Drunk, he picked up the lamp to look at the sword, and dreamed of blowing back to the horn and camp. Eight hundred miles under the command of the fire, fifty strings overturned the external sound, the battlefield autumn point soldiers.
Lu of the horse was fast, and the bow was like a thunderbolt. But the king of the world, won the name of the posthumous. Poor white happens!
On October 21, 2012, the heads of martial arts sects and martial arts enthusiasts from all over China gathered at the Lianhuashan Funeral Home in Chongqing's Nan'an District to bid farewell to The Chinese martial arts master And "Yangtze River Hero" Lü Zijian, who is said to be 119 years old.
Lü Zijian's granddaughter Lü Shunhua sadly told reporters:
"The other day the old man has been bedridden, the children and grandchildren of the family take turns to take care of the old man all night, yesterday morning at 6:58, the old man stopped breathing, as if asleep. Walked peacefully and without pain. ”
News of Lü Zijian's death spread online, and people kept coming to mourn, including the Chinese Armed Forces Association, the Chongqing Armed Forces Association, and well-known figures in the circle.
First, the road to learning art from teachers
Lü Zijian was born in 1893 in Yichang, Hubei Province, to a martial arts family.
When he was 5 years old, he fell ill and was rescued by the enlightened teacher Qin Caojie, who taught the basic skills of martial arts and the basics of medicine.
When he was 15 years old, his mentor Qin Caojie died of illness, and Lü Zijian sent an iron leg from Wudang to pass on Li Guocao for two years, and after coming down from the mountain, he returned home and proudly practiced the martial arts he had learned to his parents.
After his father Lu Zhengcai saw it, he felt that his son's kung fu was still underheated, and remembered Qin Caojie's will.
Therefore, he asked Lü Zijian to find Empress Dowager Cixi's bodyguards, and Li Changye, a high-ranking man who lived in seclusion in the Jiulao Cave of Mount Emei, continued to study.
Lü Zijian studied with his master Li Changye for eight years at Mount Emei, and finally achieved success.
Second, the yin and yang mistakes became famous in the first world war
Lü Zijian, who had achieved success in his studies, became a dart master in his own Zhengcai Dart Bureau.
One day, Lü Zijian followed the cargo ship to Nanjing, and just after disembarking from the ship, several Americans came to him.
The translator told Lü Zijian that several Americans were from the International Company, doing trade in Nanjing, and wanted to find a dart bureau with a good reputation, and after inquiring for a long time, they knew that the Zhengcai dart bureau had a good reputation and came specifically to admire it.
The people of Wanguo Company and Lu Zijian agreed to sign a contract at the company tomorrow.
The next morning, Lu Zijian dressed up and went out, ready to go to the International Company to sign a contract.
Walking to an intersection, I saw many people looking around the notice.
Looking closer, it turned out to be the announcement of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the National Government to hold a youth martial arts competition throughout the country.
This is also the first National Youth Martial Arts Tournament, which has written the conditions and dates of registration.
Most of them finished reading it and left, and only a few people were counting their conditions on the sidelines.
Lu Zijian stayed for a long time before the announcement, thinking about and analyzing his own conditions, and wrote down the time and place of registration.
When Lü Zijian rushed to the door of the Wanguo Company, he was stopped by the interpreter: I'm sorry, sir, you are already late. Our boss said he didn't work with people who didn't keep time; he expressed regret.
Lu Zijian, who lost his job opportunity, came to report on the martial arts competition according to the time on the announcement.
Participate in the first round of preliminary rounds, the location is in the Yuhuatai.
The yuhuatai with a war flavor adds a bit of pride and domineering to the martial arts competition.
This time, because it was named the first martial arts ring in the country, it was carefully prepared.
The authorities and government have also allocated money to eat and live free of charge if they meet the registration requirements.
The rain and flowers are crowded with people, and the sun shines brightly, making the event more brilliant and grand.
The Nationalist government sent referees, military and political commissars, dignitaries and dignitaries, and some foreigners also took the opportunity to watch the liveliness.
