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王金龙
Wang Jinlong
1952 — 2014 · Shenyang 沈阳
七星螳螂拳名家 · 金龙鞭（链子响鞭）创编者 · 中国一代软兵宗师
Master of Seven-Star Mantis boxing · Creator of the Golden Dragon Whip · A founding grandmaster of Chinese soft weapons
He taught forged steel to crack like thunder — and gave it, freely, to everyone.
他让一条钢链发出雷鸣，并把这门技艺无私地传给了所有人。
东北鞭王Whip King of the Northeast
天下第一鞭First Whip Under Heaven
中国第一鞭China’s First Whip
鞭侠The Whip Knight
壹 · 其 人
The Man
A boy among masters
Born in Shenyang in 1952, he began training at twelve and studied under several teachers — Tongbei long boxing, Shaolin, mantis and Wudang, along with sabre, staff, sword, nine-section whip and meteor hammer. Soft weapons were where he was strongest. The Beijing rope-dart master Yao Dongsheng thought so highly of Wang’s reworked meteor hammer that he gave it a name of its own: the Golden Dragon Hammer.
1952 年生于沈阳，十二岁习武，遍访名师，习通背长拳、少林拳、螳螂拳、武当拳，以及刀、棍、剑、九节鞭、流星锤，尤擅软兵。北京绳镖社名家姚东升特将其改良的流星锤定名“金龙锤”。
He was also a factory man. Every surviving manuscript is written on union notepaper from the Shenyang Cable Factory; he was named an outstanding production worker for years running, and took commendations from militia training and a provincial military-district reconnaissance grappling demonstration. Martial arts and working life were never separate things.
他同时是一名工人。留存的手稿全部写在沈阳电缆厂工会稿纸上；连续多年荣获优秀生产者称号，参加民兵训练和省军区侦察兵擒拿格斗表演均获优秀奖。习武与做工，在他这里从来不是两件事。
贰 · 创 编 之 路
The Making
1970s火 种
One crack in Beiling Park
By the seventies his name was known across the martial circles of Liaoning. Practising the nine-section whip in Shenyang’s Beiling Park, his whip tangled with a Daoist priest’s cowhide whip. As the two men drew apart, the leather snapped back with a single crisp crack that carried across the ground. What if the steel chain’s force could carry the leather whip’s voice?
七十年代已享誉辽沈武坛。一次在沈阳北陵公园习练九节鞭，鞭身偶与一位道长的牛皮鞭相缠，二人抽身解鞭的瞬间，牛皮鞭骤然爆出清脆响音。若将钢鞭之刚劲与响鞭之脆响相融，会是何种光景？
1980创 始
Silk on the tail
He started by fixing a strip of coloured silk to the tail of his nine-section whip — and found it kept the steel’s force while gaining a bright, cracking report. This is the year the Golden Dragon Whip begins.
他率先在九节鞭的末端坠上彩绸，回击间既有钢链的刚劲，又生彩绸破空的脆响。金龙鞭自此年创始。
1980s上 千 次 试 制
A stairwell in Tiexi
The work took more than ten years. He began in the stairwell of a neighbourhood office in Shenyang’s Tiexi district, welding the links one at a time and grinding each one smooth. Across a thousand attempts he reworked the nine-section whip’s shape and balance, arriving at a chain of uneven thickness — heavy at the hand, fine at the tail — until the body of the whip produced what his own notes describe as “a sound like thunder, a crack that splits the ear.”
前后花了十多年。起初在沈阳市铁西区某街道办事处的楼道里，把链条一环一环焊接、打磨光滑。经上千次试制，改良九节鞭的造型与比重，改用粗细不均的钢链——把手端粗、鞭稍端细，直至鞭体舞动能产生他笔记中所形容的“其音若雷轰鸣，若响鞭炸耳”。
1988首 金
First National Farmers’ Games
Competing in Shenyang, at Shanghai’s Great World, and at the First National Farmers’ Games, he took gold medals and first places — three years before the whip itself reached its final form.
参加沈阳市、上海大世界及首届全国农运会武术比赛，均取得金牌、第一名。此时距金龙鞭形制定型，还有三年。
1990共 同 创 编
Chang Donghai
At a Liaoning provincial wushu training camp he met Chang Donghai, a national-level senior coach and Xingyi master. Over the years that followed the two exchanged knowledge and co-created the whip’s techniques and routines, drawing in the softening methods of the Daoist fly-whisk and the cowhide soft whip. With that the system was whole.
于辽宁省武术队集训期间结识国家武术高级教练、形意拳大师常东海。此后二人长期切磋交流，共同创编金龙鞭的技法与套路，吸纳道家拂尘与牛皮软鞭的柔化技法。至此整套体系完成。
In 1993 the two met again in Liaoyang. Wang commissioned a calligrapher for two pieces — Donghai Whip and Golden Dragon Whip — and said: “Without Donghai, there would be no Golden Dragon.”
