At the end of the Qing Dynasty, countless patriots emerged on the mainland, who defended the dignity of the Chinese nation in their own way, and at that time, Chinese was called the sick man of East Asia, believing that Chinese were mentally and physically weak patients, and in order to break this humiliating impression, many martial artists stood up.
Huo Yuanjia is one of them, born as a dart master, he inherited the family heirloom "Lost Fist" stunt, and he played a famous kung fu very early.
In 1901, there was a Russian Hercules named Schivanlov who came to tianjin theater to perform, he claimed to be invincible in China, and mocked Chinese were all east Asian sick men, at that time Huo Yuanjia came to the theater to compete with Si Shi, but SiQifanlov privately learned of Huo Yuanjia's skills, did not dare to fight, at Huo Yuanjia's request, after apologizing in the newspaper, he returned to China in a gray and slippery manner.
Not only that, in 1909, the British Hercules Obiyin came to Shanghai and played the same routine as Schivanlov in that year, which made the Shanghainese very dissatisfied, but the Obiyin was very large, and the light size made many people timid, and no one in Shanghai at that time dared to fight.
At that time, Nong Jinsun learned of this news from the newspaper and recommended Huo Yuanjia to Chen Qimei, a well-known figure in Shanghai, a member of the League, and a revolutionary. After going from Tianjin to Shanghai, the major newspapers published a silence about Huo Yuanjia coming to Shanghai to challenge Obiyin, and the two sides agreed that Chinese martial arts techniques such as finger poking and foot hook could not be used in the competition, but when it came to the competition, Obiyin disappeared, and it turned out that he also knew Huo Yuanjia's strength and fled without a fight, which also made him a joke.
The most famous thing in Huo Yuanjia's life was the defeat of the Japanese judo master in 1910, when the Japanese were very unconvinced by Huo Yuanjia's scare away from Russia and The British Hercules, and decided to teach Huo Yuanjia a lesson, they gathered more than a dozen judo masters and found Huo Yuanjia and put forward a request for a test.
At that time, Huo Yuanjia let his apprentice Liu Zhensheng play, defeated the other five people in a row, so that the Japanese leader's face was disgraced, so he thought of himself as a deep skill, jumped on the stage and called a duel with Huo Yuanjia, but as soon as he fought, he knew that he was not Huo Yuanjia's opponent, so he wanted to secretly use cold arrows, and did not want to be recognized by Huo Yuanjia, and his arm was broken with one blow.
This battle made Huo Yuanjia's reputation even higher, but it became a thorn in the eyes of the Japanese, when Huo Yuanjia suffered from choking cough, he pretended to be friendly and recommended Akino Hospital for Huo Yuanjia, free treatment for him, Huo Yuanjia did not think much about it, went to the hospital for treatment, but made the condition worse!
When Jingwumen wanted to take Huo Yuanjia out of the hospital, Huo Yuanjia was already too deeply poisoned and there was no medicine to save, and Huo Yuanjia's apprentice took the medicine prescribed to him by the hospital to test, and found that this medicine was actually a bottle of chronic rotten lung medicine, only to understand that this was a treacherous plan of the Japanese, and Huo Yuanjia's generation of masters could only lament his carelessness and ended up with hatred, at the age of 42.