Sun Lutang, a generation of martial arts masters and founders of Sun's Taijiquan, is very famous, and is known as "Martial Saint", "Martial God", "Universal Hand", "Tiger Head Shaobao", and "The First Hand in the World".
For thousands of years, only three people can be awarded the title of "Martial Saint": Jiang Ziya, Guan Yu, and Yue Fei.
Sun Lutang was actually able to compare with these two positions, which showed its strength.
However, Sun Lutang's strength is mainly in the theory of martial arts - since 1915, he has continuously written books and lectures, including "Shape and Intention Quan", "Bagua Quan", "Taijiquan", "Fist Yi Shu zhen", "Bagua Sword Science" and other martial arts works have come out one after another, worthy of the name of a generation of martial arts masters.
The day before yesterday, Lao Qin wrote "Because of the shock flying of five Japanese samurai, Sun Lutang won the title of "martial saint"? Things are not so simple" article, mainly objectively analyzed the reliability of Sun Lutang's daughter Sun Jianyun's high disciple Tong Xudong in the book "Sun Clan Martial Arts Research" mentioned that Sun Lutang failed two consecutive Japanese samurai, "lightly" Russian and European fighting champion Petrov, and won the overall championship of the "World Hercules Fighting Competition", and in the absence of strong evidence, some doubts were raised. At the same time, it is also mentioned that Prince Ping of the "Divine Power Thousand Jin King" challenged Sun Lutang, but Sun Lutang avoided the battle.
Many readers have taken a keen interest in this matter and want to know the ins and outs.
Well, this article will simply talk about it.
The thing is that under the initiative of Zhang Zhijiang, Li Jinglin and others, the "Central Guoshuguan" was established in 1927 for the purpose of training military instructors, instructors in secondary schools and public sports venues, south of the Nanjing Central Stadium (now Nanjing Institute of Physical Education), and the full name was "Central Guoshuguan Sports Transmission Institute".
Li Jinglin had read Sun Lutang's martial arts works and felt that Sun Lutang's martial arts knowledge was rich and could be competent in teaching, and he warmly invited Sun Lutang to Nanjing to serve as the head of the Wudang Sect of the Central Guoshu Museum.
Sun Lutang's martial arts theories are all about the so-called "Neijia Fist".
This concept of "Inner Family Fist" is about cultivating the mind, using soft kegang, four or two thousand pounds, internal strength, and chemical strength.
When Sun Lutang was teaching to the students, in order to arouse the interest of the students and attract the attention of the students, he exaggerated the various benefits of the "Inner Family Fist".
What to say, "Practice martial arts without practicing internal skills, until the old one is empty." He classified the martial arts that did not practice internal skills as "foreign fists", saying that "foreign fists" were all based on brute force when they were young, and when they reached old age, they were like wastes. It is advocated that as long as you have practiced internal skills and practiced "internal family boxing", then the strength has increased year by year, and the older you are, the deeper the internal skills.
I have to say that Sun Lutang's statement is still very marketable.
However, we know that the growth law of any organism is from small to large, from large to old, from weak to strong, from strong to weak.
Sun Lutang's statement is obviously contrary to natural science.
Whether it is boxing or free fighting, those who are active in the arena are all young adults, and there is no old man in his seventies or eighties.
With the boxing king Tyson theory, who once fought invincible hands all over the world, he could not hide from the elimination of the laws of nature, and when he was old, he had to serve the old, wash his hands of the golden basin, and quit the boxing world.
Ignoring this natural law, Sun Lutang vigorously propagated the benefits of "Neijia Fist," saying that those who practice "Neijia Fist" will begin to enter a good situation when they reach the age of fifty; they will be degraded by "Waijia Fist" and say that those who practice "Neijia Fist" will decline when they are fifty years old.
As a result, Wang Ziping, who was then the head of the Shaolin Gate, was enraged.
Wudang Gate Changsun Lutang presents himself as the leader of the "Inner Family Fist", then, the Shaolin Gate Chief Prince Ping has become the representative of the "Outer Family Fist" in the hearts of the students.
Wang Ziping was born in a martial arts family in Cangzhou, Hebei Province, the hometown of martial arts, and studied at the military martial arts training institute run by Ma Liangxing, the town guard in Jinan, and was known for his great strength, often performing stone lifting and stone pedaling in the military, and he founded the Chinese Wushu Society in 1923 (the 12th year of the Republic of China).
This year, Wang Ziping was 48 years old, and according to Sun Lutang, he was about to go downhill.
And Sun Lutang is 69 years old, he said that he has "entered a good state", and climbed all the way, has been climbing for 19 years, and his internal strength is pure.
Wang Ziping decided to challenge Sun Lutang, whose internal skills were already in full swing, with his body about to take the "downhill road", and proposed to compete with Sun Lutang.
Now, many people say that the 48-year-old Wang Ziping challenged the 69-year-old Sun Lutang to bully the weak, bully the elderly, be immoral, and play hooligans.
But Wang Ziping used Sun Lutang's theory to explain this challenge, and there was nothing wrong with it.
Of course, the 69-year-old Sun Lutang would not joke with his body, but also considering that the prince was flat and physically strong, his son Sun Chuanzhou, his proud disciple Li Yulin and others were difficult to win, and they had to let Sun Chuanzhou and Li Yulin go to Shanghai to ask Gao Zhendong, the master of Shape Yiquan, to fight on behalf of the "Neijia Fist".
Gao Zhendong's grandson Xing Zhiliang once published an oral account of Gao Zhendong on the "Sun Neijiaquan Website" entitled "Anecdotes of Wulin That Have Been Sealed for Eighty Years- Remembering Gao Zhendong, the Head of Wudang Gate.".
In the text, Gao Zhendong pointed out that Sun Cunzhou and Li Yulin came to Shanghai from Nanjing to find him on a day in June of the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), and soon after, he and Prince Ping competed.
Gao Zhendong said that at the beginning of the competition, Wang Ziping was knocked back under the wall by his punch. The prince had no choice but to wave his hand to stop. And when he turned to strike, Prince Ping did not talk about martial arts, suddenly pounced from behind to launch an attack on himself, and in a fit of anger, he turned around and slapped him, opening a large opening in Prince Ping's clothes. Li Jinglin, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, was afraid that the situation would deteriorate and came up to stop the competition.
Gaozu Yan Ziyuan, a Taiji Taidou Ma Yueliang, wrote the article "The True Annals of Sun Lutang", which also mentioned the contest between Gao Zhendong and Wang Ziping, and used the memoirs of Zhang Zhijiang and others as evidence, saying that Gao Zhendong was injured in the competition and was sent to the hospital.
Regardless of whether the winner of this contest is Wang Ziping or Gao Zhendong, it is an indisputable fact that Sun Lutang is timid and avoids battle.
After that, Gao Zhendong served as the head of the Wudang Gate of the Central Guoshu Museum, while Sun Lutang went to the Jiangsu GuoshuGuan.
Yan Ziyuan's "Chronology of the True Sun Lutang" also said that Sun Lutang was later reprimanded by Sun Xikun, a famous gossip artist from Wuqiao, Hebei, at the Jiangsu Guoshuguan.