Great Master of Baguazhang LU ZIJIAN
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Lu Zijian, 115, is a
living example
of how the
mastery of internal martial arts can bring a long and healthy life, at 114; Lu is
still very healthy and
practices everyday Baguazhang.
According
to official sources such as “Sports Publications of China”, Lu Zijian
was born
in 1893, Yichang, a city at the border of Yangtze
River.
His family was already well known in martial arts and Chinese
Traditional
Medicine
circles.
His
grandfather was a high rank military official and was sentenced to
death for
having released the troops of a rebellious general who was attempting
to invade
the Province of Sichuan.
The
father
of Lu Zijian was a bodyguard and used to escort various expeditions as
many martial
arts experts along the Yangtze River.
Lu
started martial art at the early age of 7. When he was 20, he decided
to left
his native city for Wudang mountain, to learn internal styles
from a Taoist
monk of the Zixiao
Temple
(Xu Benshan) and later he spent also eight
years in the Emei mountains of Sichuan County.
Wudang
mountains - The Daoist master of
Lu Zijian: XU BENSHAN
Lu Benshan or
also
called Qianyi
Zhenren, was
an
authentic master of Wudang
internal arts and had inherited many techniques kept secret from the
public
because of their efficiency: such as the use of rings, hidden in both
sleeves. In short distance
these rings can be used to block and counterattack against empty hand
or
weapon
attacks but in further distance they can be thrown thus extending the
reach of
its user. Xu was able to manage 10 rings and each ring was weighting
around 0.58 Kg. But Daoist Xu was also very famous for his
dexterity in Wudang spear, (nearly 4 meters long).
Emei mountains - The Baguazhang master
of
Lu Zijian: LI CHANGYE
Li Changye
was called ""the
Longevity Monk," who learned directly form the
creator of Baguazhang, Dong Haichuan. Li used to live in the Nine Gray Bears Cave called
also Meeting Fairies
Cave
on Emei
Mountain,
exiled from the capital after having killed several foreign aggressors
during
the Yihetuan Boxers Rebellion.
He transmitted all his Baguazhang
knowledge to Lu and empowered him as the Third Generation Baguazhang
Master.
"The
Yangtze River
Great
Chivalrous Man" unknown
during almost one century
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Lu Zijian
armed with his
extraordinary fighting skills and TCM knowledge worked as a Traditional
Medicine Doctor specialized in bone settling in his home town, then he
works as
a Wushu instructor in the army and as an escort on board Yangtze cargo
carriers
in the same way as his ancestors did.
He remained almost unknown until the
80s where with the new opening reforms of China,
martial artists were then
authorized to demonstrate and develop their activities. Starting from
this time
Lu created dozens of Wushu Training Associations
and Ortho-
paedic
Clinics in all
over the country.
92
years old Gold Medallist at The China National
Competition of Martial Arts (1986)
In 1985, at
92, Lu was still sufficiently
strong to participate in the Chinese National Championship of Wushu, as
the
member of the Sichuan Province Team, he was Gold Medallist with his
Baguazhang
demonstration.
Nowadays Lu Zhijian is still a very
active person within Wushu circles and as Qi Gong national consultant
in various
international organizations.
His long
life of Baguazhang
practice as a mental physical therapeutic exercise has gifted him a
very long,
happy and healthy life. He still enjoys plainly of his five
external senses: hearing,
sight, taste, touch and smell are all very good and his steps are so
firm that
even several young men cannot move him as they attempted to push him.
Lu
Zijian and his friend Huo Yuanjia
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Lu
Zijian Taiyi Video
Healing
and fighting daoist training methods of Lu Zijian are presented in
this video by Lu himself.
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