In August 1964, Bruce Lee received a challenge from Huang Zemin. Huang Zemin wrote in the challenge book: If you lose to me, you are not allowed to continue to recruit foreigners, and you will also close the martial arts hall.
At this time, Bruce Lee, although he had only lived in the United States for 5 years, not only conquered the Americans with his superb martial arts, but also made many Americans come to learn Chinese martial arts with him, making Chinese martial arts popular in the United States. Therefore, in just a few years, Bruce Lee has achieved quite brilliant results in the United States, and he has become synonymous with Chinese kung fu.
As the old saying goes, people are afraid of being famous pigs and afraid of being strong. But this statement does not exist here in Bruce Lee.
As early as the age of 7, Bruce Lee learned tai chi with his father.
When Bruce Lee came into contact with martial arts, he was like a fish. As he grew older, his fanaticism for martial arts increased unabated, and he successively learned Hong Quan, Shaolin Quan, Mantis Fist, Poke Foot, White Crane Fist and other fists.
Practice makes the truth. Bruce Lee was learning martial arts while looking for people to fight everywhere. In the process of fighting, he not only gained experience in martial arts, but also corrected many deficiencies.
But parents, seeing their sons fighting every day, must be very unhappy. In addition, he did not have a good education, so in order not to let him go astray, he was sent to the United States to study.
Bruce Lee, who loved martial arts, did not give up his pursuit of martial arts because he was in a foreign country. He first set up a Chinese kung fu team in the school, and he not only often led everyone to train, but also led this team to do a lot of performances. In particular, his solo performance show has won a full house of color, and he has become famous for it.
In order to promote martial arts, Bruce Lee also opened the Zhen fan Guoshu Hall near the school, which attracted many foreign students to learn martial arts with him.
But what really made Bruce Lee famous was in 1962. He defeated black market boxing champion Sandernim in a boxing match, which caused a big stir at the time. As a result, he subverted the image of Chinese as the "sick man of East Asia" in the minds of Americans. Since then, when Americans mention Chinese kung fu, they will surely praise Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee also gained a large wave of American fans, and the Zhen fan GuoshuGuan also prospered for a while because of his living signboard.
So, who is Huang Zemin? Why did he compete with Bruce Lee?
A native of Hong Kong, Wong is the same age as Bruce Lee, both born in 1940 and both are passionate about martial arts.
When Huang Zemin was young, when the Liangguang Guoshu Gymnasium was established in Guangdong, a number of outstanding martial arts masters such as Gu Ruzhang and Wan Lisheng gathered here and spread the northern martial arts to the south. Unfortunately, due to changes in the situation, the local government dissolved the Liangguang GuoshuGuan on the grounds of "heavy expenditure", and all the instructors were dismissed.
In order to promote Shaolin Boxing and other martial arts, Gu Ruzhang stayed in Guangzhou and founded the Guangzhou Guoshu Society, where he trained many martial arts experts. Later, the "September 18 Incident" broke out, and in order to resist Japan, Gu Ruzhang handed over the Guangzhou Guoshu Society to Yan Shangwu and Ma Jinfeng and other proud disciples to preside.
In 1949, 8-year-old Huang Zemin, by chance, studied excellent martial arts such as Shaolin Fist, Shape Yi Fist and Iron Sand Palm under the guidance of Yan Shangwu and Ma Jinfeng.
However, as the civil war is coming to an end, the situation is very turbulent, not only some military and political leaders have gone to Hong Kong to develop under the uncertainty of the situation, but even the businessmen and gangsters have also heard the wind. Some martial arts masters also went to Hong Kong with the current at that time. It was then that Yan Shangwu and Ma Jinfeng arrived in Hong Kong and continued to teach martial arts in Hong Kong.
Huang Zemin was originally from Hong Kong, and he naturally followed the two masters to Hong Kong and continued to learn martial arts with them. Because Huang Zemin was very talented in martial arts, he was deeply loved by the two masters. Therefore, when he was in Hong Kong, he was also recommended to worship Ye Yuting, a descendant of the Lost Luohan Gate, as a teacher.
In 1964, after Huang Zemin became an artist, he bid farewell to his mentor and came to the United States.
Because he was Gu Ruzhang's apprentice and taught everyone, his arrival was welcomed by the Chinese martial arts community. Some Chinese martial artists were defeated by him when they practiced martial arts with him. Everyone praised his martial arts continuously, calling him "the king of actual combat fighting". In the Chinese martial arts world, he has enjoyed the treatment of the stars and the moon.
