As we all know, there are many literati warriors in history, and the name Huo Yuanjia, I believe everyone is not unfamiliar, he is one of the famous martial arts figures in ancient times, he is not only skilled in martial arts and very patriotic, his deeds were also made into a movie of the same name in the eighties and nineties of the last century, so that Huo Yuanjia's name can be said to be known to everyone and has become a legend in people's minds.
However, we know that most movies will artisticize the characters, and Huo Yuanjia in history is not a perfect existence, after all, he is also a living person, and he is not so skilled in martial arts at the beginning. Years ago, I also liked to find someone to compete in martial arts. He once took the initiative to find Empress Dowager Cixi's bodyguard for a contest, but after kicking twice, he did not dare to fight again.
Huo Yuanjia's bodyguard named Li Ruidong, the family is very good, he likes to play with sticks since he was a child, he once went to the Shaolin Temple to learn kung fu, quite talented, coupled with hard work, he was famous in the local area when he was young, and he never lost in martial arts with others, but he did not stop there. Later, he studied with his teachers everywhere, and combined all the martial arts he learned, he created the Li Pai Taijiquan Method.
In the year when Empress Dowager Cixi held the 60th birthday banquet, there were many distinguished guests at the banquet, and in order to make Cixi happy, Duan Wangye let Li Ruidong perform at the banquet, and as soon as Li Ruidong came on the scene, he won the applause of the whole hall with excellent kung fu, and also made Cixi extremely happy, rewarded him on the spot, and stayed by his side as a bodyguard, giving him the position of a great internal guard.
In 1900, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China war broke out, the weak Qing Dynasty was vulnerable, the invaders launched a large number of killing and plundering, Li Ruidong successfully killed more than a dozen enemies with one person's strength, and successfully covered the evacuation of compatriots, but attracted the attention of the invaders, they quickly sent people to encircle and attack him, although Li Ruidong fought hard, there was still a way to kill the coalition army, and later as the enemy slowly narrowed the encirclement, Li Ruidong could not hide, so he used the shrinking wall to tightly hold the wall of the well and evade the encirclement of the coalition army.
After that, Li Ruidong had a high reputation in the martial arts circles in the north and became a generation of martial arts masters, which made Huo Yuanjia, who was famous at that time, eager to try, so he took the initiative to find Li Ruidong to compete, but the two of them fought very quickly, Huo Yuanjia only kicked two feet, and it ended happily. At that time, at the beginning of the game, Li Ruidong agreed on the rules of the game, standing still by himself, letting Huo Yuanjia use all the kicking moves, if he could kick him, he would win.
Huo Yuanjia agreed, so he kicked two kicks in succession, but Li Ruidong did not move, and at that time, he also warned Huo Yuanjia that this third kick would make him have no return. Naturally, Huo Yuanjia could understand the meaning, so he did not dare to continue to play. It can be seen that Huo Yuanjia's kung fu attainments in his youth were not as high as Li Ruidong's. The two are not on the same page.