Since the beginning of time, research of the absolute beauty was a need for anybody in any culture.
We find this back in classical literature, art, architecture and so on.
Classical beauty (like Winkelmann defined) formed the model for any single beautiful element, and created beauty which lives on forever through peoples work.
In this way, classical beauty also got involved in every element of mankind, such as poetry, art, architecture but also martial arts.
Today we can still read thousands of years old texts and there are still beautiful and actual, like classical poetry or literature.
This, according to me, is only possible when the poem has been written with elements of classical beauty.
What made a poem like this special was not its writers pen or his knowledge, but actually the realization that there would be always someone who would read his work.
The writers understanding that every reader of his work should be able to identify himself with it.
The reader becomes the poet, and in this way the poet and his work lives on forever trough his readers.
This is exactly what happened to the art of Weng Chun.Weng Chun was cultivated in the Shaolin Temple with the need to be beautiful and attractive (in the name beautiful is also involved the right to be perfect and very EFFECTIVE).
The concepts, principles and wisdoms made this martial art a classical beauty, which is actual trough every era.
Same as classical poetry. The shaolin monks knew that they would always have people (like us) who could follow them and their concepts.
To remain a classical beauty and to let history love on forever, Weng Chun needs someone like us, like me, who dedicate all their life to the research of this classical beauty.
These ancestors are always modern in every era, and when we daily follow all their teachings, we can identify ourselves to the time and to the skill of everyone of them, so that Weng Chun is “perpetually” alive.
Sifu Cesario Di Domenico