Despite this, Huang Zemin is only famous in the Chinese martial arts community, and when he looks at the United States, he is still lonely and nameless. Bruce Lee, on the other hand, is highly regarded by Americans and has unlimited scenery.
Curiously, the Chinese martial arts community was not proud of Bruce Lee, but was dissatisfied with some of his words and practices. For example, Bruce Lee has repeatedly expressed his views on traditional martial arts in public, and even wrote in his new book "Basic Chinese Boxing": "The skills constructed by advanced kung fu are based on concise movements." Only immature systems are filled with redundant and useless actions. ”
Because Bruce Lee incorporated the martial arts system he practiced into the advanced kung fu, many people thought he was alluding to the moves of those traditional martial arts, so the Chinese martial arts community considered him arrogant.
At the same time, Bruce Lee also criticized the Chinese martial arts community in the United States.
He believes that the Chinese martial arts hall does not accept foreigners as apprentices, which in itself is influenced by the conservative sect's inheritance of ideas. He also criticized the various evil tendencies of the Chinese martial arts. For example, in order to compete for supremacy, various sects not only fight openly and secretly, but also distort facts, create rumors and insults, and slander each other. The most serious thing is that the various sects also have halls like the underworld, and martial artists and practitioners also act as thugs. These actions made Bruce Lee feel very inappropriate.
Bruce Lee's views on martial arts and his views on the Chinese martial arts community, although insightful, are often irritating to the truth. Coupled with the fact that Bruce Lee was still very young, the Chinese martial arts community considered him to be young and arrogant. In addition, he actually passed on the martial arts to foreigners, which is also a very unpatriotic performance in everyone's view. Therefore, the Chinese martial artists were quite contemptuous and dissatisfied with him. It's just that we all know that he is strong in martial arts, few people can fight in fist and foot kung fu, and everyone cherishes his reputation, so they are not willing to challenge him easily.
In August 1964, the Shaw Company in Hong Kong held an actors' meeting for a new film for a new film, the New Sound Theatre. At the meeting, Shaw not only recommended the heroine of the new film, Zhang Zhongwen, to the audience, but also invited Bruce Lee to the scene to perform martial arts.
On that day, Bruce Lee was very excited when he was doing martial arts performances, and he not only performed several martial arts techniques, but also showed the entire routine of Wing Chun. The wonderful performance made Bruce Lee get countless applause. In order to thank the enthusiasm of the audience, he temporarily invited a volunteer from the audience and placed a fist target in front of the volunteer, ready to repel it with an inch fist.
Originally, Bruce Lee had performed this kind of performance many times, and it can be said that he was very experienced. But that day, he actually flipped over in the middle of the performance. When he punched quickly, the opponent did not retreat because of the power of his punch. This result caused the audience to laugh. Bruce Lee, amid laughter, punched again and knocked out the volunteers.
The volunteers stood up and said bruce Lee was unfair because he wasn't ready. After all, he thought Bruce Lee would only hit him once. The volunteers' words once again drew laughter from the audience, and some even threw cigarette butts at Bruce Lee on the stage with ill will.
This made the young Bruce Lee quite angry, saying that if anyone could do better, he would come to the stage and demonstrate. He also claimed that the martial artists in the United States could compare with him before he had not yet appeared, and if anyone felt that he was wrong, he could come to challenge him.
The speaker has no intention, the listener intends. At that time, the audience sat two martial artists from the Chinatown Martial Arts Hall, David Chen and Bald Ginger. After the performance, they went to the Zhi Jiu Boxing Club, where Chinese martial artists gathered, and repeated what Bruce Lee had said during the performance that night. Sure enough, Bruce Lee's words caused extreme discomfort among the martial artists. They repeatedly decided that Bruce Lee was so arrogant that he dared to provoke Chinese martial artists all over the United States. In addition, Bruce Lee had just opened a branch of the Zhen Fan Guoshu Museum in the San Francisco area at that time, which also greatly damaged the interests of the nearby Chinese martial arts halls, so everyone agreed that he must accept his challenge and give him some color.
After consultation among the martial artists, they finally selected Huang Zemin, the "King of Actual Combat Fighting".
Everyone thinks that Huang Zemin is comparable to Bruce Lee in terms of age and martial arts. If the war is won, Huang Zemin will inevitably be famous; even if he loses, because Huang Zemin is originally lonely and unknown in the United States, he will not suffer any losses.
