Feng Bingyan ‖ "handle-style nest" on the banks of the Daqing River

At 6 miles southwest of the current Xinzhen Town in Wen'an County, there is a village called Beishexing. This village is bordered by the Daqing River in the west, Lizhuang in the early Ming Dynasty, originally belonged to Baoding County (now Xinzhen), belonged to Wenxin County during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and was assigned to Wen'an County in early 1949. The village is flat, the history of developed traffic, surrounded by rivers, the Daqing River from the southwest to the northeast of the village, the Zhao Wang River was not diverted when it was in the southwest of the village, is an important land and water dock, merchants gathered, cars and boats running, people have a broad vision, a wide range of knowledge. In the turbulent world, in order to strengthen the body and defend the country, the local sons and daughters have shown more heroic feelings, and a large number of martial arts figures have emerged.

The first thing to mention here is Wujin Shi Wang Guoan. Wang Guoan was born in the sixth year of Qing Tongzhi (1867), two brothers, and his brother Wang Guoping. The two brothers learned martial arts from an early age, and Wang Guo'an Bai learned the art under Master Dong in XiongXian County, practiced yin and yang eight plates, and later learned Shaolin fist, bullet legs, five steps and thirteen guns, etc., and practiced a strong skill, it can be said that knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, cymbals, hooks, forks are all exquisite. He and Xie Erhei of Hongcheng in Xiongxian County are brothers. Xie Erhei is also called Xie Hu, which is the Xie Hu in the commentary". He is strong in martial arts, can sneak around the ridge, is a famous snitch, people give the nickname "Scud".

During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the kingdom was a martial artist in the Examination. This person is tall and powerful, and he is nicknamed "Hercules", and his deeds are recorded in the "Historical Materials of Xinzhen County" written by Feng Chengrui during the Republic of China. Retiring from his post and idle at home, people often went to the Guanyin Temple in front of the village to lift hundreds of pounds of stone foxes, and Nengrao Temple for a week.

Hercules was a good friend of Zhang Mou, a martial artist from Shi Gezhuang (now part of Wen'an) in Xiong County, and walked to his house every day to play, returning late at night, going back and forth for more than ten miles, all year round, rain or shine. On this day, Zhang Mou set up a banquet at home to entertain guests, and Wang Jinshi was the oldest and sat in the chief. When the wine was drunk to a certain extent, Zhang Mou introduced the king's divine power to everyone, and everyone asked him to show his skills, but Wang pushed back, but the right hand had a long beard and said: "The old man is eighty years old, the hands are late and the legs are hard, the sword and gun are not good, I will lift the stone!" ”

Everyone applauded and welcomed. Only to see Wang Jinshi shout: "Now ugly!" "There are three large stone locks in front of the court, the large one weighs about 400 pounds, and the small one weighs more than 100 pounds. Wang Jinshi stepped down from his sleeve and walked to the big stone lock, grabbed the stone with both hands, and said, "Rise! So I hugged him flat. Then he looked left and right, stayed for a long time, only to see that he was not breathing, and finally looked at a small stone lock and said to Zhang Juren: "Annoyed old brother lifted this small stone lock up and put it on the stone lock in my hand." His face was ugly, but he was afraid of being laughed at by other guests, so he did his best to lift the small stone lock and put it on it. At this time, I saw that the stone lock was already higher than the top of the king's head. The king said, "There is another small one on the left, so I will trouble the old brother to lift it up and put it on me again." Zhang Juren and the crowd were shocked, and said in unison: "Forget it, the old man is really a god and a man, and we are all convinced!" At the unanimous request of everyone, Wang Jinshi slowly put the stone lock on the ground, only to see that his face did not change color and his heart did not beat, and he talked and laughed freely. Then when people looked at the Jimo boots he was wearing, they cracked several large holes, and everyone looked at each other and smiled.

Wang Jinshi was poor all his life, childless and childless. Only Zhong Mu was a famous martial artist, and a wide range of training centers were set up in order to popularize them.

"The world is busy, and the pirate is responsible." In the chaotic world, a group of cloth-clad warriors ascended to a high level, and the followers gathered, and the first martial artist here was Wang Zi.

