳) Tongbi Quan (Through arm boxing), Pao Quan (Cannon Fist), Xinyiba (intention to) und zahlreiche Waffenformen wie den Bronze-Hammer (pink woodsorrel tong chui), die Mondsichel-Schaufel (Yueya Chan yueya chan) den Doppelhaken (hook shuang gou), den Frühling-Herbst-Säbel (Spring and Autumn Broadsword chun qiu dadao), die Neungliedrige Peitsche (whip jiu jie bian), die 3 Meter lange Schnurpeitsche (string whip sheng bian) uvm Zudem meisterte er Qigong (Qigong), die "Kultivierung des Qi "und Qinggong (dodge), die" Kultivierung der Leichtigkeit ". Sein Kungfu wurde so hervorragend, that he could fly high mountain streams, rock walls, run up and jump even from the state to the ceiling. People called him "Feimaotui (飞毛腿, literally, flying hair leg, in a figurative sense, chasing sprint,). If he were alive today, he might as Traceur a" Shaolin parkour "or" Shaolin free-runner "... known
Dechan Shi said:" A month before his death Zhenjun led before the porch of the Abbot, the cord whip. What moves! What spins for "The golden silk worm Silk, "" The snake licks, "" thunder, lightning and fire! The audience was very dizzy in mind, they clapped their hands and cheered. Even as the crowd of monks applauded him, was heard with one voice a "Aaaaah" Zhenjun had jumped to the top of the roof ridge of Abthalle. The monks and pilgrims were not a little surprised and shouted in unison: "Divine Art Divine Art! . '"
Not only Shi Zhenjun skills in the martial arts were outstanding, but his high ethics, and he taught the monks and the trailer: "Everyone Shaolin disciple must seriously consider the rules of martial arts and protect. It is prohibited to send the weak to cheat to do damage to impede the people and to rob. Anyone who acts contrary to these specifications shall be punished with utmost severity and excluded ".
He wrote the following: "In general I look at the old man as my parents, my siblings the same age as the boys as my children. Why should they ever hurt? "
His teaching was very strict, but Zhenjun loved his students as if they were his sons. In all Members of the order, he enjoyed great respect and appreciation. Was there in the convent dispute, strife or small fights, you had to see him or hear him snort before only dissatisfaction, then all the rage disappeared as the clouds went resolution and the opponents apart piece. All those supporters within and outside the monastery, who learned kung fu from him, called him, therefore, the "principal champion on the altar of Kungfu".
the early twenties of the 19th Century there were four, five "little monks" (小和尚) in the temple. "Little monks" called the children from their parents - mostly from social deprivation - were taken to the temple. They enjoyed as the "young shoots" of the old Shaolin Temple tree the special attention and care of the older monks. To raise these offspring and the attendant needs to be fair, special masters were invited from outside the temple, should inform them. One of these "little monks" Diao Junqing ( 刁俊卿 ), who was meeting them at the age of 4 years in the Shaolin Temple, and had received the Buddhist name Xingshu (行书). How it came about that he was a few years later adopted by Zhenjun as a student is in one of Diao Shanduo ( 刁 山 多, son later in the lay state returned Diao Junqing) held the traditional history
That from the outside in the temple prayer, teach the children taught both martial arts and literature. One day he wanted to go out and carried before the "little monks" to carry out a homework assignment: "In three days I come back, every one of you has to learn the meaning Lankavatara Sutra by heart." After two days now the teacher came back and met the children who practiced Kungfu not yet learned the Sutra, but just fooling around and playing outdoors. At present, the teacher began to beat each of the children with his tobacco pouch on the head, that it is a "light bulb" ('电 灯泡' diandengpao) get . Zhenjun, who had seen the whole thing through the curtain of his room came out, held his teacher and looked at the result of what had happened to.
He asked: "Do the Can Lankavatara Sutra by heart?"
Each of the little monks bowed his head and said nothing, only Xingshu said: "I can them by heart! "Zhenjun let him recite the sutra, and the boy she recited word for word without a mistake, so that the teacher in an embarrassing situation became very embarrassed and was. Zhenjun said only: "This child is with me" From then on, followed Xingshu Zhenjun master, when he was 7 or 8 years old.
With Xingshu and four others were novices Shi Zhenjun 1936 on the occasion of the visit of General Qiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi 蒋介石) in the Shaolin Temple a demonstration of Shaolin Kungfu. While today, political and other celebrities at the Shaolin Temple is in and out, was in those years of civil war the interest and the visit of such high-level politician and the military more of a specialty.
master Zhenjun knew each other not only with the martial arts but also with Tuina (massage), acupuncture and moxibustion, Dianxue (manipulation of the vital points of the body), pulse diagnosis and the compilation of recipes. Often, he provided in his small treatment room his brothers, if they had been injured in the kung fu training. He had many secret recipes and also produced at its own cost drugs. From the monastery, he went in all directions to the patients home if they needed his help. It is said that he never accepted gifts from them. To its use of formulas that he used in case of injuries or strokes that has been one of Fuyu (福 裕), the abbot of the Shaolin Temple at the time of the Song Dynasty developed "Shaolin Spirit patch" (少林神 膏 shaolin shen gao). It has been used in over 1,000 cases of Zhenjun and was known in a radius of 50 km around the monastery.
