There is no character of Chen Zhen in history, it was invented by TV series director Ni Kuang for the needs of the plot. The historical Huo Yuanjia is not a handsome handsome guy, nor is it as legendary as in the TV series.
Huo Yuanjia is young and weak, and his family situation is not as good as in the TV series. His father and brother were reluctant to teach him martial arts because of his frailty and illness, but Huo Yuanjia was unwilling, because he was curious to steal the master to learn the art, and as a result, he became the most outstanding martial artist among the brothers. Fuse his family heirloom art and create his own lost fist.
In his lifetime, he had not defeated so many Hercules and martial arts masters, and he had also defeated a martial artist who came to challenge in his hometown. Before the age of 27, Huo Yuanjia had been collecting firewood and selling firewood for a living in his rural hometown, and he had never seen anything big in the world. At the age of 28, he followed Nong Jinsun to Tianjin Mixed Wharf and worked as a dock porter in Nong Jinsun's company.
Because of his great strength and good kung fu, he was appreciated by Nong Jinsun and promoted to the head of the porter's class to manage the dock porter. It is reported that it is brave and fierce, and many behaviors are no different from the docks.
He did challenge two Hercules in his lifetime, one Russian and one British, and in those years, the country did not have a formal sports event organization and competition mechanism. It is not known what the two Hercules are, how high the martial arts are, perhaps they are just the pathological physique of the people at the end of the Qing Dynasty who are either yellow-faced and thin, or have a big belly.
After Huo Yuanjia officially published a public report after the battle, the two Hercules without exception did not quit, that is, the foot plate was greased. As a result, Huo Yuanjia won without a fight, and his reputation was extremely famous, and he was unmatched for a while.
Think about that year, you can blow the Boxer fist into a knife and gun, like Huo Yuanjia who ran rampant on the docks, and the people who shocked Tianjin Wei have long been deified by the city, and what force to pick up thousands of pounds or something, it is estimated that the two indiscriminate Hercules are scared away.
Huo Yuanjia was recommended to Dr. Sun Yat-sen by Nong Jinsun at the age of 41, and followed Nong Jinsun to Shanghai to form the China Jingwu Sports Association, which is the origin of the legend of Jingwumen.
Later, the Jingwu Sports Association and the Japanese judo team held an exchange-style competition, and the Japanese side connected five people, all of whom were defeated by Huo Yuanjia's senior disciple Liu Zhensheng, and the Japanese side was annoyed and directly challenged Huo Yuanjia by the judo captain. When he was gradually in the ascendant, he wanted to make the yin move be recognized by Huo Yuanjia and broke it into a broken bone, which was very humiliating to the Japanese samurai.
Afterwards, Huo Yuanjia was warmly invited to a banquet, and when he saw that Huo Yuanjia had a cough, he recommended japanese doctor Akino to diagnose and treat him. Huo Yuanjia did not suspect it, gladly agreed, but the more serious the treatment, and finally forcibly discharged from the hospital, receiving medical treatment from Chen Zizheng, a jingwu fellow, but did not see any improvement, and died of serious illness. After testing, it was believed that the medicine given to Huo Yuanjia by the Japanese was not to treat the lungs, but to corrode the lungs.
After Huo Yuanjia's death, the Shanghai Jingwu Sports Association was taught by his brothers Yuanqing and Zidongge, and spread to the world.