There is an old saying in China called "chaos makes a hero", at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the invasion of foreign regrets, the country is also a chaos, because the Qing government is corrupt and incompetent, resulting in the more arrogant the Western powers. It is in this context of the times that many heroes have been born in the folk. The same is true in martial arts, and the martial arts masters of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period can be described as innumerable. From Dong Haichuan, the ancestor of Bagua Boxing, to Huang Feihong, the Hongquan Taidou, and the martial arts master Guo Yunsheng who is mentioned today.
Guo Yunsheng was born in 1820 and is a member of the Mazhuang clan of Shen County. Since he was a child, his family was very poor, he relied on wandering and selling art, during which he visited famous teachers everywhere, just to learn one or two moves, there is no doubt that Guo Yunshen has been a martial artist since he was a child, and regards martial arts as his life. He had heard that Mr. Liu Xiaolan was highly skilled in martial arts, so he went to Yizhou Xiling to worship him as a teacher.
However, Guo Yunsheng is a person with a lot of martial arts talent, although he never studied the Eight Classics when he was young, but he showed that in addition to his excellent martial arts talents, Liu Xiaolan received Guo Yunsheng, as if to exaggerate: Your martial arts attainments are extremely high, I can't teach you, I recommend you to my master Sun Tingli, he is the eight pole boxing master.
In this way, Guo Yunsheng lived in Liu Xiaolan at night, and practiced martial arts under Sun Tingli during the day, and within a few years, the Eight Pole Fist had become a master. Mr. Sun Tingli saw that Guo Yunsheng had learned boxing, so he recommended him to Shanxi Li Laoneng to learn shape and meaning boxing. Elder Li could see that Guo Yunsheng's fist technique was strict and orderly and energetic, and he secretly nodded in his heart and accepted him as a disciple one by one.
Although Li Laoneng is low-key, his boxing skills are wonderful and superb, and Guo Yunsheng has been learning boxing under Mr. Li for twelve years. After descending the mountain, Guo Yunshen was already a master of martial arts, but what he did not expect was that he encountered a bully at once, and he shot at righteousness but did not expect to confiscate it at once, causing a lawsuit for personal names.
No matter at any time the first law was "killing people to pay for their lives", Guo Yunshen knew that his time was short, so he practiced martial arts more diligently in prison. The iron chains weighing more than twenty pounds on his feet became a tool for him to practice martial arts. At the time of life and death, his heart was so quiet, that he realized the original martial arts mastery such as "half-step collapse fist".
Guo Yun's deep wish was already fulfilled, and he only sighed that this set of absolute learning would disappear with him, and it was only a flash in the pan. But what he did not expect was that Guo Yunshen's situation had been concerned by a servant, who reflected the situation to the county order, and the county order had great admiration for Guo Yunshen, so he reported to the above, and Guo Yunshen also changed from the death penalty to a period.
Guo Yunshen was lucky, because Empress Dowager Cixi's birthday was amnesty, so Guo Yunshen smoothly walked out of prison. Nearly dead, he devoted all his body and mind to the study of martial arts, and some people said that when he practiced boxing, he was as quiet as Mount Tai with unspeakable solemnity, and moved like a bird flexible and sharp.
Once, when he was practicing boxing, he suddenly wanted to try his martial arts. So they found 5 strong men and asked them to stand in a straight line, with the one in the front holding a blocking object. But Guo Yunshen's half-step fist collapsed, and all five strong men fell to the ground.
Guo Yunshen's fame is also getting bigger and bigger, and there is an endless stream of people who come to challenge him. However, no one could resist Guo Yunshen's half-step collapse punch. In his later years, Guo Yunshen wrote the book "The Classic of The Fist of Shape and Meaning", and later returned to the hidden village forest until he was more than 70 years old.