As a connoisseur of the three essential elements of the Shaolin Culture - Chan Buddhism, kung fu and medicine - and as one of the most prestigious and highly respected monks Shi Zhenjun took more than 30 years, the responsibility for the affairs of the temple. In 1939 he died at the age of 74.
addition Xingshu (行书) and Dechan (徳 禅) were also Sujing (素 静), Suyin (素 印), Suguang (素 光), Sushuai (素 帅) and Suzhao (素 肇) and Zhang Guangjun (张广俊) to Shi Zhenjun students.
Suguang Shi, born 1891, came at the age of 16 years to the monastery to Zhenjun and was regarded as an exceptionally gifted students. He died in 1917 - so at the age of 26 years - from pneumonia.
mourned in a special measure to Shi Shi Dechan Zhenjun. After Dechan Shi Suguang, the Master, to whom he was brought as a child, having lost his untimely death, became his Zhenjun Tonsurmeister. His life was full of reverence and admiration Dechan for the "grandfather-master." In his grief, he wrote. "The ancestor came from poverty and a mountain of tears supernatural wisdom, he opened the understanding for the difficult sutras. His daily bread was as hard as 100 carrying sticks and bitter as the Huanglian plant. His outstanding Kungfu is among thousands leader. Countless monks, he helped with his medical recovery. His ability is deeply revered. His descendants promise to stick to his role model ... "
Shi Dechan led the big ceremony, with the Shi Zhenjun was buried away in a small cemetery about 1.5 kilometers from the Shaolin Temple.
Of the outstanding masters of the Shaolin temple are the records of their kung fu film before the middle of last century, an absolute rarity. Thus, only this description is to get an idea of the to receive special features in the style of kung fu master Zhenjun, whose life extended beyond the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Chinese Republic. Today, we fortunately have the means of cinematic documentation available to the master of kung fu - if they are ready to show it - to hold and own vision and assessment to the public.
Zhenjun, with the secular surname Li (李), was 1865 in the village Yuwan (玉 湾村), which belongs to the circle Yanshi (偃师 县) Chinese province of Henan, was born. 1872 was Yanshi it in a severe drought that led to high indebtedness of the municipalities and the people barely had enough to survive. His mother sent him reluctantly out of the house and brought him to the "Monastery of the stone sink" (石沟 寺 shigou si) to leave him there as a student in the custody of the dharma Chunyang (淳 阳 法师). This gave the young novice named Zhenjun. 1879 Zhenjun came to the Shaolin monastery and asked the Grand Master Jiran (寂然, 号 晓 空) as his students learn Kungfu may be. He practiced diligently the fist forms Dahong Quan (大 洪拳) Tongbi Quan (Through arm boxing), Pao Quan (Cannon Fist), Xinyiba (intention to) und zahlreiche Waffenformen wie den Bronze-Hammer (pink woodsorrel tong chui), die Mondsichel-Schaufel (Yueya Chan yueya chan) den Doppelhaken (hook shuang gou), den Frühling-Herbst-Säbel (Spring and Autumn Broadsword chun qiu dadao), die Neungliedrige Peitsche (whip jiu jie bian), die 3 Meter lange Schnurpeitsche (string whip sheng bian) uvm Zudem meisterte er Qigong (Qigong), die "Kultivierung des Qi "und Qinggong (dodge), die" Kultivierung der Leichtigkeit ". Sein Kungfu wurde so hervorragend, that he could fly high mountain streams, rock walls, run up and jump even from the state to the ceiling. People called him "Feimaotui (飞毛腿, literally, flying hair leg, in a figurative sense, chasing sprint,). If he were alive today, he might as Traceur a" Shaolin parkour "or" Shaolin free-runner "... known
Dechan Shi said:" A month before his death Zhenjun led before the porch of the Abbot, the cord whip. What moves! What spins for "The golden silk worm Silk, "" The snake licks, "" thunder, lightning and fire! The audience was very dizzy in mind, they clapped their hands and cheered. Even as the crowd of monks applauded him, was heard with one voice a "Aaaaah" Zhenjun had jumped to the top of the roof ridge of Abthalle. The monks and pilgrims were not a little surprised and shouted in unison: "Divine Art Divine Art! . '"
Not only Shi Zhenjun skills in the martial arts were outstanding, but his high ethics, and he taught the monks and the trailer: "Everyone Shaolin disciple must seriously consider the rules of martial arts and protect. It is prohibited to send the weak to cheat to do damage to impede the people and to rob. Anyone who acts contrary to these specifications shall be punished with utmost severity and excluded ".
