In the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1676), two Tsarist Hercules, who called themselves "Great Yak" and "Second Yak", came to the capital, and they set up a ring in the capital and conveyed the documents written by the Tsar to the Kangxi Emperor. Only to see the Tsar declare in the document that the two Tsarist Hercules were sent by him to challenge the Chinese martial arts masters, and if no one could win within a hundred days, then the Qing government would pay tribute to the Tsarist government.
The Kangxi Emperor thought that the Great Qing Dynasty was a great state of shangbang and full of talents, how could he let two Yi people flaunt their might here, so he didn't care. Who knew that in the next two months or so, many martial arts masters came to the stage to fight, not only could no one win, but also suffered heavy casualties.
Seeing that it was almost time to go, the Kangxi Emperor could not help but sit down. First, the great power of the shang state, no one can defeat the two Yi people, which is really a disgrace to the face of the Great Qing Kingdom. Second, the appointed time is coming, and if no one can really defeat the two Yiren, the Tsarist Emperor will definitely think that the Great Qing State is weak and deceitful, and will certainly use this as a provocative excuse to provoke a border defense war.
Therefore, the Kangxi Emperor consulted with the ministers and posted an imperial list of martial arts masters. The conditions are very tempting, such as the winner of the battle of the officers and the army, and the addition of the official to the official; the bandit to fight the winner and pardon all crimes; the civilian people to fight the winner, the official position is chosen. Therefore, after the imperial list was posted, the onlookers were three layers inside and three outside, but unfortunately no one dared to expose the imperial list.
Just when the Kangxi Emperor was worried, suddenly an official reported that a man named Ding Faxiang had unveiled the imperial list. The Kangxi Emperor was overjoyed and hurriedly announced the call.
Unexpectedly, what entered the main hall was a thin and plain-looking old man. For a moment, not only was the Kangxi Emperor disappointed, but even Chinese Wu did not believe that such an inconspicuous person could defeat the Tsarist Hercules. As a result, opposition has erupted.
Ding Faxiang saw that the crowd did not believe in his strength, and in a hurry, he lifted up the purple and gold incense burner weighing about hundreds of kilograms standing in front of the main hall. The Kangxi Emperor and the Minister of Culture and Martial Arts believed that Ding Faxiang was a hidden master and agreed to let him fight.
Speaking of which, when Ding Faxiang unveiled the imperial list, he was already 61 years old. At the age of 60, it is already the year of Hua Jia, so does Ding Faxiang have the strength to defeat the Tsarist Hercules, and what is his end?
In the forty-third year of the Wanli Calendar (1615), Ding Faxiang was born into a martial arts family in Mengcun, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province.
Cangzhou is the place where the hero Haojie is born. The local people revere martial arts, and the custom of learning martial arts has a long history. Ding Faxiang was obsessed with martial arts from an early age, so at a very young age, his father Ding Xia became his martial arts enlightenment teacher, not only laying a solid foundation for him to start school, but also teaching him the martial arts that have been passed down from generation to generation, including Tan leg, punching and poking feet.
In order to be able to practice martial arts to the level of divinity, Ding Faxiang not only practiced hard day and night, but also often discussed the meaning of martial arts with his father. In order to be able to calm down and practice martial arts, he often went to a deserted kiln outside the village. Since there was no one disturbing him, he practiced with half the effort.
However, due to the Later Jin's coveting of the Ming Dynasty, he repeatedly violated the border. At the same time, Li Zicheng, a laid-off personnel, pulled up a Dashun army to destroy the trend of decay and decay, and swept across the north and south of the great river. Therefore, in the general environment of internal and external troubles, the society is very turbulent, and the people are also suffering unspeakably. At the same time, when natural and man-made disasters occurred, many people had to go out to run due to their difficult lives. This includes Ding Faxiang, who originally had a relatively well-off family.
When Ding Faxiang left his hometown and wandered around, he was still intoxicated with martial arts, and often visited martial arts hermits to learn from his teachers.
In the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), Ding Faxiang worshipped the "sloppy Daoist" Huang Jie Daochang as a teacher and learned Baziquan.
The Bazi Fist created by the Huang Jie Dao people is divided into two types of fighting methods: long fist and short punch. Because it is very aggressive, it is particularly suitable for actual combat. When Ding Faxiang was learning Ba Zi Quan, he was extremely hard, cold and hot, he never slackened off, so he practiced hard for 5 years to learn the essence of Ba Zi Quan.
Although Ding Faxiang's martial arts had been improving day by day at this time, he was very low-key, never showing people with martial arts, and was even more humble in front of people.
In the fourteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1675), Ding Faxiang came to the capital.
On this day, Ding Faxiang saw a butcher shop guy on the street, pushing a wheelbarrow with hundreds of pounds of pork on it. When I walked to a ditch, the guy couldn't push it through.
Ding Faxiang has always been happy to help others, so he stepped forward, took the wheelbarrow from the hand of the guy, secretly lucky, and pushed the wheelbarrow through the ditch at once. The butcher shopkeeper took all this in mind and knew that Ding Faxiang was a good martial artist, so he left him behind and helped in the shop.
