Huo Yuanjia, when he was young, was weak and sickly, but he liked to learn martial arts very much, and through learning the fist technique of Lost Fist, he became a well-known master of chinese martial arts and a well-known generation of masters at home and abroad.
He repeatedly fought with foreign Hercules in the ring, beating those people into falling flowers and flowing water, which greatly increased the ambition and prestige of our Chinese.
Unfortunately, in the end, the sinister and cunning Japanese killed Huo Yuanjia, which made many people sad.
The above is basically a series of plots and routines related to Huo Yuanjia's film and television dramas, which were first introduced to the mainland in 1983 by the Hong Kong TV series "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia".
For a while, Huo Yuanjia became an idol of a generation of Chinese.
But is Huo Yuanjia's real experience really the same as that expressed in the film and television drama? The answer is no.
However, everyone does not have to be sad, because the real Huo Yuanjia's experience is as legendary as in the TV series, but he has never played in the ring with Yang Lux.
At the same time, in the 79 years after his death, the cause of his death can be said to be a mystery, and his true cause of death was not known until the moment the coffin was opened.
Let's walk into the legendary life of the real Huo Yuanjia together!
1. Young talents
Huo Yuanjia's piece of jade was found when he was 28 years old, he left the village to work in the city of Tianjin.
At first, Huo Yuanjia worked as a steward in the foot shop, and later went to work at the Huaiqing Pharmacy, where he met his nobleman.
Different from the film and television drama, the real Huo Yuanjia is only 1 meter 7 in his early height, which is actually not very high for men.
At the same time, Huo Yuanjia was really weak and sick since childhood, even if he was a martial artist, it seemed that there was no deterrent.
However, Huo Yuanjia's strength surprised everyone else, because he could pick up thousands of pounds of medicinal materials and use human power to push two large bluestones at the same time.
This performance was no less than that of Xiang Yu in ancient times, so soon after the owner of the pharmacy, Nong Jinsun, noticed him and began to pay more attention.
This nong Jinsun is also not an ordinary person, he studied in Japan in his early years, he was knowledgeable, and returned to China because of the orders of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, hoping to discover some talents to join the revolutionary party and save the country and the people together.
Yes, Nong Jinsun himself was a revolutionary party, and his relationship with Dr. Sun Yat-sen's right-hand man, Chen Qimei, was also very good.
The prestige of Nong Jinsun is very high, not only in the local area, but also in the hearts of the British and Americans, we know that since the late Qing Dynasty, the mainland's national strength has been weak, so the powerful countries in the West simply look down on us.
But proud of them, when they faced Nong Jinsun, they never dared to say anything insulting to China and Chinese.
Even if someone who does not know him offends him, he will certainly be convinced by him, so many foreigners are very impressed with Nong Jinsun, whether it is learning or character.
After knowing Huo Yuanjia as a person, Nong Jinsun began to inquire about what he would do outside of work.
The results were a surprise to Nong Jinsun, because Huo Yuanjia, who was not working, was actually fighting for the poor and poor people.
This coincided with the theory of the revolutionary party, so there was a conversation between Nong Jinsun and Huo Yuanjia.
In this conversation, Nong Jinsun learned about Huo Yuanjia's past, in 1868 Huo Yuanjia was born in Xiaonanhe Village, Jinghai, Tianjin, his father was called Huo Endi, and he used to be a dart master.
We know that being a dart master is easy to offend people, so when Horn was in his 40s, he felt that he had earned enough money to return to his hometown to educate his son, and the jargon was called the golden basin to wash his hands.
He has an ancestral skill called "Secret Fist", which is a homophonic word different from the "Lost Fist" that we have always said.
However, Huo Yuanjia was weak and sick from a young age, so Huo Endi did not let him learn martial arts, after all, he had mixed in the rivers and lakes before.
Whether it is the children of opponents or friends, they also mostly learn martial arts, and Horndi thinks that if his son does not learn well in the future, he will not only always be beaten, but also humiliate himself, so he will let him develop in reading.
But Huo Yuanjia was also more stubborn, and at the same time had a special love for practicing martial arts, and his father did not let him learn him secretly.
After being discovered once, Huo Endi scolded him, but Huo Yuanjia was not convinced and practiced inside in the woods outside.
Huo Yuanjia was born with a sick look, not only has a sallow complexion, but also has been coughing, which means that the lungs are not good, but our Chinese martial arts focus on "practicing one breath inside and practicing muscles and bones outside." ”
Therefore, no one expected him to be able to cultivate any famous class, but he didn't know whether it was Heavenly Dao's reward or talent, or both, Huo Yuanjia himself opened up his own path, and at the same time invented a boxing technique suitable for himself.
It was not until Huo Yuanjia came of age that Huo Endi learned of his son's martial arts training by chance.
