Martial arts master Sun Lutang. He is the founder of Sun-style Taijiquan and Sun Men Martial Arts, and is known as the "first hand in the world" in modern martial arts. At the age of 26, Sun Lutang traveled alone to 11 provinces in the north and south, during which he visited Shaolin, Chao Wudang, and ShangEmei, and those who heard of the artists must visit it, and they did not meet opponents when they competed with others. Later, he studied under Li Kuiyuan and Guo Yunshen, and his martial arts became more refined. In his 50s, he defeated the famous Russian fighter Petrov, who had defeated the Japanese Emperor in his 60s, defeated the Japanese Emperor Kazuo Itagaki, and defeated the joint challenge of 5 Japanese technical masters in one fell swoop in his 70s, and was known as the "Martial Saint".
Guo Yunshen (the white-bearded man in the middle of the photo), this photo was taken in 1902, and the left side of the row (from left to right) are the big knife Liu Desheng, Li Yaochen, Huo Yuchen, and Guo Yunshen. Guo Yunshen was known as the "half-step collapse fist". This technique of his was practiced in prison, when he was imprisoned for killing a local bully, and because he could only take half a step at a time with his leg shackles, he practiced this "half-step collapse fist" stunt.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the famous hero Of the Great Sword King V. Wang Wu was a legendary martial arts master of the late Qing Dynasty, who was not only strong in martial arts, but also had a heart for the world. He once worshiped Li Fenggang as a teacher, learned sword techniques, and then followed Liu Shilong to fly darts together, and after training martial arts, he became more skilled, and later opened a Shunyuan dart bureau himself, known as Zhenjianghu. Little is known that he had a deep relationship with Tan Sitong and was responsible for protecting him, and Tan Sitong was rescued by Wang Wuduo before he was killed, but was rejected by Tan Sitong. After Tan Sitong was killed, Wang Wu began to rebel against the Qing court, and was eventually shot and killed by Qing troops and foreigners. He was close friends with Huo Yuanjia, and after his death, Huo Yuanjia infiltrated the capital and stole his body back for burial.
Patriotic martial artist Huo Yuanjia. Huo Yuanjia was born in Tianjin to a family of dart masters, and when he was young, he was frail and sickly, so his father did not allow him to learn martial arts. But he was gifted, often stealing lessons from his father when he was teaching other brothers, and at the age of 24 he easily defeated those who had defeated his older brother and younger brother, and his father changed his mind and passed on his life's skills to him. Later, Huo Yuanjia came to Shanghai to teach martial arts at the Jingwu Gymnastics Club, and defeated Russian and Japanese masters to win glory for the country. The Japanese held a grudge and used chronic rotten lung medicine to assassinate Huo Yuanjia, and later because of the poisoning too deeply, Huo Yuanjia died at the age of 42.
Martial arts master Du Xinwu. Born in 1869, he learned martial arts from an early age and learned a unique skill. In his youth, he joined the League led by Sun Yat-sen and served as Dr. Sun Yat-sen's personal bodyguard. Du Xinwu's martial arts attainments are extremely profound, and he founded the "Natural Gate", the sanda technique of traditional martial arts, and became a generation of well-known martial artists in Beijing.
Martial arts master Han Muxia. Although he was not a martial arts family, at that time he was a martial arts master with the same name as his fellow countryman Huo Yuanjia. In 1918, the Russian Hercules, who was more than 2 meters tall, set up a ring in China to challenge the Chinese martial artists, but no one fought for five days in a row, Han Muxia was angry with his arrogance, so he responded to the battle, and as a result, this Russian Hercules who looked like a cow was beaten by Han Muxia and vomited. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he helped train the Big Knife Team to fight against the Japanese army and played the prestige of our Chinese army.
This is the famous Huang Feihong. Huang Feihong was born in 1847, his father Huang Qiying was one of the Ten Tigers of Guangdong in the late Qing Dynasty, so he began to practice martial arts at the age of five, not only receiving his father's personal inheritance, but also worshiping a number of famous masters as teachers, and learning a variety of stunts such as "shadowless feet", "iron fist", "Wulang Bagua stick" and so on. Huang Feihong married four wives in his lifetime, and it is said that his fourth wife, Mo Guilan, is the prototype of the "thirteen aunts" in the movie.
"Arm Saint" Zhang Ce. Born in 1866, Zhang Ce learned martial arts from an early age, proficient in tai chi, black tiger fist and other martial arts, and later practiced tongjian fist, and integrated the strengths of all the families into tongjian fist, reaching the peak of perfection. When he practiced boxing, he wore a pair of iron shoes of more than 20 pounds on each foot, so he was also known as "arm saint" and "iron shoe".
Shang Yunxiang, a master of shape and meaning boxing. Shang Yunxiang first worshipped Li Cunyi as his teacher, and then guo Yunshen's true transmission. He was weak and thin, less than 1.6 meters tall, but he was known for his "half-step collapse fist", "Dantian Qi Punch" and actual combat martial arts. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the famous Jiangyang thief "Kang Xiaoba" was caught by Shang Yunxiang, "Kang Xiaoba" jianghu people called "Kang Eight", committed many evils, but no one has been able to arrest him, and later the Qing court entrusted Shang Yunxiang to arrest, and finally arrested "Kang Xiaoba" and executed Ling Chi's punishment, Kang Xiaoba also became the last criminal to be executed by Ling Chi.