Huo Yuanjia's granddaughter Huo Jinghong
In August 2017, the 13th National Games was held in Tianjin. At the National Games, the Tianjin team won the championship of the mass competition fitness qigong team competition. After the news spread, countless media flocked to interview one of the contestants, her name is Huo Jinghong.
Many people may be extremely unfamiliar with this name, but one of her identities is particularly interesting, Huo Yuanjia's granddaughter. According to the Huo family genealogy, Huo Yuanjia had 2 sons and 3 daughters, namely: Huo Dongzhang, Huo Dongge, Huo Dongqing, Huo Donglin, and Huo Dongqin. Among them, the second son Huo Dongge, as the heir to Huo Yuanjia's mantle, had three sons: the eldest son Huo Yating, the second son Huo Wenting, and the third son Huo Wenliang.
Huo Yating is Huo Jinghong's grandfather, so Huo Jinghong is Huo Yuanjia's veritable granddaughter. In 1983, the Hong Kong TV drama "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" was introduced to the mainland for broadcast, causing a huge sensation, once empty of people, becoming an eternal classic in the minds of a generation.
Since then, Huo Yuanjia has become a legend, and the martial arts spirit he represents to resist the oppression of the great powers has been elevated to the feelings of home and country, setting off a strong patriotic upsurge. In film and television dramas, Huo Yuanjia was intentionally or unintentionally portrayed as a "martial arts master who worried about the country and the people", especially the plot of defeating the Western Hercules in the play, which made the blood of the Chinese people boil.
As a descendant of Huo Yuanjia, living under the "aura of Huo Yuanjia" since he was a child is undoubtedly a matter of great pride, but Huo Jinghong has his own opinion. In fact, Huo Jinghong's martial arts practice itself was accidental, and her family did not make a living from Huo Yating's generation.
Huo Jinghong was practicing martial arts
Huo Jinghong recalled: "My brother was not in good health, his parents let him learn some martial arts to strengthen his body, and as a result, my brother took me with him when he was practicing martial arts, and I gradually became interested in martial arts. In recent years, Huo Jinghong has also clarified the various rumors on the ancestor Huo Yuanjia.
As the only person in the Huo family's generation who is still practicing martial arts, Huo Jinghong believes that there is a gap between the Huo Yuanjia in many people's minds now and the real Huo Yuanjia in history. In an interview, Huo Jinghong admitted frankly:
"In my impression, I also remember Huo Yuanjia played by Jet Li, but he and the 'Huo Yuanjia' I know can't actually coincide." After all, the film is heavier in the artistic component, many of the plots in the movie are fictional, such as fighting, in the "Huo Yuanjia" movie, a fight is a fight, in fact, Huo Yuanjia basically did not fight in the ring, what he pursues, is the strength of the entire nation, so it will create this kind of 'Huo's practice of hand boxing' that makes people strong and healthy, and the so-called ' Jinmen First' actually did not exist, and the relevant plot of the defeat of the Russian Hercules did not happen, there was indeed a so-called Hercules challenge at that time, Huo Yuanjia did stand up to fight, but the other side saw him stand up, he directly walked away, in fact, there was no fight at all. ”
If you know anything about the real Huo Yuanjia in history, you know that he died in his prime at the age of 42. In 1989, the 79th year after Huo Yuanjia's death, the Xiqing District of Tianjin rebuilt the Huo Yuanjia Cemetery. In April of that year, Huo Yuanjia was buried again. During this burial process, when people opened the coffin and saw Huo Yuanjia's remains, they finally found out the real cause of his death.
TV series "Big Hero Huo Yuanjia"
So, how did a generation of martial arts masters Huo Yuanjia die? Did the real Huo Yuanjia ever fight with the Western Hercules? The historical Huo Yuanjia is also legendary, but not as exaggerated as in film and television dramas. Huo Yuanjia, born on January 18, 1868 in Xiaonanhe Village, Jinghai County, Tianjin, was the second in three brothers.
Huo Yuanjia's father, Huo Endi, is the sixth generation of the Secret Sect Fist, who makes a living as a bodyguard, and because he has trained the Secret Sect Fist to become a divine, he has been in and out of the Kanto for many years as a merchant bodyguard. Horndi was cautious and careful, coupled with his kung fu skills, and never missed a hand. However, although Horndi's bodyguard career is booming, he has also formed a vendetta against many people.
