<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > primer</h1>
In the last years of the dynasty, Huo Yuanjia, Chen Zhen, Huo Dongge... These legendary martial heroes flocked out, pinning their high hopes on the descendants of Yanhuang and becoming the proud sons of the times who were invincible and won glory for the country.
"Rush away from the blood road, wave your hand, and commit yourself to the national ZTE!" Let the land be trampled on again, and take on the mission one by one. The Great Wall will never fall, and the water of the Yellow River will gush..."
Every time this eternal melody echoes in the ears, it makes people excited, and they hate that they can't be born in the same era...
So, did Huo Yuanjia, the great hero of the late Qing Dynasty, steal martial arts from a young age? Did it really beat the Western Lux and the Japanese Ronin to the ground? Was he poisoned and killed by the Japanese, as rumor has it?
Let us dust off the dust of history and walk into Xiaonanhe Village in Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="305" >01 Hero Rises, Emaciated Hercules</h1>
The Huo family's ancestral home is Cangzhou, Hebei Province, and the family secret fist came from Shaolin, passed down to Huo Xuwu's generation, and was improved by it into the "Huo Family Practice Seventy-two Styles", which became the Huo family's unique mastery.
Huo Xuwu was an apprentice of sun tong, a martial artist of the Qing Dynasty, whose son was named Huo Endi, and his martial arts were better than blue.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the people were not happy, and thieves were rising.
Horndi wore a martial art and ate the "bodyguard" line of food, a pair of secret fists to fight the gods, rarely opponents.
As the business grew bigger and bigger, Huo Endi moved with his family to Xiaonanhe Village in Jinghai, Tianjin, and settled here.
Huo Endi had three sons, Huo Yuanying, Huo Yuanjia, and Huo Yuanwu.
His second son was Huo Yuanjia, the character Junqing, born in 1868, the fourth in the family peers, so in the days to come, some people will call him "Huo Siye".
In the late Qing Dynasty, Horn first row dart northeast, because of his superior martial arts, never lost darts, famous zhenguan inside and outside.
However, if you are in the business of the rivers and lakes, where is there anyone who does not have a grudge?
Therefore, after the age of 40, in addition to the occasional bodyguard, Horndi mainly made a living by farming and living in seclusion. However, despite being a farmer, Horndi could not bear the extinction of the family martial arts, and still taught his children the art of boxing in the clan in order to have a foothold in the chaotic world.
When Huo Yuanjia was first born, his body was weak and his face was scorched yellow, and he was not a person who could practice martial arts at first glance.
Therefore, until the age of 20, because of his sick body, Old Master Huo was not willing to teach this son to learn martial arts. First, he was worried that his thin son would be injured by practicing boxing, and second, he was also worried that he would not succeed in learning martial arts and weaken the prestige of Huo Jiaquan.
However, Huo Yuanjia was not convinced.
Despite his weak health, he was aspiring as he often peeked at his brothers practicing martial arts, and then hid in the woods to steal a lesson. However, after studying for so many years, Huo Yuanjia had never dealt with others, and he didn't know whether his level was high or low!
At the age of 21, a martial arts master from outside Guanwai came to Xiaonanhe Village and pointed out that he wanted to find Horndi to practice martial arts.
It turned out that this jianghu person was the wrongdoer he had formed when Horn first darted, and although he did not cause the other party to live or die, he cut off the people's job. For the people in the jianghu, only one party can completely convince the liangzi.
At this time, Horndi was in his early 50s, and although he was skilled, his physical strength had declined.
Huo Yuanying and Huo Yuanwu, who had followed their father to learn martial arts since childhood, fought on behalf of their father, but unfortunately they were defeated by each other's hands. Huo Endi wanted to take the shot himself, but unexpectedly, Huo Yuanjia, who had never learned martial arts, stopped him and wanted to fight on behalf of his father.
To everyone's surprise, Huo Yuanjia's Secret Sect Fist not only deeply understood the essence of his father, but also had infinite strength and fist with wind.
No one would have thought that this young man, who usually looked weak in his body, had so much strength lurking in his thin body that he beat the comers to a gradual defeat!
Until the moment when the Guanwai Martial Master conceded defeat, the Huo Family's clan was still in shock.
