In film and television dramas, Hong Xiguan often appears with the aura of the protagonist. It's just that in the play, does Hong Xiguan, who is strong in martial arts and heroic and righteous, really exist in history? It can be seen from ancient books that Hong Xiguan, whose ancestral home was Huaxian County, Guangdong, ranked first among the "Ten Tigers of Shaolin" and founded Hong Quan, one of the Southern Fists. When he was young, Hong Xiguan showed great interest in fist and foot kung fu, so he studied with relatives who had kung fu, and later entered Cai Jiuyi's door.
Many friends know that Cai Jiuyi is a very powerful boxer, who once devoted himself to Shaolin in Songshan, Henan Province, and practiced Shaolin Kung Fu for eight years. Cai Jiuyi returned to Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, after learning to be a young man, and Cai Jiuyi, who was proficient in Shaolin boxing, soon rose to fame in Zhaoqing, taking in Hong Xiguan, Fang Shiyu and others. The calm Hong Xiguan was deeply valued by Cai Jiuyi, and Hong Xiguan, who had learned the essence of Shaolin martial arts, was taken to Quanzhou by his master and worshipped under the Southern Shaolin Gate.
Year after year, Hong Xiguan was already a master of Shaolin in the North and South. In the 12th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Hong Xiguan was far away from his hometown and went to the Great Buddha Temple and Qingyun Temple, and at that time Wu Sangui was also recruiting troops in Guangdong City. Hong Xiguan took advantage of the chaos and recruited disciples in an attempt to make a difference, but the noise was too great, and Hong Xiguan had to embark on the road of escape again. For many years after that, Hong Xiguan traveled in all directions, and founded the "Hong Fist" with martial friends.
In his later years, Hong Xiguan lived in Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, and due to the reason of practicing martial arts for many years, Hong Xiguan was in very good health and lived until the age of 93. It was only because Hong Xiguan's identity was not suitable for publicity at that time, so Hong Xiguan's cemetery was also little known. Hundreds of years later, an 89-year-old man followed family rules to guard two ancient tombs. So who is the old man guarding the tomb for? That's right, it's Hong Xiguan. After this news came out, countless Qing historians and experts flocked to seriously examine the truth and falsity of the matter.
The old man who guarded the tomb introduced with a family tree, one of the two tombs was Hong Xiguan's, and the other was their ancestor Zhang Taigong. According to genealogical records, Zhang Taigong once studied martial arts with Hong Xiguan, received great favor from him, and later became a brother and took the initiative to take care of Hong Xiguan's later life. Before his death, Hong Xiguan also passed on to Zhang Taigong a skill that had not been taught to others. After Hong Xiguan's death, Zhang Taigong chose a feng shui treasure behind the village to bury him. Later, when Zhang Taigong died, his descendants buried him next to Hong Xiguan.
After consulting the "Hong Clan Genealogy" and the local county chronicle, experts finally determined that the tomb of Hong Xiguan was located in The Flying Camel Ridge of Zhongshan Mountain. The tomb guarded by the 89-year-old man is indeed an ancient tomb of the Qing Dynasty after investigation, and then there is an ancient coffin that has decayed in the tomb. At present, most of the archaeological community recognizes this tomb as the tomb of Hong Xiguan, and many people have relied on nostalgia after learning the news.