Once upon a time, China's status in the world was very high, ranking among the best. However, due to the ruler's closed country and the arrogance of the night lang, the gap between China and the West has become wider and wider. China has become a country that is bullied by Western countries, and Westerners have even given Chinese an insulting nickname of "The Sick Man of East Asia." China's modern history is a history of humiliation. During this period, many martial artists wanted to get rid of the title of "sick man of East Asia" and accepted the challenge of Western warriors for this purpose. Huo Yuanjia, Huang Feihong and others are all well-known modern martial artists. And this person, known as the "first hand in the world", was praised by modern martial arts as "martial saint" and "martial god", and he did not lose in his life.
In 1860, Sun Lutang was born into a poor family in Shunping, Hebei Province. From an early age, he loved martial arts and studied Shaolin boxing under a jianghu boxer. At the age of 9, his father died, making the family, which was not rich, even worse. In order to make a living, at the age of 11, he left his mother to work as an apprentice in a brush shop in Baoding. Sun Lutang did not forget to study martial arts, so he worshiped the famous master Li Kuiyuan as his master, learned martial arts, and at the same time learned culture. He has a certain talent in martial arts, coupled with his willingness to study hard, and he has made rapid progress.
Two years later, Sun Lutang's martial arts were outstanding, and the master recommended him to his master and asked him to continue his studies. He did not meet the results in front of him, and went around learning the art of learning more martial arts. At the beginning of 1886, he traveled to 11 provinces in the north and south, and went to the Shaolin Temple, Wudang Mountain, Emei and other places to learn art. During this period, some people heard that he was strong in martial arts, so they went to the battle book to compete with him, and as a result, he did not lose a competition. Gradually, Sun Lutang's fame in the martial arts grew. In 1888, he returned to his hometown and opened a boxing club in the local area, where he began to collect apprentices and teach them martial arts.
Although Sun Lutang was strong in martial arts, he was never proud, he had a calm personality and devoted himself to the study of martial arts. In 1912, he was highly respected and famous in Beijing. From time to time, people in the martial arts came to him for advice, and he did not refuse to come, and he did not taste defeat. Later, he integrated the martial arts he had learned over the years, innovated them, and created sun's taijiquan. Sun Lutang served as the head of the Martial Arts Hall of the Presidential Palace and the Central Guoshu Hall in Nanjing. When he saw foreigners constantly bullying Chinese, in the face of national peril, he stepped forward and defeated the famous Russian fighter Petrov with his bare hands, and Itagaki Kazuo, a great samurai ordered by the Japanese Emperor.
In 1930, when there was a flood in Jiangnan, Sun Lutang participated in the disaster relief charity performance, and everyone present marveled at his martial arts. In the same year, Japan sent 6 martial arts masters to challenge him. Over 70 years old, he fought one against five. He lay flat on the ground, and the 5 Japanese could trap themselves in any way to see if he could get up within three sounds. As a result, the Japanese just shouted twice, Sun Lutang successfully got up, and 5 Japanese were shot a few feet away and fainted. The Japanese were surprised and offered to send 200,000 oceans to invite him to Japan to teach boxing, but they were politely refused.
Sun Lutang's apprentices were all over the world, and he wrote works such as Taijiquan and Bagua Palm Studies, hoping to carry forward the martial arts. In the winter of 1933, he died.