Huo Yuanjia
In 1989, 79 years after the death of the famous martial artist Huo Yuanjia, the people's government of Tianjin's Xiqing District began to build a cemetery for him in honor of this patriotic martial artist.
However, after digging up the cemetery that had been sealed for many years, the world was stunned.
The remains in front of me are black and look very frightening, why do the bodies that have been buried for many years look like this?
The crowd was puzzled.
What exactly does a person go through before he die, and how many years after death will he become like this?
Although "do not disturb" is the most basic respect for the deceased, but the scene in front of people can no longer be ignored, this body that has been sleeping for many years, how many secrets are unknown to the world?
Shortly after Huo Yuanjia's death, someone had tested the drugs that Huo Yuanjia took before his death, and the answers he got shocked the world, but people still had doubts.
Huo Yuanjia screen image
Now, this blackened corpse confirmed the previous speculation that Huo Yuanjia's body had a chronic poison that caused death.
Who is the poisoner? Huo Yuanjia's grandson, Huo Wenting, and the relevant personnel launched an investigation, and finally locked their eyes on the Japanese.
Huo Yuanjia is not an official or a businessman, leaving aside his skills, he is at best an ordinary Chinese citizen, why did the Japanese kill him?
This legend even has some bizarre stories to go back to Huo Yuanjia and his Jingwuhui.
Huo Yuanjia was born in 1868, but unfortunately died in 1910, passing through the human world for only more than 40 years, but let the world remember for more than a hundred years.
People in the 20th century remember him because he was patriotic, he was strong in martial arts, and he could fight invincible hands all over the world with his bare hands.
Young people in the 21st century know him because pop singer Jay Chou sang "Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho" and because of the screen image created by kung fu stars Jet Li, Zhao Wenzhuo and others.
"In the small town, the years passed, the clear courage, the washed memories. I remember you, proud to live. ”
The lyrics written by Fang Wenshan are short, and they do not write the wonderful life of Huo Yuanjia, but there is not a single lie.
The lyrics say that "Huo Jiaquan's routine moves are flexible", that's because Huo Yuanjia was born in a martial arts family and was full of practitioners.
Huo Yuanjia screen image
Huo Yuanjia is a native of Tianjin, and his father Huo Endi is a famous boxer and the sixth generation of secret trace boxing, and his skills are very good.
Qing is better than blue out of blue, so many years have passed, the reputation of his son Huo Yuanjia has long overshadowed Huo Endi, so that the world only knows Huo Yuanjia, not Ho Endi.
However, if there is no strict discipline from Huo Endi, I am afraid that there will be no huo Yuanjia who has been famous for thousands of years.
The children of martial arts families generally inherit their father's business, and the children of Huo Endi are the same, they were born to practice their skills with their fathers, but Huo Yuanjia was not a practicing family when he was a child.
Huo Yuanjia
Folklore says that Huo Yuanjia was born very thin when he was a child, and he was often bullied by his friends, laughed at by his brothers, and even his father was afraid that he would damage the family style and forbade him to practice martial arts.
However, Huo Yuanjia had a tenacity in his bones since he was a child, and his temperament was very stubborn, and the more his father did not let him practice, the more he had to practice secretly and secretly compete.
It wasn't until something happened at the age of 24 that the father's attitude towards his second son changed.
That year, a local martial artist defeated huo Yuanjia's two brothers, but Huo Yuanjia defeated this person within five minutes.
After reading it, his father was greatly amazed, so he decided not to stop Huo Yuanjia from practicing martial arts.
Huo Yuanjia
The world has always loved to add oil and vinegar to the stories of legendary figures, lest the life of the "hero" in their hearts go smoothly, so they invent some stories in their lives.
Perhaps Horndi did not prevent his son from practicing martial arts, but the way of discipline was more strict.
After all, practicing martial arts and going to school is not the same thing, winter and summer are beaten little by little, and strict training methods are also indispensable.
Huo Yuanjia had a very high talent and understanding in learning martial arts, and the martial arts passed down from generation to generation by the Huo family had made some innovations here.
In ancient China, people who practiced martial arts had a strong concept of portals, and the disciples of the Huo family did not practice his family martial arts, and could inherit their own moves, but Huo Yuanjia learned martial arts as a school of its own.
His sect not only learned the moves handed down by his ancestors, but also asked the masters of other sects for advice, and after fusing the skills of multiple sects, he became a person with extraordinary skills.
However, Huo Yuanjia's "fighting invincible hands all over the world" is not really fighting all over the world, but fighting all over China's enemies, eliminating evil and promoting good, and doing chivalrous and righteous deeds, in this regard, he is the same as his father.
As everyone knows, Huo Yuanjia has the name of "patriotic martial artist", and this name benefits from a person named Nong Jinsun, and also benefits from two "duels" that won without a fight.
Huo Yuanjia did not use "martial arts" in his early years, he did a lot of work by relying on his strength, and when he worked in the pharmacy, he became acquainted with the pharmacy manager Nong Jinsun.
