Jianghu Martial Arts School [Comprehensive Martial Arts]

Bishan City, Nanhai Province.

Bishan City is on the coast, in a low-latitude area. It is only the beginning of May, and the temperature has started to rise continuously. There are many girls showing their thighs on the street, and it is even more common for old men to chat and play chess shirtless under the trees.

Shen Qingping's dormitory is located on the top floor. The air conditioner promised by the school since the freshman year has not been fulfilled. Seeing that she is about to graduate soon and the new principal takes office, the first fire that is lit is to install air conditioners in all the dormitories.

However, this has nothing to do with Shen Qingping, a prospective college graduate.

The ceiling fan above the head was turning tirelessly, a small electric fan was placed on the table, and a desktop electric fan was placed behind it, blowing against the meat, and the three electric fans working together couldn't dispel the occasional bursts of heat in Shen Qingping's heart.

He spent the whole year of last year preparing for the postgraduate exam. He passed the initial exam after scratching the line. As a result, he was rejected for the re-examination in March this year. Then he was preparing for his graduation thesis and defending it. Until then, he was completely free.

Graduating in less than two months, I haven't found a job yet, no matter how stuffy the dormitory is, it's still a place to shelter from the wind and rain. However, the Residential Committee has issued a notice to graduate on June 25. After the ceremony, all graduates will have to move out of the dormitory. What if they still can't find a job?He is already an adult, so could he move back to the orphanage?

Shen Qingping was an orphan who was abandoned at the gate of the Sunflower Welfare Institute in Bishan City shortly after birth and became a resident staff member of the institute.Perhaps because he knew his status as an orphan, Shen Qingping was very well-behaved since he was a child, and he was loved by his aunts. He was also very grateful for the care of the director and aunts of the orphanage. "Brothers and sisters".

It is also because of this that Shen Qingping knows that Sunflower Welfare Institute is having a difficult time recently.This is a private welfare home. The long-term investors have filed for bankruptcy due to the economic crisis not long ago. The funding chain of the welfare home has been broken, and the payment of staff wages has become a big problem.Shen Qingping originally wanted to return to work in the orphanage after graduation, but now it seems that it is impossible to go back before new investors appear.

As Shen Qingping, who is struggling on the edge of the poverty line, naturally understands the truth that "the world is the biggest food", ideals are necessary, but the premise is to fill the stomach.In order to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, Shen Qingping resigned from her job as a tutor and substitute teacher that she had been leading since her freshman year. She sat and emptied for a whole year and had little savings left. Finding a job is really urgent.

In order to return to the orphanage as a teacher after graduation, and because the college entrance examination results were not very good, Shen Qingping chose Bishan Normal University to major in Chinese language and literature. He was still called Bishan Normal University in his freshman year, and he was officially "upgraded" to Ordinary one.

Although Bishan City is not the capital of Nanhai Province, it is famous all over the country as a tourist attraction "Bishan". In addition, it has a mild climate and flat terrain, a vast area and a large population.

There are many colleges and universities in Bishan City, and Bishan Teacher is really nothing among them. Therefore, Shen Qingping, who is motivated, wants to improve her education through the postgraduate entrance examination of Bishan University. Now this road has been blocked.

It's not that Shen Qingping doesn't work hard, as a top 5 university in the country, Bi University is really difficult to take the exam, even if Shen Qingping has a gender advantage, she was ruthlessly rejected in the re-examination.But Shen Qingping was relieved when she thought that almost all the classmates who re-examinated with her were from School 211.He is not a stubborn person, this way is not going to work, just change the way.

Can't study for postgraduates, can't go back to the orphanage, and the spring recruitment is coming to an end, basically the employers have found satisfactory fresh graduates, so Shen Qingping is really under a lot of pressure.There are six people in the same dormitory, three of them have found jobs, one of them has been admitted to graduate school to continue his studies, and the other is planning to return to his hometown to inherit the family's factory, only Shen Qingping is currently without a job.

The roommates are either going to practice or go on a graduation trip. At this time, only Shen Qingping and the roommate who has tens of millions of property to inherit are left in the stuffy dormitory. The difference is that Shen Qingping is sitting in front of the computer and browsing the recruitment website with a serious face. The recruitment information, while the roommate Zhang Xiaopang was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly.

Pulling down the mouse a little bit, Shen Qingping silently read the recruitment information on the local talent website: "High salary is looking for Chinese teachers for junior high schools in Bishan Wenwu School... High salary is looking for English teachers for high schools in Bishan Martial Arts Academy... Bishan Temple Wushu School high school Chinese teachers Teacher recruitment..."

At a glance, they were all recruitments for cultural teachers from martial arts schools.