Wang Ziyi (1872-1935), also known as Fengling, was a disciple of the master of shape and meaning, Li Cunyi, and the book "Biography of the Healthy People in the Near and Present-Day North" is passed down. When he was a teenager, Prince Fei was talented and intelligent, did not love to read but loved to dance with guns and sticks, and was very talented in martial arts, and later the village organized a Shaolin Society, and invited a Shaolin boxing master surnamed Li from Dalonghua Village in XiongXian County, and Prince Fei practiced Shaolin boxing with him, and soon became famous in his hometown, especially his Dragon Double Knife was loved by everyone and often performed in various villages.

In the twenty-eighth year of Qing Guangxu, an unexpected dispute changed the life of Prince Fei. As mentioned earlier, Beishexing Village is located on the banks of the Daqing River, when the Daqing River was connected to Baiyangdian in the west and the Haihe River in the east, which was the main waterway to Tianjin in Baoding, Juanzhou and other places, known as the "Jinbao Route", and the merchant ships came and went, which was very prosperous. When he was a teenager, Prince Fei lived by the Daqing River and made a living by fishing.

At that time, the master of shape and meaning, Li Cunyi, opened a dart game in Baoding and Yanzhou, baoding was called Wantong, and Yanzhou was called Yiyou. Dart boats often travel between Tianjin and Baoding, and the master of the dart is Li Ziyang, one of the "Three Lis of Dingxing", nicknamed "Bailongjiang". Once, when the dart boat passed by Beishexing, it accidentally broke the fishing net of The Prince, and the two sides had a dispute. The prince was young and vigorous, and he had a good martial art, and he did not pay attention to the people on the ship at all. The two sides started to move, and the result was no less than three rounds, but they were not opponents. In a fit of anger, he ran home to get a double knife, trying to fight with the dart master, but was beaten to the ground. Li Ziyang, the master of the dart, saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart, and he cherished the prince's talents very much, stopped the fight between the two sides, and persuaded the prince to go out and break in and go to the dart board with him to make a living. Therefore, Prince Fei obtained the consent of his family and entered the dart bureau with the dart boat, and worshiped under Li Cunyi's door as a disciple. Become a warrior of the dart board, and travel between Wantong and Yiyou.

There is really a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people, and at this time, the prince's eyes are wide open. Because he himself has a deep foundation in Shaolin skills, he is handy in learning the shape of the meaning of the fist, and can deeply understand the meaning of the shape, especially good at the four dragon-shaped double knives, tiger head hooks, pan dragon guns, body cannons, dragon-shaped palms, and eight-character gong, and soon stood out among many division brothers, "with Li Bintang, Dingxing Three Li Xiang Bo zhong" (Yang Mingyi language). Wang Ziyi's understanding of boxing is different from ordinary people, and Mr. Sun Lutang said that he was "dead with Su Hui" and "ear into the heart". Mr. Yang Mingyi said: "The fist of the Zi Qi is like a heavenly gift, and through its eyes, all of them will take its essence, discard its dross, and think that it is its own." ”

Most of the brothers of the prince's master have achieved success in their studies and have become a generation of martial arts masters. For example, Hao Enguang, a Qing Xuan Tongjian, served as the chief instructor of a martial arts club, and later traveled to Japan to teach Chinese martial arts, famous as Dongying. Zhang Yinwu, in 1918, served as a military instructor of the Taiyuan National Normal School, in 1928 he was appointed as the deputy director of the Hebei Provincial Guoshu Museum, and later as the commander-in-chief of the Hebei Provincial Militia Regiment, advocating the spirit of Shangwu all his life. Modern martial artists, artists, Yan Daosheng of the sword and guts, and so on, I will not list them all here.

After entering Li Cunyi's men, in addition to studying art assiduously, Prince Fei also participated in some activities of the Dart Bureau, and in addition to escorting darts for Wantong and Yiyou, he also went to the Zhangqingkou Rich Family Nursing Home in Xiong County. In 1912, the Tianjin Chinese Warrior Association was established, li Cunyi was provost, and Wang Ziyi joined the samurai association with his teachers, assisting Li Cunyi in managing the affairs of the council and teaching students. In 1917, Li Xingjie took over as the president of the Samurai Association, and Wang Ziyi continued to assist in the management of the council, and became the backbone of the Chinese Samurai Association with Yan Ziyang, Yang Mingyi, Han Yi'an, Huang Jianting and others.