Nong Jinsun was not a martial arts practitioner, but he was a knowledgeable person, he had studied in Japan, he had seen a lot, and his world was a place that Huo Yuanjia had never understood.
That year's acquaintance with Nong Jinsun changed the trajectory of Huo Yuanjia's life.
Nong Jinsun has a broad vision and lofty ambitions, and under the influence of Nong Jinsun, Huo Yuanjia is no longer the "Hercules" who used to work hard, and his world has gradually opened up.
His strength could not be used only on carrying baggage, and he began to run for the overthrow of Manchu Qing rule, and carved his love and protection for the country and the nation in his bones.
Everyone calls him "Hercules", but there are always people who do not measure up to their own strength and have bad intentions, trying to provoke his bottom line.
In 1901, a Russian named Schivanlov came to the Tianjin Opera Garden to sell his art, and this person was brazen and brazen, and even called himself "the world's first Hercules".
Not only that, he also distributed leaflets everywhere on the territory of the Chinese, and everyone preached how great his skills were and how strong his martial arts were.
For a time, the streets and alleys, flying leaflets in the sky, read: "Fight all over China's invincible hands, let the 'sick men of East Asia' see and open their eyes." ”
The decay and fragility of the Manchu Qing government had reached such a point that an ordinary foreign artist could insult China at will.
Huo Yuanjia's son Huo Dongge
Schivanlov's words were full of humiliation and provocation to Chinese, flesh and blood Chinese naturally would not tolerate him spreading wild on our turf.
But no one dared to challenge this "world's first Hercules", because no one knew how much real ability he really had.
In feudal society, between the fate of the individual and the fate of the country, the insensitive people chose to save themselves.
Schivanlov was tall, and although people were very angry and dissatisfied, no one dared to harden it, and at this time, Huo Yuanjia appeared.
"I am Huo Yuanjia, the 'sick man of East Asia', and I am willing to compete with you in public!"
Huo Yuanjia did what he said, his contest was really a contest, but this "Hercules" did not necessarily really want to compete.
Tomb of Huo Yuanjia
Who is the real skill, who is the embroidered pillow, the competition field is clear, the showdown between "World Hercules" and "Chinese Hercules" soon attracted many people.
However, when the match received widespread attention, Schivanlov withdrew.
He quickly explained: "This lux, I have come here to sell art and food, so I open my mouth to attract the audience, why do you have to compete with me!" ”
It turned out that Schivanlov had no real skills at all, the title of "the world's first Hercules" was self-styled, and the charlatan was his true identity.
The reason why the streets are full of leaflets and attract people to fight is nothing more than to make gimmicks and sell more tickets to make some money.
The Chinese in Schivanlov's eyes was cowardly, and he didn't expect that someone would really take the move, so as soon as Huo Yuanjia let go, he immediately instigated it.
The leaflets were sent in a boiling manner, and in the end it was just a farce, and the "Hercules" did not earn money for tickets, and he lost all his face in China.
Did he think it would be okay to bow his head and explain? Insults to China cannot be left to rest.
Schivanlov's gimmick test is fake, but Huo Yuanjia's move is serious.
Although Schivanlov conceded defeat, Huo Yuanjia did not intend to let him go, this time, it is necessary to properly rectify this kind of foreigner who flaunts his might in China, Huo Yuanjia put forward three conditions:
First, re-publish the newspaper, telling yourself that you are not insulting Chinese kung fu; Second, apologize in public; Third, if you can't do it, Huo Mou will have to fight with you.
Huo Yuanjia
Huo Yuanjia's reputation as a "Hercules" was well known, and Schivanlov naturally did not dare to confront him, so he had to bow his head and accept the first two conditions, and finally left Tianjin in a gray and slippery manner.
This incident of "not going to the ring to scare off the Russian Hercules" for Chinese, but also let Huo Yuanjia famous.
For a long time, the streets and alleys of Tianjin have been rumored to be Huo Yuanjia, and even the phenomenon of "all being proud of seeing Huo Yuanjia" has appeared.
And this confrontation of winning without a fight also completely changed Huo Yuanjia's belief in life.
"From now on, I will use this martial art to awaken the bloodiness of the Chinese people."
However, just when Huo Yuanjia was awakening the people with martial arts, another "Western Hercules" who did not measure up to his own strength came to the door.
In 1909, only a few years after the Schivanlov incident, some foreigners forgot the foreign appearance of the previous "Hercules" and once again tried to provoke the bottom line of the Chinese.
This time, the so-called "Hercules" was called Opie, and his means were no more clever than those of Schivanlov before him.
Opie Yin set up a ring in Zhang Garden in Shanghai, and like Schivanlov, he still started with verbal attacks, insulting China as the "country of the sick" and the people as the "sick man of East Asia".
After experiencing the previous Schivanlov incident, Huo Yuanjia's patriotism and martial arts were unabated compared to before, and this time he did not hesitate at all, taking the Huo family disciples to fight.
