The ninth day of the first lunar month is a traditional festival for martial artists in the four Ming sides of eastern Zhejiang. Rumored,People who learn boxing and courage in the Ming and Qing dynasties will go to Ningbo's Youshengguan Tai Sui Temple on the same day to compete in school art, so it is also called "school art competition day"! It is rumored that this day is the day when Zhang Songxi, the master of Neijiaquan, represented the Ningbo people in Yingfeng Street of Moon Lake to win the Shaolin monks.
Blessed Saint Concept. The martial arts world boasts of the phrase "the highest arm of the god and the door is the highest, and the door is deeply locked and turned heroic", which describes the scene of the martial arts competition in the Tai Sui Hall of Ningbo Youshengguan (near the second courtyard of Ningbo) on the ninth day of the first month of the first month of the early Qing Dynasty. The custom of martial arts competition on the ninth day of the first month was prevalent in the Qing Dynasty and **. On the same day, in addition to the inner boxing, there are also Ningbo South Boxing, Shaolin Boxing, Boat Boxing, Biancheng Boxing, Cuishan School, Hushan School, Changguo Golden Gun Boxing and other local boxing in Ningbo to participate.
* In the fifteenth year (1926), Chai Xiaofan wrote the internal family boxing "Brahma Lu Conglu" Songxi Boxing Record, and heard that Yinzhi Nanxiang has the so-called Yinjiang Bridge all the way to the inner fist (** Land transportation Ningbo Nanxiang Yinjiang Bridge 1st Road, including Bailiang Bridge, Yinjiang Bridge over the Partridge Ridge, to Fenghua Yanchuan through Zhejiang Zhongxi 1st Road, belonging to the area of Dongqiao, Yinjiang, Longguan, Xikou). In the meantime, Shanghai's "declaration" also saw the record of Fenghua people passing by Ningbo Youshengguan in the ninth day of the first month, and it was rumored that this person was a high-ranking figure of the Xia family in Fenghua.
This is the earliest Qing Dynasty in Ningbo to practice martial arts.
* From the period to the early days of liberation, the common people of Fenghua Xikou practiced the cannon and pestle ribs in the inner boxing.
It is better not to eat for a day than not to practice for a day.
It is better to be useless for a hundred years than to be unprepared for a day.
Xia Baofeng, the head of Neijiaquan, said that learning Neijiaquan is to better protect himself, and Neijiaquan has a complete system of thinking and acting. A strong body, an unyielding character, and an indestructible mind are the way of life of the inner boxers.