Speaking of modern martial arts masters, there is one who has to be mentioned, this is Huo Yuanjia, he is a famous patriotic martial artist in the late Qing Dynasty, he came from a family of dart masters, so he inherited the family tradition of "Lost Fist" stunt, when he was a teenager, his body was very weak, his father did not want him to learn martial arts, he secretly taught himself, and finally his body was better, and he also became a generation of kung fu masters.
Once, there was a boxer who competed with the door of the school, and the brothers were not opponents, at this time Huo Yuanjia came out, and after a few moves, he knocked the boxer to the ground, and since then Huo Yuanjia has gained the reputation of "high martial arts" and is quite famous in Tianjin.
In 1901, a Russian Hercules came to Tianjin Opera Garden to perform, claiming to "fight all over China's invincible hands, let the sick men of East Asia open their eyes and open their eyes", Huo Yuanjia listened, very angry, he wanted to compete with him, Siqifanlov agreed at the beginning, but he privately inquired about Huo Yuanjia's martial arts, and finally decided to compromise, to the day of the agreed competition, he asked Huo Yuanjia for forgiveness, and said: "I just came to Tianjin to perform, those words I said do not count", Huo Yuanjia asked him to admit his mistake, Schivanlov had to agree, Many then left Tianjin.
In 1909, the British Hercules Obiyin set up a ring in Shanghai, mocking Chinese as the "sick man of East Asia", causing dissatisfaction and protest among the people of Shanghai, but no one dared to fight, after Getting the news from the newspaper, He told Huo Yuanjia, Huo Yuanjia immediately expressed his willingness to fight, and then Huo Yuanjia went to Shanghai, and published a newspaper to challenge Obiyin, and agreed on a date, and on the day of the game, he did not see the trace of Obiyin, because he had run away, he knew that he was not Huo Yuanjia's opponent, so he was scared away.
In 1910, the Japanese judo would be dissatisfied with Huo Yuanjia's scare away the Russian and British Hercules, so he selected more than a dozen masters to compete with Huo Yuanjia, Huo Yuanjia made consecutive moves, agile, won five consecutive opponents, the leader was very annoyed, he shot against Huo Yuanjia, and as soon as he made a shot, he was repelled by Huo Yuanjia, and then his bones were broken and he had to concede defeat.
Since then, Huo Yuanjia's reputation has spread, everyone knows that Huo Yuanjia is a martial arts master, and later Huo Yuanjia established the "Jingwu Society", with more and more disciples, and the reputation spread all over the beach.
So why did such a martial arts master die young?
One theory is that during Huo Yuanjia's early martial arts training, because he was self-taught, he did not understand the essentials, injured his body, and eventually led to inability to treat and unfortunately died.
The second theory is that Huo Yuanjia was poisoned by the Japanese, because Huo Yuanjia suffered from lung disease, and japanese doctors prescribed medicine to him, which turned out to be a chronic rotten lung medicine, so Huo Yuanjia later died tragically.
However, a later incident was verified by the poisoning theory, because many years later, when the descendants moved the grave, they found that Huo Yuanjia's skeleton had black marks on it, and it was verified that he was indeed poisoned and died, so the Japanese poisoned Huo Yuanjia may be true.