After a few moves with him, Huo Endi found that Huo Yuanjia's kung fu was really good, and he couldn't help but be very happy and began to teach him.
Father and son two are one who wants to teach, one who wants to learn, and it didn't take long for Huo Yuanjia to learn the "Secret Sect Fist" handed down from his ancestors.
Later, he fused the strengths of a hundred families and developed the "Secret Sect Fist" into the "Lost Fist" that we are familiar with.
Then how did Huo Yuanjia, who was successful in martial arts training, run to the medicinal materials store as a helper?
In fact, it is related to a contest, as mentioned earlier, Horndi was a dart master before, so when Huo Yuanjia was 24 years old, there came a deceased person of Horndi.
The man took a disciple with him, and he understood that everyone knew that he had come to show his face.
But this old man also really had the capital of pride, and Huo Yuanjia's brother and brother were defeated at the hands of his apprentices one after another.
Just when the disciple was running rampant, Huo Yuanjia struck and defeated him in less than five minutes, which shocked everyone present.
But Huo Yuanjia was not happy, because although he was skilled in martial arts, he didn't understand what he could do?
He couldn't go to the dart again like his father, so he came to the outside of the village with confusion and found a little meaning of practicing martial arts through fighting unevenness.
Part-time work is to make a living, which also has his fate and conversation with Nong Jinsun.
Second, set your mind
As he learned more about Huo Yuanjia, Nong Jinsun liked him more and more, and at the same time kept telling him some patriotic ideas and the current social environment at home and abroad.
Huo Yuanjia felt that life had a driving force, and he was a good young man who could completely benefit the people and society with his martial arts! But it wasn't long before he started to get lost again, this time because of a man.
This person is called Wang Zhengyi, a native of Cangzhou, Hubei Province, and he is also a martial arts master, because he is the fifth master, and he is also good at using a large knife, and he is upright and proud, so everyone calls him "Big Knife King Five".
Although Wang Zhengyi was more than 20 years older than Huo Yuanjia, he had forgotten his friendship with him, and there were even rumors that Wang Zhengyi had taught all his martial arts to Huo Yuanjia.
Therefore, the two people are not only like-minded, but also have a mentor-apprentice relationship.
Wang Zhengyi and Tan Sitong were good friends with the two people, and Tan Sitong, who is known as the head of the Six Gentlemen of Wushu, was later killed by the corrupt and incompetent Qing government due to the change of law.
Wang Zhengyi was very sad after learning about this matter, and wanted to avenge his brother, and the biggest culprit was definitely Empress Dowager Cixi.
However, this old lady hid tightly and was not something that Wang Zhengyi was capable of assassinating, so he decided to attack Cixi's favorite, Ronglu, and the assassination was carried out five times.
Unfortunately, each time it ended in failure, and when wang wu stabbed himself in the fifth assassination, he lost his life, was shot and killed, and then took off his head and hung it on the city gate.
The people were very angry about this, but no one could take off the head, or Huo Yuanjia knew about it and stole it in the night.
After this, Huo Yuanjia began to doubt himself, because he knew that Wang Zhengyi's kung fu was not much worse than his.
But in the face of guns, even the guns and cannons in the hands of the backward Qing government were also powerless to fight back, so was this martial art still useful?
Huo Yuanjia and Nong Jinsun's original words were probably like this:
If I had been born hundreds of years ago, I would have thought that I would have taken the enemy's first rank in the Ten Thousand Generals' Bush, and if I wanted to establish an immortal feat, it would have been easy, but now that science has developed and firearms have also been invented, what use can I have in this martial art?
Huo Yuanjia's self-doubt actually made sense, and Nong Jinsun was silent after listening to it, because what could he say?
This kind of thing can only be slowly understood by Huo Yuanjia himself, and he still has an opportunity to pass this level in his heart. And it didn't take long for this opportunity to arise, from a Russian Hercules.
As China signed more and more treaties of loss of power and humiliation of the country, the attitude of the world powers toward China has become more and more arrogant, for example, the Japanese say that we are the "sick man of East Asia."
Other countries also use this term to call Chinese after learning about it, and the attitude of contempt can be said to be from the inside out.
A Russian named Schivanlov went to Tianjin to set up a ring, saying that the "sick men of East Asia" could see what the world's first Hercules was.
Huo Yuanjia heard that after the shooting, he and Nong Jinsun said that we are not sick men, we must let this Russian know how Chinese.
Nong Jinsun was also very confident in Huo Yuanjia's martial arts and supported him to challenge Siqifanlov to raise his eyebrows for Chinese.
So Huo Yuanjia found Schivanlov and said that he wanted to challenge him, and this Schivanlov had to say that his ability was actually a little, but more than that, he was fat and strong, and as for what martial arts he knew.
