Liu Qingshan decided to start the "Ip Man" series at this time, a little earlier than his plan.
First, there is currently a huge market demand for him to star in kung fu movies, and expectations for his martial arts show are high around the world.
Then there is the overall kung fu movie craze in Hong Kong, which is exploding again. There is an urgent need for a classic film of the same type to impact the international film scene.
In addition, he also needs to build the stepping stone to Hollywood. It is time to lift the hook from the nest he has built for two years.
"Ip Man" undoubtedly has a combination of the above reasons, and it is also the right time to completely sweep the Chinese Kung Fu trend.
Without the different types of kung fu movies in Hong Kong as the basic strength, relying solely on his ability will have limited effect. At most, it will be a Guilin branch that highlights itself.
As the saying goes, one flower alone is not spring, but a garden full of hundreds of flowers blooms. This is exactly the truth.
Only when Chinese kung fu movies are no longer just a corner of Asia can the spread of Chinese culture truly influence the world, and kung fu movies are just the vanguard.
At that time, Hong Kong, the fertile ground for Eastern Kung Fu films, will truly rise again, and from then on, the market influence of Eastern Hollywood will be consolidated and stable.
It was precisely because of their understanding of his good intentions that the Ye family and even the entire Xiangjiang Wulin were full of enthusiasm for Liu Qingshan's arrival in Hong Kong.
This can be seen from the 82-year-old Ye Chen.
Ye Chen, who was already over seventy years old, did not hesitate to use his waning body to personally teach Liu Qingshan moves, revealing his inner desire for the development of Eastern Kung Fu.
Moreover, the two brothers have been working hard to promote traditional martial arts for decades. Looking back at today's martial arts movies, in addition to special effects, it is slow motion. Let alone promote the child's style.
Even though the market for kung fu movies has been recovering as a whole in recent times, the concept of traditional martial arts moves has become less and less popular, replaced by various techniques in mixed martial arts that are popular around the world.
In today's mixed Chinese entertainment industry, there are really not many people with professionalism like Hong Dabao and Chen Long, including the phenomenon of cutout photos that have been exposed frequently, which is a huge harm to the audience and consumers. Irresponsible.
An industry has its own professional ethics, and those who can ultimately uphold this ethics are also people worthy of learning from all people in the industry.
Liu Qingshan is undoubtedly regarded as the leader of real kung fu movies. Without his guidance, Chinese kung fu movies, especially the action movies that survive in Hong Kong, will be difficult to go out and win a broader overseas market. .
Therefore, after receiving the message from him seeking cooperation, not only the martial arts practitioners headed by Hong Dabao were alerted, but also the eldest son of Ye, who had not appeared in the martial arts gym for a long time, was alarmed.
The Ye family has already read the relevant script. Although there are many edited parts in it, the overall direction is to promote Chinese martial arts. The Ye family brothers did not question the specific content.
For example, in history, Ye Wen first came to Xiangjiang with only his eldest daughter, while his wife and other children were stranded in Foshan, the mainland.
Liu Qingshan's script brought his wife, children, and children here, and it was obvious that he had considered beautifying the characters. The Ye family was satisfied in their hearts. This setting will greatly improve Ip Man's image.
Moreover, there will be many references to traditional martial arts in this movie. Liu Qingshan wanted to show as much of the good intentions of traditional Chinese martial arts as possible, and also let the Ye family feel his patriotism in boxing.
Therefore, after a simple sticky hand sparring session, Ye Zhen took his hand and introduced it to his many disciples and grandsons: "In the future, whenever Mr. Liu needs to use any martial arts resources of our Ye family, just like mine and Ye Zheng's When you come in person, you should be treated with the courtesy of a master. Anyone who violates this will be punished by being expelled from the master!"
What he said was ground-breaking for the Ye family martial arts practitioners. You must know that the Ye family’s Wing Chun martial arts gym is more than just delicious.
Jiang set up five locations to teach apprentices, but spread all over the world.
Here I have to talk about another person.
In fact, among Ip Man's many apprentices, the ones he valued most were not the Yip brothers, but Bruce Lee and Li Xiaolong.
When it comes to Ip Man’s disciples, the first thing many people think of is Bruce Lee. But in addition to Bruce Lee, Liang Shaohong is also highly valued by Ip Man, and he His contribution to Wing Chun far exceeds that of Bruce Lee.
He and Bruce Lee were both Ip Man's disciples, so it can be judged that Liang Shaohong's attainments in martial arts are no worse than Bruce Lee's.
It is said that both of them have been practicing martial arts since childhood, but Liang Shaohong's martial arts training conditions are obviously much better than Bruce Lee's.
Although Liang Shaohong has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, his parents are very supportive of their son's practice in order to enable Liang Shaohong to learn more about the essence of martial arts.
His parents spent a lot of money to hire famous teachers, so that at a young age he had mastered the essence of martial arts from many famous sects.
