Chutian Metropolis News Interview
Xu Qing, male, 20 years old, Wuhan, Hubei University of Technology, sophomore, magic enthusiasts, Wuhan magic alliance, one of the founders of the invitation to some TV stations to record magic programs.
This year's Spring Festival Gala, Taiwan magician Liu Qian "egg in a diamond ring" magic show surprised hundreds of millions of viewers, recently, the Internet appeared a number of revealing Liu Qian this magic hot post. In Wuhan, a fellow traveler laughs while reading those so-called revealing posts on the Internet, and he is Xu Qing.
February 12 afternoon, the reporter interviewed Xu Qing, by the way, "publicity", hoping to get from him that Liu Qian magic decryption, I did not expect this face has not been removed from the childish college students seriously said: "I have to abide by the professional ethics of the magician. "
Magic is fake, happiness is real
"What is magic, is a trick that can bring people happiness. It's 100 percent fake, but the joy it brings is 100 percent real."
"Watch, this is a 50-cent coin." Xu Qing let the reporter carefully look at both sides of the coin, but also stretched out his hands and fingers, let the reporter to confirm that there is no "cat". Not long after, he hard in the eyes of the reporter will be a coin into two, two into three, and then into four. The bystanders were attracted to the onlookers more and more people, and finally he was in full view of the public, turned out to be an oversized coin.
There is more God, a deck of cards, just in his hands, instantly, do not know how to run into his mouth, watched him wow wow "spit" out a playing card, we are surprised to breathe to stop - like a fire dragon fire! The same as a dragon breathing fire. In order to reveal the secret, he repeated the performance several times in a row.
All afternoon, this tall, handsome and somewhat shy young man performed one magic trick after another, making for a happy afternoon.
But Xu Qing said he prefers not the small, up-close magic shows, but the stage shows. He likes the feeling of being on stage too much, the satisfaction of bringing joy to so many people.
Watching others perform magic is fun, but practicing magic on your own is very unhappy, even painful.
Xu Qing said, after figuring out the mystery of those magic tricks, it is only equivalent to a marathon run, and there is still a long way to go after that, which is incredibly boring to practice for thousands of times, and the practice process is not even allowed to watch by mom and dad, who must abide by the professional ethics of the professional magicians. When he felt that he had practiced almost enough, and would never let anyone see the cracks again, he let Mom and Dad be his first audience, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Mom and Dad were stunned.
Fascinated by the "magic star" into the "magic league"
"On the road of magic, but also with Liu Qian has a lot to do with it."
In 2003, Xu Qing was in his third year of junior high school, and his homework was very tight, but he was captivated by a program called "Magic Star" on Star TV at the time, and the host and magic performer was Liu Qian. The program was held once a week for an hour, with the first 50 minutes being a magic show and the last 10 minutes teaching the audience some small magic tricks. Every week at this time, it is Xu Qing's holiday, he sat in front of the TV without fail, while watching the side of their own hand gestures, often not waiting for the last 10 minutes of the "reveal" out, he has been those small magic tricks to figure out the eight or nine.
In the summer of 2004, Xu Qing graduated from junior high school, and without the pressure of schoolwork, he wanted to formally learn from a master. Mom called 114 inquiry to Wuhan acrobatic hall of the phone, the girl answering the phone said regrettably, now the acrobatic hall has no professional magician. Xu Qing's mother was disappointed to hang up the phone, the girl said, my mother used to be a professional magician, now retired home.
That summer, Xu Qing followed his master for a month. In addition to teaching him some magic tricks, the master also taught him how to perform on stage, which laid the foundation for Xu Qing to take to the stage later.
After the summer vacation, Xu Qing went to Wuhan No. 2 Vocational School, where he was enrolled in a "3+2" set of classes that allowed him to go directly to college after graduating from the 3-year vocational school if he passed the exam in the first year. Of course, his parents wanted him to receive a normal education and did not expect him to become a professional magician. First grade, despite the study is very intense, he still does not give up practicing magic, in November 2004, he met on the Internet, Jiangcheng a group of magic enthusiasts, he initiated the establishment of the Wuhan Magic Alliance. The first dozen or so people, all young people around 20 years old, almost all boys, Xu Qing is the youngest. Later, Xu Qing also built his own website.