1993 年，二人于辽阳重逢。王金龙求书法家题字“东海鞭”“金龙鞭”二幅，并说：“没有东海哪有金龙。”
1991形 制 定 型
The Golden Dragon Whip takes form
By 1991 both the instrument and the full curriculum were fixed. Fellow martial artists named the whip after him, and within a few years it had spread through the parks of Shenyang.
1991 年，器械与整套鞭法彻底定型。武友以其名尊称此鞭为“金龙鞭”，数年之间便在沈阳各大公园流传开来。
“In 1991, the chain whip invented by the martial-arts devotee Wang Jinlong began to spread through Shenyang. The chain whip is made of fifty to seventy interlocking stainless-steel rings.”
“1991 年，由武术爱好者王金龙发明的链子鞭在沈阳流行起来。链子鞭是由五十节到七十节不锈钢环环相扣组成。”
China Central Television · 央 视 报 道
叁 · 形 制
The Instrument
Fifty to seventy links of stainless steel, tapering from thick to thin. A cowhide-wrapped handle. A whip head of roughly forty centimetres, and tied at the end a rectangular strip of coloured silk cloth — the part that makes the sound.
50 至 70 节由粗到细的不锈钢链条环环相扣，牛皮包裹的把手，末端连接一根约 40 公分的鞭头，再拴一块长方形彩绸布块——发声的正是这一块。
The four whips below are not replicas. They are the whips he used himself, kept by the lineage: from the 1.3-jin competition whip to the 2.3-jin whip he trained raw power with.
下列四条不是复制品，而是王金龙先生本人使用过的金龙鞭，由传人保存至今——从 1.3 斤的比赛用鞭，到 2.3 斤的练劲功之鞭。
1.3斤 · JĪN
链长 1.4m
比赛套路 · 亦可实战
比赛套路 · 亦可实战
1.5斤 · JĪN
链长 1.5m
比赛套路演练
比赛套路演练
1.8斤 · JĪN
链长 1.55m
套路练习
套路练习
2.3斤 · JĪN
长约 1.65m
练劲功
练劲功
肆 · 金 龙 鞭 与 现 代 响 鞭
Two Whips, Two Eras
The Golden Dragon Whip is the foundation of every modern crack whip. Wang built his for combat; the modern whip evolved from it toward fitness and flow — carrying his art to millions.
金龙鞭是现代响鞭的基础与根源。先生的鞭为实战而生；现代鞭在此基础上演化，走向健身与流畅，把这门艺术带给了千万人。
The Golden Dragon Whip
金 龙 鞭 · 原 版
Cracker (鞭稍): silk-cloth block — fragile at first, later rubberized to hold up彩绸布块鞭稍，不耐打易碎，后期加胶，结实耐打
Whip head: short — never over 50 cm鞭头短，不超过 50 公分
Power: demands real strength — explosive, force never scatters, boldly rugged需要劲力，爆发力十足，劲不散，比较粗犷
Purpose: combat — full attack-and-defense传统实战，攻防成套
The Modern Crack Whip
现 代 响 鞭
Cracker (鞭稍): ribbon-style cracker — bright, crisp sound, easy to replace丝带鞭稍，声音清脆，更换方便
Whip head: long — typically 70 cm and above鞭头长，如今普遍 70 公分以上
Power: smooth, flowing arcs — beauty in the line讲究线条平顺，行鞭流畅优美
Purpose: fitness & performance for all ages健身表演，老少皆宜
伍 · 鞭 法
The Method
The Golden Dragon Whip was made for combat, not display. Its vocabulary runs to splitting, smashing, sweeping, striking and swinging — with signature moves found nowhere else: the throw-whip and the smash-whip.
金龙鞭以实战为本，而非表演。技法涵盖劈、砸、扫、打、抡，更有摔鞭、砸鞭等独有招式。
Chang Donghai left a standing reminder for every practitioner: this belongs to martial arts. It demands the intent of attack and defence, the correct unity of hand, eye, body and step — and above all, the empty hand must never rest.
