In 2017, there was a short film that became famous in China, even though its cast included Donnie Yen, Wu Jing, Tony Jia and many other big names, but people's eyes were focused on another actor - Jack Ma.
That's right, not only is this movie fully invested in Jack Ma, but he himself also appeared in person, fulfilling his own little dream.
Many people are puzzled, thinking that this is a rich man showing off himself, but Ma Yun's love for Tai Chi is not fake at all, and even he has been following a Tai Chi master as a bodyguard all year round, and this person has helped him avoid the rain of bullets with his bare hands......
We naturally don't need to introduce Ma Yun's experience, but as China's top rich, he is actually a deep martial arts lover, and most of the people who came over at that time had held Jin Yong's martial arts novels and couldn't put them down, and Boss Ma was no exception.
In a public speech, Ma Yun directly expressed two of the most unforgettable experiences in his life, one is the famous "learning English by the West Lake", and the other is Tai Chi that he has practiced with an old lady surnamed Chen for many years.
In fact, when Ma Yun embarked on the road of entrepreneurship and gradually became famous throughout the country, he also continued to learn Tai Chi culture, and successively found eight or nine professional teachers to teach.
In this way, it was not until 2009 that Ma Yun had a whim and asked his assistant Chen Wei to help find the best Tai Chi master in China to be his teacher, and in the kung fu world at that time, the leader of Tai Chi was Wang Xi'an.
Wang Xi'an was born in the famous Chenjiagou, and is indeed the eleventh generation of Chen-style Taijiquan, and is also the inheritor of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage Chen-style Taijiquan and the international Taijiquan cultural communication ambassador.
Wang Xi'an
After being invited, Wang Xi'an happily went to Jack Ma's luxurious villa in Sanya to teach him, where he stayed for a while.
And perhaps because the two had a good conversation, it didn't take long for Ma Yun to make a new request - hoping that Wang Xi'an would introduce him to a "security assistant" with excellent kung fu and trust.
For Master Wang, this is a very simple requirement, but the security assistant is actually a bodyguard, and being a bodyguard for a rich man of Ma Yun's level is probably not good if he just knows some kung fu.
So after going back, Wang Xi'an held a special meeting with his apprentices to discuss this matter, and finally according to the comprehensive consideration of martial arts level, character, character, etc., everyone unanimously recommended a young junior brother, Li Tianjin.
Who is this Li Tianjin, and how can he stand out?
Li Tianjin
In 1981, Li Tianjin was born in North Mengfeng Village, Zhaobao Town, Wen County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, which belongs to the same town as Chenjiagou, the birthplace of Tai Chi, which is very similar, so the folk customs are also strong.
Li Tianjin was born in an ordinary family, and his childhood experience was similar to that of most children, that is, playing in the fields and fields, but the difference is that he began to embark on the road of Tai Chi at the age of eight, and then he either studied hard or fought with his friends.
Li Tianjin was born with a calm and wear-resistant personality, and he was able to persevere in his life for ordinary children, but he was able to persevere, and he was never tired of it, pushing his hands, punching, stepping on horses, training legs... After the martial arts became small, Li Tianjin looked for people everywhere to make moves, and in fact, he did "fight the invincible opponents all over the village".
Li Tianjin, who was in the limelight, felt that the village was no longer a place for him to stay, so he wanted to go to the famous Chenjiagou to challenge, he came to the door aggressively, but the first ring ended in a fiasco, and he came again in anger, but he still lost in the hands of another person.
Li Tianjin then knew that the Tai Chi Kung Fu he had practiced since he was a child was just some outer doors, and he had almost no power to resist when he met a real Tai Chi master, and although the two children on the opposite side were older than him, they were only fifteen or sixteen years old, so he could only blame himself for being inferior to others......
Li Tianjin, who returned home, was silent for a long time like a frosted eggplant, and for a young man, this kind of blow was actually very common, so with the comfort and encouragement of his family, he quickly eased up, and changed his mentality, and soon went to Chenjiagou again to find the two opponents and worship their father as a teacher.
That's right, the two children who defeated Li Tianjin are called Wang Zhanhai and Wang Zhanjun, and their father is none other than Wang Xi'an, the national Taiji grandmaster.
When he saw the down-to-earth and strong Li Tianjin, he also liked this child very much, and felt that he was indeed a seedling of martial arts, so he happily accepted it under his door.
Li Tianjin, who worshipped the master, not only did not enter a better life, but suffered more and more, because the practice of martial arts was already very hard, not to mention that the Li family had always been very poor in the village, in order to save a little money, Li Tianjin even refused to rent a house, but rode a bicycle every day, from the village to the martial arts school located in the county seat between dozens of kilometers.
And in today's era, it is very difficult to make money by practicing martial arts, students like Li Tianjin and his senior brothers and sisters have no income themselves, and they occasionally have the opportunity to participate in some competitions, and they also have to get rankings to get some bonuses.
However, Li Tianjin is really one of the people who get the most bonuses in the school, his skills have improved rapidly, and he usually practices very hard, so he can get some subsidies from time to time, but he has given all this money to his parents, and he is still living a very difficult life.
In 1998, Li Tianjin finally got ahead with his long-term efforts, and in this year alone, he won the champion of the 5th Taijiquan Annual Conference in Wenxian County and the first prize of Taijiquan, becoming the leader of the master.