It turned out that Huo Yuanjia was a natural Hercules!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="332" >02 The hero does not ask the source, and is famous in Tianjin</h1>
Huo Yuanjia became famous in one battle, which made his father and his clan look at him with admiration.
In the years since then, Huo Yuanjia has followed his father to carefully learn the Secret Sect Fist, and his kung fu has become deeper and deeper. After that, he began to study other famous martial arts in the jianghu, integrated them, and developed the family secret fist into "Lost Fist"!
Since Huo Yuanjia's martial arts were already better than blue, his father asked him to take the Huo family's children to learn the art. Gradually, Huo Yuanjia's martial arts surpassed that of his father and established great prestige among his clan.
At the age of 27, the output of the land was no longer enough to support Huo Yuanjia, who had already started a family, so he moved his mind to go out and run around.
At this time, it was exactly the second year after the "Sino-Japanese War", and in order to compensate Japan, the Qing Dynasty stepped up its looting of the people, and the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were as much as cattle feathers, and the people did not have a good life.
In order to support his family, Huo Yuanjia decided to go to Tianjin.
After coming to Tianjin, Huo Yuanjia found that he seemed to be useless except for a handful of strength. In desperation, he learned from his fellow villagers and became a "firewood bearer".
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are disputes!
Because Huo Yuanjia had great strength, he was hundreds of pounds of firewood at a time, which made other colleagues jealous and decided to find someone to clean him up and not let this stunned boy from the countryside break the balance of the industry with his talent.
Therefore, a group of local people gathered to find Huo Yuanjia's trouble.
At this time, Huo Yuanjia only wanted to support his family, but now that someone wanted to break his family's rice bowl, how could he bear it?
As a result, it can be imagined that this gang not only did not "convince" Huo Yuanjia, but was "persuaded" by him fiercely! Dramatically, this group of people was shocked by Huo Yuanjia's strength and martial arts, not only abandoning their previous suspicions, but also asking him to come back and be the leader of their line!
To be a "person in charge", you must stand out for your brothers in the industry.
After doing it for a few months, Huo Yuanjia found that this line of work was extremely unsuitable for him. Because, from a young age, his tutoring made him unable to bully people who were weaker than himself, and he had to do things that had to be done.
Thinking about it, Huo Yuanjia resolutely resigned from the position of "person in charge" and threw himself into a "Huaiqing Medicine Stack" and became a medicine catcher.
At this time, Huo Yuanjia already had a considerable reputation, and almost all of his martial arts colleagues in Beijing and Tianjin knew that he was a figure. Among them, there are not only the chivalrous "Great Sword King V", Huo Yuanjia's first apprentice "Lightning Hand Flying Swallow" Liu Zhensheng, but also the boss of the "Huaiqing Medicine Stack", Nong Jinsun, the grandmaster of the first generation, Sun Lutang and others.
People are afraid of famous pigs are afraid of strong, and there are many unconvinced peers on the rivers and lakes.
One day, the guys of the "Huaiqing Medicine Stack" went to the street to fetch water, but found that they did not know who had covered the well with two large bluestones, and three or five people could not easily move it!
The pharmacy boiled medicine every day and needed a lot of water, obviously, this was someone who came specifically for Huo Yuanjia.
Huo Yuanjia came to the front of the well, turned around, lifted the placket, supported his waist with one hand, pushed on a bluestone with the other, picked and sent, and easily sent a large stone more than 2 meters away!
The onlookers saw him concoct the same method, smiled without breathing, and applauded one after another. Since then, the name of "Huo Hercules" has not gone away!
Nong Jinsun was a returnee and had close contacts with Revolutionary Volunteers such as Sun Yat-sen.
At that time, he personally saw Huo Yuanjia's strength and martial arts, and only hated that he did not deepen his understanding of him as soon as possible, so he pulled him to worship and instilled some advanced ideas in the hope of cultivating him into a "banner" on the rivers and lakes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="369" >03 It is incumbent upon you to die for your friend</h1>
Under the influence of Nong Jinsun, Huo Yuanjia gradually realized the persecution of the people by the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty and began to be full of sympathy and yearning for ideological progressives.