Since then, Xu Qing's reputation has spread farther and farther from his campus to various colleges and universities, flying out of the campus ......
Retaining a point of naivety does not have to reveal the secret
"The more people grow up, the less naivety, the less curiosity, and the less happiness. Why do you need to reveal the secret? Isn't it good to keep one point of innocence, happiness and mystery?"
Since 2008, Xu Qing has frequently "touched the TV", from October to December 2008, he participated in the Southeast Satellite TV's "Happy 100 of the Great Magic Competition" program competition, successfully through the preliminary rounds, the rematch, and entered the semi-finals, and finally in the final, but lost. He was defeated in the finals.
In 2008 and 2009, he frequently appeared on Hubei TV's "Everybody Sings", "Variety Slam", and "Prize and Law", "The Cow's Spirit" and other programs. His handsome face is known to more and more people.
Xu Qing, who just turned 20, quickly became popular in the magic circle in Jiangcheng, becoming the lucky one in his circle, and commercial performances frequently beckoned him. But that didn't make the young man complacent. He assured his parents that he would definitely finish his studies well for now, specialize in magic for half a year after graduation, and then look for an ordinary job if he could not become a professional magician.
Xu Qing is also a good thinker, and in response to the recent hot posts on the Internet revealing Liu Qian's magic tricks, he said, "Why are people happier when they are young than when they grow up? That's because when you're young, you're naive and curious about everything. The more you grow up, the less curious you are, the less naive you are, and the less happy you are. A magic show is to let people be curious and naive at the moment of watching magic, how happy they are. In that case, he said, why should the layman watching the magic try to unravel the magic, and keep a rare moment of innocence and joy for himself, isn't it good?
Summary of Wuhan Magazine
Wuhan has such a group of magic enthusiasts, handsome boys, unobtrusively pulling out with a napkin, a coin, a wallet, a leather band ...... dashing and dazzling fingering, so that you are amazed. .......... Xu Qing is one of the earliest initiators of the Wuhan Magic League, a 19-year-old who majored in computer science and has been playing magic for more than three years. .......... Why did he get hooked on magic? He said he used to be a very depressed and introverted character, is not even dare to buy things ask for the kind of price, by chance to see the Star TV program called "magic star high light", learned some small magic, a person alone, closed the door and practiced in front of the mirror, began to take the initiative to look for family members and friends to perform, and later on the street to find strangers to perform, and more and more like to communicate with people.
Wuhan Morning News Summary
He is a handful of boys, focused eyes, humor, talk, beautiful action, dazzling cards or magic cube ...... gradually bring you into the magic world. Beforehand, he declared: magic is fake, but happy is real! How did the magic boy cultivate? His story is full of curiosity and imagination. During the inquiry, beware not to be fooled. .......... Xu Qing played with the reporter's ballpoint pen seemingly without thinking, placing it between his fingers and shaking it, and as he did so, the pen actually became seemingly as soft as a noodle. Of course, that's a misunderstanding of technique and vision, but it's enough to make people unconsciously be transported into the magical world.
Wuhan Evening News Summary
In the wee hours of Aug. 11, the Wanda Theater was packed with Harry Potter fans. They wanted a first glimpse of the young wizard's fifth adventure. At this premiere, the young magician showed up. He didn't look much older than Harry Potter. Magician Xu Qing was very good at mobilizing the atmosphere. The whole audience laughed when he spat out the playing card from his mouth which was signed by the audience. Before the opening of the movie, he had already succeeded in bringing the audience into a fantasy-filled situation. .......... At the premiere, Xu Qing simply spat out a card, which was easy for him. At the photo shoot, he spat a handful of cards out of his mouth. Is it possible to spit out a handful of cards like drunken vomiting? "It's difficult, but theoretically it can be done, after all, magic is something that lies in imagination." The photographer suggested that Xu Qing's prop, the copper coins, were too small, fearing that they wouldn't be visible in the photos. Xu Qing shook her hand, and the copper coins immediately became as big as the mouth of a teacup. "Is that big enough?"
