Circulating on the Internet is a classic clip of Mr. Yu Chenghui in the kung fu film "The Trail of Wokou":
In the process of fighting with personality, Yu Chenghui used the traditional Chinese martial art Hui Horse Gun, and he used a very realistic way of playing to perform the Yue Wu Mu Thirteen Guns handed down by Yue Fei like a textbook standard. At the end, he said to his defeated opponent:
Do you see what the ancestor left behind?
Netizens who watched this video have said that they have finally seen what the real back gun is.
Yu Chenghui, an artist who died in 2015, has been a martial artist for many years and has perfectly interpreted what Chinese kung fu is.
Some people say that when the old man is gone, there will be no martial arts. This is not an exaggeration.
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In 1939, Yu Chenghui was born in Penglai, Shandong. When he was a child, he was a "strong man" in school, enjoying various sports and fighting with people.
Slightly older, he came into contact with villain books such as romance of the Three Kingdoms and water margins, as well as commentaries such as Yue Fei and Yang Jiajian, and the spirit of those oriental chivalrous warriors infected him and cured him of his love for unprovoked fights.
Yu Chenghui, who has had a great hero dream since he was a child, began to learn Chinese kung fu when he was 11 years old, and he did not refuse to treat swords, guns and sticks, he was not rejected, he was interested, but his favorite was swordplay.
Swordplay, practiced as a martial soul, needs to exert strength from the bones, and the young Yu Chenghui practiced swordplay very hard.
By 1963, Yu Chenghui had practiced his martial arts skills to an outstanding level, and with a set of drunken swords that had reached the pinnacle of perfection, he naturally won the championship of the Wushu Competition in East China, making him famous in the martial arts world.
But life has its ups and downs. Later, during a routine training, Yu Chenghui's knee was unfortunately injured, and his body was quite painful during treatment. In desperation, he had to endure the regret in his heart and go to the factory to work.
At that time, he did not give up his love of martial arts, bought a lot of martial arts books, bought a white ash stick, waved the stick against the wall against the book again and again, and from time to time visited his friends.
One early morning in 1975, lightning flies, thunder roars, and rainstorms fall, Yu Chenghui suddenly sees a praying mantis raising its arms to fight against the storm, and from the mantis's movements, he was inspired to create a new routine of swordplay.
This routine was later named "Mantis Sword", the advent of this sword method made the long-lost "two-handed sword" spring, the essence of which is: pulling the cloud to wipe, point collapse and stabbing, twisting and chopping, provoking the wrong washing.
With this set of self-created sword techniques, Yu Chenghui won the admiration of many martial arts practitioners and was invited to become the coach of the Ningxia Martial Arts Team.
In the martial arts team, Yu Chenghui taught by example without reservation. At that time, he wanted to devote his life only to the cause of martial arts, not to have too much alternation with the world, and the sword was one of the ways he spoke.
But later, the "Shaolin Temple" crew found him, the coach who emerged in the martial arts world, and thus got the opportunity to become an action star.
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Zhang Xinyan, the director of the movie "Shaolin Temple", found Yu Chenghui in the Gymnasium of Shandong Province when he was selecting actors in Jinan.
At that time, Yu Chenghui held a rosewood stick in his hand, and the wooden stick flashed rapidly under the light, and the form was both flowing and romantic, but also fierce and fierce. Zhang Xinyan immediately determined in his heart that this was the villain he was looking for: Wang Renze.
Treating the opportunity to enter the film and television industry in front of him, Yu Chenghui was not moved, he felt that he had already made some achievements in martial arts, and there was no need to change his career. Later, he couldn't stand Zhang Xinyan's soft and hard bubbles, so he agreed to play Wang Renze.
In August 1980, Yu Chenghui, Jet Li, Yu Hai, Wang Changkai and other "eighteen elites" in the martial arts circle gathered in Zhengzhou, and then participated in intensive training in Zhongmu, received special technical training, observed Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts films, and listened to the director dissect the plot...
During the 20-day training process, Yu Chenghui deeply realized the intentions and exquisiteness of the crew, and he decided to complete the shooting of "Shaolin Temple" as an important mission to introduce Chinese kung fu to the world.
In "Shaolin Temple", Yu Chenghui suffered a lot and poured a lot of effort.
