The old Shanghai of the Republic of China period has the reputation of "the little Paris of the East". It is a ten-mile ocean field that makes people drunk and golden, and it is also a rotten place where gangsters are rampant. If you want to say the most representative rogue leader in the gang, it must be Jin Rong. Jin Rong is a famous green gang leader who shook the beach, and his disciples also used his momentum to run amok in Shanghai Beach and do no evil. The common people are all harmed, but they dare not speak out in anger.
However, one day, a rogue was actually injured by a man named Lu Songgao. The rogue, who was deeply humiliated and humiliated, quickly complained to Jin Rong, hoping that Jin Rong could take revenge on Lu Songgao for him.
The so-called "beating the dog also depends on the owner", Jin Rong is a notorious rogue leader on the beach, and his men were injured, which was a naked punch in his face. Who knew that Jin Rong not only did not retaliate, but also ordered his rogue goons not to be allowed to make enemies with Lu Songgao.
So, who was this Lu Songgao, and why was Jin Rong so kind to him?
Lu Songgao was a native of Zhoukou, Henan, born in 1873, and was a Hui.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the world was chaotic, internal and external troubles, and the people did not have a good life. Due to social unrest, coupled with the Fact that the Qing government also realized that in the face of foreign guns and cannons, the era of rebellion by force has become a thing of the past. Therefore, some knowledgeable officials realize that folk martial arts can not only strengthen the body, but also resist foreign enemies. So with their efforts, martial arts were not only lifted from control, but also promoted by the Qing government. In this environment, people everywhere have become popular in practicing martial arts. The martial arts of the sect, which has been hidden in the folk, have also been carried forward, and many martial arts masters with high art and virtue have appeared.
The Hui people to which Lu Songgao belonged have advocated martial arts since ancient times and are famous for their martial courage throughout the country. Therefore, the Muslims have always had the custom of learning martial arts, and both men and women, young and old, can dance guns and sticks. Affected by the environment, Lu Songgao has been passionate about martial arts since childhood, and at the age of 6, he learned Shaolin boxing from his teacher, and later learned Muslim boxing.
However, what really made Lu Songgao's martial arts greatly improved was the encounter with the purchase of Zhuangtu.
Mai Zhuangtu is a native of Lushan, Henan, and also a Huimin. He learned martial arts at a young age, and studied mindfulness and liuhequan as a teacher, Zhang Ju, a master of the Heart Gate. After decades of hard training, he finally achieved his achievements and became a generation of masters. What is valuable is that Buy Zhuangtu not only studied and practiced diligently, but also he continued to study the martial arts he learned, and after several times of improvement and fusion, the Heart Liuhe Fist became more and more powerful. In actual combat, its fierce characteristics can often subdue the enemy with one move.
Although He was a martial arts master, his status in society was that of a leather merchant, and because of his business, he often traveled between Lushan and Zhoukou. Therefore, Lu Songgao would occasionally meet him in the tea house where he stopped.
Although Lu Songgao and Mai Zhuangtu have a lot of age differences, the two are quite close. Buy Zhuangtu saw that Lu Song was tall and strong, and he was chivalrous and upright, so he took him as an apprentice and passed on the essence of liuhequan in his heart.
On the one hand, there are martial arts masters such as Buy Zhuangtu practicing demonstrations; on the other hand, Lu Songgao is hard-working and studious, and his understanding is extremely high. Therefore, after learning the essence of LiuheQuan, Lu Songgao bid farewell to Zhuangtu, and after decades of hard practice day and night, he finally realized the true meaning of Liuhequan and learned the divine skills.
In that era, because the martial arts of the Gate Sect were teaching martial arts, they also followed the traditional rules of not passing on the two leaflets, and not passing on the inside and not passing on the outside. Therefore, people with high martial arts often do not set up a museum to teach apprentices, but choose to be dart masters.