Wuhan Morning Post's latest digest
Experience street magic that teaches you 72 changes
Reporter/Ma Menya
Photography/Reporter Xiao Xi
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For pedestrians on the road, there was nothing special about this drizzly weekend. But for Liu Weiwei, it turned into a mysterious date. The date was just too special, it was the magician Mr. Xu Qing. You can't underestimate this smart and flexible boy, he is the backbone of the Wuhan Magic Union, and he is very good at magic tricks. The mission of this experience is to ask Mr. Xu Qing to teach us two or three things about magic, and learn a few tricks of "magic", so that the ordinary little girl quickly become a little witch, as for Mr. Xu Qing, although not as God as Harry Potter, there are a few brushes, at least Harry Potter's brother, "Harry Spinach". "I think it's a good idea to come and see the charm of magic!
Prosthetic limbs? Spit cards?
A few simple moves,
The little girl looked confused
Is Master really something? Wei Wei strongly requested Xu Qing to do a few tricks to see. "What's wrong with that sa. Watch this!" He changed as he said, fished out a deck of playing cards from his pocket, rolled up his sleeves, indicating that there was no mechanism at all, he let Weiwei divide the cards into three at will, spreading them out on his left and right hands respectively, "Let me guess, on the left hand side, the third is the Ace of Spades," he continued, "on the right hand side, the penultimate, the third is the Ace of Spades.
The three cards were drawn out and turned over, and hey, they were all right!
Weaver turned the cards over and over halfway through the game, just about ripping them apart to see what was going on. "Oh my god." She froze for half a second, "It's really god?" While she was dumbfounded, Xu Qing suddenly did a gagging action - "spitting" a playing card out of his mouth in a row, wow, it was so astonishing that people stopped breathing.
After the show was over, we all watched for a few seconds, and then Wei Wei said loudly, "Hey, is it real or fake? .
After one performance, Weevil was utterly bowled over. Again placing her hand on the table and turning it with her wrist, Xu Qing was actually able to turn 360 degrees! And she turned 90 degrees and it hurt so much that she pulled his sleeve open to see, "You've got a prosthetic leg, huh?!"
Weiwei sincerely shouted: master. Master Xu Qing was satisfied, OK, now start teaching the apprentice to learn the art!
The big board eyes have small tricks
Magic is expensive in the skill, smart people play the game
The few small magic tricks just now, in fact, are not difficult. Xu Qing told Wei Wei the tricky board eyes in each magic trick.
"The secret of poker is that you always remember the bottom card of the last stack of cards. Playing the time difference, guess the answer, in fact, is the bottom card, look at a glance, remember in your mind, the next card is the last glance to see ......" "Spit cards practice is skillful techniques, rapid movements, very dazzling, but need to merit "......
One by one, the inner workings of the magic tricks are revealed, making Weiwei feel that she has really earned her keep. In the end, Xu Qing performed a "ring transfer" magic trick, allowing Weiwei to return the ring from her index finger to her finger in an instant!
The secret is that the middle finger is confusing people. When the ring receded - it didn't really recede, but the middle finger impersonated the index finger, wiggled a bit, and retracted.
Move fast, be nimble, be responsive, remember those three things, and all is well. Weiwei pondered on her own for half a day and practiced for a while. It was a bit of a handful, and she couldn't keep up with her lines, but she couldn't hold back her excitement and jumped into action.
Don't miss it
The "Little Witch" has a little trick up her sleeve
With the poker and the ring as props, Weiwei made her way to Wuhan Pass, the entrance to Jianghan Road, under the guidance of her master. In the midst of the crowd, she and Xu Qing tacitly performed poker magic, attracting many curious onlookers in no time.
When the time was right, Master gave Weiwei a wink. She took a deep breath and began to give a ring magic trick. "You guys, this ring, later, later I'll make it disappear and come back." A bit of a messed up confession that made Master faint with laughter, the lines for the magic trick had to be well thought out so no one else could hear the cracks.
