In 2006, the action film "Huo Yuanjia" starring Jet Li was released, which described the story of Huo Yuanjia competing for fame and fortune, understanding the true meaning of martial arts, and finally becoming a generation of masters.
The audience was directly addicted after watching it, the film's fight scenes were fierce and gorgeous, and the spiritual connotation of "people do not offend me, I do not offend, if people offend me, I will return it" is quite recognizable.
However, Huo Yuanjia's great-grandson Huo Zizheng took the "Huo Yuanjia" crew to court, believing that the film's description was seriously inaccurate.
Huo Zizheng
In the movie, Huo Yuanjia not only failed to maintain the dignity of the nation, but also was filmed by the director to fly around, kill innocents indiscriminately, and finally lost in the ring.
As for the Destruction of the Huo Family in the film, there is no posterity to say, it is even more nonsense.
Huo Zizheng's remarks aroused the curiosity of many people, and it turned out that Huo Yuanjia still had descendants.
So where did Huo Yuanjia go after he died?
Huo Zizheng said that the film description is not true, so what is the real Huo Yuanjia in history, why did he die young?
The real Huo Yuanjia
Mention Huo Yuanjia, people will have in their minds the image of a self-reliant, resolute and confident man. This image comes from movies and TV series, and even folk rumors.
In the movie, Huo Yuanjia was born into a rich family, weak from childhood, and was bullied. As an adult, he fought against Shikoku Hercules, and his family was killed by the enemy family.
In reality, this is not the case, according to Huo Zizheng, Huo Yuanjia's descendant in China, Huo Yuanjia was born in an ordinary peasant family, not as rich and powerful as described in the movie, just an ordinary farmer.
Huo Yuanjia
What made Huo Yuanjia famous in Tianjin and even praised the whole country was that he frightened off foreign Hercules several times.
In 1901, a Russian Hercules named Schifferlov came to the Tianjin Opera Garden, who called himself the world's first Hercules.
He was very arrogant, and distributed leaflets in the theater garden, which were printed on them: "Fight all over China's invincible hands, let you 'East Asian sick men' open your eyes!" ”
The surrounding audience just looked at Hercules and pointed at him, but was shocked by his size, and no one dared to come forward to fight with him.
When Huo Yuanjia heard about this, he rushed to arrive with his apprentice Liu Zhensheng.
On the stage, Schivanlov first performed a flat-rolled iron plate, then tightened the biceps, and then "clicked" to break the chain, and after the performance, he jokingly said:
"The sick men of East Asia, come and fight with me."
Huo Yuanjia heard the words, jumped directly on the stage, and responded loudly:
"I am Huo Yuanjia, the 'sick man of East Asia' in what you call me, and I'll fight with you."
When Schivanlov saw that the comers were full of confidence, he couldn't help but feel a little weak, so he had to shirk: "Then fight tomorrow!" ”
Liu Zhensheng
After Siqifanlov returned, he asked the translator Huo Yuanjia about his origins, and the translator replied to him: "Huo Yuanjia is a famous martial arts master in Tianjin, and his kung fu is very strong, you had better be prepared, otherwise you will suffer a big loss!" ”
The next day of the competition, Schivanlov looked at Huo Yuanjia, who was standing with his hands in his hands, and remembered the words translated yesterday, and he couldn't help but feel afraid, did not dare to fight with Huo Yuanjia, and bowed his head and begged for forgiveness:
"I'm just here to sell art, and I say those words to support my family, and I don't count."
Huo Yuanjia demanded that he apologize in the newspaper, otherwise he would come to the stage to make a comparison.
Schivanlov agreed and fled Tianjin soon after.
Huo Yuanjia's former residence
Soon after, Huo Yuanjia heard that the British Hercules Opie yin had set up a ring in Shanghai to fight the Chinese masters, and also published advertisements to insult Chinese, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the shanghai people, and Huo Yuanjia rushed to Shanghai without saying a word.
When Opie Yin learned that his opponent was actually a master from Tianjin, his brow frowned, so he ran from afar to compete, it must be a hard stubble. But the ring is set up, the contest agreement is signed, the advertisement is also sent out, and now the crowded audience is looking at him.