The industry of dart masters has appeared as early as the early years of the Qing Dynasty, but it has not developed. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to rampant banditry and social unrest, both merchants and officials had to seek the protection of martial arts masters. In this way, the dart master who originally relied on martial arts to walk the rivers and lakes and eat mixed rice had a place to play. Therefore, in the late Qing Dynasty, those famous dart masters never worried about not having business at home.
Lu Songgao had a real skill, naturally he did not worry about not having food to eat, and he was soon invited by Yuan Fengyi, one of the proud disciples who bought Zhuangtu, to be a dart master at the Zhoukou Victory Dart Bureau.
Yuan Fengyi is the seventh generation of The Heart Liuhe Quan, and he and Lu Songgao are both Zhoukou people. Therefore, when Lu Songgao and Mai Zhuangtu learned art, the two were called brothers. In the years of being a dart master, Yuan Fengyi loved Lu Songgao out of love, not only had more guidance for Lu Songgao when practicing martial arts, but also often took him to the south and north to meet his friends with martial arts, so that he had the opportunity to get more experience. In this way, Lu Songgao's martial arts were even more rapid in progress, and it was difficult to be opposed.
Lu Songgao was a good person to fight and hold uneven, and as a result, he once accidentally injured someone's life and caused a lawsuit. In order to escape the pursuit of the government, Lu Songgao had to escape from Zhoukou and leave his hometown.
For a long time, Lu Songgao successively wandered in Jinghan and Bengbu. Later, he went to Nanjing, and finally went to his cousin in Shanghai to help his cousin sell burnt cakes.
When Lu Songgao traveled to many places, he also left many stories.
For example, when Lu Songgao temporarily lived in Wuhan, he was familiar with the local Hui Tie father and son. Later, he learned that the Father and Son of the Tie Clan had a very deep contradiction and dispute with the people in the Green Forest, and he had always been a hero and a righteous man, so he single-handedly sought out the people in the Green Forest who were seeking revenge with the Father and Son of the Tie Clan. At that time, there were dozens of people on the other side, and they were all armed with knives, guns and sticks. Lu Songgao was not afraid, and he used the double knuckle stick as a weapon to attack with extreme ferocity, killing and wounding more than a dozen people. Those people in the green forest who fought directly collapsed and fled, and never dared to seek revenge on the Father and Son of the Tie Clan again.
In addition to practicing chivalry and righteousness, Lu Songgao went south and north when he was a dart master before, and he knew many jianghu martial arts players. Those good men in the green forest were afraid of his martial arts and did not dare to oppose him, and at the same time, many people wanted to learn from him as a teacher. However, the Heart Liuhe Fist has always had the rule of "passing back and not passing on the Han", so Lu Songgao was also limited by the rules when he accepted disciples, and the apprentices he received were also Hui.
When he was in Shanghai, Lu Songgao carried the burden of baked cakes every day and walked through the streets and shouted around. He often practiced the "chicken leg exercises" and "chicken steps" in the mind boxing when he was walking with the burden of burnt bread. This footwork focuses on sitting on the hips with a loose waist and bent knees. In addition, Lu Songgao is already short and strong, so when he walks with a burden, he is even more left and right, looking very funny, often provoking passers-by to point at him. But Lu Songgao turned a deaf ear to people's ridicule and continued to practice kung fu hard.
In the early years of the Republic of China, under the initiative and support of the National Government, the "whole people learn martial arts, strengthen the ethnic group and strengthen the species" was strengthened, and for a while, the famous martial artists of various sects broke the traditional rules of accepting disciples and set up museums to teach apprentices. In order to make a living and for the sake of Anbang, Lu Songgao also broke the rule of passing back the Liuhe Fist of the Heart to the Han and set up a museum in Shanghai to teach apprentices.
In this way, the Heart Liuhe Fist, which was originally only circulated in the Zhoukou area of Henan Province, was able to develop rapidly in Shanghai under his promotion.
In fact, at that time, the most successful promotion of martial arts should be Taijiquan. Because it has the effect of health care and strengthening, there is no excessive demand for beginners. Therefore, whether it is a high-ranking official or a commoner, as long as they have a love for martial arts, they often choose to learn tai chi.