Because of this, Horndi quit the bodyguard industry in his 40s and returned to his hometown to work as a farmer, teaching his children and nephews to practice martial arts in his spare time. Huo Yuanjia was thin and sickly when he was young, and Huo Endi was worried that his martial arts training would not damage his family style, so he forbade Huo Yuanjia to practice martial arts and let him go to school. Seeing that his brother and brother were practicing martial arts with their father, this had a big blow to Huo Yuanjia's self-esteem.
"You don't let me practice kung fu, I want to prove it to you!" As a result, Huo Yuanjia often secretly practiced martial arts and secretly competed with his brothers. At that time, there was a jujube forest in the west of Xiaonanhe Village, and because there was a cemetery in it, it was usually inaccessible. Every time Huo Yuanjia followed his father and brothers to learn a few tricks, he secretly came to the depths of the jujube forest to practice.
Huo Yuanjia
With extraordinary perseverance, Huo Yuanjia made rapid progress. Later, Huo Endi learned that Huo Yuanjia was practicing martial arts and reprimanded him, but Huo Yuanjia argued on the basis of reason, and the father and son quarreled. Perhaps Horndi was impressed by his son's perseverance, and finally he compromised, but he demanded that Huo Yuanjia could not compete with anyone.
One day in the autumn of 1890, a good martial artist came from Xiaonanhe Village, saying that he had long admired the Huo family's "Secret Sect Fist", and his words were full of provocation. Huo Yuanqing, the third brother of Huo Yuanjia, could not swallow this breath, so he stood up and competed with him, even if he knew that he would lose the battle in less than three rounds.
Horn first saw it, ready to play in person, when Huo Yuanjia shouted, "Look at me! Only to see Huo Yuanjia fight with the other party, a few rounds down, he took advantage of the moment when the other party's legs were unstable, a sweep of legs, directly knocked the other party to the ground. This unexpected scene surprised Horndi and taught him martial arts training from then on.
He defeated the good man of wulin and was recognized by his father, but Huo Yuanjia was not happy because he had a higher pursuit. At the age of 28, Huo Yuanjia, who was already married and had children, made up his mind to go out and have a fight. Huo Yuanjia came to Tianjin and initially worked as a stevedor on the docks.
At that time, there were many coolies on the dock, coupled with the endless phenomenon of fighting and fighting due to the rush of goods, Huo Yuanjia gradually had a little fame because of his good kung fu and love to fight and hug. After that, Huo Yuanjia came to work at the Huaiqing Medicine Shop in Tianjin City, because of his strength, he could promote two large bluestones at a time, and people gave him the nickname "Huo Hercules" ”
Nong Jinsun
As the saying goes, "There is Bole in the world, and then there is a Maxima." Maxima is often present, but Bole is not. Soon, Huo Yuanjia's Bole appeared, and the owner of huaiqing medicine shop, Nong Jinsun. Nong Jinsun was not simple, studying in Japan in his early years, and later joining the League and becoming a revolutionary party.
After returning to China after completing his studies, Nong Jinsun accepted the arrangement of his superiors and came to Zhugan Lane outside the North Gate of Tianjin to open a Huaiqing Medicine Stack, which was used as a cover to make friends with heroes and gather talents for the revolutionary party. After inspecting Huo Yuanjia, Nong Jinsun found that he often fought for the poor and had a heroic style.
In this context, Nong Jinsun believed that Huo Yuanjia was a material that could be built, so he told him a lot of revolutionary truths, and the two also became friends of life and death. It was also during this period that Huo Yuanjia met a person who had a profound influence on his martial arts path, Wang Wu.
Wang Wu and Tan Si, one of the "Six Gentlemen of WuShu", are brothers with different surnames, and are one of the "Ten Masters of Wulin" in the late Qing Dynasty, formerly known as Wang Zhengyi, because he is good at wielding large swords, he is very famous in the Beijing-Tianjin area, known as "Great Sword King Five". After the failure of the Wushu reform, the "Six Gentlemen of Wushu" were beheaded by order of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Wang Wu was very angry and planned assassination attempts many times to fight against the corrupt government of the late Qing Dynasty, which made Huo Yuanjia very impressed. There is a saying that Huo Yuanjia also asked Wang Wu for sword techniques, and Wang Wu even taught them. Unfortunately, wang wu was arrested because of the traitor's betrayal, and the Qing court handed him over to the foreigners.