OppiYin's eyes flickered, ready to play Lai, and made a request:
"We will take heavy money as a bet, and we are not allowed to use traditional Chinese martial arts techniques such as finger pokes and foot hooks in the competition, only fists!"
Huo Yuanjia smiled, borrowed funds from his friend, nodded his head, and agreed to Oppiyin's test conditions, using only boxing.
Now Opie Yin was completely dumbfounded, such a harsh condition he dared to agree? There was no way out, he had to use the drag word trick: avoid the battle!
In the face of such a rogue opponent, Huo Yuanjia had to decide to publish a war post in the newspaper to provoke him to compete.
"Exclusively accept foreign Hercules, although copper and iron bones, there is nothing to worry about!"
Opie Yin was already frightened, and after seeing this article, he had no intention of fighting, so he fled Shanghai overnight, and even the operator of the ring ran away with the notary.
Since then, Huo Yuanjia has completely shocked China, and everyone knows that there is a Chinese master, who is not afraid of foreign Hercules, who has fought many times, and Hercules has fled in the wind.
Untimely death
During the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, Huo Yuanjia's friend, Wang Zibin, known as the "Great Sword King V", was killed in Beijing, and Huo Yuanjia was so grief-stricken that he and his apprentice quietly sneaked into Beijing, took back the head of his friend, and buried him.
During this infiltration, Huo Yuanjia witnessed the criminal acts of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Tianjin and even in the Beijing area, which deepened Huo Yuanjia's hatred for the invaders and his dissatisfaction with the incompetence of the Qing government.
In order to revitalize national confidence, exercise the physique of Chinese, and no longer be bullied by foreigners, Huo Yuanjia abandoned the "unspoken rules" of martial arts with the help of friends and founded the "Chinese Jingwu Gymnastics Association" in Shanghai, where he personally taught Huo Jiajie to learn "Lost Fist".
The Eight-Power Coalition invaded China
In addition, he recruited all kinds of masters to be the head of the teaching, hoping to gather the strengths of each family to help people practice and learn.
This attracted the attention of the Japanese Judo Association in Shanghai's Hongkou District, which not only resented Huo Yuanjia for robbing them of their financial resources, but also disobeyed his kung fu.
Therefore, the Japanese sent ten judo masters to challenge Huo Yuanjia in an attempt to defeat him and severely dampen China's national confidence.
Huo Yuanjia also set up a martial arts school to fight against foreign powers, and gladly accepted the challenge.
He and his apprentices sat in the martial arts training field, defeating nine Japanese masters in a row, the last one was the leader of this Group of Japanese, the strongest, Huo Yuanjia personally fought.
However, the Japanese leader was not Huo's opponent at all, and as soon as he started to move, he was beaten back one after another, and the leader moved his mind and put his dead hand on the key part, Huo Yuanjia saw through the leader's dirty means, connected a few moves, and broke the leader's arm with his backhand.
The Japanese in the stadium were silent, but the Japanese quickly changed their strategy and took the initiative to show their overtures to Huo Yuanjia.
Huo Yuanjia had a bold temperament, and this fight was also with the mentality of "meeting friends with martial arts, exchanging and learning", and accepted the Japanese people's request for reconciliation.
The Japanese proposed to eat together, and during the dinner, the Japanese steward noticed that Huo Yuanjia frequently coughed, had a treacherous plan, and pretended to enthusiastically recommend him to Japan for treatment.
However, Huo Yuanjia did not see through the conspiracy under the "good intentions" of the Japanese, and smiled and said, "Then go." "But after taking the medicine prescribed to him by the Japanese doctor, his illness worsened.
The people of the Jingwu Society realized that something was wrong and wanted Huo Yuanjia to stop treatment. However, the Japanese actually persuaded them to continue treatment on the grounds that the treatment course was not over and it was not appropriate to cut off the medicine.
At this time, Huo Yuanjia's condition had seriously deteriorated, and on September 14, 1910, the legendary master died, at this time he had only been founding the "Jingwu Gate" for more than 70 days, and he was only 42 years old.
After Huo Yuanjia died, his friend took the medicine he took to a hospital in Shanghai for testing, and found that it was a poison with chronic rotten lungs. When his descendants moved his grave, they also examined his bones and found a black patch inside the bones, which showed that he did die of poison.
