In the late Qing Dynasty, there were eight dart bureaus in Beijing, of which the Huiyou Dart Bureau had the oldest history and the strongest strength, when the dignitaries and nobles transporting valuables would seek to find the Huiyou Dart Bureau. Li Hongzhang's family home is a member of the board of directors when it is moved. The princes and nobles, the ministers of the DPRK and The Chinese Dynasty trusted the Huiyou Dart Bureau so much, in addition to his long history, it was more important to see the prestige of li Yaochen, the late Qing Dynasty dart king, who was the family member of the Huiyou Dart Bureau.
Li Yaochen, a native of JiXian County, Hebei Province, learned martial arts at an early age, studied taijiquan in his hometown, and entered the Beijing Huiyou Dart Bureau at the age of 18, in which Li Yaochen learned eighteen weapons and light skills of flying cornices. With his own strength, he soon broke through his own fame in beijing.
Li Yaochen's fame was the guarantee of the business of the friends dart bureau at that time, in addition to looking for Li Yaochen, Yang Xiaolou, the famous martial artist of Peking Opera at that time, in order to perform "Haunting heavenly palace", also personally asked Li Yaochen for monkey fist, peking opera Danjiao master, before starring in "Overlord Farewell", he also followed Li Yaochen to learn swordplay.
After the Eight-Power Alliance captured the city of Beijing, Cixi fled in a hurry, but did not take the army of the Forbidden City with her. Cixi knew in her heart how many pounds and a few pounds the army in the capital city had, and in order to ensure her own safety, she named Li Yaochen of the Friendship Dart Bureau as her personal bodyguard.
Li Yaochen was superb in martial arts, and he had some friendship with the good men of the green forest for more than ten years, so Li Yaochen easily escorted Cixi to Xi'an. After the Eight-Power Alliance withdrew, Li Yaochen escorted Cixi back to the city of Beijing, thus establishing his reputation as the King of the Late Qing Dynasty.
With the development of the times, especially after the railway entered China, the dart board industry went into decline. In 1921, the Huiyou Dart Bureau, which had been in operation for 300 years, announced its dissolution, and after the dissolution of the Dart Bureau, Li Yaochen opened a "Wushu Tea Society" in Beijing to continue to inherit martial arts. After the September 18 Incident, the Japanese invaded, and Tong Linge, the deputy commander of the Twenty-ninth Route Army, deliberately found Li Yaochen and wanted him to go to the army and teach the soldiers a large knife.
After Li Yaochen came to the army, according to the characteristics of the big knife, combined with the traditional Chinese six-in-one knife method, he created a set of wuji knife methods for the Japanese army. The Wuji knife method emphasizes the concept that the knife is a knife and can be split; the knife is also a sword, and it can be stabbed. After this set of knife techniques was popularized, it caused a heavy blow to the Japanese army on the anti-Japanese battlefield.
Li Yaochen's life through the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, the War of Resistance and the founding of New China four major historical periods, he devoted his life to the promotion of traditional Chinese martial arts, in his later years Li Yaochen was intoxicated with the study of martial arts, and trained a large number of outstanding martial artists, in 1973 97 years old Li Yaochen came to the end of his life.