In 1898, the "Wushu Reform Law" failed, and Cixi launched a coup d'état, beheading Tan Si and the six gentlemen of Wushu at the mouth of The Caishikou outside Xuanwu Gate!
Tan Sitong's good friend Wang Zhengyi, the "Great Sword King V", in order to avenge his friend, repeatedly waited for the opportunity to assassinate the Qing court officials, but unfortunately failed and was listed as a "Qin criminal".
Huo Yuanjia and the "Great Sword King V" are good friends, the two have practiced martial arts, talked about the affairs of the family and the country, often talked at night with candles, forgetting the time.
In 1900, the Gengzi Incident, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the capital.
The Fifth Great Sword King led his brothers to confront the foreigners, outnumbered, and died heroically after falling into the hands of the enemy.
When the foreigners learned that the "Great Dao King V" was a martial arts sign in the Beijing-Tianjin area, they hung his head on the front door tower to deter the martial artists of the Qing Dynasty.
At that time, the heroic sacrifice before and after Wang Wuyi was Cheng Tinghua, the founder of the Cheng Bagua Palm.
Because he saw more than a dozen Germans flirting with women on the street, Cheng Tinghua, who was in his 50s, stepped forward alone and killed them all with three punches and two kicks. However, he was surrounded by a long line of foreigners, outnumbered, and heroically sacrificed.
When Grandmaster Sun Lutang heard that Master Cheng Tinghua's whereabouts were unknown, he came to Tianjin to look for Huo Yuanjia, hoping to find some news from him.
Huo Yuanjia was also worried about his friend Wang Wu, so the two went to Beijing together.
Sun Lutang, with the help of Cheng's disciples, found his master's body on a roof and buried him in the eastern suburbs of the capital. Huo Yuanjia found his friend's head hanging on the gatehouse, and his eyes were cracked.
In order not to drag down his friends, Huo Yuanjia persuaded Sun Lutang to take care of the aftermath of his master Cheng Tinghua, and he took his apprentice Liu Zhensheng to find Liu Hu, a strange person in the jianghu.
Liu Hu is the author of "The Journey of the Old Remnant", and is a good friend of the Great Dao King Wu and Huo Yuanjia.
Hearing that Huo Yuanjia had come for his friend Wang Wu, Liu Hu was duty-bound to find a topographic map near the Qianmen Tower and the deployment of the foreign gun team through his relationship.
Huo Yuanjia and his apprentice Liu Zhensheng agreed that one of them would block the foreigners and one of them would go upstairs and remove the wooden cage containing Wang Wu's head.
Liu Zhensheng, known as the "Flying Swallow", was so light that he jumped up the wall with a height of more than one inch. The front door building is three feet high, and with Liu Zhensheng's hands, he only needs to use the flying claw to go up easily.
Huo Yuanjia was skilled in martial arts, and was most suitable for blocking the pursuing enemy.
Late the next night, the two masters and apprentices quietly set off, and Liu Zhensheng took away the wooden cage almost without alarming the foreigners and the foreign gun team. Huo Yuanjia was in charge of the rear of the palace, and there were dozens of foreigners chasing after them, but they were all quietly chopped down by Huo Yuanjia with heavy hands, and did not cause much movement.
Huo Yuanjia's master and apprentice successfully picked up the wooden cage and buried their friend in his former residence.
For the sake of his friend's honor and the dignity of Huaxia Wulin, Huo Yuanjia disregarded the fear of his life, inserted a knife into his friend's ribs, and preserved a soaring righteous spirit for the Wulin yima!
Half a year later, huo Yuanjia's heroic deeds of "Great Sword King V" were revealed, and since then, the great name of Jinmen Daxia has spread throughout the northern martial forest, which is exciting.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="390" >04 Scare off The Western Hercules twice</h1>
In 1901, the "Boxer Rebellion" was a complete failure, and in the face of foreign guns and cannons, martial arts seemed useless, and Huo Yuanjia fell into confusion.
At this moment, Nong Jinsun found Huo Yuanjia and encouraged him: "The instrument is for human use, which does not mean that the Chinese martial arts themselves are useless." If you can use your martial arts to awaken people's hearts, you will definitely be able to achieve a greater effect than the martial arts themselves. ”
Under the enlightenment of Nong Jinsun, Huo Yuanjia suddenly became enlightened.
