China is a big country, and for thousands of years, talents have emerged. In the eyes of the rest of the world, the most desirable thing about this mysterious and ancient oriental country is the charm of traditional Chinese martial arts. There are talented people in the jiangshan generation, each leading the way for hundreds of years. From The Wudang Zhang Sanfeng Zhang Zhenren hundreds of years ago to the modern encounter with Hollywood's kung fu superstar Bruce Lee, Chinese martial arts have also deeply shocked the world. Among the martial arts masters in the past hundred years, the many entanglements between Sun Lutang, who was once known as the "first master of the Republic of China", and Wang Ziping, a rising star of martial arts, made all the spectators deeply curious.
Sun Lutang was born in 1860 to a very poor family. Although he was born with strong physique and studiousness, he had a lot of fate. When Sun Lutang was nine years old, his frail father died unexpectedly, and after the death of his father, who was the pillar of the pillar, the family that was not rich was even more destitute. Sun Lutang's mother had to go out as a slave and raise Sun Lutang with a meager salary.
Sun Lutang has been very fond of martial arts since he was a child, because his family is too poor, Sun Lutang has no money to go to school, so he simply goes out to worship a boxer as a teacher and learns boxing with this jianghu boxer. He was talented and had good physical fitness, and was a rare martial arts wizard, so it didn't take long for him to learn the martial arts of this jianghu boxer nine times out of ten, and there was a great potential for blue to be better than blue.
At the age of 11, Sun Lutang went out alone to work, because he had not read any books, and he was too young, in order to fill his stomach, he had to commit himself to a brush shop as an apprentice, and by chance, 13-year-old Sun Lutang got acquainted with Li Kuiyuan, a famous boxer in Hebei Province, Li Kuiyuan had a good eye for people, and decided that Sun Lutang was a good seedling to learn martial arts, and immediately accepted him as an apprentice and taught boxing skills.
Because sun Lutang was gifted, in less than two years, Sun Lutang had learned almost the master's skills, Li Kuiyuan thought that there was nothing to teach Sun Lutang, so he recommended Sun Lutang to his master Guo Yunshen, Guo Yunshen's shape and intention fist was very advanced and difficult to understand at that time, and Sun Lutang was diligent and diligent, willing to study, and soon mastered Guo Yunshen's housekeeping skills.
After understanding Guo Yunshen's shape and intention fist to the end, Sun Lutang went to Beijing again and visited cheng Tinghua, a famous master of bagua palms, and after Cheng Tinghua taught sun Lutang his bagua palm mastery, in order to broaden his horizons, he suggested that Sun Lutang travel around and visit Gao Ming. In the spring of 1886, Sun Lutang began his career as a cloud traveler on foot.
During the two years of traveling in all directions, Sun Lutang visited famous doors, and few people from all over the world played chess with him, and never lost to others. In 1888, Sun Lutang returned to his hometown and founded a boxing club, which widely collected disciples and became quite famous. In 1907, Xu Shichang, then the governor of the three eastern provinces, admired Sun Lutang's name and even invited him to the northeast with him. In 1918, Sun Lutang founded Sun's Taijiquan, a family of its own, and has since become famous for martial arts, known as "the first master of the Republic of China." ”
However, it was such a martial arts peak master, but later criticized as "not daring to fight", and the initiator of this challenge was Wang Ziping.
Wang Ziping was born in 1881 in Cangzhou, Hebei. Unlike Sun Lutang, in the early years, Prince Ping worked as a merchant in the Kanto area. He was born into a martial arts family, and his family has been practicing martial arts for generations, which gives him very good conditions for learning martial arts. Since childhood, Wang Ziping has been practicing martial arts such as Tai Chi and Longquan Sword. Before long, he threw himself into Congrong, a "Boxer" that shocked both home and abroad.
There were many capable people in the Boxer Rebellion, and Prince Ping was very talented, and he was tempered in the Boxers, and learned a lot of martial arts secrets that others could not learn. After the defeat of the Boxer Rebellion, he traveled back and forth to find the world's martial arts masters and improve his martial arts. He was humble and studious, not ashamed to ask, diligent and hardworking, encouraging self-sustaining, and soon, after visiting many famous teachers, Wang Ziping's martial arts had made great progress. During the period of business, Wang Ziping learned many kinds of martial arts from all over the world, and he was able to delve into them, integrate these martial arts skills, and bring together hundreds of masters.
Prince Ping
After the martial arts reached a certain level, Wang Ziping resolutely threw himself into the martial arts training institute run by Ma Liang, the town guard envoy of Jinan, where Wang Ziping received systematic training, and the person who taught him martial arts skills at that time was the famous Cha Boxing master Yang Hongxiu, where Wang Ziping not only improved his rights and interests, but also improved his leg and foot kung fu.
In 1928, Sun Lutang, who was already famous in Wulin at that time, served as the head of the Central Guoshu Hall, and at this time, the already famous prince Ping Chusheng was not afraid of tigers and came to challenge, but Sun Lutang was slow to fight, which caused a very big public opinion storm at that time, and everyone thought that Sun Lutang was timid and afraid of things, greedy and afraid of death.
However, everyone paid too much attention to Sun Lutang's martial arts skills and did not care that he was quite old. After the incident of dodging Prince Ping's battle was reported, many people took the opportunity to question this recognized martial arts master: Real gold is not afraid of fire refining, and since he thinks that he is "invincible in the world", why is he timid like a rat? Some people even sarcastically ridiculed Sun Lutang's name, which is not worthy of the name. But if Sun Lutang was really greedy for life and afraid of death, why did the seventy-year-old Sun Lutang accept the challenge of single-handedly picking out five Japanese after this? If the wave is a false name, why can it still achieve a complete victory?
Later generations analyzed that Sun Lutang was unwilling to fight Against Prince Ping for two reasons: First, when Sun Lutang was challenged by Prince Ping, he was already sixty-eight years old, more than a year old, his physical fitness was far inferior to before, he had a martial arts body, but no good physique was also in vain, and at this time, Prince Ping was forty-seven years old, rich and powerful, and compared with the two, it was really unfair. Second, Sun Lutang was already well-known in the martial arts at this time, as a well-known boxing master, if he lost to the junior Prince Ping in the game, it would be tantamount to self-destruction of reputation, and his apprentices would no longer be convinced of themselves, so in this battle, the only way to do it was to retreat.
In fact, although Sun Lutang and Wang Ziping, as martial artists, are also the leaders of the dragon, it is understandable that the two have the intention to separate the superior and inferior. However, in the end, everyone is a Chinese man with iron bones, a black-haired and yellow-skinned descendant of Yan Huang, and no matter who achieves high, it is a proof to the world at that time. Of course, China is not the so-called "sick man of East Asia", the blood flowing in every Chinese is boiling hot, no matter who wins or loses, it is just to win glory for the country and show off our country's prestige.
Text/Liu Baixi