Shen Qingping frowned slightly: To be honest, he doesn't really want to be a Chinese teacher at a martial arts school or a so-called civil and martial school. As a native of Bishan, some unfavorable news he heard since childhood made him not very impressed with this kind of school. good.

As for why there are so many martial arts schools in Bishan City, we have to start from 2000 years ago.

Bishan City is famous in Nanhai Province and even the whole country for Bishan. In fact, Bishan is not high and not dangerous. The reason why it is famous is the Bishan Temple built on the top of Bishan.

Bishan Temple has existed for a long time. According to the existing records, it can be traced back to the eastward transmission of Buddhism in the Eastern Han Dynasty.At that time, there was a monk in the West named Zen Master Huifa—of course this is a Chinese translation—who was determined to introduce Buddhism to the East. He took two boxes of scriptures and a camel alone through the vast Gobi Desert and entered the East. There was a mistake in the map or some accident. His original destination was Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but he actually came to Nanhai Province, a land of Nanban, which is [-] miles away from Luoyang.

From India to Luoyang via the Silk Road, it is quite a miracle to be able to reach Nanhai Province, the southernmost tip of China.As for some speculations in later generations, this extremely famous Zen master Huifa is very likely to be an out-and-out super road idiot or something.

At that time, Nanhai Province was remote and sparsely populated, and even they knew little about the culture of the Central Plains people, let alone the more distant Western Buddhism.

At that time, there was a small indigenous country named Min in Nanhai Province.At that time, Zhaoyu was controlled by relatives and eunuchs, and the whole dynasty was in turmoil. All the heroes rose together, with Luoyang as the center, and there were constant disputes in various places. Therefore, even if the emperor who was far away in Luoyang knew the existence of Min Kingdom, he had no heart and power to manage it.

After Zen master Huifa came to Min country, he knew that this place was not Luoyang. When he was about to go north, he passed by the foot of Bishan Mountain, and suddenly saw a golden light coming from the western sky and falling on the top of Bishan Mountain.

Zen Master Huifa was stunned, and rushed up the mountain with a skill that did not meet his age. Fortunately, the mountain was not too high, and his physical fitness was not bad, and there were no accidents on the way.

The top of Bishan is an extremely flat land, with lush greenery and the fragrance of birds and flowers.Faced with this situation, Zen Master Huifa, just like the Buddha who had an epiphany under the bodhi tree, suddenly felt something and decided not to go to Luoyang, but to practice here.

This mountain has no name at all, but the word "Bishan" was created by Zen master Huifa. Because the whole mountain is covered with trees and green like emeralds, it is named after "Bi" and named Bishan.Zen master Huifa established the original Bishan Temple on the top of the mountain, where he preached and developed a group of believers.

After Zen Master Huifa passed away, his disciples were grateful for the kindness of the master who traveled thousands of miles to preach, and they followed the example of the master in the past and went to preach around.Over time, with Bishan Temple as the center, a large number of Buddhists appeared in Nanhai Province and even the surrounding provinces. Although there were several incidents of extermination of Buddhism in the later Central Plains, due to the remoteness of Nanhai Province, it was not too affected. It has continued to this day. It has become the largest religion in Nanhai Province.Although it cannot be said that everyone believes in Buddhism, those who are more particular will set up a small Buddhist hall at home.

Besides, Bishan Temple, since Master Huifa first built Bishan Temple, has experienced countless fires, floods, typhoons, earthquakes, and even wars for thousands of years, and has been rebuilt many times. The temple has been worshiped by countless believers, and there have been many famous Zen masters. There are also many literati in the name of Yamu Bishan Temple who have traveled thousands of miles and left countless calligraphy poems. Not deep.In the Ming Dynasty, there was an emperor who traveled thousands of miles south to visit Bishan Temple to worship Buddha and practice Zen. It was then that the saying "there is Shaolin in the north and Bishan in the south" became popular.

The current Bishan Temple was rebuilt in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Western powers invaded and the brave South China Sea Navy resisted. .Although there were monks in the temple, the temple was severely damaged because the body was incomparable to guns.

After the foreigners left, the local government and devout believers raised money to rebuild Bishan Temple.That is to say, from this time on, with Bishan Temple as the center, a group of martial arts experts gathered at that time, including local folk masters, and Buddhists who came from all over the place in a hurry.

These people with unique skills spontaneously established a guard team, determined to defend Bishan Temple.Not to mention, in the subsequent wars, the guards played a significant role, which enabled Bishan City to survive the subsequent all-out war.

When the era of peace comes, these civilian guards will naturally disband.Many old martial arts masters are not locals, but after living in Bishan City for so many years, they have already established roots, and their families live here, let alone leave this warm and livable city.

Bishan City is already well-known throughout the country for the existence of "Bishan Temple Kungfu". Now, many people who practice martial arts gather here, and it seems to have become a new "Martial Arts Capital".

