Shoot the white-fronted tiger in the mountains, Ken count the yellow beards! One body turned to fight for three thousand miles, and one sword once served as a million divisions. - Wang Wei
Although Chinese martial arts cannot confront modern weapons head-on, they are very powerful in hand-to-hand combat.
Today, Chinese martial arts are not only spread in China, but also have a large number of apprentices abroad, but the most studied abroad are Hong Quan and Wing Chun.
In "Ip Man", the most powerful enemy of Wing Chun is undoubtedly the Hong Quan master played by Sammo Hung, and Hong Quan is also the largest type of boxing in the south, with many learners, so who created Hong Fist, this person is Hong Hee Guan.
The source of Hong Fist
As one of the main fist methods in the south of the mainland, there are currently three theories about the origin of Hong Fist.
The first theory is that Hong Fist comes from the ancient gang Hongmen, which is the internal fist method of the Hongmen, so it is called Hong Fist;
The second source is that Hong Fist came from "Red Fist", and later became Hong Fist after continuous improvement, so there is an old Hong Fist in the Hong Fist faction;
The third statement, which also recognizes a large number of people, was coined by Hong Xiguan during the Kangxi period of the Ming Dynasty.
Why did Hong Xiguan's claim that he created Hong Fist be recognized by most people? Because Hong Quan has "Three Treasures", which are Iron Wire Fist, I-Zi Fuhu Fist and Tiger Crane Double Form Fist.
Among them, the I-shaped Fuhu Fist evolved from the eighteen arhats of the Shaolin Temple Fuhu Fist, and the iron wire fist is a kind of boxing method that opens and closes, which is very different from the southern school boxing method, hard bridge and hard horse, similar to the Shaolin boxing method, so the statement that Hong Xiguan, who once practiced in Shaolin Temple, created Hong Fist has been recognized by most people.
So why did Hong Xiguan create Hong Fist? Why is his death regrettable, all this has to start with Cai Jiuyi, a martial arts master in the late Ming Dynasty.
A generation of grandmaster Hong Xiguan
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, for various reasons, many Ming military generals were arrested by the Qing army, when the Emperor Taiji was at the time of employment, so most of these Ming Dynasties would adopt a policy of softness, coupled with Huang Taiji's deep knowledge of communication skills, many people chose to submit to the Qing Dynasty, including Hong Chengqi.
Although Hong Chengqiao chose to surrender at that time, he could not represent everyone's thoughts, and Cai Jiuyi, who served under him at that time, chose to leave him, and he chose to leave this place and enter the Shaolin Temple for further study, hoping that one day he could regain his light through martial arts.
After studying at the Shaolin Temple for many years, he returned to his hometown of Guangdong and secretly formed his own forces in the name of spreading boxing, when the young Hong Xiguan came to his side.
Hong Xiguan is a martial arts prodigy, in just a few years he was able to fight back and forth with Cai Jiuyi, and at the same time, under the influence of the master, Hong Xiguan also accepted a lot of anti-Qing and restoration ideas, and took this matter as his mission, seeing that the time was ripe, Cai Jiuyi sent Hong Xiguan to his "alma mater" Shaolin Temple, hoping that he could integrate Shaolin martial arts.
After coming to the Shaolin Temple, Hong Xiguan studied hard and practiced Shaolin martial arts to the peak, but at the same time, the news that the Shaolin Temple harbored anti-Qing forces leaked, and the Shaolin Temple was surrounded and suppressed by heavy soldiers, in order to survive, Hong Xiguan could only return to his hometown of Guangdong with the remnants of the forces, preparing to make a comeback, but unfortunately, Hong Xiguan was betrayed, and he encountered heavy encirclement and suppression again, but this time only a few people escaped.
After dealing with the Qing army, Hong Xiguan realized that even if his martial arts skills were high, it would be difficult to compete with the army, and in desperation, he chose to retreat to the countryside and concentrate on martial arts, and finally created Hong Fist that shocked the world and became a generation of martial arts masters.
But during this period, because he had many battles with various masters, he had no eyes and fists, and secretly offended many people.
Quacks and lakes to fight for each other
China's rivers and lakes are different from foreign countries, although they pay attention to fairness when fighting, but after the battle, hatred will continue to accumulate, father revenge son, wife revenge husband revenge is very common, and Hong Xiguan also ushered in his own "terminator" at the age of 93.
When Hong Xiguan was competing everywhere, there were also many people studying how to crack Hong Xiguan's boxing method, and many years later, a woman finally developed a set of cracking Hong Xiguan's boxing method "Phoenix Eye Fist".
After the completion of the boxing method, she found Hong Xiguan again, Hong Fist opened and closed, paying attention to facts, while Phoenix Eye Fist pays attention to concealment, beckons to attack the acupuncture points of the human body, pays attention to the fatal blow, this time the battle, a generation of grandmaster Hong Xiguan died, and the legend of the rivers and lakes ended.
Some people said that Hong Xiguan was old and weak, and he was killed after a long battle, while others said that Hong Xiguan wanted to end this hatred and drew a successful end with his death.
But in any case, Hong Xiguan's Hong Quan can be described as immeasurable, it is not only one of the most important fists in southern China, but also a large number of patriots have appeared among Hong Fist disciples, and there are a large number of Hong Quan students in the group that fought against foreign forces in the late Qing Dynasty.
After Hong Xiguan, the representative of Hong Fist is Huang Qiying, although in film and television dramas, Huang Feihong's martial arts are very strong, and the shadowless feet have convinced countless masters.
But in fact, the real powerful at that time was Huang Feihong's father Huang Qiying, who was one of the veritable ten tigers in Guangdong, and the martial arts he used were not the very flowing boxing methods in the movie, but the hard bridge and hard horse of Hong Fist's standard, and later for visual effects, Jet Li's version of "Once Upon a Time" appeared.
At that time, there were many people learning Hong Quan, because Hong Quan can not only strengthen the body, but also the skill of establishing one's life, it can be said that learning Hong Quan means having a mouthful to eat, which is true even in times of war.
They fled the war and left the country, opening martial arts halls to teach, and some even said that if they wanted to learn the real Hong Quan, they had to go abroad.
With the rise of Hong Kong kung fu movies later, Hong Boxing, as one of the most widely circulated boxing methods in Guangdong and Hong Kong, also shines in the movie, such as in the movie "Kung Fu", the tailor uses the iron wire fist in Hong Fist, from his boxing method, it can be seen that the iron wire fist is mainly boxing, hard bridge and hard horse, very tough, very different from the traditional impression of southern boxing.
At the same time, there are also many Hong Quan masters who have devoted themselves to the film industry, the most famous of which is Liu Jialiang, who is a disciple of Lin Shirong of Huang Qiying's lineage, not only authentic boxing, but also strong in kung fu.
In order to promote Hong Quan and his own life, Lau Kar-leung devoted himself to filming, serving as a martial arts instructor while filming, and his films have influenced many people and are also one of the founders of Hong Kong action movies.
Driven by the movie, many Hong Quan masters choose to return to China, so that the mainland's kung fu culture takes off again, although the society is now very stable, but learning kung fu is still a good choice, not only can strengthen the body, but also protect themselves, a person who learns martial arts can at least retreat under the surrounds of many little hooligans, this is the modern meaning of kung fu.