Boxers
After the foreigners shot Wang Wu to death, they cut off his head and hung him at the city gate to show the public, in order to achieve the goal of killing one hundred people. When Huo Yuanjia, who was far away in Tianjin, learned the news, he was so sad and indignant that he went to Beijing alone to take advantage of the night to remove Wang Wu's head and hand it over to Wang Wu's relatives for burial. The murder of Wang Wu touched Huo Yuanjia greatly, and he realized that it was difficult to repay the country with a kung fu.
For several days in a row, Huo Yuanjia was depressed and often went alone in a daze, which attracted the attention of Nong Jinsun. Nong Jinsun talked to Huo Yuanjia, hoping to find out the truth behind it. Nong Jinsun patted Huo Yuanjia on the shoulder, sat down next to him, and asked, "Lately, I saw that I was restless, what were you thinking?" ”
Huo Yuanjia sighed for a long time, and he spat out bitter water: "Hundreds of years ago, I killed thieves with spears and short swords to serve the country, and made immortal merits, such as picking mustard ears." Now that science is clear, firearms are out, and the formation changes, although there is martial courage, it will be used safely! Huo Yuanjia's words meant that he doubted the meaning of martial arts training, if he had been useful in ancient times with a body of kung fu, but now no matter how good kung fu is, there is no chance of winning in front of the guns of foreigners.
When Nong Jinsun listened, he understood that Huo Yuanjia was stimulated by Wang Wu's death, and he had doubts about the future of martial arts training, and he had a sense of loss at an inopportune time. However, Nong Jinsun had a different view, saying:
"Otherwise, hundreds of years ago, people were able to use spears and short swords as their ability, and they could be alone. Moreover, the people of our country are sick and weak, the wise people, the contemptuous Si Dao, the inferior people can not be refined, the elite cannot be passed on by the literary self-seeing of the people of the country, and the people of the country who pass on their respective sects and their sects are enemies, and they do not know the general situation. When the master and disciple are given, the wise people think that the killing is not to be taught in vain, and the unwise secret their abilities, thinking that they are ready for the occasion. Its origin has been long, and the king has ascended to the heights in the name of the world, and initiated the Si Dao to spread its transmission. The avenue is for the public and forgets its selfishness, and the king does not die. ”
Nong Jinsun's words reached Huo Yuanjia's heart and gave him great encouragement. If we all think that foreigners are superior to others, it will always be difficult to get rid of the backward situation. The conversation between the two had a profound impact on Huo Yuanjia, and also laid the groundwork for the establishment of the Jingwu Sports Association later.
In the early summer of 1901, a Russian Hercules named Schivanlov came to the Tianjin Opera Garden to set up a performance. In the propaganda of the newspaper, this Hercules publicized his invincibility in the world, "to fight all over China's invincible hands, so that the 'sick men of East Asia' can see it and open their eyes." ”
Huo Yuanjia did not fight, he found Nong Jinsun for consultation, and decided to go to the theater to try it with Siqifanlov. Nong Jinsun knew Huo Yuanjia's kung fu and decided to support him in the fight. What Huo Yuanjia did not expect was that Siqifanlov did not have much effort at all, and he shouted so much in order to sell more tickets and make more money.
Hearing that Huo Yuanjia was coming to fight, Schivanlov was frightened when he privately learned that the other party had real kung fu. Huo Yuanjia did not accept the offer at all, and he demanded that Schivanlov apologize in public. Schivanlov repeatedly agreed, and he published a newspaper apologizing and retracting the statement that "Chinese is the sick man of East Asia." Soon, Schivanlov left Tianjin in a daze.
Huo Yuanjia and Western Hercules fight (film and television drama plot)
Before they could fight, the Western Hercules fled in fright. For a time, the people of Tianjin were "proud to see Huo Yuanjia", and various news about Huo Yuanjia appeared in an endless stream. This made Huo Yuanjia sweep away the previous decadence, and he gradually realized that relying on martial arts can also motivate the people of the country, and perhaps this is also one of the ways to save the country and save the people.