Seeing that Huo Yuanjia dared to come to the door, he left a heart eye to send someone to inquire about Huo Yuanjia's strength.
As a result, he was shocked, as I said earlier, Huo Yuanjia likes to fight unevenly, and it is inevitable that he has offended some figures who are a bit powerful, and in the face of the difficulties of those people, Huo Yuanjia's real kung fu things cannot be hidden, not to mention that he does not want to hide.
So Siqifanlov confessed on the spot, and Huo Yuanjia said that he was just setting up a ring to make some money, so it was inevitable to overstate, hoping that Huo Yuanjia would not worry, but where things were so good.
Huo Yuanjia made three demands on Schivanlov:
The first is to publish a newspaper to rehabilitate Chinese Kung Fu; the second is to apologize to the big guys in public, and in the future, we cannot call Chinese the sick man of East Asia.
In the end, if Schivanlov couldn't do it, he had to fight with Huo Yuanjia.
Wherever Schivanlov dared to make a move with Huo Yuanjia, he could only obediently do the first two and then run back to Russia in a gray way.
This incident made the local people very excited, admiring Huo Yuanjia,
And Huo Yuanjia himself has also found the meaning of life, that is, although his martial arts cannot kill the evil people in the world, he can use martial arts to show the Chinese spirit and awaken the qi and blood in the hearts of the Chinese.
Huo Yuanjia, who had figured it out, was very happy and adhered to this idea all his life.
The previous paragraph can be said to be Huo Yuanjia's ambition from showing his sharp edge to determining his ambition, and then he began to yang the whole country and became a hero in the minds of all Chinese.
Third, make a name for yourself throughout the country
It happened in 1909, Huo Yuanjia was exactly 41 years old, this age is a person's peak period in the past and now, especially for those who practice martial arts.
In the past few years, Nong Jinsun went to Shanghai to develop revolutionary forces, and in 1909, a British Hercules came to Shanghai to swing the stage, called Opie Yin.
This man was bigger and more round than the Schivanlov in front of him, and his favorite thing to do was to show off his own muscles in the ring.
Then he taunted Chinese saying that the Sick Man of East Asia could not be trained in a lifetime.
This man is not like Schivanlov who is completely sensational, he still has real ability, otherwise he would not dare to set up a ring in Shanghai.
You must know that Shanghai is a place much more developed than Tianjin, and there are many people from all over the world who live there.
After shouting for a long time, no one could defeat him, and Nong Jinsun decided to invite Huo Yuanjia to kill his might.
At the same time, I also hope that Huo Yuanjia can stay in Shanghai and carry forward his martial arts.
In April of that year, Huo Yuanjia came to Shanghai with his apprentice Liu Zhensheng.
Soon after, the news about Huo Yuanjia's challenge to Opie Yin was widely spread, and he also appeared on the very famous "Declaration" at that time.
Huo Yuanjia wrote his own battle statement on it, which probably means that since the world says that China is a sick country in East Asia, then I, the sick man, fought with you strong people today. At the same time, I also said below that I specialize in fighting Hercules, even if you are a steel bone, I am not afraid.
Things slowly fermented into a duel about national dignity, and Oppi Yin couldn't help but be timid.
After all, he thought that he could not beat Huo Yuanjia, under normal circumstances, it would be very humiliating to lose, and now that things have been raised to this height, if he loses, it is not just a matter of humiliating people, and if he does not get it right, he will become a sinner in Britain.
Therefore, Opie Yin was very "smart", he and Huo Yuanjia said that it was okay to fight, but he had to bet ten thousand oceans.
He thought that Huo Yuanjia couldn't get it out at all, and the fight would naturally not be able to be carried out at that time.
But Huo Yuanjia couldn't get it out, Nong Jinsun and the Alliance Would be able to ah, it didn't take long to pay the deposit, Opi Yin looked at it, and could only fight with Huo Yuanjia hard.
Before the fight, there is a link that invites the two players to sit together to discuss the rules, after all, it is not said that it is a life and death battle, which naturally cannot be fought casually.
However, Chinese martial arts are different from Western ones, and there is such a process of negotiation, in which Opie Yin has made a moth.
That is, he let Huo Yuanjia not use finger pokes, foot hooks and other moves in the process of the game, everyone knew that this was not unreasonable trouble, away from these two Chinese kung fu can still be called Chinese kung fu?
Therefore, Oppi Yin is typically a rogue, and after the two people discussed it again, Oppi Yin finally responded to the battle, but on the day of the fight, the person who did not see Oppi Yin turned out to be running.
Speaking of this, we found that Huo Yuanjia had not fought with Yang Lishi, not that he did not dare, but that the enemy was too self-aware to give him this opportunity at all.
