十三操外加一: 倒轉乾坤First additional step of 13 steps

在第一張十三操手稿裡，細心的人應該發覺到，十三操最後結束後，周師父又多加了二式。這另外加的二式，必須在十三操做得很熟之後，才能再加做的二式。

外加第一式為「倒轉乾坤」。全身放鬆，雙手舉起過頭，力貫雙手，整個人像個車輪般，向右側手翻翻過去。

剛開始時也許會害怕，慢慢調整身體和地面的角度，久而久之就會習慣。當身體翻轉起來時，從側面看，應該是和地面成九十度。周師父說，當人的身體成倒立的姿勢時，整身的經脈氣血都是不順的，然而我們需要習慣這種不順，這樣如果遇到什麼意外時，才不會因一時的頭下腳上而天旋地轉，昏天暗地到無法反應而受傷。

If you look carefully enough, you can see there were 2 steps had been added after 13 steps on 13 steps sketch. You have to be very fluent of 13 steps before you start to do those 2 additional steps.

The first additional step is "heaven and earth reversal". It's just an idea, which means to turn your body upside-down.
Relax your whole body, raise your arms over your head, focus on your hands, then do a right-hand side flit like a wheel.

You may be frighten at the beginning, adjust the angle of your body with the ground once at the time, you will get use to it after a while. When you are doing the flit, your body should be vertical with the ground.

Sifu Zhou said, when your body is upside-down, your vein and chi should be unnatural and uncomfortable, but we have to get use to this kind of feeling. Once if we ran into some accident, we won't get hurt easily because we were flying upside-down and couldn't protect ourselves.

Taiwan style shampoo(2)

Here is the layout of a typical Taiwanese hair salon, upper-left-hand-side is the front door, lower-right-hand-side is the restroom, counter, chairs, and other stuff. One cup of tea on the lower-left-hand-stand, one cup of coffee on the right.

When Wingtsung girl Miao-wen went to a hair salon, she went to number one chair first, then an assistant came to her, asked her if she would like to have tea or coffee first( some home style salon won't have this kind of service).

















①: Then the assistant squirted out the shampoo on Miao-wen's head. Usually, a scalp massage and shampoo all in one.


②: 10 minutes later, they went over to the sink to rinse off.


③: Then, returning to the chair, the back massage begun. Then the assistant started to blow dry Miao-wen's hair.


④: Miao-wen paid it out front happily.

In Taiwan, people can go to hair salon just for shampooing, cutting, dyeing etc.. People can do it all together or separate. I guess this is a very special, very Taiwanese experience tourists must have.

We say:
shampoo 洗頭 xi-tou
haircut 剪髮 jian-fa

I want to shampoo my hair.
我 要 洗 頭。
wo-yao-xi-tou

I want to get a haircut.
我 要 剪 髮。
wo-yao-jian-fa





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