It is also a headache to have such a group of martial arts people gather together in peaceful times. The local government has a lot of headaches about how to arrange the whereabouts of these martial arts masters.It was also when I was sleepy that I met the person who gave me a pillow. At that time, the country was advocating physical fitness, and the National Sports Commission was looking for someone to transform traditional Chinese martial arts into a martial arts "routine" suitable for most people's fitness exercises, removing many of the traditional martial arts' confrontation elements.These old martial artists immediately had a job - writing martial arts routines.

On the other hand, traditional Chinese martial arts has a long history and has been famous all over the world since ancient times. If it is all turned into martial arts routines that are only for viewing and not for actual combat, it will inevitably damage the reputation of the ancestors.Therefore, while designing routines, the National Sports Commission also specially organized personnel to combine traditional martial arts with modern Western fighting techniques to create a "Sanda" that focuses on actual combat.Those masters who were unwilling to design the so-called "fancy boxing and embroidered legs" martial arts routines also had work to do, and turned to research and development of Sanda.

Finally, there are some old martial artists who are neither willing to design routines nor to study Sanda, and insist on developing traditional Chinese martial arts. , This group of people scattered among the people and disappeared.

After decades of development and painstaking research by masters, Wushu routines and Sanda have been fully perfected.As the "cradle" of countless modern times, Bishan City has sprung up countless martial arts schools after the reform and opening up. In order to compete for students, they have hired those old martial arts masters who are now grey-haired as coaches—of course, honorary coaches. It is the disciples of these martial masters who really teach Kung Fu.

Not to mention, these schools have cultivated a lot of talents, there are four or five Olympic champions alone, let alone those children who perform martial arts every spring evening, except for half of them are from Songshan, the rest are almost all from Bi Mountain martial arts school.

Thanks to these masters, coupled with the popularity of Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts novels and TV dramas, Bishan Martial Arts School has become more and more famous in the past 20 years. Every day, Bishan Railway Station welcomes countless students from all over the country. And parents, they came here to learn from teachers with a sincere heart of "becoming a martial arts master". It is no exaggeration to say that at least half of Bishan's GPD is supported by the martial arts industry.

Cakes are so eye-catching, everyone wants to share a piece of cake. After entering the new century, there are more martial arts schools, large and small, and with it, various problems are exposed.

Outsiders may not be aware that locals like Shen Qingping have a bad impression of martial arts schools. What kind of coach beats students to death, and what kind of coach openly asks parents for money. But there are a lot of folk gossip.

Moreover, since it is a martial arts school, the students' performance in cultural subjects must not be very good. Although there is now a one-stop service from kindergarten to university, it is still a problem for students to find a job after graduation. Most of the students in the martial arts school have become Security guards, construction workers, etc., if you are lucky, you can stay in the school as a coach, but most people still work hard.

Therefore, families with slightly better local conditions or those who expect their children to become talents will not send their children to martial arts schools. Most of those who board their children in martial arts schools are young couples who come to work in Nanhai Province from other places, or their families are busy with business. Business people who have no time or energy to take care of their children.Of course, although the two go to the same school, the classes are not the same. The former is in an ordinary class with a tuition fee of [-] to [-] per year, and twelve people share a dormitory, while the latter has a tuition fee of tens of thousands, and two people live in a dormitory. The "international class" in the dormitory - of course, it is said to be an international class, but I have never seen any foreign students.

Back to the topic, the ethos of "emphasizing martial arts and despising literature" in martial arts schools makes the status of cultural teachers very low. Shen Qingping has heard people say in the past that being a cultural teacher in a martial arts school does not necessarily require a high level of knowledge. The main thing is to learn the skills of "forbearance".

This is not difficult to understand. Martial arts school students have to get up before five o'clock every day, morning exercises at five o'clock on time, and then high-intensity training. I practiced the kung fu of sleeping with my eyes open.Faced with this situation, one can imagine what kind of mood the teacher is on the podium.

If the student is only sleeping, it's fine, as long as he doesn't snore and bear with it, he will pass.But how is this possible in a martial arts school where fighting is common?Shen Qingping also heard people say that when teaching in a martial arts school, the pre-job training is for the coach to teach you some kung fu—mainly for actual combat, so that you can fight smoothly when students fight without being accidentally injured by random punches.

Shen Qingping really didn't want to teach in a martial arts school, but it was difficult for him to get into a better private school with his degree, and he also missed the registration for the local teacher's examination. Instead, he could temporarily become a substitute teacher, but due to the large population of this city, Housing prices have exploded exponentially year after year, and the salary the substitute teacher gets is probably barely enough for him to rent a small single room with a bathroom in the city center.

Alas, if you are not in charge of your family, you don’t know how expensive firewood is, and you don’t know how difficult life is until you graduate.