What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China, the most turbulent period in China's modern history, when foreign imperialists ruthlessly divided up territory and wealth, and domestic feudal warlords ruthlessly suppressed and exploited the toiling masses.
As the crowds race against the deer, victory and defeat take turns, the country is in turmoil, and all forces want to win the highest power.
So what kind of situation and state of mind did Puyi, the last emperor who was once the holder of the highest power, face? Perhaps everyone is familiar with his work "The First Half of My Life", but this is just his own family's words, and if you want to truly understand the last emperor of China objectively, you still have to start with the people closest to him.
Huo Diange, the sixth generation grandmaster of the Eight Pole Quan, was Puyi's closest personal bodyguard, as the protector of the emperor, he could see more than ordinary people, more than the emperor, but this master who was valued by the emperor ended up depressed, what happened to this?
Huo Dian Pavilion
First, worship the master sharpshooter Li Shuwen, who has been tempered and sharpened
Huo Diange was born in 1886 in Cangzhou, Henan Province, the home of the famous Chinese martial arts. He was originally a poor child, and he did not have the conditions to learn culture and kung fu, but fortunately there was a family in the town with the surname of Zhang, who was his own family and had a good family style.
In order to cultivate the younger generation that can protect the family and protect the country, the zhang family father asked the martial master to teach his son to practice martial arts, but it is not interesting to practice martial arts alone and it is not easy to grow, Zhang father invited the children of the neighbors to do sparring, Huo Diange was one of them, he was only 14 years old at the time, but his personality was thick and stable, not afraid of suffering and tiredness, which was deeply liked by the Zhang family.
Later, the Zhang family invited the famous sharpshooter Li Shuwen to teach art, Li Shuwen was not only proficient in kung fu but also very strict in leading apprentices, and Huo Diange's kung fu improved by leaps and bounds under his teaching.
Li Shuwen saw that he was a material that could be built, and often took him alone to some wild places such as cemeteries, mountains and forests, and depressions, and threw a punch or a kick to train his courage and speed.
Li Shuwen
After nearly ten years of training, Huo Diange finally practiced the "sharp gun" technique, often performing a unique skill called the fly in the ten miles and eight townships - shooting the fly with a gun in front of the large mirror coated with blood, but the mirror was unscathed, shocking the people to clap their hands.
After Huo Diange became a little famous, the master Li Shuwen decided to take him to the rivers and lakes, because the wine was unknown to people in the deep alley, and only by going out to see the world could he carry forward the Great Eight Pole Fist and the Liuhe Big Gun.
They first came to Tianjin and Beijing, where fish and dragons are mixed and hidden dragons and crouching tigers, formerly known as Jinmen, which is an excellent place to hone their skills. At that time, the Tianjin Chinese Martial Arts Association had just been established, and the two masters and apprentices were hired to teach in the clubhouse, and in addition to teaching, they often performed the stunt of liuhe big gun piercing to the audience in Jinmen.
It is said that Huo Diange's gun can slide out of the concave shape on the door frame, tie the incense head, tie the mirror to the realm of touching without injury, and even the internal strength is large enough to shock the jujube tree to death, only one hand to hold the gun, the other party's pole will slip down in response, the gods are like gods, whether it is an expert or a ticket holder in the Jinmen area, they are all amazed, shocked, and they all want to come to practice and worship the teacher.
If there were masters among the martial artists who came over, Li Shuwen would personally pass the move first, and after the opponent left, he would teach Huo Diange the essentials of kung fu according to the situation of the move, Huo Diange had a high level of understanding, and he could understand it at one point, and soon After That, Li Shuwen asked him to directly communicate with the visitor.
After several trials and tribulations, Huo Diange not only improved his martial arts day by day, but also learned a lot of knowledge of how to live in the world, and after three or four years, his fame resounded throughout Jinmen, and the Eight Pole Quan and the Liuhe Big Gun were also widely spread in the Jinmen area.
Six big guns
Second, successfully enter the army, and technically suppress the samurai into a bodyguard
Li Shuwen had a good friend named Xu Lanzhou, who was the commander of the army division in Heilongjiang Province at that time, quite prestigious, Li Shuwen felt that his carefully cultivated apprentices had reached an age where they could run alone, and that there would be a bright future when they defected to Xu Lanzhou, so he introduced Huo Diange to the officer school in Xu Lanzhou as a martial arts instructor and taught the soldiers to learn martial arts.
At this time, Huo Diange was 28 years old in 1914, and the Republic of China had just been established, and the domestic situation was relatively stable. Although he first arrived in Guanwai, with his superb martial arts and loyal character, he made friends with celebrities from all walks of life, and won the hearts of the people, one of whom was liu Wobai, who was the director of education who had studied in Japan in the officer school, and was especially related to Huo Diange, and the two had a good relationship with Jinlan.
Liu Wobai wrote such a banner as a gift to Huo Diange: "Dapeng Fei, heroes rise, the world is in chaos, when is it, good boy, Mo rest." ”
It can be seen that this intellectual's appreciation and hope for an ordinary martial arts master, Huo Diange's name is also famous outside the Guanwai, and many people come to compete with him, he opens the door to greet, but defeating the other party never uses a fierce hand, nor hurts the other party's face, so that people are convinced, and the Eight Pole Quan is also spread outside the Guan.
Li Shuwen's friend Xu Lanzhou
Huo Diange stayed in the northeast for ten years, until Xu Lanzhou defected to Zhang Zuolin and entered the customs with the Feng army, and Huo Diange also lived in Tianjin with Xu Lanzhou.