As soon as Huo Yuanjia saw that Opie Yin had run, he and his apprentice fought with the audience in the ring, and when the point arrived, he did not need Huo Yuanjia to shoot, and his apprentice Liu Zhensheng himself won easily.
After this, Huo Yuanjia's fame shocked the whole country, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen praised Huo Yuanjia as "protecting the country with arms" after he knew it.
In June of the following year, that is, in June 1910, with the support of Nong Jinsun and some friends, Huo Yuanjia founded the "Chinese Jingwu Gymnastics Association", which was later known as the Jingwu Sports Association, referred to as the Jingwu Association.
At that time, there was a kind of broom-cherishing atmosphere in martial arts training, which was also one of the fundamental reasons why many things could not be passed down.
But Huo Yuanjia is different, his principle is that as long as you come to the Jingwu Sports Club, if you still have that talent, how much you can learn, he will definitely not hide it.
This behavior made many people sign up, and the entire martial arts community also admired Huo Yuanjia.
4. The Death of a Hero
As the Jingwu Sports Association got better and better, the Japanese began to be jealous.
We know that Japan advocates the so-called spirit of Bushido, and they also have judo clubs in Shanghai, so they bring people to the door, which can also be said to be kicking the gym.
Although Huo Yuanjia scared away two foreigners, as the saying goes, there are no tears in the coffin, and the Japanese do not know the pain if they are not beaten.
At first, the Japanese Judo Association sent out a few of their so-called masters, but unfortunately even Liu Zhensheng could not beat it, let alone Huo Yuanjia.
The Japanese leader who led the team was very angry and wanted to fight with Huo Yuanjia, and Huo Yuanjia did not put up a shelf to agree to him.
The two of them had just exchanged two moves with the Japanese captain and knew that they could not fight, and both said that the Japanese had always been sinister and cunning.
This person can't beat it and even wants to play yin. But Huo Yuanjia's eyesight was also very high, not only breaking his ruse but also breaking his bones with his bare hands.
The Japanese captain could only concede defeat, and the names of Huo Yuanjia and the Jingwu Sports Association were getting bigger and bigger, and the people of the whole country set off a wave of martial arts training.
But it wasn't long before Huo Yuanjia died, and on September 14, 1942, three months after the founding of the Jingwu Sports Association, he defeated the Japanese.
In the TV series, the records say that Huo Yuanjia was poisoned and died, and in fact, there are records in the jingwuhui materials, and it is also said that Huo Yuanjia was poisoned by chronic poison, and the murderer was Japanese.
However, some people disagree with this statement, his name is Chen Gongzhe, and he is one of the actual operators of the Jingwu Association.
Chen Gongzhe recalled that Huo Yuanjia did get sicker after taking Japanese human medicine, but he did not say that he died after taking this medicine.
Chen Gongzhe believes that the cause of Huo Yuanjia's death is due to practicing, as mentioned earlier, Huo Yuanjia always coughs and has problems with his lungs, but he has become a generation of masters in practicing Qigong.
No one could say whether the path he took was to strengthen his body or injure his lungs, so Chen Gongzhe said that Huo Yuanjia's death was because his method of practicing Qigong was wrong, and he killed himself.
In the end, which statement is correct, in fact, no one knows, we can only know one point, that is, Huo Yuanjia is indeed sick, and it does not look very light, otherwise there is no need to take Japanese medicine, let alone serious illness and death.
It was not until 1989, after 79 years, that the truth of the matter was known, because Huo Yuanjia could be said to be a great hero of China, and it was decided to rebuild a cemetery for him to leave a memorial for future generations.
When Huo Yuanjia's coffin was opened, everyone found that his bones were blackened, which was obviously a symptom of poisoning.
After the professional doctor tested, he also determined the theory of poisoning and death, and the truth about the death of a generation of masters has since been revealed.
In the film and television drama, his apprentice Chen Zhen avenged him after Huo Yuanjia's death, but in fact, there is no such a person as Chen Zhen, he is a virtual character based on Huo Yuanjia's apprentice Liu Zhensheng.
After Huo Yuanjia's death, his second son Huo Dongge and his uncle went to Shanghai to continue to support the Jingwu Sports Association, inheriting and carrying forward Huo Yuanjia's unfinished business.
Huo Yuanjia's contribution to China is no less than that of those intellectual enlighteners during the New Culture Movement.
Friends who have watched "The Age of Awakening" should remember that after Mr. Chen Duxiu put forward the six-point requirement for youth, the young Mao Zedong added another one, that is, to be physically strong, and Huo Yuanjia was leading the youth with all the Chinese to complete the goal of physical fitness.
No matter whether Mr. Huo Yuanjia has ever fought with foreigners in the ring, and no matter how he died, he is a hero of China and will always live in people's hearts.