He wrote the following: "In general I look at the old man as my parents, my siblings the same age as the boys as my children. Why should they ever hurt? "
His teaching was very strict, but Zhenjun loved his students as if they were his sons. In all Members of the order, he enjoyed great respect and appreciation. Was there in the convent dispute, strife or small fights, you had to see him or hear him snort before only dissatisfaction, then all the rage disappeared as the clouds went resolution and the opponents apart piece. All those supporters within and outside the monastery, who learned kung fu from him, called him, therefore, the "principal champion on the altar of Kungfu".
the early twenties of the 19th Century there were four, five "little monks" (小和尚) in the temple. "Little monks" called the children from their parents - mostly from social deprivation - were taken to the temple. They enjoyed as the "young shoots" of the old Shaolin Temple tree the special attention and care of the older monks. To raise these offspring and the attendant needs to be fair, special masters were invited from outside the temple, should inform them. One of these "little monks" Diao Junqing ( 刁俊卿 ), who was meeting them at the age of 4 years in the Shaolin Temple, and had received the Buddhist name Xingshu (行书). How it came about that he was a few years later adopted by Zhenjun as a student is in one of Diao Shanduo ( 刁 山 多, son later in the lay state returned Diao Junqing) held the traditional history
That from the outside in the temple prayer, teach the children taught both martial arts and literature. One day he wanted to go out and carried before the "little monks" to carry out a homework assignment: "In three days I come back, every one of you has to learn the meaning Lankavatara Sutra by heart." After two days now the teacher came back and met the children who practiced Kungfu not yet learned the Sutra, but just fooling around and playing outdoors. At present, the teacher began to beat each of the children with his tobacco pouch on the head, that it is a "light bulb" ('电 灯泡' diandengpao) get . Zhenjun, who had seen the whole thing through the curtain of his room came out, held his teacher and looked at the result of what had happened to.
He asked: "Do the Can Lankavatara Sutra by heart?"
Each of the little monks bowed his head and said nothing, only Xingshu said: "I can them by heart! "Zhenjun let him recite the sutra, and the boy she recited word for word without a mistake, so that the teacher in an embarrassing situation became very embarrassed and was. Zhenjun said only: "This child is with me" From then on, followed Xingshu Zhenjun master, when he was 7 or 8 years old.
With Xingshu and four others were novices Shi Zhenjun 1936 on the occasion of the visit of General Qiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi 蒋介石) in the Shaolin Temple a demonstration of Shaolin Kungfu. While today, political and other celebrities at the Shaolin Temple is in and out, was in those years of civil war the interest and the visit of such high-level politician and the military more of a specialty.
master Zhenjun knew each other not only with the martial arts but also with Tuina (massage), acupuncture and moxibustion, Dianxue (manipulation of the vital points of the body), pulse diagnosis and the compilation of recipes. Often, he provided in his small treatment room his brothers, if they had been injured in the kung fu training. He had many secret recipes and also produced at its own cost drugs. From the monastery, he went in all directions to the patients home if they needed his help. It is said that he never accepted gifts from them. To its use of formulas that he used in case of injuries or strokes that has been one of Fuyu (福 裕), the abbot of the Shaolin Temple at the time of the Song Dynasty developed "Shaolin Spirit patch" (少林神 膏 shaolin shen gao). It has been used in over 1,000 cases of Zhenjun and was known in a radius of 50 km around the monastery.
As a connoisseur of the three essential elements of the Shaolin Culture - Chan Buddhism, kung fu and medicine - and as one of the most prestigious and highly respected monks Shi Zhenjun took more than 30 years, the responsibility for the affairs of the temple. In 1939 he died at the age of 74.
addition Xingshu (行书) and Dechan (徳 禅) were also Sujing (素 静), Suyin (素 印), Suguang (素 光), Sushuai (素 帅) and Suzhao (素 肇) and Zhang Guangjun (张广俊) to Shi Zhenjun students.
Suguang Shi, born 1891, came at the age of 16 years to the monastery to Zhenjun and was regarded as an exceptionally gifted students. He died in 1917 - so at the age of 26 years - from pneumonia.
mourned in a special measure to Shi Shi Dechan Zhenjun. After Dechan Shi Suguang, the Master, to whom he was brought as a child, having lost his untimely death, became his Zhenjun Tonsurmeister. His life was full of reverence and admiration Dechan for the "grandfather-master." In his grief, he wrote. "The ancestor came from poverty and a mountain of tears supernatural wisdom, he opened the understanding for the difficult sutras. His daily bread was as hard as 100 carrying sticks and bitter as the Huanglian plant. His outstanding Kungfu is among thousands leader. Countless monks, he helped with his medical recovery. His ability is deeply revered. His descendants promise to stick to his role model ... "
Shi Dechan led the big ceremony, with the Shi Zhenjun was buried away in a small cemetery about 1.5 kilometers from the Shaolin Temple.
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