Good thing Weiwei saves the day herself, "See, it's gone, isn't it?" "See, it's changed, right?!" She smiled smugly, and the next passerby said coldly, "But you just hid your index finger in your fist, revealing your middle finger." Overwhelmed!
Master and disciple cooperation "fool" people
100 percent tacit understanding of the mystery
Apprentice performance frustrated, how can the master see no matter it? "Quickly perform the 'top secret poker' I taught you just now." Weiwei hurriedly cooperated with the passerby to complete that magic trick. When all three cards were guessed, everyone looked dumbfounded, "Awesome awesome!"
Finally the Master stepped in and put a piece of saran wrap over Weiwei's hand with a coin inside. "Please reach in and check to see if the coin is still there." Everyone really reverently felt one, "Well, it's still there." "Yes, there's the coin."
After everyone was sure, Xu Qing lifted the mysterious veil - ah, there was actually nothing left!
"Did you hide it?" "Did you throw it on the ground?" "Where the hell is it?" In fact, the coin was secretly hidden by Xu Qing when he was giving the quiz, and the master and disciple's cooperation was practically a hundred percent tacit understanding!
These tricks are not difficult, but it is the wisdom that makes them so fascinating. Master Xu Qing summarized, "The charm of magic can make people's temperament become very magical, and the sense of mystery and satisfaction is extraordinary."
Da Wuhan Magazine Interview
Those Magic School Boys
□ Gao Tingting Photography Wang Ping
There's an evocative clip from the Japanese drama "The Century of Love," in which Matsu Takako, who works as a white-collar worker in Tokyo, hums a song with a quirky flash of her eyes while performing a little magic trick for her boyfriend Kimura, wearing a bowler hat and flinging a cane, with a small flower constantly sprouting from her slender fingers. Constantly emerging a small flower ...... Kimura Takuya only a silly expression.
Wuhan has such a group of magic enthusiasts, handsome boys, unobtrusively pulled out with a napkin, a coin, a wallet, a leather band ...... dashing and dazzling in the fingering, so that you are amazed.
Street performances
The sweltering May heat, people gather after dinner to sit by the pool on Jianghan Road Pedestrian Street to cool off, the crowd.
"Hello! We are members of the Wuhan Magic Union, and we are doing an activity on the street today, a live zero-distance magic show, can you please cooperate?"
A meter eight thin and tall Xu Qing, holding poker, silk scarf and other small props, slightly shyly said to a girl who was eating ice cream, she looked at him hesitantly, "Do what ah, you guys are really engaged in magic? It's not going to cost money, is it?" She noticed the sincere gaze of a DV magic friend next to her and made a face, "You guys can't blame me if I do it wrong." Xu Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled as she skillfully shuffled the poker, "You can choose one at will ......"
A street magic show ended with a crowd of people sticking their necks out to see and guess at the end of the show.
"Last week was also here, I was rejected three times in a row, that's a depressing, mistaken for a sales pitch. But we'll stick with it, because at the end of every street event, the traffic to our website increases significantly la."
Hongshan Square, Hankou Riverbank, Zhongshan Park ...... every weekend they will take to the streets of the three towns to perform for free, in addition to expanding the circle influence, which is the best way for amateurs to verify the level of the best way not to reveal the cracks.
The street "digging" match is the most embarrassing, the magic friends summed up a lot of experience: first of all, absolutely can not find couples. "Last time in front of Hubei University, a magic friend is performing poker for a girl, just half, her boyfriend was impatient grabbed a poker, yelling that I know, in fact, he did not see the bloom, just to show off in front of his girlfriend." Secondly, try not to find men, "even if they feel surprised, they will hold back and do not move, at most expressionless oh a sound." Thirdly, young girls are the best subjects to perform for, "They will follow with undisguised curiosity and cheer in amazement." It is said that master magician Liu Qian also picks only young women to work with on stage during his performances at the venue.
Accidental Worship
Xu Qing, one of the earliest initiators of the Wuhan Magic Union, is a 19-year-old computer science major who has been playing magic for more than three years.