After the establishment of the Tianjin Chinese Samurai Association in Hebei Park, there was an endless stream of people learning martial arts, and Cao Kun, who was the overseer of Tianjin at the time, his residence was not far from the Samurai Society, he and the Samurai Association often came and went, often went to the Samurai Society to see things, hired personnel, and Prince Fei was sent to Cao Fu as a nursing home for seven months.

On September 14, 1918, the Universal Tournament of Nations was held in Beijing, and the Russian Hercules Cantel set up a contest. In order to safeguard the national art and national dignity, Li Cunyi led the prince and other disciples to go to the palace. At the meeting, due to the prohibition of the police department and the commander of the infantry, he did not have to fight, and then changed the competition to a martial arts exercise, Wang Zixiang took the stage to practice the double sword shaped like a dragon, and his wonderful performance and applause continued, and the Divine Skills of the Chinese Samurai Association intimidated the Orix.

During the Samurai Association, Wang Zi taught martial arts to many people, and there were many disciples, many of whom had learned boxing from him in Tianjin, and many of whom later served in the military circles and played a huge role. For example, Liu Xijun served as the head of the Military Affairs Department, and because he knew martial arts, he heroically killed the enemy and made many military achievements. According to Zhang Zonghua, a martial artist in Wen'an County, his master, Wang Kechang, a former instructor of the 49th National Art Society in Tianjin, studied art at Wang Ziyi. While teaching members, Wang Zi also accepted external recruitment to teach boxing. In 1916, Zhu Jiabao, zi Jingtian, was directly subordinate to the governor of the province and hired Wang Ziyi to teach boxing to his two sons, and he also learned from Wang Ziyi. Beishexing Village once kept a sword photograph of the two sons of the Zhu family, which was unfortunately burned during the Cultural Revolution. Regarding this matter, there is also a colloquial saying in the village, "Good life cannot catch up with a good market", which comes from the mouth of Shang Yunxiang, the master of shape and intention boxing. It is said that at that time, Zhu Jiabao went to the samurai to select teachers, and among the candidates were Prince Fei and Shang Yunxiang, but Shang Yunxiang was short in stature and his image was not very good, so Zhu Jiabao chose Wang Zi, and Shang Yunxiang joked about this.

In the later period of the Chinese Samurai Association, Wang Zi returned to his hometown. He first taught apprentices in the village of Xiawu gezhuang in Suqiao Town, Wen'an County, and passed on Sun Yongtian, Li Rongxi and others. Sun Yongtian was instructed by Sun Lutang in Tianjin and later went to Dalian to teach boxing. After some time, the prince returned to the village of Beishexing and taught boxing in the village until his death. The main descendants are Ning Yongli, Ning Baoshan, Zhu Defu, Yan Zhongqi, Ning Deshan, Wang Zongrui, Wang Zongrui, Ning Baozhen, Ning Baomin, Ning Baozhong, Cheng Wenfa, Cheng Changde, as well as his sons Wang Zongqi and Wang Huanan. Disciple Ning Bao went to Hegang to teach boxing after the disaster. Thus, the Shape Intention Fist spread in the village of Beishexing.

Prince Fei was the only son in the family, and he had three sons, namely Wang Zonghui (Hua Nan), Wang Zonghui, and Wang Zongzhe, and the three sons all knew the shape of Yi Fist. He has an uncle and brother named Wang Heling, who has not been to school for a day, but he can speak the Tao, manage affairs in the village, and people in eight townships in ten miles and eight townships find him to mediate in difficult matters, and he is a well-known local gentleman, who is nicknamed "Mr. Wang". He and Sun Lianzhong were allies brothers, and in the war under his direct subordination, he began to choose the area around Xinzhen, in order to ensure the peace of the party and turn The Gange into a jade warrior, he personally went to Sun Lianzhong's department with three inches of incorruptible tongue, persuaded Commander Sun, and avoided a bloody war, and the local people were very happy. He had two sons, the eldest named Wang Zongshun, who practiced shape and intention boxing at home, and the second son, Wang Zongyao, served in the National Revolutionary Army. Wang Zongshun's two sons, Baicang and Bai'ao, were also martial arts. Wang Heling had a daughter married to the Chai family in Dongyang Town, Gaotou District, Wen'an County, and died of illness early, and her nephew lived in her grandmother's house when she was more than ten years old. Mentioning his nephew, he later became famous, that is, Chai Enbo, who was known as the commander of the independent twelve detachments of the Jizhong Military Region.