The event is divided into four events, with several sub-venues in each of the urban areas, the total venue is set up in Yuhuatai, after the preliminary and semi-finals, and finally to the final.
After 12 rounds of fierce competition, Lu Zijian entered the final.
On the day of the final, the arena was heavily guarded, and the stands were surrounded by military police like iron barrels, and it was rumored that the supreme leader would come to meet the first name Wu Zhuangyuan.
And this news increased the ticket price to three oceans.
In the finals, one, two or three places are selected within one day.
In the first round, The opponent Lü Zijian encountered used Shaolin Kung Fu.
Shaolin Kung Fu is worthy of the name, Lü Zijian uses strategy, strikes backwards, and combines virtual and real, making opponents give in step by step, and finally have to retire.
In the second round, opponents from Zhejiang used the Wudang school's neijia boxing method.
Lü Zijian used the North Leg Kung Fu taught by his master Li Guocao to fight, and the North Leg passed down to Li Guocao, who is a famous hardcore leg.
The two fought inseparably, and the officials on the stage praised each other.
Half an hour later, the Zhejiang boxers were physically weak and exposed one after another, and Lü Zijian took the opportunity to knock the players out of the ring.
The player in the third round of the competition is a Shandong Hanzi, Shandong Hanzi's fists and feet are abnormally fast, and Lü Zijian punches like a dragonfly dotting the water, skillfully responding.
The two fought for an hour, and Lü Zijian used light techniques to exhaust the opponent's strength.
When the opponent's physical strength is exhausted, he is approaching and knocking the opponent out of the ring with a single blow.
In the end, Lü Zijian won, was received by government officials, was carried up to a high stage to greet the audience, and received a prize of 3,000 pieces of the current ocean.
In the afternoon, a celebration meeting and award ceremony were held in the government auditorium, and many important officials of various departments attended the ceremony.
Finally, in the name of the National Government, it was announced that he would be hired as a martial arts instructor of the National Government.
At the age of 27, Lü Zijian became famous in one battle, wearing a yellow tweed military uniform on his body, which was particularly spirited.
Coupled with his own temperament, he looks more tall and handsome.
The so-called cave house flower candle night, when the gold list is titled.
The news that Lü Zijian was canonized by the government reached the ear of his girlfriend Sun Cuicui in Shanghai, who was afraid that he would change his mind when he had a status, so she simply came to Nanjing to find Lü Zijian during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Lu Zijian was very happy to see his girlfriend, sent a letter to his parents, and held a wedding in Nanjing.
Third, the bodyguards who defeated the US military were dismissed from their posts and investigated
In 1945, during negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, American General Marshall came to China to negotiate between the two parties for the benefit of the U.S. government.
For his own safety, Marshall brought an American boxer as his bodyguard.
This dart master is called Tom, who is in his thirties and is a burly man.
He is said to have won the American Boxing Championship.
Since Marshall was treated with courtesy everywhere he went, Tom was useless as a hero.
So he set up a private ring with itchy hands and feet, and first played three rings in Nanjing, and won a big victory, which made him even more blind.
After that, Tom came to Chongqing with Marshall.
A ring was set up in Chongqing's Loquat Park, and a prize of 3,000 yuan was set up, threatening to defeat all the Chinese.
As soon as this remark came out, the people were indignant, and many martial arts enthusiasts took the stage to fight, but they were all knocked out of the ring by Tom.
Among them were the coach of the Central Guard Regiment and a platoon leader of Feng Yuxiang's special agent company.
On this day, an old man over half a hundred years old stepped into the ring, first gave a fist salute to the audience, and then went to the backstage main seat to sign the contract.
It wasn't until the horn sounded three times that Tom got up arrogantly.
With a squeeze of his fist, the muscles on his body twisted into knots.
On the weight of Tom at least three hundred pounds, the weight difference between the two is too big.
The audience also pinched a handful of sweat for this thin old man.
Some people whispered: Isn't it time to take another life?
At this time, someone told him that the person who came was no one else, but Lu Zijian, one of the three great heroes in China today!
The audience erupted into a warm and lasting round of applause!
Stimulated by this applause, Tom clenched his fists and made a sharp attack.