At that time, Li Jinglin, who was directly subordinate to the superintendent, was huo Diange's brother- and brother- and Huo Diange retired to Jinchang in Li Jinglin and Xu Lanzhou, while passing on the merits and teaching the arts, while making friends with talents, he had originally started from Jinmen, and now ten years later, the martial arts have become more refined, and soon became famous in Jinmen.
At this time, the fallen emperor Puyi was under the control of the Japanese and also lived in Tianjin Zhangyuan, and most of the followers around him were Japanese eyeliner and had no sense of security. Puyi then wanted to emulate the kangxi emperor of the ancestors and cultivate his own armed forces in the name of learning art. The Japanese are not fuel-saving lamps, and naturally do not agree with Puyi's request, on the grounds that Chinese are all east Asian sick men, and they can learn kung fu from Japanese samurai.
Puyi was rejected not only on his face, but also humiliated, so he was silent to show his dissatisfaction, and the Japanese said that as long as you can beat us Japanese samurai Chinese, then you can protect the emperor.
Puyi
Puyi then recruited outstanding talents to compete with Japanese samurai, at this time, the loyal and courageous Huo Diange heard that the Japanese were so arrogant and rude, and could not help but be indignant, and was bound to give Chinese a sigh of relief, so he went to take the exam. The Japanese samurai saw that the other party was a short and unassuming person, and he did not pay attention to it, and advised him to go home early.
Huo Diange was not in a hurry, he put up two fingers and said, as long as you can bend them, Huo Mou will concede defeat, so the Japanese samurai came up and violently folded Huo DianGe's fingers, but Huo DianGe's King Kong finger was not falling, and the Japanese samurai then tried to trip over Huo Dian Ge with a different leg on his feet, and when Huo Dian Ge stepped out of the elbow, he knocked the samurai down at once.
The Japanese samurai climbed up and pounced on him, so he was lifted into the air by Huo Bao, until the Japanese consul on the side begged for forgiveness in many ways, and Huo Diange put him down. Since then, no Japanese have been able to beat Huo Diange, and the Japanese side has to recognize Huo Diange as Puyi's personal bodyguard.
Huo Diange served as Puyi's bodyguard
Third, follow Puyi back to the northeast, and the garden tour incident hates the country
After Huo Diange became Puyi's bodyguard, in addition to the martial arts of the Pope and Niangniang, he also organized his disciples to live in Zhang Yuan permanently, practicing martial arts during the day and taking turns to guard the royal safety at night, dutiful and loyal.
In 1932, the domestic and international contradictions in Chinese society intensified, and Puyi established a "puppet Manchukuo" in the northeast under the control of the Japanese government to become a puppet emperor, and Huo Diange also returned to the northeast with Puyi.
However, as the saying goes, Cheng also Xiao He defeated Xiao He, Puyi gave Huo Diange glory and opportunity, so that his martial spirit can be carried forward in the northeast, and it is also Puyi who hit Huo Diange and made him devastated from then on.
The cause of the incident is this. In addition to organizing the "escort army" for Puyi to protect him in the northeast, Huo Diange also taught disciples outside the palace to spread the Eight Pole Quan, and for a time cultivated a large number of backbone disciples.
However, Huo Diange hated the arrogant Japanese very much, and made enemies with them openly and secretly, and these apprentices were influenced by the master's teachings, and naturally they were not happy with the Japanese, and under this confrontation, the "Datong Park Incident" finally broke out.
In 1937, some of Huo Diange's disciples were playing in Datong Park, and they had friction with the Japanese who came with them, and one of the disciples kicked and killed a Japanese wolf dog, which made the Japanese Kwantung Army lose face, public opinion was in an uproar, and even the Newspapers in Shanghai cheered and finally got a bad breath.
Old photos of Datong Park
The Japanese, embarrassed and angry, immediately began to suppress and exclude the Huo clan men in the palace, forcing Puyi to drive them away. The cowardly Puyi never dared to be sloppy, Huo Diange repeatedly wrote to the emperor to advise to no avail, his heart was cold, he hated the Japanese, but even more hated the emperor's nest.
At that time, many of his friends advised him to return to Guannei, but he did not allow it, Huo Diange was after all a warrior, maintaining the most primitive and simple loyal monarchy, he believed that one person did not serve the second lord, and since he chose Puyi, he would always stay by his side to protect him, even if he was wrong.
What a stubbornness! The frustrated Huo Diange has been indulging in wine all day, escaping from reality, and no longer has the heroic courage of the past. He died of depression soon after.
The tragedy of the late years of a generation of heroes Huo Diange had to arouse people's deep thoughts, loyalty and filial piety are the cultural genes handed down from ancient Chinese, engraved in the blood of every Chinese, who can guarantee that if they are in the position of Huo Diange, they can make a wise choice?
From the day Huo Diange chose to be Puyi's bodyguard, his name was dyed gray, until now the times have changed, and later people feel that his martial arts master made a TV series called "The Legend of Kant's First Bodyguard" was also banned, because Ai Xinjue Luo Puyi is a national sinner, this fact has been conclusively concluded, how can his bodyguards be worthy of praise?
If he hadn't gone to Zhang Yuan to take the exam that day and knew how to draw a line with this embarrassing emperor who had lost his position, his ending might have been rewritten. Or when he finds that his master is such a cowardly and incompetent, abandoning the country and abandoning the family, he can wake up and stop the loss in time, perhaps his life will be happier and more proud.