Chapter 133: Martial Arts Association

  After sending Little Huang Rong to kindergarten, Tang Xiaosheng went straight home. When he arrived home, he unexpectedly found two distinguished guests sitting in the living room - Director Zhang Zhi and Martial Arts Instructor Wu Gang.

  In the past two days, Zhang Zhi-zong also learned about Tang Xiao-sheng's news from media reports, including his contract termination with Blue Sky Entertainment and the company's demand for 100 million yuan in compensation. After hearing this news, Zhang Zhi-zong felt extremely guilty because it was he who had introduced Tang Xiao-sheng to Blue Sky Entertainment last year, leading to their signing of a contract. Now that so many things have happened, he feels a certain sense of responsibility.

  "Xiao Tang, if you have any difficulties, just tell me directly, don't be polite." Zhang Zhizong said as soon as they met.

  Tang Xiaosheng nodded and said gratefully: "Thank you, Director Zhang. For now, I can still cope with the situation myself."

  The martial arts instructor, Wu Gang, was originally quite impatient and seemed to be getting agitated. He spoke up for Tang Xiaosheng, saying: "This Li Tiexing is really something else! With 'The Legend of the Condor Hero' being so popular now, he's also made a lot of money. Yet, he turns his back on people just like that and doesn't even have any sense of loyalty. A penalty of 10 million yuan? I doubt he can afford it!"

  He paused for a moment and said to Tang Xiaosheng, "Xiao Tang, don't worry, all the brothers of Wu Hang will stand on your side!"

  After hearing Wu Gang's words, Tang Xiaosheng felt a little moved in his heart. After all, they were not relatives or friends, but just collaborators who had worked together on a TV series. He paused for a moment and said with a pretended ease: "Director Zhang, Director Wu, you two busy people, coming all the way to my place, won't it be just to comfort me?"

  Zhang Zhizong and Wu Gang indeed had something important to discuss with Tang Xiaosheng today, but considering that Tang Xiaosheng has recently experienced so many changes in her life, including having a private child, breaking up, and paying liquidated damages, her life seems to be a mess. An ordinary person who encounters such things may be on the verge of emotional collapse, especially someone like Tang Xiaosheng who is young and inexperienced.

  After just a few casual conversations, Zhang Zhizong and Wu Gang found that Tang Xiaosheng's mental state was unusually good, his eyebrows didn't even frown once, as if nothing had happened, so they also decided to discuss the main issue.

  "Wu Gang said: "Little Tang, I came to find you today, indeed there is something I want to discuss with you. I have communicated with more than a dozen martial arts instructors from Jinghua Film and Television City, and we decided to establish a 'Martial Arts Association'."

  "Martial Arts Association?"

  The importance of stuntmen in film and television production goes without saying, especially in period dramas and action films. All high-risk stunts are performed by stuntmen. Without them, many scenes would be impossible to shoot.

  Despite this, in the film and television industry, stunt performers have always been a relatively disadvantaged group. They are the most tired and injured in the crew, and often suffer from injuries or even death, but their wages and injury compensation are not guaranteed. After an accident, it is common for insurance companies to shirk responsibility, and the production team to be irresponsible, leaving the stunt performers to fend for themselves.

  The reason for this situation is that the domestic martial arts industry has no association of its own and no formal standardized alliance, so a sound mechanism has not been formed.

  The idea of establishing a domestic martial arts association has actually been proposed by many people several years ago.

  Years ago, international Kung Fu superstar Jackie Chan had suggested setting up a national unified Wushu Association, but due to the vast regions in China and numerous martial arts schools, as well as many action directors, each with their own understanding of martial arts films, it's difficult for everyone to come together and reach a consensus.

  It was precisely because of too many differences and it being too difficult to organize that the establishment of a martial arts association came to nothing in the end.

  Despite many difficulties, Wugang has been considering this matter for years because if a standardized industry association is not established, the martial arts industry will find it difficult to develop healthily.

  On the one hand, the rights and interests of martial artists are not guaranteed, resulting in a large loss of excellent talents. Although martial arts have never lacked people, they lack professional talents; on the other hand, everyone is closed-minded and does not communicate, always walking the old path, eventually only to enter a dead end. In recent years, China's martial arts industry has shown signs of decline, with a lack of fresh blood in the entire industry, making it somewhat stagnant.

  It was precisely because of this that Wu Gang had been thinking about establishing the Martial Arts Association. Only, he knew it would be extremely difficult to accomplish and required a very good opportunity.

  For years, he had never thought of a solution and hadn't waited for the right opportunity. Until this year, a person appeared, giving him hope, and that person was Tang Xiaosheng.

  As "The Legend of the Condor Hero" continues to be popular, more and more people have started discussing the martial arts design in the drama. Not only are many ordinary citizens imitating the moves in the play, but also many veteran practitioners in the martial arts circle have begun to study these moves.