Chai Enbo's family was poor at an early age and was fostered in his grandmother's house. In the semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China, it suffered the bitterness of "the rich bullying the poor and the strong bullying the weak." In order to defend himself, Wang Heling supported his nephew Xi Wu. When he was eleven or twelve years old, he was introduced to the local master of tong-back boxing, Lu Lianting, as a teacher, chai enbo was born smart, and the master's one move and one style, once learned, one point will pass. Because of his hard work, his martial arts grew rapidly. He is good at fighting and holding uneven, always helping the weak and resisting the strong. He has trained a good martial art, especially good at making double knives, exquisite skills, known as "flying knife chai". He joined the army at a young age and served as a martial arts instructor in the old army. In a year of competing with the Germans, fighting three people, winning the championship of the competition, Cao Kun personally gave a treasure sword.

In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, led by Chai Sibo and Wang Huanan, Xinzhen set up a defense regiment to participate in the anti-Japanese war and fought several beautiful battles. Due to the large number of martial arts skills in Beishexing Village, many people participated in the team. In the spring of 1938, the Japanese army chartered ships in the Daqing River were hit. Twelve Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded in the battle, and five were killed on our side. Wu Youzhen and Ning Keyi of Beishexing Village died heroically in battle, and the two became revolutionary martyrs.

The spread of shape-meaning fist in Beishexing has made Beishexing Village a well-known "fist nest", and almost everyone will draw twice. In 1942, Wang Huanan established the South China Middle School in his village, and invited Gao Zhendong, the former head of the Wudang Gate of the Central Guoshu Museum, Li Chunfang, the son of Li Ziyang, and Qin Xiangchen, a master of shape and meaning, to teach boxing in Beishexing, making the shape and meaning of Beishexing Village more prosperous. When Prince Fei returned from the Samurai Association, he brought back many martial arts scores and precious photographs printed by the Samurai Association, and most of these precious materials were later burned during the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution, leaving us with deep regrets for studying that period of history.

The youngest of Prince Qi's disciples was Yan Zhongqi, who later received guidance from his brother Gao Zhendong, who had both the heads of both families in his martial arts and had many descendants in the village and Baoding. After the 1950s, he served as a member of the Baoding Wushu Association, a member of the Standing Committee and a director of the counseling station, and was often hired to teach at Hebei University, Hebei Normal College and other schools, with thousands of disciples, and was rated as an excellent martial arts counselor by the state.

Yan Zhongqi's descendants include Baoding Wang Yusheng, Zhou Enping, Wang Guangming, Lü Mingjie, and Bencun Ning Xiaole, Ning Zhiyi, and others.

On the basis of the original, Beishe Xing Shape Yi Fist integrates Sun Lutang's Shape Intention Fist, Gao Zhendong's Wudang Fist Technique, and the unique boxing technique of Li Chunfang, the descendant of "Dingxing Three Li", constantly reforming and innovating, paying more attention to the high degree of unity of internal meaning and appearance, having a unique basic and internal skill training method, integrating its subtle mysteries, further enriching the content of Shape and Intention Fist, making the fist more stretched and generous, strong and powerful, with a neat posture, obvious technical blows, and gradually evolving into a Beishe Xing Shape Yi Fist with local characteristics.

At present, in order to carry forward this kind of fist, the shape and meaning fist has flourished in the local area, and there are many practitioners, which have been passed down to the seventh generation, and the main people are Zhang Haibin, Wang Xiangdong, Li Junxiang, Gao Junhua, Yang Jingwei, Zhao Yangyang, Ning Dabing, Zhao Songzi, etc. They established the Beishe Xing Shape Yi Quan Association, participated in major martial arts activities at home and abroad for many times, and achieved excellent results, and in 2018, they have declared the municipal intangible cultural heritage, and have made great contributions to the development and improvement of Shape Yi Quan.

About author: Feng Bingyan, scholar and writer, was born in June 1952 in Wen'an County, Hebei Province. He has published 27 monographs, and more than 300 novels, essays, reportage, and poems have been published in newspapers and periodicals at all levels across the country.