After that, Nong Jinsun began to fund Huo Yuanjia.
In that era when the country was weak and the people were poor, Nong Jinsun hoped that he could set up a banner of righteousness representing the martial artists and contribute to the salvation of the country and the people.
In the summer of 1901, the Russian Hercules Schivanlov came to Tianjin and published a newspaper boasting that he was "the world's first Hercules" and threatening to "fight all over China's invincible hands", which for a while aroused the indignation of all the heroes in Beijing and Tianjin.
What the people of the country hate most is that Schivanlov also commissioned an intermediary to publish a newspaper, saying: "No one in the country of the sick man dares to touch his front." ”
This is the word "sick man" officially appearing in martial arts!
As early as 1896, there was an article published by the British in the Shanghai English "Zi Lin Xi Bao" to evaluate the "Sino-Japanese War", and Liang Qichao translated the original sentence as follows: "Fu China, the sick man of the East, its insensitivity has not been benevolent for a long time", which is the origin of the "sick man of East Asia".
Huo Yuanjia, who had made great progress in his thinking, couldn't bear it, and with his apprentice Liu Zhensheng and his friend Nong Jinsun, he found Siqifanlov and proposed to challenge him without humility!
Seeing that this Chinese was thin and weak, Schivanlov despised him very much, and agreed to compete with him on the spot.
However, where did the people of Tianjin not know About Fourth Master Huo, they hurriedly dissuaded and told Huo Yuanjia's heroic deeds in detail.
Schivanlov was self-conscious, and he had to try it with Huo Yuanjia.
However, as an intermediary of the Russian Hercules, Jin Xiyuan was well aware of Huo Yuanjia's strength and resolutely disagreed.
As a result, the two sides conducted a friendly competition.
In order to show that he was the "world's first Hercules", Schivanlov had people find a steel plate with four chairs fixed to it and sit on 4 people each. Then, he proudly picked up the steel plate with both hands, and gradually raised it above his head, circling the field for a while, showing off his stupidity.
After reading it, Huo Yuanjia laughed and said, "Carving insect skills"!
Only to see him walk up to the stage, gently hold the steel plate, throw it upwards, and then gently lift the steel plate with one hand, and after a week of circling the field, gently throw down the steel plate. The four people on the steel plate were scared and bloodless, but they were all safe.
One is a two-handed lift, and the other is a one-handed lift, and the judgment is made from high!
Only then did Schivanlov know that he was bragging casually, and he actually provoked a fierce tiger!
Therefore, a dramatic scene appeared, Hercules lowered his eyebrows, and even said that he would not fight, the brothers just came to perform tricks, Huo Siye came from afar, everyone might as well turn Gan Ge into a jade veil, misunderstanding, it was a misunderstanding.
Huo Yuanjia did not think too much for himself, saying, as long as you remove the words "the world's first Hercules" and "sick man", and publish the newspaper to clarify, we will turn the dry into a jade veil. Schivanlov obeyed one by one, and only then did he respectfully send the "Great God" away.
In this way, huo Yuanjia's deeds of defeating the Russian Hercules spread more and more in Tianjin Weiyue, and everyone felt relieved!
However, because Shanghai is too far away from Tianjin, the foreigners over there do not know Huo Yuanjia's fame.
A few years later, an English Hercules of Opie made a big fuss, claiming that he was the world's first Hercules, and boasting that he wanted to defeat all the Chinese martial artists!
Coincidentally, Huo Yuanjia was in Shanghai with Nong Jinsun at that time, planning to set up a "Jingwu Association". After hearing this news, Fourth Master Huo decided that he could not get used to this group of so-called foreigners, and he must subdue them all!
Therefore, before the other martial artists could react, Huo Yuanjia immediately went to the battlefield to take revenge.
Opie, like the Russian Hercules before him, wanted to fight immediately. However, after investigating Huo Yuanjia's details, his intermediaries categorically rejected Oppiyin's arrogance and told him about Huo Yuanjia's past deeds.
