Chapter 140: Friendship or Challenge?

Fan Wubing returned to school and took a few books to the Department of International Trade to attend classes. After seeing him, everyone's expressions were a little weird, as if they had seen rare animals, which made him feel uncomfortable.

However, when Deputy Secretary Feng from the department saw Fan Wubing, he asked in surprise, "Hey, Xiao Fan, I haven't seen you for a long time. Have you been very busy recently? Why are you free to come back for class today?"

After hearing this, Fan Wubing felt a little ashamed. After so long, he had almost half of his time in college, and he had been in school for no more than three months. This time when he arrived at his dormitory, he found that the bedding inside had grown hair, which made him have to find someone to come and clean up again.

In addition to despising the humid and hot weather in the south, Fan Wubing also felt that the days he left school were a bit long, especially after hearing Deputy Secretary Feng say this, he felt a little ashamed.

"I am trying hard to squeeze out study time and attend classes seriously." Fan Wubing stammered and said to Deputy Secretary Feng.

After chatting for a while, the two talked about this martial arts exchange competition.

As a relatively large school in East China, there are many activities on Fudan campus. Exchange activities are not only held between domestic universities, but also between international universities. This event is an event jointly organized with Waseda University in Japan.

"How come Japanese people are keen to participate in such activities?" Fan Wubing asked with a frown.

"The Japanese are aggressive by nature and have been martial arts since childhood. In their country, such martial arts exchange competitions are very popular, and we rarely hold such events in our country." Deputy Secretary Feng explained to Fan Wubing.

In fact, this matter has its own historical rules to follow.

In the 1980s, a movie "Shaolin Temple" and a TV series "Huo Yuanjia" set off a wave of martial arts practice in the entire Chinese nation. On the land of China, there were more than thousands of martial arts schools and martial arts training classes, and the Sports Committee of the local government also took advantage of the situation and cultivated many martial arts talents.

Fan Wubing still had some impression of what happened at that time. Although he did not go to school in China, he witnessed this glorious life in the domestic martial arts world in his only few years. Especially when he was in elementary school, he once saw the young martial arts team of Panshi go to other provinces and achieved a very good ranking.

In the early stages of reform and opening up, due to the great liberation of social productivity and the people's living standards, the spirit of martial arts was released. As the saying goes, it is difficult to improve physical fitness when you are poor and rich in martial arts.

However, in the past two years, the entire state-owned enterprises have faced the problem of institutional transformation. There are too few enterprises with good efficiency, and there are also some problems in rural areas. The original household contract responsibility system implemented is somewhat out of touch with the current level of productivity, so development has entered a period of slow growth. As the surplus rural labor needs to move to urban areas, the rural economy in some places has declined to a certain extent.

In this case, let alone martial arts activities, even ordinary physical exercise activities are almost extinct in cities and rural areas.

It is particularly worth mentioning that the government has changed its investment in physical exercise. In order to continuously make breakthroughs in the Olympics and become a so-called sports power, changing national fitness to competitive sports has also caused localities to pursue competition rankings and transferring most of the sports resources to competitive sports. As for the funds and resources invested in national fitness in various places, there is already a pitiful lack of funds and resources.

In this way, I won many Olympic gold medals, but the physical quality of the people is far inferior to before.

Fan Wubing thought that the martial arts exchange activities in colleges and universities are probably the only preserved piece of Pure Land. Although the seedlings grown on this piece of Pure Land are not strong, they are always beneficial.

On the other hand, not to mention those developed countries in the distance, but just Japan, South Korea and other countries have very considerable investment in physical exercise every year, and the height of Japanese people has also begun to increase significantly, and they are no longer as short as before.

When Fan Wubing thinks that the few Japanese in martial arts elective courses could defeat all Chinese students one by one, he feels boring. What is the use of such a famous name as a sports power?

Deputy Secretary Feng didn't expect that so many thoughts flashed through Fan Wubing's mind. He just thought that Fan Wubing also participated in this martial arts elective course, so he asked casually, "I heard that you also participated in that event, how do you feel?"