In the years that followed, Li Tianjin continued to work hard, winning several titles in martial arts competitions, including the national champion of Taijiquan.
At this point, Li Tianjin is already a mixed up, and he can use his fame to go to the big cities outside, where there are more events, more opportunities, and more endless money.
But he eventually gave up, because Li Tianjin found inner peace in his martial arts practice, and he chose to take a very low salary and become an instructor at a martial arts school.
Not only has life not changed, but as I get older, it seems difficult to even start a family.
It wasn't until he was 27 years old that Li Tianjin finally met a girl from a nearby village under the introduction of relatives at home, who just saw him as honest and steady, and the two got married and started a family soon after.
When he was alone, Li Tianjin could still endure hardships, but now he couldn't suffer his daughter-in-law and children, so he could only start to go out, but this road was still difficult to walk, although there were some titles, but Li Tianjin was not good at words, and he had no connections outside, so he always hit a wall.
Under the relentless pressure of life, this Tai Chi master, who once "dominated the martial arts" at the age of 20, actually moved bricks at the construction site and worked as a security guard at the entrance of the community......
But fate is always unpredictable, just when Li Tianjin felt that his life might have to be spent like this, the master suddenly called himself back to Henan, and then under the unanimous recommendation of many brothers and sisters, he was shocked to learn that he had become the personal bodyguard of Ma Yun, the richest man in China!
At the first time, although Li Tianjin was extremely surprised, he was not happy in his heart, because he had actually seen many rich businessmen, but these people didn't know kung fu at all, let alone tai chi.
But after meeting, Li Tianjin was taken aback, he found that the thin Ma boss really knew a lot about Taijiquan, and the two also practiced against each other, Ma Yun was very satisfied with Li Tianjin's kung fu, and he didn't look down on him because he looked not tall and a little naïve, and directly offered him a minimum annual salary of 200,000 yuan.
After meeting his Bole, Li Tianjin's life finally ushered in earth-shaking changes, but as the bodyguard of this kind of top rich man, even if Li Tianjin is low-key, he still has to face some unexpected challenges.
In 2009, Ma Yun arrived in Japan to participate in the International Internet Entrepreneurship Summit, Li Tianjin naturally accompanied him, one night, the club invited them to visit a judo competition, after the game, two Japanese judo black belts heard that Li Tianjin was a Chinese Tai Chi champion, immediately came to try to compete with him.
At first, the attitude of the two was very sincere, but Li Tianjin's personality was low-key, and as a bodyguard, he was even more reluctant to show off his skills on such occasions, so he refused again and again, and in the end, the two Japanese were very embarrassed, and they made a sudden attack directly, forcing Li Tianjin to fight back.
As a result, Li Tianjin defeated one against two, not only did not fall behind at all, but instead resolved the attacks of the two judo black belt masters inch by inch, and even they could not cut into Li Tianjin's close body at all, showing the softness and strength of Tai Chi.
Of course, there is more than one such thing. In 2011, Li Tianjin once again followed Ma Yun to participate in activities organized by the Nature Conservancy of China and went to the Hulunbuir grassland for investigation.
Here, they met a famous local Mongolian wrestler, because the other party was an invitation to Ma Yun, in order to resist the boss's face, Li Tianjin offered to fight with him, and still won an overwhelming victory, the other party was easily put down by Li Tianjin several times in a row, and had to sigh that Tai Chi is indeed real kung fu, far from embroidering legs.
However, none of these experiences were as dangerous as the trip to the United States.
In December 2012, Li Tianjin followed Ma Yun to the United States to discuss important matters with two top American tycoons, and when the two sides were chatting in the lobby of a luxury hotel, three gunmen suddenly broke in and prepared to rob.
Li Tianjin was only bare-handed, but he was very calm and calm, took the lead in covering Ma Yun with his body to escape to the emergency exit, and easily put down a gangster in the middle of the road, and finally protected the boss and evacuated to a safe place safe and sound, both of them were unscathed, and although the American bodyguards were holding guns, several people were slightly injured.
After that, Li Tianjin won more trust, and Ma Yun asked him to accompany him wherever he went, including Alibaba's listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014, and Li Tianjin was also included in this momentous moment......
And even if Ma Yun has stepped down from Ali later, his life is still very good, because in order to promote Tai Chi culture, Ma Yun and Jet Li jointly opened a Tai Chi Zen Garden in Hangzhou Xixi Wetland, and Li Tianjin is the head coach, who is responsible for teaching Tai Chi Kung Fu to celebrities, wealthy businessmen, and political dignitaries at home and abroad.
Not only that, Ma Yun directly gave Li Tianjin a part of the shares of Taiji Zen Monastery Company, plus his own annual salary of more than 500,000 yuan, on the whole, he has achieved the goal of earning one million a year, and he has become a small rich man.
But in Vanity Fair, Li Tianjin did not lose his heart, he still practiced hard for a long time and refined his skills, and maintained a first-class level in the martial arts world for a long time, so he was successively selected as "Henan Province First-class Boxer" and "National Martial Arts Referee".
Many people think that Li Tianjin has a good life, in fact, his luck is indeed not bad, but whether it is excellent ability, down-to-earth attitude, or low-key personality, if one of these three points is missing, he may miss such a great opportunity to become Ma Yun's bodyguard, so everyone will bless and envy all this now, but they will never deny that he deserves it.