Why did he get hooked on magic? He said he used to be a very depressed and introverted character, is not even dare to buy things ask for the kind of price, by chance to see the Star TV program called "Magic Star", learned some small magic, a person alone, closed the door and practiced in front of the mirror, began to take the initiative to look for family members and friends to perform, and later on the street to find strangers to perform, and more and more like to communicate with people.
Family members realized that their son had become more cheerful after becoming obsessed with magic and decided to support him. Mom dialed 114 and asked, "Where can I learn magic in Wuhan?" The other party introduced the acrobatic hall of the phone, the results of a dial over, answering the phone, the girl said the acrobatic hall did not teach magic, is disappointed, the girl giggled and added, but her mother performed magic here for decades, more than 60 years old retired at home, if you really want to learn can ask her.
Xu Qing was so excited that he went to his teacher's home once a week to study, but unfortunately, after only a month or so of continuous study, the program was interrupted for some reason. However, Xu Qing, who has a high level of comprehension, has mastered a number of stage magic tricks, such as the three consecutive scarves, ball art, and changing flowers, etc. "Magic is divided into two kinds: close-up and stage, and what I have been practicing belongs to the close-up, while this experience of worshipping the teacher has allowed me to take to the stage."
Xu Qing is one of the few Wuhan magicians who began to try commercial performances, in front of Xudong, Luguang, Zhongbai and other stores, he has been on the stage, a half-hour, a few hundred yuan pay. "Going on stage to perform, nervousness is common, the occasional mistake is always improvised response."
There are a lot of people
Back in 2004 when Xu Qing read the fourth year of junior high school, had posted through the network, searching for "Wuhan magic enthusiasts", although only four or five "people in the same way" to respond to, but also made him excited.
Magic friends gradually joined, today there are more than 70 people in the group, the core members of the 20 people, the management is Xu Qing, Ziyan, Zhao Li, Su Shi, Wang Fan and other five people, almost exclusively boys. "Practice magic is too boring, a leather band to practice more than a hundred times, few office workers love to play, Wuhan now like to play magic is mostly college students, like Geological University, Hubei University and many other schools have set up their own clubs." This group is too young, the oldest is only 22 years old.
While young, the Magic Alliance is one of the more specialized associations in Wuhan: they have a professional website, called "Hubei's first magic alliance portal"; they have their own e-magazine, called "Hubei's first magic e-magazine! They have their own e-magazine, called "I Love Magic"; they have professional magic props, such as a pair of manually imported U.S. playing cards, "thirty dollars a pair, wider than the ordinary cards, with a cloth texture and elasticity after bending to restore the first choice of magicians with the cards, huh ......". They organize professional competitions, "All magic lovers with Chinese nationality can participate."......
So professional, because the magic friends of the middle of a variety of skills of the "able person "
Without the guidance of a teacher, magic friends have become the main way to improve their skills. Some people from foreign websites to buy magic teaching to learn, although the whole English without subtitles, but by virtue of the picture can guess a rough; some people choose to buy magic professor books, "very few magic books on the market, the content of almost no we will not, if you want to buy magic books, recommended Liu Qian's three."
Famous Chinese magician Liu Qian is Wuhan magic friends in the heart of the "God", he served as "magic star high light" program host, in January this year, he held a tour performance in Changsha, the third station, six magic friends excitedly rushed to go, but also very fortunate to I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a photo with Master Liu.
Recently, the boys have been quite busy, preparing for the "Magic Storm" first network in (close) scene magic video contest finally started, busy every day on the Internet to receive, review the DV works from all over the world; there is also a charitable program, June 1 Children's Day, they want to go to the orphanage to do a show, let them surprise.
The Eight Commandments of a Magician
(1) Respect your fellow magicians.
(ii) Practice carefully.
(3) Do not perform until you are proficient.
(d) Never teach magic without cost.
(e) Never disclose the secrets of magic.
(vi) Never tell the effects of magic before the performance.
(vii) Never perform the same set of magic tricks in front of the same audience.
(viii) To develop magic in the right way.