Compared with the Russian Hercules Schivanlov, Opie Yin knew better about being as good as flowing, not only did not dare to deal with Huo Yuanjia's "Battle Letter", but also quietly sneaked back to England.
Two Western Hercules in succession were defeated and returned, and none of them dared to live a move with Huo Yuanjia, which made the name of the Jinmen Hero spread throughout the Northern and Southern Wulin, making the Chinese people raise their eyebrows and breathe, and the Westerners no longer dared to mention the title of "Sick Man"!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="395" >05 Defeated the Japanese Ronin with one slap</h1>
In June 1910, Chen Qimei, Chen Gongzhe, Nong Jinsun and others initiated the establishment of the "Jingwu Association" in Shanghai, and hired martial artists from all walks of life to teach, and the chief teacher was Huo Yuanjia!
On this day, on the day of the establishment of the "Jingwu Association", Sun Yat-sen also sent a plaque written by himself.
The "Jingwuhui" was an important symbol of the integration of the northern and southern martial arts at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the beginning of the great integration of the social elite and martial artists at that time, and it was the first time in history that physical fitness and patriotic sentiments were perfectly combined!
This was the peak moment of Huo Yuanjia's life, and it was also the period when his martial arts were at their peak!
With a passion and patriotic enthusiasm, Huo Yuanjia began to face the whole country in Shanghai to receive apprenticeship and teach art, fighting for the martial arts community! Soon after the establishment of the "Jingwu Society", many people flocked to the door and studied martial arts diligently.
However, the tree is a big trick!
At that time, in the Hongqiao Concession, there was a group of Japanese ronin and samurai who formed a "judo gym", who believed that Chinese martial arts had declined, that the skills that had been passed down for thousands of years had been lost, and that there was no real talent and practical learning for a long time.
Here we would like to talk about the origin of "judo".
During the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Yuanyun, a Zhejiang native who had studied art in Shaolin in Songshan Mountain, accompanied the emissaries on a visit to Japan. At the warm invitation of the Japanese, Chen Yuanyun became a protégé of the Tokugawa family and occasionally taught them boxing skills.
Later, Chen Yuanyun found that there was no decent and systematic boxing in Japan, so he moved to Kunisho-ji Temple in Edo, immersed himself in research, and helped the Japanese establish a set of real boxing techniques, which is "judo"!
Today, in the Kobudo Research Association in Tokyo, Japan, you can still see this stone stele erected by Chen Yuanyun's Japanese disciples. The book reads: "The transmission of the martial arts has also been initiated since the Ming Dynasty Chen Yuanyun. ”
The Japanese believe that during the Qing Dynasty and beyond, Chinese martial arts had declined, and the true essence was passed down in Japan. Therefore, they were not convinced and sent a battle book to Huo Yuanjia.
Huo Yuanjia would not miss this opportunity to expand the influence of the "Jingwu Society", and immediately responded to the battle, took his apprentice to the Hongkou Dojo, and invited a notary.
The martial arts circles of the two countries competed, there was nothing polite, and they came up to greet each other.
Liu Zhensheng (Chen Zhen's prototype) was the first to play, and the Japanese sent one of the most powerful ronin, but Liu Zhensheng circled for half a week to find the flaw and kicked him to the ground!
The Japanese thought it was a great shame and once again sent a samurai with better "ninjutsu".
Unexpectedly, before the man could take off, he was grabbed by Liu Zhensheng, known as the "Lightning Hand", and slammed into the ground!
Five Japanese samurai in succession were defeated by Liu Zhensheng, and the chief teacher of the Japanese Hongkou Dojo had to go out.
However, Liu Zhensheng smiled slightly, gave way, and asked Master Huo Yuanjia to play.
I have to say that the chief teacher of the Japanese ronin did have a few brushes and walked a full ten moves under The Fourth Master Huo. Then, fourth master Huo, who gave the other side, picked up the bouncing leg kicked by the other party, and the other hand made a palm grenade and slapped it the arm of the Japanese chief teacher...
Everyone present only listened to the "click" and the Japanese ronin teacher immediately withered to the ground, and it turned out that his arm bone was broken!
