Chinese martial arts have a long history in Chinese history, after thousands of years of development and improvement, by the late Qing Dynasty has reached the peak of martial arts, it is precisely because the late Qing Dynasty the country is weak and small, ravaged by the great powers, so this period produced many masters who strengthened themselves with martial arts. The entire late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China was the peak of Chinese martial arts, and Fang Shiyu was one of the martial arts masters, who reached the pinnacle of martial arts, but was plucked out of his anus at the age of 26 and died.
In fact, everyone should be familiar with the name of Fang Shiyu, after all, the film and television dramas about Fang Shiyu in those years can be said to be popular all over the country, and almost everyone's heart is a big hero. These martial arts movies almost grew up with the post-80s generation, which is a classic among classics. Everyone may only watch the fictional story, but they don't know that there is really Fang Shiyu in history, who is a master of the late Qing Dynasty, and these film and television dramas are adapted from his story.
In the late Qing Dynasty, in order to reverse the trade deficit, the British imported a large amount of opium into China, and Cixi, the ruler of the Qing government, only cared about his own pleasures and never cared whether the people in the world were dead or alive. The laxity of management has caused the big tobacco pipes throughout the country to open more and more, the Chinese people have lost their homes in order to smoke the big smoke, the peasants have lost their labor, the army has lost its combat effectiveness, and it has become a sick man from top to bottom; when the time is ripe, the great powers have blasted open the gate of the Qing Dynasty with artillery, and the Qing Dynasty has no power to fight back at all, only the share of being ravaged, and therefore Chinese has become the "sick man of East Asia" in the eyes of Westerners, so that Chinese has fallen into a hundred years of aquatic heat.
Generally people who practice martial arts have a pure heart, they want to use their martial arts to change the physique of the Chinese people, completely get rid of the title of "Sick Man of East Asia", so during this period, many masters of martial arts would often get together to exchange ideas, create non-governmental organizations or gangs, hoping to serve the people, and many openly confronted the corrupt Qing government, and Fang Shiyu was one of them, he was an important figure in the Red Flower Society at that time.
Fang Shiyu's martial arts are strong, which has a certain relationship with his parents, his mother Miao Cuihua was born in a martial arts family, but also a strong martial arts family, and later married a wealthy merchant in Guangxi to have Fang Shiyu, because he was a son in his later years, so his parents were very fond of this son, he spent a lot of effort on him, born in a chaotic world, he himself has excellent martial arts talent, so the old father sent him and his two brothers to Shaolin to learn martial arts, and the status of the Fang family has also changed greatly.
Because of the relationship between his father's money and his mother's martial arts family, Fang Shiyu was a troublemaker in the township when he was a child, and no one in the eight townships was his opponent, once he went with his father to purchase medicinal materials, and on the way he encountered wudang lei tiger swinging in the ring, but the young man did not take it lightly or heavily, and actually beat Lei tiger to death. Lei Laohu's family then launched a revenge, and his wife Li Xiaohuan gathered thousands of Qing soldiers to find the Fang family to retaliate, of course, the Fang family could only find the help of the underworld and Shaolin, so that the two families officially fought. It is said that Fang Shiyu was framed by Li Xiaohuan during the battle, resulting in his death by extraction, and he died at the age of 26.
A master died so young, people are overwhelmed, if not used well, many times the greater the ability, the more terrible, only by upholding benevolence can we survive in heaven and earth.