Lu Zijian's side used light skills to circle the ring three times, and Tom riveted a punch with all his strength, and his fists flew into the air.
Tom changed the angle, and it was a flying leg kick, the ground on the stage of the kick was shaking, the dust was flying, and the audience under the stage was stunned, but even the corner of Lu Zijian's clothes could not be touched.
After three rounds, Lü Zijian gradually figured out Tom's routine, began to attack, and when he found the opportunity, he slapped back, and the palms hit Tom's key points.
Tom was slapped, and at first he didn't feel anything.
But as time went on, Tom gradually felt weak and gasped for breath.
The pimples on his body are also gradually disappearing, like a deflated leather ball.
The audience found that Tom's fist was no longer fierce, and his feet began to be unstable, frequently showing flaws, Lu Zijian took the opportunity to slap three times in a row, and Tom finally fell on the ground.
The referee blew the whistle and waved the flag in his right hand to announce the end of the event.
Lu Zijian took the prize and disappeared into the crowd.
Tom was carried back to the residence, foaming and weak.
Marshall called a doctor to treat Tom, but he didn't get better.
Marshall sent in a military plane overnight to send Tom to the United States for medical treatment.
Before the plane landed, Tom on the plane slowly stopped breathing.
Upon learning that Lü Zijian had killed his bodyguard Tom, Marshall felt that his face was disgraced, because Tom's behavior was tacitly approved by Marshall.
Although Marshall also thought that Tom's behavior was a bit excessive, but after thinking about it, he finally dialed Chiang Kai-shek's phone and euphemistically explained that his bodyguard was injured and killed by Lü Zijian.
Chiang Kai-shek's habitual yang and yin violated the law, and immediately promised to severely punish and return the dignity of your country.
Within three days, Chiang Kai-shek issued a document in the name of the Central Military Commission revoking Major General Lü Zijian's rank as a martial arts instructor and his treatment.
In fact, Lao Jiang only wanted to give Marshall a step, secretly asked Lü Zijian not to appear in the government department, let him travel abroad for a period of time, and then there will be other arrangements.
Lü Zijian returned home, packed his bags, and went out to relax.
After a year of travel, Lu Zijianyun returned to Chongqing to open a clinic and concentrated on being a doctor to treat patients and save people.
But the good times are not long, the trees want to be quiet and the wind is not stopping. A quiet and happy life was always short-lived, and in 1950, Lü Zijian was arrested by the Southwest Military and Political Committee on charges of counterrevolution.
Fourth, the bitterness will come, and the pardon will return
In the late 1950s, Mao Zedong made a proposal to the National People's Congress to pardon a group of war criminals, including the last emperor Puyi.
At the end of the 1970s, the Central Committee again proposed that all former Kuomintang military and political personnel be pardoned, with the first batch of ranks at the division level and the second group at the county and regiment level, so as to weaken the contradictions between the antagonists of the workers and peasants in the country and ease the political antagonism between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
After twenty or thirty years of labor reform, with the conditions for becoming a new person, in line with Mao Zedong's idea of curing the disease and saving people, Lü Zijian is in this rank.
Hearing the amnesty list read out in the name of the people's court, Lu Zijian's heart could not be calmed for a long time.
At that time, he was the person who avoided death under the sword, and he was the target of suppression circled by the Southwest Military and Political Committee, and the residents around the Chaotianmen Wharf collectively petitioned for intercession, proving that Lü Zijian had been banned by the Nationalist government.
However, there were not many evil deeds, the three years before liberation itself had abdicated, and it had a good reputation in Chongqing, and it was found that it was consistent with the description of the intercessor, so it escaped death and changed the sentence to life imprisonment.
After thirty years of imprisonment, Lu Zijian has gained a new life.
Lü Zijian embarked on the road back to his hometown, riding a carriage, a car, and a train, and was treated and respected everywhere along the way.
Curious young people gathered around him to ask long and short questions, always wanting to get some rare stories from him.
The surrounding passengers attentively poured water for him and delivered food.
