In the eighth year of Guangxu (1882), Huang Feihong, a generation of Hongquan masters, was given a wooden plaque of "Medical Proficiency" because he cured the foot disease of Liu Yongfu, the leader of the Black Flag Army, and in that year, Huang Feihong was 35 years old, and in the same year, Huang Feihong was hired as a martial arts instructor of the Guangzhou Water Division. Four years later, Huang Feihong opened a medical center in Ren'anli, Guangzhou, named "Baozhilin", which means "the sword is sheathed, and the sesame grass becomes a forest". In the thirteenth year of the Republic of China (1924), Bao Zhilin was burned because the Nationalist government in Guangzhou was affected by the suppression of the commercial rebellion, and the following year, Huang Feihong died.
The image of Huang Feihong in the movie
Many years later, Po Chi Lin became one of the most well-known drug stores in Hong Kong cinema.
CCTV's "Screening Room 10" once described Bao Zhilin as follows:
"In almost all of Wong Fei Hung's films, Bao Zhilin appears as a powerful symbol. Chinese since ancient times pay attention to 'self-cultivation, Qi family, governance, peace in the world', it can be seen that in Chinese civilization, home and country are integrated, for ordinary people, safeguarding the interests of the family is as sacred as soldiers to maintain the country, Huang Feihong's film reflects the era is the last year of the Qing Dynasty, and Bao Zhilin and the Huang family living in BaoZhilin is precisely a condensation of Chinese society at that time, in a sense, it symbolizes the late 19th century and early 20th century of China. ”
Xu Ke translated the English name of his "Huang Feihong" series of films into "China's Past", and in this regard, it is not without reason.
Wong Fei Hung series of movies
Starting from Guan Dexing's "Huang Feihong's Whip wind and extinguishing candles", all the way to Jet Li's "Huang Feihong's Heroic Ambition", Zhen Zidan's "Young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse", and then to Peng Yuyan's "Huang Feihong's Heroes Have Dreams", over the decades, Bao Zhilin has continuously evolved several times as the background of the story. In Xu Ke's "Huang Feihong's Lion King Battle", it even became the "Baozhilin Pharmaceutical Factory" that introduced Western machinery and equipment such as steam engines, becoming a veritable family business, and also witnessing the difficult start of national capitalism from the side. In "Huang Feihong's Lion of the Western Regions", as one of Huang Feihong's four disciples, Yazasu opened the Baozhilin branch to san Francisco Chinatown on the other side of the ocean.
The vicissitudes of the sea, the vicissitudes of the mountains, the shift of the stars, China from the imperial system to the republic, those thick or sad past events are also deep or shallowly inscribed between the green bricks and gray tiles of Baozhilin. The sharp years gradually vanished in the withered sun, and finally, only a long sigh was left.
Overseas Baozhilin in "Lions of the Western Regions"
In the hearts of countless "Huang Feihong" film fans, Bao Zhilin is a lovely place, where it witnessed the door-to-door challenge of Yan Zhendong, a magnificent rain war, and the temperament was close to Nolan's "The Dark Knight"; there also witnessed the love of Huang Feihong and Aunt Thirteen, witnessed their "Love Tiger Oil" and Thirteen Aunts using a picture machine to shoot Huang Feihong's punches; there also witnessed the kicking hall of Ghost Foot Seven, and Huang Qiying, played by Liu Xun' grandfather, has officially debuted since then. Wang Jing, who has always liked to spoof, added a fragrant neighbor to Bao Zhilin in "Huang Feihong's Iron Chicken Fighting Centipede", the "Xiangzhi Pavilion" opened by the big teapot Huang Shihu.
Bozhilin
Bao Zhilin, when we gently say this name, countless memories suddenly roll like a gust of winds rolling in the huge waves of midnight Cantonese fragments, just like the song sings "Let the memorial become history, think about the old days, like faded midnight fragments, any plot, today has one more meaning."
It can be said that Bao Zhilin is like the "Tongfu Inn" in "The Tale of Wulin", accompanying generations of audiences in laughter and tears, and countless people's jianghu dreams, through this small medicine shop, from then on, the waves are chasing the wind, riding horses, and getting away with infinity.
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