Huo Yuanjia's tombstone
Sadly, China at that time was poor and weak, and the Qing government did nothing. Such a martial arts master was murdered by foreigners, and only the people were excited and spontaneously mourned Huo Yuanjia, but the Japanese did not get substantial punishment.
The Japanese's small calculations were also not satisfactory, they wanted to destroy China's national confidence and oppress the national will by poisoning Huo Yuanjia, but this move instead stimulated the people's martial arts training frenzy. A large number of people went to the Jingwuhui to practice martial arts, and all kinds of good men joined in, and the Jingwuhui actually developed and grew.
Huo Yuanjia died, leaving behind two sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Huo Dongzhang, had been working as a farmer in the township.
The 16-year-old second son, Huo Dongge, was brought to Shanghai by his uncle Huo Yuanqing, adhering to Huo Yuanjia's legacy, staying in the Jingwu Association to preside over the overall situation.
Huo Dongge, who inherited the mantle
Huo Dongge, born in February 1895, grew up in Xiaonanhe Village, Jinghai County. Inspired by his father Huo Yuanjia and influenced by the family atmosphere, he has loved martial arts since childhood and has a high talent for martial arts. No matter what moves his father and other elders taught him, the hard-working Huo Dongge could learn them.
When Huo Dongge was more than ten years old, Huo Yuanjia was surprised to find that the second son's kung fu was no less than his own. Huo Yuanjia was relieved that there were people who had succeeded him, and the Lost Fist Mastery could be passed on.
After his father was killed, Huo Dongge came to Shanghai, at this time the Jingwu Association had lost its main heart and was on the verge of disbanding, and he decided to complete his father's unfinished ambition and carry forward the spirit of the Jingwu Society.
Huo Dongge
Although Huo Dongge was only 16 years old, he was skilled in martial arts and taught his students in the museum while teaching himself.
He knew that his father was alive to advocate the training of martial arts for all the people, and he had the ambition to strengthen the country and help Chinese resist foreign insults, and he decided to shoulder his legacy.
Huo Dongge was quite bold at a young age, and established three more branches in Shanghai, followed by branches in Hankou, Hong Kong and Guangdong.
In 1919, the 25-year-old Huo Dongge came to Guangzhou, and the local warlord Chen Jiongming was very important to him, but Chen Jiongming betrayed Sun Yat-sen. The different paths did not conspire, and Huo Dongge could only continue to the south.
Huo Dongge's wife disagreed, she was a northerner, came to live in Guangzhou, the language barrier has made her very uncomfortable, and now she has to continue to go south, is it not to Nanyang? She did not want to follow Huo Dongge abroad to suffer.
Hearing his wife complain, Huo Dongge was also very distressed, he has been managing Jingwumen for ten years, due to the martial arts training style brought by Huo Yuanjia, many martial arts halls have sprung up all over the country, and the living space of Jingwumen has gradually become smaller, and the direction of Nanyang Indonesia is still blank, which is very suitable for his development.
Chen Jiongming
Choose a family, or a career? Huo Dongge sat at the door of the martial arts hall in Guangzhou, and his heart was in a painful struggle.
This career was handed down by his father, he promised his father to carry forward the Jingwumen, Indonesia is a virgin land, there are many Chinese, he is very confident, if you go to Indonesia, you will be able to break out of the world.
On the other side is his own family, his wife is unwilling to follow him abroad, and his son is still young, which is really difficult to choose.
In the end, Huo Dongge still chose to go to Indonesia, and his wife still did not want to go with him, and returned to his hometown in Tianjin with his son.
Indonesia
On June 12, 1923, Huo Dongge came to Surabaya, Java. He planned to make a sign of Jingwumen on this territory.
During the day, he preached and demonstrated the jingwu martial arts everywhere, but the locals only thought that he was a seller.
So he took time out to volunteer to teach local Chinese martial arts every night, and in the process he met many overseas Chinese and wealthy merchants.
Surabaya, Java
After a period of time, the promotion of martial arts still did not improve, but he did not give up, decided to change his mind, through the way of "performance" to let the local people know Jingwumen first.
Kung Fu pays off, and at the fundraising performance of Surabaya Zhonghua School, Huo Dongge's "Lost Fist" received thunderous applause from the audience.
For the first time, the audience saw this move that combines power and beauty. Huo Dongge hit the iron while it was hot, and then hit a set of "drunken eight immortals" punches, and the crowd was shocked and stood up and exclaimed.