In the bustling capital, for people with real skills, there are always many opportunities. When Ding Faxiang was working in a pork shop, an out-of-control horse ran and jumped in the street. Pedestrians on the street are crowded, and if they can't avoid it, they can easily be trampled and injured by fierce horses. In a hurry, Ding Faxiang did not care to inquire whose horse it was, so he rushed forward and cut off the horse's hoof with one slap, which ensured the safety of the pedestrian's life.
Afterwards, Ding Faxiang learned that the horse whose front hoof he had cut off was the horse of the Wang Ye Mansion. Wang Ye saw that Ding Faxiang was excellent in martial arts, and instead of pursuing his responsibility for killing horses, he invited him to the palace to be a nursing home.
Ding Faxiang was originally a low-key person, but when he saw that the Tsarist Hercules had deceived people too much, he unveiled the imperial list in anger. Soon, he was in the ring. It was the tall and strong "Big Yak" who competed with him.
"Big Yak" saw that Ding Faxiang was short and thin, where to put him in his eyes, he deliberately borrowed the two sides to shake hands, and violently clamped Ding Faxiang's wrist with his hand. I want to lift him up and fall into the ring. Ding Faxiang knew that it was not good, so he took the other hand to make a move to "bite the wrist" and clasped the wrist of the "Big Yak", and then kicked at the "Big Yak" with his leg.
The "Big Yak" didn't expect Ding Faxiang to have some skills, and hurriedly gave up and retreated. The two of them came and went in the ring, one of them was strong and powerful, and constantly attacked, and the other was as light as an ape, like a cat playing with a mouse. After a few tricks like this, the physical strength of the "big yak" gradually declined. At this time, Ding Faxiang used his fist and leg kung fu to constantly attack the "Big Yak". And the "big yak" was too busy with defense to be forced to retreat step by step.
Seeing that he was about to lose, the "Big Yak" was furious and pounced on Ding Faxiang. Ding Faxiang leaned over to dodge the fist of the "Big Yak", but he didn't expect the "Big Yak" to lift his belt, grab him and raise him above his head, ready to throw it out.
When the audience saw it, they all sweated for Ding Faxiang. However, after being lifted, Ding Faxiang suddenly grabbed the neck of the "Big Yak" with his legs in the air, and then hit the back of the "Big Yak" with the fist of the Bazi Fist. Only a crisp "click" sound could be heard, and the "big yak" was like Tarzan falling to the ground, and the "bang" fell to the ground. It turned out that his neck was broken by Ding Faxiang.
When the "Second Yak" saw the situation, his face was as frightened as earth, and where did he dare to fight again, he knelt down and begged for forgiveness.
The audience in the audience all felt their eyebrows raised, and everyone clapped their hands and applauded. For a while, thousands of people sought after it, and everyone regarded Ding Faxiang as a hero. When the Kangxi Emperor heard about it, he was also a great joy of Long Yan, and immediately sealed Ding Faxiang as "Iron Hero Martial Artist" and wrote a "Dragon Smile Plaque" for him.
You must know that the plaque of the Kangxi Emperor's handwritten inscription, the civilian officials can get off the car when they see it, and the military attache can get off the horse when they see it, which is quite a majestic thing. Not only that, the Kangxi Emperor also gave Ding Faxiang a yellow coat symbolizing the highest honor and a Shangfang sword with the highest power. Ding Faxiang these two things can make Ding Faxiang "go to the temple and worship, and see the official level." In addition, the Kangxi Emperor also granted emperor great favors and exempted Mengcun from all taxes.
Kangxi was a good martial artist, and when he learned that Ding Faxiang had killed the "Great Yak" with his Bazi Fist, he renamed the Bazi Fist to "Eight Pole Fist".
Ding Faxiang, who became famous in the First World War, had never been interested in being an official, so he politely rejected the Kangxi Emperor's idea of making him an official, and continued to act heroically in the people. As for the Bazi Quan he practiced, it was also famous in the world because the emperor named eight pole quan.
Ding Faxiang did not teach many disciples in his lifetime, among which Zhang Sicheng and Wu Zhong did their best to obtain the essence of the Eight Pole Fist. Thirty-three years after the Kangxi Dynasty, Ding Faxiang died of illness in Mengcun at the age of 79.
Before dying, Ding Faxiang instructed Zhang Sicheng and Wu Zhong to use Mengcun as the birthplace of the Eight Pole Quan, open a mountain and establish a sect in Meng Village, and carry forward the Eight Pole Quan. Since then, Zhang Sicheng and Wu Zhongzhao have taught art and cultivated a group of eight-pole boxing masters. Like Zhang Keming, a Luo pupil, and Li Shuwen, a sharpshooter, are all descendants of the Eight Pole Quan, and it is also in their generations that the Eight Pole Quan is not only extremely famous in the Cangzhou area, but also developed into the Republic of China period, and has become one of the most respected martial arts for martial arts enthusiasts in the martial arts genre.