At the instigation of the Chinese martial artists, and Huang Zemin's confidence in his martial arts, he accepted everyone's suggestions and launched an open challenge to Bruce Lee on behalf of the Chinese martial arts community.
Bruce Lee has never been afraid of challenges, before Huang Zemin, he has been experienced in hundreds of battles, because of his agile and aggressive nature, those masters of the competition often can not last 1 minute, they lost at his fist. Therefore, he was very confident in his martial arts achievements, so after receiving Huang Zemin's challenge letter, he readily agreed.
On the day of the competition, Huang Zemin, accompanied by Chen David and other martial artists, came to Bruce Lee's martial arts hall.
Before the competition, Bruce Lee and Huang Zemin also had a brief conversation. Huang Zemin particularly stressed that this is not a contest of martial arts, but a practice of martial arts, which is conducted in a friendly manner. Bruce Lee, however, objected to this, firmly believing that a contest was a contest to win or lose.
Subsequently, the referee began to talk about the rules of the game, and repeatedly stressed that if Bruce Lee lost, he would not be allowed to take foreigners as apprentices, and he would also close the martial arts hall. But before he could finish speaking, Bruce Lee interrupted him, saying that since it was a competition, there was no need to set so many rules.
Subsequently, Bruce Lee couldn't wait to go to the center of the room and give Huang Zemin a fist salute.
Just as Huang Zemin was returning the salute with his fists in both hands, Bruce Lee's right hand had already hit Huang Zemin's left eye with a rapid force. Huang Zemin was taken aback, but he reacted quickly, and his body flashed to avoid Bruce Lee's attack.
Subsequently, Bruce Lee attacked with a series of Japanese characters in Wing Chun. And in the process of punching, he repeatedly kicked his legs and tried to attack Huang Zemin's calves. Soon, Bruce Lee had the upper hand, but Huang Zemin, who was not willing to concede defeat, used the light skills he had learned to move quickly to avoid Bruce Lee's attack. So a contest became a chase, even if Bruce Lee caught up, his fist only fell on Huang Zemin's back, which could not play an effective role.
Huang Zemin's avoidance dodge effectively avoided Bruce Lee's extensive boxing and low kicks. At the same time, in the process of avoiding, he would also wait for the opportunity to punch, and several times hit Bruce Lee in the chest. So you chase me and hide, and after more than a dozen rounds, Bruce Lee, who is bent on winning, attacks more and more fiercely.
Huang Zemin couldn't beat it and simply ran. Bruce Lee had to spend a lot of effort to catch up with him, and in the process of catching up, he punched him. As a result, the fist once again fell like raindrops on Huang Hanmin's back.
In the end, Bruce Lee finally caught up with Huang Zemin, but at this time he was also exhausted, he did his best to suppress Huang Zemin under him, and then punched Huang Zemin, and asked him in a loud voice, are you convinced? Say, are you convinced?
Huang Zemin said loudly, enough, enough.
The martial artists watching the battle saw that Huang Zemin was going to suffer losses, and quickly stepped forward to pull the two apart. Although Bruce Lee won over Huang Zemin, he was still angry because he failed to defeat Huang Zemin in a minute. Therefore, he made a request to Huang Zemin and his party not to mention this contest to anyone. Subsequently, Huang Zemin and his party resigned and left.
Although Bruce Lee won, Bruce Lee could not be happier. Because this contest should have ended in one minute. As a result, it took him three minutes to catch Huang Zemin, who was constantly dodging. He believes that there is a problem with his training methods, so while increasing the amount of training, he thinks hard about how to not give the other party a chance to escape. In the end, after constant experimentation, he created the art of boxing.
Originally, Bruce Lee and Huang Zemin and others made an appointment not to talk about it when they went out. But as soon as Huang Zemin and the others went out, they talked around. Why do you have to talk around when you lose? The reason is that he is the only one who has competed with Bruce Lee and survived 3 minutes.
Huang Zemin also became famous in this world war, and since then he has been engaged in martial arts, and peach and plum are all over the world.
Of course, Huang Zemin still defended. He said that the reason why he had been dodging during the competition with Bruce Lee was because Bruce Lee's moves were too fierce, and each move attacked the key point, which completely violated the original intention of practicing martial arts.
Still, Mr. Wong said bruce Lee was really good and that he was a great guy. He was convinced of this.