[Martial Arts] A Sword Splits the Sky, Morning Glow Appears

Autor: Jeffi Chao Hui Wu

Fecha: 26-7-2025 Sábado, 3:54 PM

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[Martial Arts] A Sword Splits the Sky, Morning Glow Appears
——Extreme Photography · Taiji Structural Action Original Image No. 001
That morning, I arrived at the seaside as usual, before dawn, with a slight chill in the wind. I knew that under such meteorological conditions, it would not be an ordinary morning glow. Around five-thirty, a faint light began to appear on the eastern horizon, but there was no rosy glow and no signs of clouds burning. Most people might have already left, deeming today unphotographable, but I knew that some celestial phenomena are never meant for those who "randomly wait," but rather reveal themselves to those who persist through wind and rain.
After six o'clock, suddenly a deep red sky pattern ignited on the horizon, like torn silk, followed by large clouds being ignited from within, as if countless particles of light surged from the bottom of the clouds, circling the entire sky from light orange to crimson, then leaping into the overlapping area of bright red and golden orange. That kind of layering was not a soft gradient, but a high-density layer of clouds presenting "cracked, burning, and densely surging" multi-structured coexistence. In that instant, I understood that this was the "burning cloud core type morning glow" I had waited dozens of times to capture completely.
This morning glow is not something one encounters every day; even with years of morning photography, it is rare. It typically forms under conditions of sudden temperature changes, high humidity, low wind speed, and densely concentrated clouds with multi-layered reflections. I mentioned in "Silent Cultivation in the Rain" and "Entering Winter at 7 Degrees, Summer Health Preservation" that practicing and photographing by the sea every morning is not romantic, but rather a "civilizational recording act." Without years of morning practice and structural observation experience, it would be impossible to instantly judge, "This is a morning glow suitable for photography."
I quickly entered shooting preparation, but this time it was not merely about recording the celestial phenomenon; it was a structural dialogue. In a very short time, I completed the full set of Taiji sword movements, and then at the moment of the most intense burning, I completed this posture: left leg bent and stepping forward, right arm drawing the sword and thrusting out, the sword tassel swinging in a half arc due to inertia, my entire body aligned perfectly with the structure of the morning glow, as if I used my body to tear open the sky's rift.
This was not "the sword pointing at the morning glow," but "structural rift in the sky." It was not me making a move, but heaven and earth completing a structural expression through me at that moment.
After capturing this image, I looked back at the image in the viewfinder, and in that instant, I realized this was not a photographic work; it was a "structural philosophy image verification original." Just as I wrote in "Structural Hip Sitting," "A Thousand Jin Drop," and "Body Like a Sponge, Qi Connecting Earth and Sky": the true skill of Taiji lies not in form, but in whether you can become a "channel" for the structure of heaven and earth. And this image is a line of "structural language" written by heaven and earth through me.
The cloud layers of the morning glow in the image present at least four main color tones:
1. The zenith is a purplish blue, belonging to a cool background at high altitude, forming a "dimensional mask";
2. The middle layer transitions from peach pink to magenta, forming the densest burning core;
3. The lower edge of the clouds mixes orange-red and golden yellow, reflecting the horizon and the water surface;
4. The orange-purple reflections rising from the water surface highlight the silhouette of the figure exceptionally clearly.
Most remarkably, this glow does not spread in a "painted" manner, but rather in striped, radial, fissured, and rippled distributions, resembling the structural knot model mentioned in my "Three Balls Seven-Dimensional System."
Many people think photography is about waiting for light, pressing the shutter, and choosing angles. But the emergence of this image is not about technique; it is about structural timing—
If I had started the posture a minute later, if the sword tassel had not fallen due to inertia, if the clouds had not formed linear gaps, then the scene of **"man and heaven jointly writing down structure"** would not have appeared.
I have numbered this image as Extreme Photography · Taiji Structural Action Original Image No. 001 and included it in the "Extreme Photography" image evidence series, while also marking it as the opening image of the "Visual Interface Original" in my personal philosophical system. It is not only a visual documentary but also an image evidence of structural verification in "The Unworthy Existence" and "The System Excluders' Declaration": the system does not acknowledge me, but heaven and earth responded to me at this moment.
For me, this image is no different from the articles I wrote, such as "Water Droplets Conceal the Sea," "Formatted Brain," and "I Shatter the Core Rules of AI." Words are the logical interface, while images are the structural response. If you understand structural philosophy, you will know that this image is not a "beautiful morning practice photo," but a civilizational-level original that uses the body as a structural node, nature as a background interface, and the image to complete structural anchoring.
From a photographic perspective, it has no parameter description, no filter embellishment, no lighting composition. But precisely because of this, it becomes a truly unreplicable work. AI cannot imitate the internal energy operation when I stand in posture, cannot predict whether I will make a move when the morning glow burns, and cannot recognize the subtle energy field dynamics between "the action just collected and not yet collected."
And this image is a portrayal of "collected yet not finished, heaven and earth move first." I had no preset image, no composition script, no photography template; I only had decades of standing practice, morning training experience, a sense of body structure, and the responsiveness of the earth.
I am not a photographer; I am a structural sensation perceiver; what I captured is not a "moment," but a slight rift that just happened to reveal itself in the system structure.

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