Before the game, Huo Yuanjia set up a ring in Zhang Yuan and published an advertisement in the newspaper: "The world ridicules the mainland as a sick man country, I am a sick man in the sick man country, and I am willing to try it with the world's healthy people." ”
He also released words, claiming that he "specializes in foreign Hercules, although he has iron bones and bones, he has nothing to worry about!" ”
Huo Yuanjia screen image
As a result, the world should have guessed that Opie Yin was a useless charlatan, who had been hired by a capitalist named Wolin to come to China to deceive.
These so-called "Western Hercules" were just over-the-top, and they didn't expect Huo Yuanjia to take the move, and they panicked at once.
However, compared to Schivanlov's immediate confession, Opien also made a useless struggle before conceding defeat.
Huo Yuanjia took the move, and Opien did not immediately surrender, but pretended to calmly put forward some conditions.
Seeing these "overlord clauses", people cry and laugh, what a scoundrel! He wrote all the tricks that Huo Yuanjia was good at in the prohibition clause.
However, the prohibition clause wrote a lot of Oppi tones, and when it was time for the official game, he did not even show his face.
It turned out that after Opie Yin had done the superficial work, he had already boarded a cruise ship fleeing to other countries, and Huo Yuanjia once again won without a fight.
Huo Yuanjia's story of "Western Hercules" in World War II made him no longer be able to take off the title of "patriotic martial artist", but with it, there was also the jealousy of the world.
Literati are light, so are martial artists, and people who practice martial arts are all honed from a young age, and those who suffer a lot of hardships, no one looks up to anyone, and no one refuses to bow down.
In the hearts of ordinary people, Huo Yuanjia was the "first", and many martial artists at that time were not convinced, did not recognize Huo Yuanjia as the "first", and released words to compare with Huo Yuanjia.
However, Huo Yuanjia did not accept the offer this time, he just said: "I just want to compete with the foreigners who bully us, and I have no other intentions." ”
Huo Yuanjia stills
Since then, Huo Yuanjia has become more famous on the beach, and many people with martial arts dreams have come to worship him as a teacher.
In order not to let Chinese be bullied by the great powers again, and so that the many students who came to visit the teacher could learn something, Huo Yuanjia had a plan in mind.
In 1910, Huo Yuanjia, with the assistance of his friends Chen Gongzhe, Nong Jinsun and others, founded the "Chinese Jingwu Gymnastics Association" in Shanghai.
This was the first time in the society at that time, because in the face of the wide acceptance of disciples from all walks of life, it meant that he not only had to personally teach the Huo family's ancestral lost martial arts, but also broke the prejudice of the martial arts portal.
This incident caused a sensation at the time, and the development momentum of the "Jingwu Society" was very strong, but unfortunately, less than three months after its establishment, Huo Yuanjia died suddenly.
Sun Wen inscription
At that time, he was only 42 years old, just in his prime, so the world has been talking about Huo Yuanjia's sudden death.
Some people say that Huo Yuanjia originally suffered from asthma, and in order to establish the "Jingwuhui", he was even more frugal, and only fed with water-soaked rice and dried pickle strips for three meals a day.
The intense work and unhealthy diet caused him to die of overwork and lung disease.
This kind of statement seems unreliable to put on a strong and strong martial arts practitioner, and the idea of normal death is probably not feasible.
There is also a saying that Huo Yuanjia died of a Japanese conspiracy and died of poisoning, which is a bizarre way of dying that the world is more acceptable to the world.
The reconstruction of the cemetery in 1989 confirmed this conjecture of the world, and all this stemmed from the jealousy of the Japanese.
At that time, the hot scene after the establishment of the Jingwu Association caused the Japanese judo club in Shanghai to be jealous, and they did not believe that Huo Yuanjia was really invincible, so they decided to send several judo masters to provoke.
The result of the confrontation was probably already guessed by the world, Huo Yuanjia taught by example, the disciples of the Jingwu Society were not vegetarians, and several Japanese people were defeated by Huo Yuanjia's masters and apprentices.
Those people were not convinced, and even tried to hurt people with black hands, but instead of succeeding, they were broken bones, and finally the Japanese were forced to admit defeat.
However, they only declared defeat on the surface, and the small actions in the dark never stopped.
After the competition, the Japanese set up a banquet to entertain Huo Yuanjia, and during the banquet, they learned that Huo Yuanjia was suffering from lung disease, so they introduced Dr. Akino of Japan to see Huo Yuanjia.
Huo Yuanjia was not wary of the Japanese, nor did he expect that the people in the martial forest would secretly hurt people, so he took the medicine prescribed by Dr. Akino with confidence.
Who knows, the condition not only did not get better, but gradually worsened, coughing up blood, and it did not take long to die.
After Huo Yuanjia's death, some people took the medicine to the test and found that it contained chronic poison, but at that time, they were not completely sure of this speculation.
Until 79 years later, the blackened corpse confirmed all the previous conjectures.
Huo Yuanjia, a patriot with high martial arts, has become a legend in the hearts of posterity, and countless novels, film and television works are recounting his life, but unfortunately, the hero is jealous, and he has only been passing through the human world for forty-two years.