There was a scene where Yu Chenghui and Jet Li were fighting in the Yellow River, when the weather was severe, the ground was thick with frost, and after they finished filming that scene, they were all frozen to purple lips, so cold that they shivered, which scared the staff to quickly pour them liquor.
Many of the fight scenes in "Shaolin Temple" are completed after the director and the actors have jointly discussed, which seems powerful and beautiful.
Moreover, the tough guy image of the characters in the film was very rare on the screen at that time, which caused the film to cause a sensation as soon as it was released, and it created a miracle with a box office of 160 million that year.
Yu Chenghui, the actor who plays the biggest villain in the film, is naturally also attracted by everyone's attention.
Soon after, Zhang Xinyan invited Yu Chenghui again to star in his own movie "Shaolin Kid", followed by Yu Chenghui and Jet Li co-starring in "Southern Shaolin and Northern Forest".
In these films, Yu Chenghui uses his favorite weapons and the most proud martial arts on his characters.
In 1988, Zhang Xinyan tailored the movie "Yellow River Hero" for Yu Chenghui.
In this film, he performed the style of a hero for the country and the people, and also performed the chivalrous liver and courage of "walking alone for thousands of miles", and he stood proudly with the image of a martial arts master who stood proudly by the river, which is still reflected in the hearts of many martial arts fans.
"Yellow River Hero" is Yu Chenghui's real masterpiece, so that his acting career has reached subversion, if Shunshi continues to develop in the show business circle, perhaps he can become as dazzling martial arts stars as Jet Li.
However, after the completion of this film, he chose to fade out of the show business circle.
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After filming "Yellow River Hero", Yu Chenghui did not participate in many plays, generally only completed cameos in TV series, but created some classic images.
For example, Feng Qingyang in "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", Huang Yaoshi in "The Condor Hero", Ip Man in "The Legend of Bruce Lee", Zhang Sanfeng in "The Dragon Slaughter in the Heavens"... On set, he worked more as a martial arts instructor and occasionally as a screenwriter.
In February 2012, invited by director Xu Haofeng, he returned to the big screen and played the main character Qiu Dongyue in "The Trail of Wokou". In the film, he has white hair flowing, a long beard, and a fairy wind Dao bone.
When the film was filmed, Yu Chenghui still used real kung fu, did not hang Wei Ya, and did not lose his strength, and it is said that at that time, he knocked down a group of young actors who were looking for him to practice martial arts.
There is a scene in "The Trail of Wokou" in which Yu Chenghui is energetic in the field, and the strength of the shape is punched. When the film was exhibited at the 48th Golden Horse Awards, Taiwanese film audiences commented that the scene in the rice field was really too classic.
In the same year, he cooperated with Xu Haofeng and played an assassin whose personality was extremely traumatized in the movie "Arrow Soldier Liu White Ape".
In these two films directed by Xu Haofeng, Yu Chenghui is not only strong in martial arts, but also subtle and moving in literary dramas, and the lines are very well grasped. He does not want the audience to think that martial arts is to fight and kill, and wants to present a just and peaceful martial arts culture in the film.
"Arrow Soldier Liu Bai Ape" is Yu Chenghui's masterpiece on the road of acting. Since then, he has hardly had any film contracts. After all, becoming a brilliant star is not what he wants, martial arts is his life's main business.
For most of Yu Chenghui's later years, he spent most of his time studying swordsmanship. His ambition is to promote the connotations of sword culture to the public.
He wrote a number of articles on swordsmanship research, some of which were included in national martial arts textbooks, and he also self-financed the use of them for swordsmanship demonstration textbooks.
He contributed to the promotion of Chinese martial arts, but he acted in a low-key manner and did not seek fame. I can't help but think of what Gu Long said: the real big people look ordinary.
Everyone has dreamed of great heroism when they are young, but few people have taken this as their lifelong belief and destination.
But Yu Chenghui did it, he is a chivalrous warrior who has lived in the contemporary era.
In recent years, we have witnessed the regression of martial arts films, and we have also seen the martial arts community become the hardest hit area for incompetent people to cheat and teach.
The six gods Lei Lei sighed: The jianghu has become very small, living like a film and television city, the people in the play have taken off their costumes, and none of them are real heroes.
The Slovaks are gone, and we miss the chivalrous spirit that is difficult to reproduce in the present.
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