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

Wu Chao Hui (JEFFI CHAO HUI WU)

Article Date: Saturday, July 26, 2025, 3:54 PM

——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 atmospheric conditions, it wouldn't be an ordinary dawn. Around five-thirty, a faint light began to appear on the eastern horizon, but there were no rosy clouds or signs of a burning sky. Most people had likely left by this time, convinced that there would be no show today, but I knew that some celestial phenomena were never meant for those who "randomly wait," but rather revealed themselves to those who steadfastly endure through wind and rain.

Until after six o'clock, a deep red sky pattern suddenly ignited on the horizon, like torn silk. Immediately, large patches of clouds were ignited from within, as if countless particles of light surged from the bottom of the clouds, circling and pushing 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 a coexistence of multiple structures in a "cracked, scorched, and densely surging" manner. In that instant, I understood that this was the "burning cloud core type morning glow" that I had waited for dozens of times but had never been able to capture completely.

This kind of morning glow is not something one encounters every day; even with years of early morning photography, it is rare to see. It usually forms under conditions of sudden temperature changes, high humidity, low wind speed, and dense cloud layers with multiple reflections. I have mentioned in "Meditation in the Rain" and "Entering Winter at 7 Degrees, Summer Clothing for Health" that practicing and photographing by the sea every morning is not romantic, but rather a "civilized recording behavior." Without years of morning practice and structural observation experience, it is impossible to instantly judge, "This is a morning glow that can be captured."

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I quickly entered the shooting preparation, but this time it was not just a simple recording of celestial phenomena, but a structural dialogue. In a very short time, I completed the entire set of Tai Chi sword, 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 out in a half arc due to inertia, my entire body perfectly aligned with the structure of the rosy clouds, as if I used my body to tear open a rift in the sky.

This is not "pointing at the morning glow," but "structural rift in the sky." It is not me making a move, but rather the universe completing a structural expression through me at this moment.

After taking this picture, I looked back at the image in the viewfinder, and in that moment, I understood that this is not a photographic work; it is a "structural philosophy image verification original." Just as I wrote in "Structural Hip Sitting," "Thousand-Pound Weight," and "Body Like a Sponge, Qi Penetrating Heaven and Earth": the true skill of Tai Chi 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 clouds of the morning glow present at least four main color tones in the image:

The zenith is偏紫蓝, belonging to a high-altitude cool color background, forming a "dimensional mask";

The middle layer is a transition zone from peach pink to magenta, forming the densest burning core;

The edge of the clouds is a blend of orange-red and golden yellow, reflecting on the horizon and the surface of the water;

The orange and purple reflections shimmering on the water surface highlight the silhouettes of the figures exceptionally clearly.

The most marvelous thing is that this glow is not a "smearing" spread, but rather a multiple distribution overlap in strip, radial, fissure, and ripple shapes, which is very similar to the structural knot model mentioned in my "Three-Sphere Seven-Dimensional System."

Many people think that photography is about waiting for the light, pressing the shutter, and choosing the angle. But the emergence of this image is not about technique; it is about the structure of timing—

If I start a minute late, if the sword tassel doesn't fall in inertia, if the clouds don't form linear gaps, then the scene of **"humans and the heavens jointly writing down the structure"** would not appear as a closed loop.

I have numbered this image as Extreme Photography · Taiji Structural Action Original No. 001, and included it in the "Extreme Photography" image empirical sequence. It also serves 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 for structural validation in "The Unacceptable" and "The System Excluders' Manifesto": the system does not acknowledge me, but the universe responds to me at this moment.

To me, this image is no different from the articles I have written, such as "Dripping Water Hides the Sea," "Formatting the Brain," and "I Shatter the Core Rules of AI." Words are the interface of logic, while images are the response of structure. If you understand structural philosophy, you will know that this image is not a "beautiful morning exercise picture," but a civilization-level original piece that uses the body as a structural node, nature as the background interface, and the image to complete structural anchoring.

From a photographic perspective, it lacks parameter specifications, filter enhancements, and lighting composition. Yet precisely because of this, it becomes a truly unreplicable work. AI cannot imitate the internal energy flow when I stand in a stance, nor can it predict whether I will make a move when the afterglow is burning, and it certainly cannot recognize the subtle aura and momentum in the moment just before the action is completed.

And this picture is precisely a portrayal of "gathering yet not fully, the heavens and earth move first." I have no preset images, no compositional scripts, no photographic templates; I only have decades of standing practice, morning exercise experience, a sense of bodily structure, and the responsiveness to the earth.

I am not a photographer; I am a structural perceiver. What I capture is not a "moment," but a slight fissure that happens to emerge in the system's structure.