But the soft and slow style of tai chi is not loved by every martial arts enthusiast. The characteristics of the Heart Liuhe Fist are agile movements and vicious moves. Coupled with its ever-changing technical attacks, it is overwhelming. Therefore, it quickly attracted the attention of the masters of the martial arts world. Some martial arts masters came to Lu Songgao to compete, but no one could win. This also made Lu Song's high name shock on the beach at the same time, the Heart Liuhe Fist has also been sought after by more people.
Once, a White Russian Hercules was playing on the Bund. It is said that the White Russian Hercules can hang thousands of pounds on his arms (obviously bragging), and he can also perform techniques such as hand-bending steel pipes, and for a while the viewers are like clouds, they are amazed at his infinite strength. At that time, there were also martial arts masters who fought on the stage, and they were all defeated by the white Russian Hercules. This greatly nourished the arrogance and arrogance of the White Russian Hercules. He threatened that no one could move his arm and publicly humiliated his countrymen as the "sick man of East Asia."
The actions of the White Russian Hercules attracted the anger of the viewers. Just when everyone was helpless, Lu Songgao lightened himself from the crowd and stepped into the ring. Subsequently, he only hit the White Russian Hercules in the arm with the "eagle grasp" move in the liuhe fist. The other party stood unsteadily and pounced on the ground. When the White Russian Hercules looked up again, everyone saw that his face was covered with blood, and it was obvious that he had been hit quite badly. This wonderful competition made the audience applaud thunderously. Since then, The Heart LiuheQuan has become a martial art that many people are vying to learn, and the martial arts community has a more evaluation of the Heart Liuhe Quan as "ten years of Tai Chi does not go out, and one year of the heart kills people".
When Lu Songgao set up a museum to teach apprentices, he not only had to deal with the martial arts masters who came to compete, but also the rogue goons often went to the martial arts hall to make trouble, among which the disciples of the Qing Gang were the most arrogant. Fortunately, Lu Song was highly skilled in martial arts, and he was never defeated when he fought against martial arts masters. However, he was quite disgusted with these rogue goons, coupled with his arrogant personality, so he still subdued these ground snakes through martial arts.
On this day, in the face of the nuisance of the Green Gang hooligans, Lu Songgao taught the other party a harsh lesson. Because of the big loss, the unwilling rogue complained to Jin Rong, wanting Jin Rong to clean up Lu Songgao.
Jin Rong was not a good stubble either, and he immediately set up a banquet at the Sima Road Tea House near the French Concession, and called the police chief to accompany him. He originally wanted to set up a "Hongmen Banquet", wait for Lu Songgao to come to the banquet, and then teach him a harsh lesson. Unexpectedly, in the face of the police chief's pistol, Lu Songgao had no fear, but in the test to verify whether the gun was fast or the fist was fast, he took a quick step and took the pistol in the director's hand that was not too late to pull the trigger.
Lu Song's high-level martial arts made Jin Rong marvel. At the same time, he also understood that if he wanted to get revenge on Lu Songgao, he would never get a bargain. He was bent on wooing Lu Songgao so that he could keep it for his own use, so he strongly invited Lu Songgao to join the Qing Gang and promised him a high position. However, Lu Songgao was unwilling to have anything to do with the gang forces and refused his kindness. Even so, after the banquet, Jin Rong insisted that the driver send Lu Songgao back to his residence, and also sent him many gifts, and stipulated that the disciples of the Qing Gang should not be enemies of Lu Songgao.
In 1963, Lu Songgao died in Shanghai at the age of 90. During his lifetime, he taught many apprentices and trained many martial arts masters. After his death, these people continued to work around the world to promote the Liuhe Fist of Hearts. Therefore, to this day, Xinyi Liuhequan is still one of the treasures of Chinese martial arts and is still highly respected by martial arts enthusiasts.