субота, 16. децембар 2017.

What´s the difference between the regular students and disciples

An interesting article written by my Snake Crane Wing Chun brother Lee Ming Fung from Costa Rica










Author : Lee Ming Fung


Last year when I began my new  Snake Crane Wing Chun training group in Costa Rica I remember my first students were  a young couple and after that we became good  friends  and  they even invite to their wedding and helped me to some cultural activities.
Once the girl asked me: may I call you Sifu? I didn’t want to break  her illusion but the relationship of Sifu and disciples is much deeper than a frienship. I just could call myself as their “teacher”
There is a Chinese saying:
“The parents give us the life; but the master gives us the education and form as a productive person.”
So the discipleship is such a serious cultural and social category in Chinese culture
Relationship.
We could analyze there are different levels of the student/ disciples at one traditional Kung Fu school.
1. Regular student學生
2. Close door disciple入門弟子
3. inside room disciple入室弟子

1. Regular students: xué shēng 學生
The group of student who are interested in martial art and they are in their “prove period”, to see if they like the art, the teacher  and school  or not. They usually not  learn from Sifu directly but rather receive instruction from  advance students or disciples at the school. And their relationship with their masters is very simple , they pay monthly tuition fee for instruction like in any other sports club.
The students just address the teacher  as Lao Shi 老師 in this case.

2. Indoor disciples rùmén  dì zǐ入門弟子
After a the teacher would evaluate his students and those who show high level of certain aspects such as:
1.       High ethic and moral standards

2.       Strict following the rules of conduit


3.       Dedication

4.       Strong desire to support the style
Will be invited by a teacher to become  indoor students. To become an indoor student it is a custom in traditional school to perform  the Baisee ceremony. Sometimes need few years or depend the destiny of the Sifu and students
Each school has the rules and the Sifu would ask their students /disciples  to follow.
Obviously, the disciples get the responsibility to promote the style. They get the possible training and special attention is payed to their martial education. As the old Confucius said: “if not keeping advance, the degeneration would arrive soon.”

3. Inside room student rù shí dì zǐ 入室弟子
Those are the close disciple of a Sifu. And they would be the future successors of one style. So normally the teacher  would pay more attention to their training .
Being a disciple of a traditional style is an honor, however it require time, sacrifice, some resource and of course loyalty.
The indoor students not only learn all the secrets of the style they  also develop  family like relationship with the  master and others disciples as family. This is called  “Mun” in Chinese a martial art family.“Mun” is as place  of sharing knowledge, sincerity and tolerance” beside the real family, disciples get the martial family. And sometimes the martial family even better than the real one!
We all learn martial arts, but the disciples, they are who could real enjoy their favorite martial art.

In 2018 we are planning  the worldwide class for the regular students and the disciple worldwide ,and  the establishment of the Snake Crane Wing Chun Headquarter in Hong Kong.
Also on 25-28 of May we are planning the history investigation martial trip to Foshan. The group will be led by   Sifu Wayne  Yung and the Foshan Oral history investigator Mr. Tam. We will visit different schools of Wing Chun such as Yuen Kay San lineage and Chueng Bo lineage. Now we get a group of 15 people. If you are interesting please write me inbox
mingming1224@gmail.com

Thank you ! 

Author : Lee Ming Fung 

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