Lost Fist
Since then, Huo Dongge's name has spread, and indonesia's education circles know such a person, and Chinese schools such as Qiao Nan, Zhonghua and Zhenwen have rushed to invite him to teach.
Huo Dongge did not refuse, did his best to teach students, led them around the competition, and took the opportunity to establish the Jingwumen Branch in Indonesia.
Huo Dongge's martial arts skills are superb, compared to his father Huo Yuanjia, not only let the Chinese admire, but also make Europeans envious, "Nanming Jingwu Memorabilia" wrote foreigners' feelings about his superb martial arts:
"China's national skills are really above the world, and although our country has the science of boxing and sticks, it is not comparable to Huo Donggejun's 'Drunken Eight Immortals' fist, which is really a unique skill at home and abroad."
In less than two years, Huo Dongge's prestige in the Indonesian Chinese circle reached its peak, and the Chinese practice of martial arts became the most popular thing, and the number of students soared, and Huo Dongge had to call his nephew from the Guangzhou branch to come to help.
In order to expand his influence, Huo Dongge gritted his teeth and used all his savings to buy a camera and make a movie of the achievements of the students and instructors of Surabaya Jingwumen and take it to all parts of Indonesia for publicity.
This caused a sensation throughout Indonesia, and countless Indonesian residents squeezed their heads to join the Jingwu Gate to learn martial arts.
Jingwumen has become a hot "signboard" in Indonesia, and its influence is even greater than that of domestic Jingwumen.
Various indonesian cities also established Jingwumen branches, Huo Dongge married a second wife in the local area, and his descendants continued to spread their roots in Indonesia and became a large family in Indonesia.
Huo Yuanjia's eldest son, Huo Dongzhang, has been working as a farmer in the countryside, he has no talent for practicing martial arts, nor is he brilliant, and has been accompanying and taking care of his mother in the countryside of Tianjin, keeping the historical materials and "martial arts secrets" of the Huo family.
Huo Yuanjia's inheritance
Huo Zi is huo yuanjia's great-grandson, a descendant of the Huo family who stayed in China, and he did not appear in front of the public before the age of 56, but since he sued Jet Li's film "Huo Yuanjia" in 2006, he has received a lot of media attention.
Why sue? Because there is a lot of false content in the movie, it smears Huo Yuanjia's reputation.
In the movie, Huo Yuanjia failed to defeat the Japanese by taking medicine, and also described the Huo family as cutting off their children and grandchildren, which is completely contrary to reality, which makes Huo Zizheng extremely angry.
He didn't want to be famous, he just wanted justice for his ancestors.
In the face of media interviews, he took out the huo family's genealogy, proved his identity to reporters, and used a copy of the eight-year "Jingwu Benji" of the Republic of China to prove that the real Huo Yuanjia was not defeated, did not cheat, and did not have a broken family, and his descendants have survived in Indonesia and China.
The reporter believed Huo Zizheng's identity, and was quite curious about Huo Yuanjia's kung fu practice that year, so he asked:
"Is The Lost Fist real?" Who's going to do this now? ”
Huo Zizheng shook his head and said:
The accurate name of Lost Fist should be called Lost Track Art, which is Huo Yuanjia's combination of family heirloom Lost Fist and the original kung fu of various schools, which is divided into equipment and boxing. I still have a boxing score here, but unfortunately no one has practiced it. ”
"How hard it is to practice martial arts, people are so busy now, where there is time to practice martial arts, and even if someone really practices, I don't know if it's right or wrong, because I won't." Huo Zizheng laughed at himself and spread his hands, a little remorseful for the lack of successors to this course.
Huo Zizheng (second from right)
The descendants of the Huo family in Indonesia have been spreading martial arts and arts, and have become a large family, and their lives are very moist.
Huo Zizheng in China is the honorary principal of Huo Yuanjia's Wenwu School, and on weekdays, he publicizes Huo Yuanjia's national integrity and spirit, and his children no longer become farmers, but choose to do business, and the family lives a peaceful and peaceful life.
As for the "lost art" of the Huo family, the Indonesian Huo family has been improved many times and has been far from the original version.
The domestic Huo family only regards it as a hobby of strengthening the body.