History of Datong Martial Arts - Datong Martial Arts Characters (5) - Ma Scratch Zi Li Shimin Li Wenkui Li Guohua

Ma Quezi (nickname), male, date of birth and death unknown, the older brother of Fengzhen boxing master Guo Peiyun, learned martial arts at the age of forty, and Datong boxing master Zhang Wenxian once learned from him the big and small eight poles, Shaolin music (harmonic sound, to be examined) twelve times of boxing.

Li Shimin, male, formerly known as Li Jingzhong, was born in November 1905 in Yushetan Village, Shanxi Province, and participated in the revolution under the guidance of his close friends Wang Xianghe (also known as Wang Shiyi and Shi Qing, secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in 1927). Changed his name to Li Shimin. Li Shimin excelled in carpentry and shape-and-intention boxing. While in Chahar (Datong), he carried out revolutionary propaganda work as a carpenter, and then entered a vigilante organization with the help of his fellow villagers. While teaching the shape of the box, he secretly propagated the revolution and made friends. On April 12, 1928, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "4.12" massacre, and Wang Shiyi was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment by Yan Xishan. Li Shimin lost contact with the party organization. From 1935 to December 1936, Li Shimin secretly carried out revolutionary propaganda work in the areas of Pinglu, Zuoyun, Tianzhen, Shanyin, Shuoxian, Qinghe, Biaoguan, Youyu, and Hukou by virtue of his carpenter's craftsmanship and good martial arts (shape and meaning). He taught the form of a fist, chose poor people with revolutionary tendencies to marry ten brothers, and asked the ten brothers to make ten more brothers. By 1937, more than 100 people were inclined to revolution. When the guerrillas were formed, these people became the backbone. (According to the article "Remembering the Anti-Japanese War Veterans, Our Father - Li Shimin")

Li Wenkui (1905-1942). People from the southwestern township of Datong, their families are poor. At the age of 12, he went to a clothing shop as an apprentice, and within three years, he became a tailor, single-handedly collected needlework, and practiced boxing with some people who loved martial arts in the morning and evening. At the age of 25, he put down the needle and thread and walked away. In 1936, Li Wenkui returned to his hometown to resume his old business. After the Japanese invaded Datong, they moved to Suiyuan City (present-day Hohhot) in 1939 and opened a clothing shop. Li Wenkui has the ability to walk on the wall with flying cornices, and the upper room is like taking a flat road. In 1941, he alone stole more than 50,000 yuan of the "Datong Mengjiang Bank" Mengjiang Bank, causing a sensation. On December 18, 1941, he was arrested in Suiyuan and taken back to Datong. A few days later, the Japanese gendarmerie organized a live performance of Li Wenkui's pirate treasury at the Bank of Mongolia, which called on many Japanese to visit. Under close surveillance, Li Wenkui made a performance in the same way as it was in accordance with the actual situation at the time of the crime, and the Japanese who visited were surprised and praised by everyone. After that, Li Wenkui was wearing a full set of torture equipment and was locked up in cell No. 1 of the pseudo-police prison. In the same cell, two suspects of the Eighth Route Army, Fu Guizi and Zhao Mingyan, were also held. A few days later, after Getting along with the two of them, Lee plotted to escape from prison. On the night of March 24, 1942, Li Wenkui unshackled his shackles, put his own handcuffs on the guard Lei Chunsheng, and then escaped from prison with Fu Guizi, Zhao Mingyan, and two other victims. After that, he went to the foot of the village of Shengshuigou in the north of the city, formed a friendship with the local villager Yang Wu, and then left the Yang family to wander in the Liangcheng area of Inner Mongolia, and with the encouragement of new friends, he took up arms and organized an anti-Japanese group to guerrilla attack between FengZhen and Datong. In the spring of 1942, Li Wenkui exchanged fire with the traitors near Xie Shizhuang Village in Huayuantun Township, but unfortunately was hit in the leg by the Japanese army in the fierce battle, and committed suicide by drinking bullets so as not to affect other comrades-in-arms.

Li Guohua (1887-1912), male, Datong ren, Datong Middle School student, introduced by Liu Ganchen and Li Demao in 1910 to join the League, it is rumored that Aiwu, good at leg-bending, the relationship between the division and inheritance is unknown, after the Xinhai Datong Uprising, he was elected as the deputy governor of the Datong military government. After resisting the Qing army's siege of the city for more than 40 days, after the Datong Discussion, he followed the XinDaining duke and withdrew to Chengxian County, because of his disagreement with the political views of Xutongxi, he went to Taiyuan to meet Yan Xishan, but was not reused. It is said that on the banks of the Tuotuo River, he was pushed into the ice cave by people from Xutongxi and died at the age of 25.