擂台上已打的得天昏地暗，看客们也疯狂到如醉如痴，真正的武林高手其实此刻并未上场，那人正在灯火阑珊处——不动声色。
　　冰川未必是绝顶的武林高手，但他有高手必备的品质——「冷静」，这种沉得住气的「冷静」，是来自名字注定，还是「隔岸观火」之因，我未深究。也许他根本不把「打擂」当回事，「行道」才是他最有兴致的目标。再说，他是个有实力有功底的人，有枪有炮，聪明的大头，一米八的肉身，有什么急的忙的？几出过场戏，他用不上。
　　当一种「前卫」，终于演变为一种潮流时，它就完成了一个从「革命者」到一个「革命对象」角色转换的全过程。此刻需要更冷的杀手出来终结这个「现象」，以完成新一次的演进。
　　我不能确认冰川就是此时窜出来的一名蓄谋已久的勇士，可这批作品起码让我们看到，与那种在文化断层的裂纹中，急忙投掷了许多快速粗制滥造的低等「填塞物」决然不同，而是多年沉潜的忙碌，无声而有序的劳作，先是在阵痛中极有心的寻找，寻找断裂的文化脉络与神经?，再在荒漠中极用心地一点点一丝丝梳理与修复。然后，以极大的真心再造出一种有来龙去脉和有「上下文」关系的新生命。这种「衔接」后的创作，不是能在一个「短文化时间段」来掂量它的重量的。我相信这些浸透冰川心血与智慧的作品，不会就是能充当鲜活生命机体的「硅胶」，瞬间可叫你丰满迷人，人见人爱，过目时日，即变成不论怎样触摸，都没有任何表情与脉动的「死块儿」。
　　在此，我不能一一评论他的每幅作品，只想——等着瞧吧！
　　我与冰川只几面之交，对他的作品也未细读，不能见其全貌，只见冰川一角。

二〇〇八年六月二十六日 于北京

A Side View of Bing-Chuan

　　The fighting on the competition arena is so bitterly fierce, and all the spectators are crazy with their excitement. Yet, the real martial master is not on the arena at the moment. He is waiting in the“flickering fading light”①——remaining to be himself without showing off.
　　Bingchuan may not be the greatest martial master, yet, he has got the prerequisite that a martial master must have——calmness. Does this calmness come from his name Leng Bingchuan②? Or is it from his personality of“watching a fire from the other side of the river”③? To be frank, I haven’t done any real research of the origin of his temper of being calm down. Perhaps, he never takes the fighting on the competition arena seriously. What he is interested in and aims at is to do something more meaningful, like people doing the moral and justice by following God’s providence. Furthermore, he is someone with real capability and skills, having solid firearms, a big and clever head, a tall body of one point eight meters’high as well. Why should he be in such a hurry? It is just unworthy for him to do the fighting which is only like the“interlude”.
　　When a kind of“avant-guard”art style turns to be the popular tendency, it has completed its transformation from a revolutionist to the object of revolution. At this moment, it is necessary to have a much cooler killer coming to put this“phenomenon”to an end, in order to have a new change.
　　I am not quite sure whether Bingchuan is such a brave warrior now, ready to come out to do the killing. Yet, at least we can see from these works that they are totally different from those stuffs of low quality being cast out in a hurry carelessly in the cultural disruption. Instead, they are the result of years’busyness in sedimentation and hard labor in silence as well as order. He firstly tries to search with his mind and heart in the pains, for the broken cultural connections like venations and nerves, and then in this desert, he puts his great effort in making them in order bit by bit and repairing them. Finally, with his real sincerity, he recreates a new art life with its history and context. The value of this kind of creation in cultural connection cannot be measured in a short period of cultural time. I believe these works soaked in Bingchuan’s blood and wisdom cannot be the“silicon gel”that replaces the fresh and lively life. Though works made of“silicon gel”may be attractive and charming at the first sight, yet, when time passes, it turns to be“dead block”with no expression and life force no matter how it is touched.
　　Here I cannot give a full discussion of his works one by one. I only intend to wait and see!
　　I have only met Bingchuan for several times, and haven’t read his works carefully. So I cannot have a whole view of his works, instead, only a side view of Bingchuan here is shown.

June 26th, 2008  In Beijing

Notes:
①“flickering fading light”：This is a phrase from the poem The Eve of Lantern Festival made by Xin Qi-Ji, a poet in South Song Dynasty. It contains the meaning that the lover will not be bothered by other people celebrating the festival, waiting for his/her beloved in the darkened flickering light quietly. 
②Leng Bing-Chuan: Here the Chinese character“Leng”means“cold”, and“Bing-Chuan”means“glacier”.
③“watching a fire from the other side of the river”: This is a phrase taken from the ancient Chinese military work Sun Zi: Fire War. The original meaning of the phrase is to be apathetic or indifferent to others’misfortune or troubles. Here, the implied meaning lies in that he/she does not care the others’dispute within themselves and does his/her own work wholeheartedly.
(These notes are made by the translator.)