On the morning of February 25, the 5th Wulin Conference of the 2024 Guangfu Temple Fair was held at Dongshan Stadium, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou.
As the central urban area of Guangzhou, Yuexiu District carries a heavy cultural heritage of Chinese martial arts, bringing together the five famous martial arts of Guangdong Lingnan "Hong, Liu, Cai, Li, Mo", Wing Chun, Cai Li Fo, Dragon Shape, Bai Mei and other traditional southern martial arts, as well as the southern transmission and inheritance of northern boxing such as praying mantis, eagle claw, Shaolin and splitting. In April 1919, the Guangzhou Jingwu Society held its inauguration ceremony at the Haizhu Grand Theater on the Long Causeway in Yuexiu District. The legend of the "Five Tigers Descending to the South of the Yangtze River", Wan Laisheng and Li Xian.
5. Fu Zhensong, Gu Ruzhang, Wang Shaozhou and other famous teachers from the north also joined forces to go south, including Yang Taijiquan grandmaster Yang Chengfu and other martial arts masters have settled in Yuexiu District or left their footprints and inheritance. People's Park, Haizhu Square, Martyrs' Cemetery, Yuexiu Park and other places in Yuexiu District have always been places for traditional martial arts enthusiasts to practice martial arts. With the support of the Yuexiu District Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, the martial arts project in Yuexiu District has also been vigorously supported and developed, becoming one of the sports and cultural activities with a deep mass foundation and unique Cantonese cultural characteristics, and since 2019, four Cantonese martial arts conferences have been held consecutively.
This martial arts conference attracted more than 600 martial arts athletes and enthusiasts from all districts of Guangzhou and Foshan, Dongguan and other places in the province at all levels of martial arts associations, colleges and universities, primary and secondary schools, martial arts halls, streets, towns and villages, and communities, including more than 600 martial arts athletes and enthusiasts, including 5 groups of children, teenagers, youth, middle-aged and elderly people, and the project groups covered Changquan, Nanquan, Taijiquan and other national martial arts routines and traditional martial arts boxing in various regions of northern and southern China, such as Shandong Mantis Boxing, Shanxi Xingyi Boxing, Northeast Flip Boxing, Henan Shaolin Boxing, Sichuan Emei Boxing and other northern boxing, as well as Foshan Wing Chun Boxing, Guangdong West Hong Boxing, Cai Li Buddha Boxing from Guangdong Xinhui, Zhoujia Boxing from Jiangmen and other boxing items, including long and short equipment, double equipment, soft equipment and other martial arts routines of various events.
The opening ceremony focused on the intangible cultural heritage items of martial arts, such as Xiong's Yijin Sutra, Wing Chun and Pak Mei Boxing, which carry rich historical and cultural connotations and reflect the unique martial arts heritage in the Canton area. At the opening ceremony, the audience enjoyed the combination of rigidity and softness in Taijiquan's "Eight Methods and Five Steps" project, watched the superb performances of hundreds of martial arts enthusiasts up close, and felt the unique charm of Chinese martial arts. In the arena, the athletes are soaring and heroic, and the "stalls, arms, and substantiations" of Wing Chun are simple and direct; The "side by side, flashing and moving" of the praying mantis boxing has both long and short, fast and fierce; Xingyi fist off the gun for the fist, twist and wrap the drill over, step like a plow, fall like rooting, pictographic ......Each move of the athletes fully demonstrates the exquisite skills of traditional Chinese martial arts.
In addition, this event also set up a martial arts cultural and creative bazaar to provide the audience with the opportunity to participate in games such as pot throwing, archery, and guessing lantern riddles. These activities bring a unique immersive experience of traditional martial arts culture to everyone, and further promote the rapid development of sports and culture in Yuexiu District.