  More than half a year ago, when filming "The Legend of Shooting Heroes", when Wu Gang saw the martial arts movements designed by Tang Xiaosheng, he had already vaguely felt that these movements were not ordinary. After finishing "The Legend of Shooting Heroes", Wu Gang discussed these martial arts designs with several well-known martial arts directors in the film and television industry.

  At first, they just thought these martial arts designs were eye-catching and unique. However, as they delved deeper into their research, they were astonished to discover that the significance of these martial arts designs went far beyond what they had imagined, and all the seemingly scattered designs were actually contained within a complete and exquisite system of martial arts.

  What shocked them even more was that this martial arts system was extremely grand, broad and profound, almost covering all the martial arts in the world. Many martial arts instructors in Wuxing came from different schools of thought, resulting in many differences in their understanding of martial arts philosophy. However, with the emergence of Tang Xiaosheng's martial arts system, many of these differences were perfectly resolved.

  In fact, the martial arts moves designed by Tang Xiaosheng are based on the "Nine Yin Scripture", and the design principle is the martial arts essence of the "Nine Yin Scripture". The "Nine Yin Scripture" claims to be the general outline of all martial arts in the world, so it's not surprising that it can encompass the concepts of modern martial arts.

  After discovering all this, Wu Gang knew that the opportunity to establish the Wuxing Association might have arrived, because the biggest divergence had been resolved smoothly. He then took the initiative to contact more than a dozen of the most famous martial arts directors in the film and television circle, and discussed with them the establishment of the Wuxing Association.

  These martial arts instructors were all very interested in this matter, after all, it was a good thing for all the martial artists. However, they all made one request - they must meet Tang Xiaosheng in person.

  Because this martial arts association is able to successfully organize, its foundation is that everyone has a set of consensus-building martial arts concepts, and currently this set of martial arts concepts comes from Tang Xiaosheng's hand.

  Although many martial arts instructors were deeply convinced by Tang Xiaosheng's concept of covering all the world's martial arts, they had never actually seen him in person. In fact, they still had doubts about whether Tang Xiaosheng really had such skills, because he was now too young, only 23 years old.

  Wu Gang was well aware of Tang Xiaosheng's abilities, so he readily agreed to the requests of a dozen or so martial arts instructors and decided to let Tang Xiaosheng meet with them, and thus personally came to invite him.

  Upon hearing this, Tang Xiaosheng was somewhat surprised and flattered. From Wu Gang's statement, it was not difficult to discover that Tang Xiaosheng would become the leader of the soon-to-be-established Wuxing Association, a title that was too great and too heavy. Not to mention others, among the martial arts instructors in Jinghua Film City, there were at least dozens with more than ten years of work experience, and in terms of seniority, Tang Xiaosheng estimated that he was only qualified to hold someone's shoes.

  Now, suddenly letting him lead the organization of this large martial arts association is really forcing a duck to go on stage. Because if the Martial Arts Association is truly established, it will be national in scope.

  "Wu Dao, this joke is a bit too much." Tang Xiaosheng was still a bit stunned.

  Wu Gang smiled: "Little Tang, don't think about shirking this responsibility, you're the only one who can do it. Many martial arts instructors are old and stubborn, no one listens to anyone else, but they're actually interested in your martial theory now. Establishing the Martial Arts Association is a good thing for all martial artists, just consider it as doing a favor for everyone!"

  Regarding the establishment of the Wu Xing Association, Tang Xiaosheng is also very supportive. He himself has been a martial arts stunt double and deeply understands the difficulties of this line. Last year, he participated in the filming of "The Legend of the Condor Hero" as a temporary martial arts stunt double and broke his leg. The crew threw 2,000 yuan at him and ignored him. At that time, his medical expenses were at least 15,000 yuan, and 2,000 yuan was only enough to fill the gap.

  If the Martial Arts Association can be established, implement a membership management system, have a sound system, and all problems and affairs are handled by the association. Later, if other crews need martial arts, they will need to contact the association first, and the rights and interests of martial artists can be better protected.

  Apart from having more guaranteed rights, martial artists may also have more training opportunities. The entire martial arts industry will become more professional, standardized and rationalized, which is undoubtedly very beneficial for the development of the industry.

  It's indeed a good thing, but this matter is really too big, Tang Xiaosheng needs to consider it carefully again. He said: "Wu Dao, let's do it like this, I'll give you an answer five days later."

  Wu Gang thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay, anyway this matter has been waiting for over a decade, it won't make a difference in just a few days. If there's any situation, contact me promptly."

  Afterwards, Zhang Zhizong and Wu Gang left first. Tang Xiaosheng didn't stay idle at home either, as it was already past five in the afternoon, he needed to go pick up Little Huang Rong from kindergarten.

  But when he arrived at kindergarten, he didn't find Little Huang Rong's figure, and couldn't find her after searching the entire kindergarten.

  Xiao Huang Rong is missing?

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