Chinese kung fu is famous all over the world, but unfortunately there are fewer and fewer movies that highlight Chinese culture, so that we can only experience the peak moment of the master duel again in more memories, and find the true soul of martial arts.
"Kung Fu Emperor" Jet Li's "Shaolin Temple" has made the audience remember it forever, when he was young and handsome, his martial arts movements were clean and neat, and his movements were flowing, which also set off a wave of enthusiasm for going to the Shaolin Temple.
That heroic Shaolin boy, in the blink of an eye, is also about to enter the year of flower armor, white hair, loose skin, none of which show the traces of time, surprisingly Jet Li's mentor Li Junfeng, now 82 years old, but looks a little younger than his 57-year-old apprentice.
Li Junfeng, born in 1938 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, was recruited to study in the Martial Arts Department of Beijing Institute of Physical Education in 1960 at the age of 22 after graduating from Shijiazhuang No. 1 Middle School.
He has loved martial arts since he was a child, and here he received more systematic and professional training, and the martial arts have improved by leaps and bounds, where he stayed for 6 years, and after graduating with excellent results, he was submitted to the Beijing Sports Commission.
In these years of continuous learning, he has made rapid progress, and in successive competitions, he has achieved very gratifying results, and in national competitions, he has won the martial arts team championship for 12 consecutive years.
If the country wants to prosper and become strong, it must cultivate rising stars, and martial arts also need to constantly cultivate successors, and in 1974, 36-year-old Li Junfeng was commissioned to form the Beijing Wushu Team and serve as a martial arts instructor.
After Jet Li entered the Beijing martial arts team at the age of 8, he followed Li Junfeng to start dancing with guns and sticks, although nominally Wu Bin was Jet Li's real master, and Li Junfeng was only his uncle, but in fact Li Junfeng has always been his mentor who preached and taught karma.
In addition, martial arts master Ge Chunyan and others, also his students, as a coach, peach and plum all over the world, for the national training of athletes, in the national, Asian and international competitions have won more than 100 gold medals.
In 1987, the 39-year-old Li Junfeng served as the coach of the national wushu team and traveled to Yokohama, Japan to participate in the first Asian Wushu Championships, and won 13 gold medals and 3 silver medals in 16 events.
Li Junfeng loves martial arts and is more eager to carry forward the martial arts and let the martial arts get a better inheritance, so he has been focusing on being a coach and cultivating the next generation with due diligence.
However, after Jet Li won 5 consecutive gold medals, retired due to injury, began to participate in films, and became popular with "Shaolin Temple", making martial arts into the eyes of the public, he had different ideas.
Promoting martial arts, not behind closed doors, letting the public know martial arts, and letting martial arts enter thousands of households, is a better inheritance of Chinese martial arts, so he realized that the film is a good way to spread.
After that, Li Junfeng, in addition to serving as a coach, began to star in some martial arts films, presenting wonderful martial arts performances to more people.
He is a well-known modern martial arts master at home and abroad, respected not only by the industry at home, but also highly respected and noticed abroad, in 1988, he was also invited to serve as the national coach of the Philippines, until the time of the Asian Games in Beijing.
In the early 1990s, he also served as the head coach of the Beijing Wushu Team, a member of the Chinese Wushu Association, and the deputy director of the Coaching Committee of the Chinese Wushu Association.
For those of us laymen, the most specific understanding of him is in the movie screen, in 1983, he starred in "Wulin Zhi" as Dongfang Xu, an indisputable martial arts master.
He is the male protagonist in the film, but the setting of the character is not small fresh meat, but a middle-aged man with extraordinary skills, but he lives on selling art for a living and lives in the lowest level of society.
He played the Oriental Xuyin low-key, introverted personality, but chivalrous, for the sake of national righteousness, he forcibly endured the pain of losing his daughter, and the Russian Lux Dadlov launched a deadly struggle, and finally won with the Bagua palm, won glory for the country, and won back dignity.
When filming this film, Li Junfeng was 45 years old, his tough wife, simple image, and excellent real kung fu, the film was brilliant.
In the film, we see the true martial spirit, with special skills, not to fight fiercely, he has ambition and integrity, he despises money, justice is awe-inspiring, and he is full of patriotism and integrity.
This is a real kung fu film, there is no flower fist embroidery legs, with real kung fu, can be described as fist to flesh, the film was widely acclaimed as soon as it was released, and Li Junfeng also quickly became popular.
Although Li Junfeng also starred in many films after this, such as Liu Hedong in "Bahrain Thieves", Tie Luohan in "Thirteen Sisters of the Heroes", Ji Xiantang in "The Hero Fights Violence", and also served as the martial arts design and martial arts director of many films, but becoming a popular film and television star is not his ultimate goal.
He never acted for the sake of popularity, he only wanted to promote Chinese martial arts, so being an actor has always been his side hustle, and in addition to being a coach, he has published a lot of books on martial arts.
Martial arts books such as "Long Fist Practice", "Single Knife to Gun", "Bagua Serial Palm" and so on are all created by him, and his martial arts are not only for professionals to guide, but also for martial arts to strengthen the body, prolong life, and the spirit of martial arts, introduced to countries around the world.
Although Li Junfeng is 82 years old today, his work of promoting martial arts has never stopped, and now he lives in Austin, Texas, USA, and works as a teacher at a local oriental medical school, teaching the spirit of Chinese martial arts and the way of health.
Although Li Junfeng is getting older, he does not show old age at all, not only is his spirit strong, but he also has a strong body, standing like a pine, sitting like a bell, and walking like the wind.
In addition to his perennial martial arts practice and insist on exercise, open-mindedness, peace of mind, but also an important secret to his youth, and now we, in the busy work, is dependent on the mobile phone, so the body has been in sub-health, must be as much as Li Junfeng, a martial arts master, in order to maintain youth forever!