It was also this incident that made Huo Yuanjia put his lifelong ideals on improving his martial arts. In 1909, the American (British) Hercules Opiyin came to Shanghai to set up a ring. The Hercules, like Schivanlov, was arrogant, calling Chinese "the sick man of East Asia." "Opie Yin has a certain amount of kung fu, and has defeated many local masters in Shanghai in a short period of time.
After winning for a period of time, Opie Yin directly published a newspaper shouting: "I am the American Hercules Opi Yin, who has traveled all over the world in five continents and six oceans, and has won all the world's famous boxers. This time, he came to China to set up a ring, which was intended to open the eyes of the sick man of East Asia, and lead the Western heme boxing skills and the divine power of coiling iron and bending steel. ”
Nong Jinsun had settled in Shanghai at this time, and after watching several competitions, he thought that Opie Yin was also in vain, and was definitely not Huo Yuanjia's opponent. Therefore, Nong Jinsun invited Huo Yuanjia to go south to Shanghai. Against this background, in April 1909, at the age of 41, Huo Yuanjia took his eldest disciple Liu Zhensheng south to Shanghai to prepare to face Oppiyin.
So, did Huo Yuanjia fight with Oppiyin in the end? Nowadays, there are endless historical materials on the Internet about Huo Yuanjia's coming to Shanghai, and the author has specifically searched for newspapers from the end of 1908 to the end of 1909, and the results have indeed found some reports of that year. The earliest report of Huo Yuanjia coming to Shanghai to meet Opien came from the "Declaration" of December 3, 1903.
The authority of the "Declaration" is beyond doubt, and it was reported on this day as follows:
Huo Junyuanjia is directly subordinate to people, fine boxing, the crown of the Northern Province, this time occasionally came to Shanghai, quite itchy. Long look up to the south of the strong people, by the way to visit friends, special stage in Shanghai Jing'an Temple Road Zhangyuan Production Association Conference Hall in the big theater stage to compare fist strength, if you can beat The Hollix, give valuable gifts. Shanghai Chinese and Western people who are willing to come to the test are invited to enter the registration from 2 o'clock to 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the third day of the first and second thoughts. - "Chinese Hercules Invites Into Bili"
Everyone pays attention to the location of the competition mentioned in this report - the big stage in the concert hall of the ZhangYuan Production Association Assembly Hall. The next day, the Shanghai "Times" also published a report - "The Pioneering Move of Chinese and Western Hercules to Compare Fist Strength":
It was also reported that Hercules Huo Yuanjia had appeared in the audition the day before yesterday, and his fist strength was extremely brave, and there was no one who dared to compete with it. Yesterday, the American Hercules Opiyin and Huo Jun made a book of life and death, reported the house hunting according to the routine, prepared a thousand yuan for the Yingyang as a color object, and fought with death on the music factory song stage at two o'clock this afternoon, and there will be a fierce fight at that time, which is a pioneering move that China has never had before.
That is to say, one of huo Yuanjia's purposes in coming to Shanghai was to fight the British Hercules Oppiyin and defeat him in one fell swoop. However, a closer look at these two reports is much like the publicity before a commercial event today, which has several key adjectives: "Long look up to the strong man in the south", "registration", "color" and so on.
However, this contest was not successful at all, the so-called Hercules set up a ring, is basically a gimmick, the purpose is to attract the audience to buy tickets, Zhang Yuan Production Association is the most important organizer. Sure enough, on December 5, the "Declaration" once again reported on this competition:
Because the Chinese and Western witnesses were not together, and the arresting room thought that it was too late to send a note, it was necessary to reschedule it separately; at three o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, both China and the United States discussed with each other at the venue, and Opi Yin and the future wrestling were not allowed to use their feet to hook and poke the fa, and Huo Jun had his own heart to pass on the Chinese boxing technique, and could not sacrifice his strengths and use his weaknesses, so they could not properly discuss each other.