The other Japanese ronin were anxious and came up to fight with Huo Yuanjia, but they were stopped by Liu Zhensheng alone, and all three fists and two feet fell to the ground!
These small shrimp rice did not deserve Fourth Master Huo's hand at all.
The Japanese lost a mess, but Huo Yuanjia's battle made the Chinese notary see the blood boiling, and it has been praised to this day and has not faded.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="435" > Postscript: The Death of a Hero</h1>
Because Huo Yuanjia was slightly cruel when he attacked, the Japanese hated the "Jingwuhui" to the bone and always wanted to take revenge.
However, although they invited many so-called masters from China, they could not even meet fourth master Huo's face, and they were defeated by Liu Zhensheng one by one.
Even other people's disciples can't beat them, so what qualifications do they have to defeat the master?
After 2 months of hustle and bustle, the Japanese finally became convinced, and expressed their goodwill to Huo Yuanjia through a notary, hoping to feast huo Yuanjia's masters and apprentices in accordance with the tradition of Chinese, and turn Gan Ge into a jade warrior.
However, this proposal of the Japanese was decisively rejected by Huo Yuanjia! At this time, he was at the peak of his life, and the affairs of the state and the world were what he cared about, and he did not have the energy to deal with the Japanese meal.
Later, the Japanese learned of Huo Yuanjia's old problem of coughing, and generously introduced a Japanese doctor named Akino to diagnose and treat him.
At that time, Old Master Huo Endi did not teach Huo Yuanjia "Lost Fist", because he was worried that practicing this kind of Inner Family Boxing Technique would hurt the body. Especially for people who are born thin and weak, it is more harmful to the internal organs.
Although Huo Yuanjia was born a Hercules, it was a pity that his body had always been weak, so he fell into the coughing problem.
The repeated overtures to the Japanese, the open-minded Huo Yuanjia could not resign, and Nong Jinsun had no doubts. Because most of the revolutionaries who had tacit understanding in the Qing Dynasty had good relations with Japan and indirectly believed in their character.
Therefore, Huo Yuanjia accepted several prescriptions prescribed for him by Dr. Akino.
What makes people suspicious is that after Huo Yuanjia took the medicine prescribed by the Japanese, not only did he not get better, but his condition deteriorated day by day.
A few months later, a generation of heroes vomited blood and died violently, at the age of 42!
Pain, Chinese martial arts!
In addition to their grief, the disciples of the Jingwu Society took the medicine taken by Huo Yuanjia to test it, and found that there was an ingredient in it that was a chronic rotten lung medicine! As a result, the truth of Huo Yuanjia's death was revealed and recorded in the Jingwu Society's historical material "Jingwu Benji".
However, the Ronin of the Hongkou Dojo in Japan did not admit it, insisting that the prescription was correct.
Since then, the "Jingwuhui" led by Liu Zhensheng (Chen Zhen) has formed an indissoluble grudge with the Hongkou Dojo in Japan, and has performed one story after another that can be sung and wept!
So, was Huo Yuanjia, the great hero of jinmen at the end of the Qing Dynasty, really killed by the Japanese?
In 1989, the descendants rebuilt the Huo Yuanjia Cemetery, took the remains of this national hero and took them for testing, and found the highly toxic arsenic components. At this point, the fact that Fourth Master Huo was poisoned by the Japanese was finally confirmed!
Huo Yuanjia's death did not eliminate his influence in the martial arts community, on the contrary, under the guidance of his idea of "strengthening the body and strengthening the country", more and more people threw themselves into the road of "strengthening the body and protecting the country".
A year after Huo Yuanjia's death, the Wuchang Uprising fired the first shot, the decadent rule of the Qing Dynasty was finally overthrown, the wave of "Shangwu" swept across the ancient Land of China, and a group of benevolent people and heroes, former servants and successors embarked on the great journey of saving the country!
The spirit of shangwu, at a time of national crisis and family difficulties, finally broke out vigorously and became a tenacious national integrity.
Huo Yuanjia, the great hero of Jinmen, has thus become an iconic figure in China's modern history, always inspiring generation after generation. Do not forget the difficulties of the country, do not forget the family crisis, only by always upholding the "spirit of martial arts", patriotic protection of the country, in order to never fall the Great Wall!