At that time, Liang Shaohong had almost no opponents, so he arrogantly believed that he was the strongest among his peers until he met Bruce Lee.
At that time, Bruce Lee had already studied under Ip Man, and the two had a fight when they first met.
Liang Shaohong, who was originally full of confidence, launched a fierce attack on Bruce Lee, but was easily resolved by Li using Wing Chun.
This shocked Liang Shaohong because he had never seen the moves used by Bruce Lee. At that time, Wing Chun was not famous in China. Only people in some places in the south knew about Wing Chun.
There is no doubt about the result of the competition. Liang Shaohong failed miserably. After the failure, he was not discouraged or blamed others. Instead, he asked Bruce Lee very seriously who his apprentice was.
After learning that Bruce Lee's master was Ip Man, he immediately decided to become a disciple of Ip Man, but Ip Man did not agree to his request to study under him.
Instead, he chose to ignore Liang Shaohong because Ip Man wanted to test whether he was qualified to learn Wing Chun.
Liang Shaohong did not disappoint Ip Man. His enthusiasm for traditional Chinese martial arts and his eagerness to explore the secrets of Wing Chun made Ip Man make an exception and accept him as his apprentice.
He also taught all his skills to Liang Shaohong. He and Bruce Lee should be regarded as the two most famous disciples of Ip Man in his later years.
During the martial arts training period, the two apprentices often competed, but it was always hard to tell the winner. As their relationship grew deeper, the two apprentices also became brothers.
However, after completing their studies, the two brothers did not have much interaction, because Bruce Lee embarked on the road of filmmaking after Ip Man's death, while Liang Shaohong still wanted to concentrate on studying Wing Chun.
The reason why people today always think that Bruce Lee is a close disciple of Ip Man is because Liang Shaohong did not make himself famous internationally through filming movies like Bruce Lee.
The most rare and valuable thing about him is that he does not hesitate to spend his life's time and energy to delve into and explore the mysteries of Wing Chun.
In his opinion, no boxing type is as wonderful as Wing Chun. Wing Chun's unpredictable and various practical methods of winning by cleverness are all worthy of careful study.
Not only that, Liang Shaohong also kept in mind his master's last wish, hoping that one day the whole world and even the whole world could see the power of Wing Chun.
Therefore, he decided to bring Wing Chun overseas. In fact, Bruce Lee had already tried this idea before.
Because Bruce Lee is already famous abroad, many foreigners regard Bruce Lee as the representative of Chinese martial arts and Wing Chun, and spontaneously learn Wing Chun from him.
In order to promote traditional Chinese martial arts, Bruce Lee spared no effort in teaching, but the teaching efficiency was very low.
Moreover, Bruce Lee practiced not only Wing Chun, but also his own Jeet Kune Do. In order to make Jeet Kune Do orthodox, he was very effort.
During the period of promoting martial arts, he paid more attention to Jeet Kune Do than Wing Chun. Liang Shaohong directly opened a martial arts gym in Laos and the United States to teach Wing Chun.
In the early days of establishment, he often encountered
Other local martial arts schools, such as karate, taekwondo, boxing, muay thai, and kung fu gymnasts offer sparring challenges.
For Liang Shaohong, this is also an excellent opportunity to prove his own martial arts system and how to compete with other martial arts schools.
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He also adopted a form of closed-door sparring. According to records, he had never lost a contest in this form.
In 1975, Liang Shaohong's Wing Chun gym was invited to participate in the full-contact kickboxing competition held at Madison Square Garden in New York. His students won all the competitions at the participating levels.
Later, after receiving an invitation from the old American authorities, he and his family moved to Virginia to train combat skills for the old American SEAL Teams 2 and 4 at the Norfolk Naval Base.
In addition, he also teaches for police agencies such as the FBI and SATTea in the United States.
Leong Siu Hung is respected by his disciples as the founder of "Practical Wing Chun". His unique training method allows his students to acquire better fighting skills so that they can gain advantage and victory in various real fighting environments. He is famous all over the world. There are many students.
But he has never lost contact with the Yip brothers in Hong Kong, and has always respected them as the most authentic successors of Yip's Wing Chun.
Therefore, what Ye Chen said just now is equivalent to making Liang Shaohong the master. Although this real closed disciple is the one who opened martial arts schools all over the world, after all, Ye Chen is the senior brother of Ip Wen.
In fact, Liu Qingshan understood the true purpose of this old man, which was simply to learn from Hongmen, and then get involved with him for the convenience of some connections, so that the disciples of the Ye family could also learn some more advanced skills such as ancient martial arts.
It's just that compared to the Hongmen power, which has a certain inheritance of ancient martial arts, it is much stronger than the Ye family lineage. In other words, the two are not comparable at all.
Therefore, he only responded with kind gratitude for Ye Chen's attitude, without any further mention.