常东海留有告诫：金龙鞭属于武术，须有攻防之意，讲求手眼身法步的正确运用，尤其不持鞭的那只手绝不能闲着——推掌、晾掌、冲拳、护腕，须与鞭势相配。
《金龙鞭谱》· The Golden Dragon Whip Manual
拨云现日映彩虹银蛇出洞贯长空
丹凤朝阳迎春晖如风似碧铁链横
左右逢源源不断金丝缠腕弯不停
燕子翻身多姿态孔雀落架吻身影
黄龙转身行风雨左右背鞭玉断魂
丹凤朝阳迎春晖如风似碧铁链横
左右逢源源不断金丝缠腕弯不停
燕子翻身多姿态孔雀落架吻身影
黄龙转身行风雨左右背鞭玉断魂
Written in his own hand · 先 生 亲 笔
陆 · 荣 誉 与 媒 体
Honours & the Cameras
1988
首届全国农运会
金牌 · 第一名
金牌 · 第一名
1996
第三届全国农运会
传统器械银牌
传统器械银牌
1999
台州国际传统武术绝技大赛
软器械冠军 · 26 国参赛
软器械冠军 · 26 国参赛
2004
第二届香港国际武术节
软鞭金牌 · 39 队 1200 人
软鞭金牌 · 39 队 1200 人
At the 1996 Games in Shanghai, the warm-up alone brought the arena to a standstill — officials crowded round to watch one man train. He took the silver. Afterwards the grand master Cai Longyun came down, took his hand, and said:
1996 年上海赛场，仅试场地便震动全场——裁判围拢，只看他一人训练。他斩获银牌。赛后武术泰斗蔡龙云下场，握着他的手说：
“This is real traditional martial arts.”
“你这是真正的传统武术。”
Cai Longyun · 蔡 龙 云
中国第一鞭 · China’s First Whip
“鞭侠”绝招：金龙鞭 · The Whip Knight
2004.2 · Hong Kong
柒 · 史 料 存 档
The Archive
To pass the art on whole, he spent his later years writing. Route charts first, then the manual itself — every routine, every technique named, the principles set down in verse. All of it on Shenyang Cable Factory union notepaper, dated in his own hand.
为系统传承毕生所学，他晚年潜心著述。先有路谱，后有鞭谱——完整记录套路、招式名目与诗化口诀。全部写在沈阳电缆厂工会稿纸上，落款日期为他亲笔。
Route Charts链 子 鞭 路 谱
The Manual金 龙 鞭 谱
捌 · 亲 笔
In His Own Hand
The press called him an inventor. He never used that word about himself. Among the papers is a statement written in his own hand — Wude Jianding, a declaration of martial conduct — in which he set down what he believed he had done.
媒体称他为发明人。他自己从未这样说过。留存的纸页中有一份亲笔《武德鉴定》，他在其中这样定位自己所做的事。
武德鉴定 · Written in his own hand
“将 30 多年从师多位学习到的套路、功法进行揣摩、研究，无私的教给弟子和热爱武术的同仁。并在继承的基础上予以发展，创编了“金龙鞭”，得到了全国著名武术家蔡龙云及老一辈武术权威的认可和赞许。”
Wang Jinlong · 沈阳电缆厂工会稿纸
Chuàngbiān (创编) — to create and codify, building on what was inherited. Not a claim to have made something from nothing. The distinction is his own, and this page keeps it.
“创编”二字，是在继承基础上创造与编定，不是无中生有的独占宣称。这个分寸是他自己定的，本页照他的话来写。
玖 · 传 承 谱 系
The Lineage
Well past fifty he was still teaching for free in Shenyang’s parks, demonstrating everything himself. By his later years more than two hundred people were practising the whip in those parks, all students of one teacher. He died on 19 November 2014.
年过半百，他仍在沈阳各大公园义务教学，坚持亲身示范。至其晚年，仅沈阳公园内的练习者已逾二百人，皆出一位师傅门下。2014 年 11 月 19 日逝世。
金龙鞭由王金龙创编，常东海共同完善其技法与套路体系；下列谱系为王金龙一脉的传承。
The Golden Dragon Whip was created and codified by Wang Jinlong, with Chang Donghai co-creating its techniques and routines. The lineage below records Wang Jinlong’s own line of transmission.
第 一 代First Generation
王金龙 Wang Jinlong
第 二 代Second Generation
张万强 · 王伟 · 李强 · 武玉华 · 韦洪锁 · 徐大地 · 刘为民
第 三 代Third Generation
辛中来 · 刘庆文 · 韩和宏 · 刘波 · 刘成 · 刘宝华 · 刘世宽 · 王捷
What He Left Behind
The Golden Dragon Whip left its mark on every chain whip that followed. Today the chain whip is a nationwide pastime: schools have multiplied, methods have multiplied, forms have multiplied — the field is in full bloom. Which is all the more reason to remember how it got here, and the people whose work made it possible.
金龙鞭深刻影响了后世各类链鞭的发展。今天，链条鞭子已经成为一项全民运动，衍生出各种流派、各种鞭法、各种造型，可谓百花齐放。也正因如此，我们不该忘记这条路是怎么走过来的，更不该忘记那些为它作出过重大贡献的人。