Although Huo Yuanjia did not fight with Oppiyin, he was said to be "frightened and fled", which once again made Huo Yuanjia famous in Shanghai. When Sun Yat-sen, the father of the nation, heard about it, he also praised Huo Yuanjia for "protecting the country with force." In June 1910, Huo Yuanjia, with the assistance of Nong Jinsun and others, founded the "China Jingwu Gymnastics Association" (later renamed the Jingwu Sports Association) in Shanghai.
At that time, the portal of the martial arts world was full of prejudices, but Huo Yuanjia had a big pattern, and he taught the Huo Family Ancestral Secret Sect without compensation. However, less than 3 months after the establishment of the "China Jingwu Gymnastics Association", Huo Yuanjia died. On September 14, 1910, Huo Yuanjia vomited blood in Shanghai and died at the age of 42.
Shanghai Jingwu Sports South Association was established to commemorate the establishment of the photo
42 years old is in the prime of life, and has been practicing martial arts for many years, how did he suddenly die? For a time, there were many opinions and rumors. The earliest authoritative record of Huo Yuanjia's cause of death comes from the Jingwu Benji published in 1919. It records the phrase "poisoned by the Japanese", the original text is as follows:
"On the morning after lux (Huo Yuanjia) died, qiu doctor (Japanese doctor Akino) had already returned to the cave, and the disciples of Lux Gate were suspicious, and the remaining medicine that Lux took every day was paid to the public hospital to inspect it, and the hospital doctor said: 'This chronic rotten lung medicine is also'."
This statement is not empty, and when Huo Yuanjia was in the limelight in Shanghai, this caused dissatisfaction in the Shanghai Japanese Judo Association. The Japanese side had sent several judo masters to the door to compete with Huo Yuanjia, and all of them were defeated without exception. The Shanghai Japanese Judo Association later spread the news that it was going to invite top masters from Japan to Shanghai, but Huo Yuanjia died.
One thing is certain, Huo Yuanjia suffered from lung disease before his death, occasionally vomiting blood, and the Japanese recommended him to go to the Japanese doctor Akino for treatment. Soon after eating the medicine prescribed by Qiu Ye, Huo Yuanjia fell ill and died, and the disciple took the remaining medicine to the test and found that it was a chronic rotten lung medicine.
After Huo Yuanjia died of illness, his disciples and Shanghai martial arts colleagues held a grand funeral for him, and then buried him in the Shanghai Cemetery. Just a year later, Huo Yuanjia was buried in his hometown in Tianjin. Later, with the release of film and television dramas with Huo Yuanjia as the theme, Huo Yuanjia's fame became more and more famous, and he finally transformed into a national hero, so he saw the scene mentioned earlier.
Huo Yuanjia cemetery
In 1989, the government of Tianjin Xiqing District expanded huo yuanjia cemetery, opened the coffin when relocating, and found that huo yuanjia's remains were blackened, which was caused by poisoning. Granddaughter Huo Jinghong also said: "My father once told me that I did see that the bones (referring to Huo Yuanjia) were blackened. The author noted that on August 6, 2006, Xinhua Net (Tianjin Channel) reported a message:
Huo Yuanjia's second grandson, Huo Wenting, who now lives in Xiaonanhe Village, Xiqing District, Tianjin City, recently joined relevant comrades of the Xiqing District Cultural Bureau and, after in-depth investigation and careful visits, further confirmed that the Japanese were the culprits who killed Huo Yuanjia. For those who excuse the Japanese, they are difficult to accept from family and national feelings. Since 1999, the elderly Huo Wenting, together with the comrades of the District Cultural Bureau, have repeatedly visited the wulin guild hall where Huo Yuanjia once been active in Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other provinces and cities, visited and investigated, and read a large number of materials, confirming that the Japanese bought joints and put chronic rotten lung medicine in the medicine in the name of helping Huo Yuanjia treat his illness, so that Huo Yuanjia, who could have been cured, died of death.
At this point, the cause of Huo Yuanjia's death was completely revealed, which was exactly 96 years after Huo Yuanjia's death. Although Huo Yuanjia failed to fight with the Western Hercules, in the late Qing Dynasty, when the horses were in full swing, he single-handedly faced the Western Hercules, like a burning candle, igniting the cold blood in the hearts of many Chinese people. No matter how much Huo Yuanjia's deeds were exaggerated in the later wild history, today, a hundred years later, it is still worth our words: Huo Daxia is immortal
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