Martial Arts

This frontier warfare also explains why the gaucho's martial reputation involved considerably more than personal duelling. He had to endure long rides, poor food, exposure, fatigue and uncertainty. He needed to know how to move through country where roads were rudimentary or nonexistent. He needed to recognize water, grazing and routes of travel. He needed to handle a horse after hours of riding and still be capable of fighting. In an irregular war, the ability to remain mobile and self-sufficient could be as important as the ability to strike an opponent.

The Jian Jing manual is not a collection of techniques, rather it is a method of controlling distance, line, rhythm, and force so that the staff becomes an extension of the whole body, and the body becomes a formation. One of the main problems with those that have not studied the staff, is that often wiggle around the staff without attention of the body, and in chinese martial arts, and in the Jian Jing, significant focus is on distance, stepping, as well as the lines of forces.

Wang Ensheng was master of the brush and the sword. He created the most works for Tianjin publishers. Before the Cultural Revolution, Wang Ensheng painted approximately thirty comic books for various publishing houses in total. He also created some short comic book pieces for various comic book periodicals and art journals. It can be said that he was one of the representative outstanding comic book artists of the first generation in Tianjin. As well as being an inheritor of the Wudang Sword.