After Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Dynasty, the feudal dynasty appeared in history, followed by the first appearance of the emperor as a profession. According to the records, there have been more than 400 recorded emperors in history, but only a small number of these emperors are well known to posterity, and most of the emperors are unknown. Many emperors did not even have ministers to be famous.
In history, almost every founding emperor has been remembered. For example, qin shi huang, the founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, and so on, these are also emperors who have left their names in history. However, in history, whether they were founding emperors or not, most emperors did not know martial arts. From this point of view, the emperor was assisted by ministers.
That is to say, in the situation of conquest on the battlefield, the emperor did not have to go on the battlefield himself, but the military general went out on the battlefield. So is there an emperor in history who knows martial arts? There must be, and most of the emperors who know martial arts are founding emperors. People are familiar with Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and this person is the best example.
To this day, people often say that the world's martial arts are out of Shaolin, which proves that the world's martial arts are from the Shaolin school, which is recognized by people. This sentence also explains the comprehensiveness of Shaolin martial arts, and any kind of martial arts can be found in the Shaolin Scripture Cabinet. Then many emperors in history also knew martial arts.
Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, can be said to be proud and proud. According to the Zizhi Tongjian, in 399 AD, Liu Yu led his army to have an encounter with thousands of people, so Liu Yu's men and horses were only a few dozen, so that the gap between the enemy and us was huge. Liu Yu was discovered by the enemy, and after being besieged, his attendants were all killed in battle, leaving Liu Yu alone.
However, at such a life-and-death moment, the reinforcements arrived and saw such a scene, that is, thousands of soldiers and horses were fleeing for their lives in the front, and Liu Yu was chasing and killing him alone. On this battle, Liu Yu can blow for a lifetime. But Liu Yu can only fight, which does not mean that his kung fu is high. More importantly, Liu Yu did not establish a unified dynasty.
Therefore, Liu Yu's popularity in history is not high. There is an emperor in history, who is definitely the highest in martial arts, and he is Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Before zhao Kuangyin joined the army, he had already broken into the name of Hehewei in the jianghu and was an out-and-out high-roller. Because of this, Zhao Kuangyin became the only emperor in history who was born as a warrior. Zhao Kuangyin was strong in martial arts, and his martial arts were still used by the Shaolin Temple.
The martial art created by Zhao Kuangyin is today's Shaolin Long Fist. The full name of Shaolin Long Fist is ''Song Taizu Thirty-two Long Fist'', referred to as ''Taizu Fist''. After Zhao Kuangyin joined the army, in order to train soldiers, he created this set of boxing techniques. During the early Song Dynasty, in order to adapt and upgrade the Shaolin Fist Technique, the abbot of the Shaolin Temple, Fuju Zen Master, invited a total of eighteen martial arts masters from the entire Song Dynasty to enter the temple to practice their skills, and song Taizu Changquan was one of the eighteen.
After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the Fuju Zen master of the Song Dynasty, Hui Baijia, compiled the "Shaolin Fist Spectrum", which is the origin of the Shaolin Boxing Technique in later generations. After Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, he still retained the bold habits of the jianghu people, often eating large pieces of meat, drinking wine in large bowls, and also liked to finalize national events on the wine table. It is worth mentioning that regarding Song Taizu, most people may only know the right to release the military with a cup of wine.
The boxing technique created by Zhao Kuangyin made many changes to posterity on this basis, such as cross-cutting fist, which can be said to be the most vicious boxing method, which can really be described as ten steps to kill a person. Secondly, the Shaolin Temple has also publicly recognized Taizu Changquan as the biggest branch of Shaolin martial arts, which shows the extraordinary status of Taizu Changquan in the Chinese martial arts family. Today, Taizu Changquan has become one of the six fists in the martial arts world!