"I feel that what Teacher Fei said is easy to understand, both for practical purposes and for health care, will be very beneficial." Fan Wubing replied with a little depressed expression, "The only thing that makes me feel a little regretful is that those little Japanese listen more attentive than our students."

This can only be said to be the sorrow of a nation. Chinese people never attach enough importance to their own traditions. Even when they need to pay attention, they often have various utilitarian mentalities. The four words "rush to quick success" are expressed vividly. For example, if you find that you are in a bad state, you are eager to practice qigong. When you see others rely on chip technology to develop, you want to build your own chips within one day. When you hear that others rely on Taekwondo to make money, you want to launch your martial arts to commercialize them. When you find that everyone has started playing online games, you are so immersed in the spirit of "The Analects of Confucius" and "Zhuangzi" to find the true meaning of life.

All of these can only explain one problem. There are some problems with the Chinese mentality, and the public opinion orientation has not been guided in time, so that a generation of confusion has emerged in society.

"Then you are going to participate in the Friday night exchange competition, too?" Deputy Secretary Feng asked.

"Well, the school requires you to participate." Fan Wubing nodded and replied.

Fan Wubing was not sure about this exchange competition, and Deputy Secretary Feng didn't know it either. He just heard that students from Waseda University came to participate, but he didn't know what tricks the Japanese were playing?

After having dinner in the evening, Fan Wubing was strolling around the campus, thinking about going to the gymnasium to check it out. Maybe those students who exercise regularly are more aware of the exchange competition?

It's May now, and the weather is getting warmer. After dinner, in addition to the students who went to study, many students and men and women wandered around the campus in pairs.

Although the school opposes students falling in love on campus, there is no practical measure after all. It is just that at night, people from the school security department will patrol each place one by one, chase wild mandarin ducks, etc., but Fudan's campus is very large and has many corners, and the security department has limited manpower, so there are still many places that cannot be taken care of.

However, for Fan Wubing, when summer comes, everyone wears a lot of clothes, and it is interesting to watch while walking.

When Fan Wubing arrived at the gymnasium, he found that it was already brightly lit here, and Teacher Fei, who was teaching, was here. There were many male and female students who were in contact with each other, some of whom were innocent, and I couldn't help but feel curious.

The environment in the gymnasium is a wooden performance venue with a central part of the competition venue, about one foot above the ground, and a stand that can accommodate thousands of spectators. Hundreds of lighting fixtures hanging from the sky illuminate the entire venue like daytime.

The audience was divided into several camps, with about four or five hundred people surrounding them, which looked like cheerleaders.

"Brother, why are there so many people today?" Fan Wubing noticed that not only there were many spectators, but also more contestants wearing practice clothes near the platform. He was suddenly surprised, so he grabbed a classmate passing by and asked.

The student looked at Fan Wubing and found it familiar. He patted his forehead and said, "Oh, you are Fan Wubing! I haven't seen you come to practice for several days! Tonight, the players participating in the competition warmed up. The other party was not only students from Waseda University, but also students from several universities in Japan. In addition to students from our own schools, there are also contestants from other universities who were invited by other universities. At about the time of the competition, there will be more than a hundred contestants in total, right?"

Oh, the struggle has escalated!

Fan Wubing carefully observed the Japanese people over there, and found that the number of people had increased. After seeing the movements of several of them, they were obviously like karate. So he asked curiously, "This is a hodgepodge!"

Later I found out that after the news of their competition was spread, some martial arts students from the Department of Sports heard that the Japanese were very arrogant, so a few students inserted in and prepared to give them some colors. When the Japanese saw that the Chinese team had increased, they felt some pressure, so they invited foreign players. Fudan saw that the Japanese lineup had increased again, so they posted hero posts, and martial arts masters from nearby universities also came.

After doing this, there have been more than 100 contestants who officially participated in the competition.

"In this case, it's not a friendly match, but a challenge match-" Fan Wubing thought.

He was chatting with someone here, and someone saw him there. Teacher Fei nodded and ordered a student, and the student ran over and called Fan Wubing to talk.
Chapter completed!