Lu Zijian finally stepped into his already unfamiliar home door again, and he was so reluctant when he stepped out of the house.
When I came back, my footsteps spanned a distant history, the original house was gone, and my wife had become an old woman.
The son also married a daughter-in-law, gave birth to a pair of children, and both went to school.
Seeing this grandfather they had never met before, they felt fresh and curious.
The whole family saw each other, except for the grandchildren who were surprised and happy, everyone else was very calm and calm.
Looking through the autumn water-like expectations, countless hanging memories.
Lu Zijian put down his luggage, burned incense in front of the portrait of his parents, drank a sip of tea brewed from the water of the Yangtze River, sat on a bamboo chair used by ordinary people, and asked his wife and children about the thirty-year journey of separation.
The wife calmly recounted the experience of thirty years, just like turning a page of the calendar, and all the historical dust was swept away.
Only the grandchild was curious to eat raisins, and asked Grandpa Xinjiang was cold enough to lose his ears, Grandpa, why are your ears still there?
Such a childish question, amused Lu Zijian laughed.
What is heard and seen is always a distance.
Such a very large figure fell from the sky, arousing the curiosity of the neighbors.
In his memory, Lü Zijian had disappeared for thirty years.
The older generation flocked to visit.
After this peak period, people's lives are on the right track again.
Lu Zijian returned to his old business and rented a façade in the central area to open a clinic.
Some people who came to him kept coming for medical treatment and brought their children to teach him martial arts.
In less than two years, people as far away as Guangdong also sent their children home to learn martial arts.
The rich man had money and was afraid of robbery, and the idea of teaching his son to learn literature and martial arts inspired the martial arts industry, asking Lü Zijian to teach martial arts, and life returned to the original path.
There were more apprentices, and the single teaching was too busy to come, so Lu Zijian compiled textbooks and trained them in classes of older and smaller categories.
When there were more students coming, Lü Zijian had the idea of running a martial arts school, and once this idea was brewed and matured, he would report to the government departments.
With permission, a martial arts gym was opened, which was divided into large, medium, and small classes, adult classes, and amateur classes.
For a time, with the country's emphasis on martial arts, the people's favor for martial arts and the need for citizens to strengthen their bodies, Lü Zijian's disciples poured in from all over the country.
The Wudang Sect, who was exiled abroad and overseas, knew that the sect's master had come out of the mountains, and they wrote and called one after another to request the establishment of an association, inviting Lü Zijian to study and pass on the art abroad, and the fame of the Lü Zijian Martial Arts Hall was increasing day by day.
Lü Zijian also seemed to have rejuvenated his second youth, greedy all day long, sleeping and forgetting to eat, and was very busy.
Some people with difficult and complicated diseases came from all over the world to visit and ask for medical treatment, and Lu Zijian once again became a busy person.
Lü Zijian's martial arts associations spread across the five continents, and Lü Zijian's name also spread throughout the five continents.
Fifth, age has been questioned
In recent years, with the death of Lü Zijian and the huge reputation of his lifetime, voices questioning him have begun to rise.
For example, Li Yang, a famous sanda player in the modern world, openly questioned that Lü Zijian's deeds were a complete hoax.
He preached that he had killed 4 boxers in his lifetime by signing a life and death warrant, which was completely impossible to escape legal punishment in modern society.
Relevant media have also dug deep into the various doubts of Lü Zijian's self-reported deeds.
For example, according to the Yichang Martial Arts Chronicle, "Lü Zijian was only in his seventies in 1986, so his actual date of birth should be after 1907, ten years younger than his self-described 1893." ”
In addition, he claimed to be close friends with Huo Yuanjia and worked together to resist the Japanese in Shanghai.
But in fact, when Lü Zijian learned to go out of the mountain, Huo Yuanjia had already passed away.
In addition, according to the literature on Taiwan's "Complete List of Generals Granted by the Nanjing Government of the Republic of China", there is no such person as Lü Zijian.
Therefore, whether Lu Zijian, the hero of the Yangtze River, is a self-created "hero", no one can give an accurate answer.
bibliography:
"The Hero of the Yangtze River" by Gong Jianshe