King Quang Trung and anecdote about snakes
According to history books, the life of the army of the emperor was the victory over the victory of Quang Trung always associated with the mysterious “long sword”. Quach Tan’s martial arts book – Quach Giao recorded that, in 1773, when the army of King Quang Trung went to the plain, coming here to meet a slender mouth open with blood red like blood lying in the army.
Listening to the money of the African army, King Quang Trung came to pray that if we let our troops go to fight against the enemy, then Xa Than retreated to the army. The snake heard that had turned away. The army continued to go one more part, then saw that the snake sucked the dragon dragon with the black black color brought to the King Quang Trung. At that time, the king made the flag ceremony on the trees and then tried.
Legend has it that the handle of Thanh “O Long Dao” is made of black ebony, blade with a black metal. When the sword out of the shell, the cold air radiates a fairly large area. The sword has no aura but only cold air, and extremely sharp. The weight is very heavy, a person carrying emerging.
Later, Thanh “O Long Dao” was a famous weapon according to King Quang Trung Nam Chinh and Bac Chien. In the battle of Rach Gam and Mango sucking in Giap Thin (1785), King Quang Trung used “O Long Dao” to slash hundreds of Siamese generals. In the Year of the Rooster (1789), once again “O Long Dao” contributed greatly in the campaign to repel the Qing invaders out of the border. Later, King Quang Trung sent people to build Xa Than temple, the monument still exists in Thuong An 2 village, Song An commune, An Khe town (Gia Lai).
Comprehensive craftsmanship
In the middle of the 19th century, Binh Chuan and Tan Phuoc Khanh (Binh Duong) welcomed a young girl with Vo and her family to live and settle down. Later, it was known that the girl named Vo Thi Tra, descendant of a Tay Son general. Ms. Tra is a virtuous and generous man, always ready to guide people in the heirloom martial arts area to both exercise and live well in the mood, and to protect the achievements of labor before the attack. of wild animals, hackers.
Being more and more trusted by the people, Ms. Tra decided to open a martial arts furnace on the new land, giving birth to the martial arts sect of Tan Khanh Ms. Tra. The land later beared her name (now Binh Chuan Ward, Thuan An City, Binh Duong Province), known as the martial land of Phuong Nam.
On 3.2.2021, the martial arts school of Ms. Tra was recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a national intangible cultural heritage. Up to now, there are only 3 traditional martial arts of the Vietnamese nation who have been recognized as a heritage, which are Binh Dinh traditional martial arts, martial arts and martial arts martial arts and Vovinam.
Like most Vietnamese traditional martial arts sects, martial arts Tan Khanh Ms. Tra also has a rightbear or single -related plays related to the bar (Cuong Nhu transferred). In addition, there is a continuous song Miao Xa Hac.
Legend has it that the ancestors witnessed the fight between the two mascots, each mascot had its own strength, none of them gave up, so Mien Xa Hac was considered a very unique right of the subject. The martial arts sect of Ms. Tra. One of the typical beams is mentioned such as Vuong Vuong Nguyet (snake joking under the moon), poisoning of the cave (poisonous snake exported), Snake Songs (snake diving underwater) …
In addition to the attack of the arms and legs, there are many types of weapons related to the image of a solid. As in the martial arts sect, Mrs. Tra has a cone, the key point of this card is the imagination of the snake’s body, when the animal throws herself to attack the opponent. At first glance, at first it seemed just a flying rope in the air, but not so. Inside contains strong erection force, can destroy bait bones. The tapered beam, whether defensive or attacked almost no loopholes. The most rare among the weapons related to snake is the beam. With the total shape of the snake, the border is a powerful weapon to stab, slash, hook. In battle this is a weapon used to pulse battle.
“In the Five Pictures, although the snake is at No. 4 but because of the smoothness, static time and contain strong violence in the attacks, so if you want to successfully practice the right of the right to have a certain level. is a series of snakes from moving, lurking, hunting to defense or attacking the opponent. , the Ministry is the main structure of the content of the martial arts article, ”said martial artist Ho Tuong, a son of Tan Phuoc Khanh ward (Tan Uyen city, Binh Duong), where the martial arts sect of Tan Khanh Ba Tra .
Through 2 resistance wars
Master Ho Tuong since the early years of French occupied, many young martial arts of Tan Khanh – Ms. Tra have joined the insurgents of Vo Van Nham. On the night of January 12, the year of the Dragon (1916), the boys in the village of martial arts Tan Khanh – Ms. Tra participated in the patriotic movement Lam Trung Trai attacked Tan Khanh village, rescuing many young people and patriotic people detained.
From 1919 – 1920 onwards, Tan Khanh Vo Village – Ms. Tra welcomed many patriotic activists to practice martial arts with famous martial arts masters of this land. First of all, it can be mentioned that Chi Nguyen An Ninh and Phan Van Lobster came to the martial arts teacher with Mr. Vo Van Truc. After that, the revolutionary activists also studied martial arts in Tan Khanh Vo village – Ba Tra, such as Huynh Van Nghe, Huynh Van Tien … Thi Huynh Van Nghe was also a son of Tan Khanh.
Especially, in 1966, in the middle of the war, a child of Tan Khanh – Mrs. Tra was Tu Van Phuoc, a soldier of the platoon of Special Specialist Reconnaissance District (now Thuan An City, Binh Duong), after the heroic feats, was praised for hero of the Vietnamese People’s Armed Forces when he was just 31 years old …
Rights with contemporary martial arts
Master Ho Tuong, the Grand Master of Martial Arts Tan Khanh Ba Tra, said that there are quite a lot of boxers from different sects in Vietnam who have also studied the Snake.
“In recent years, the martial arts sect of Tan Khanh Ms. Tra has trained many good students, won many achievements on the ring and abroad. In which, Nguyen Phu Hien, the first fighter of Vietnam to win The champion of Muay Thai World (2014); Tran Thanh Y owns the National Gold Medal 2011, the Silver Medal of Muay Nation Nationwide 2019, Truong Cao Minh Phat defeated the martial artist 9 times the world champion Nguyen Tran Duy Nhat … all came from the martial arts furnace of Tan Khanh Ba Tra or had time to learn about the French, Xa Hanh Of the Snake Quyen “, martial arts martial artist.