Huo Yuanjia in the film and television drama is a complete legend: "He is superb in martial arts, once created his own lost boxing, and founded the Jingwu Gate in the epicenter of the epicenter; he has tried to defeat foreign martial artists and luxes several times when the country and the nation are in danger, but finally he was poisoned to death by the Japanese." ”
However, this is only Huo Yuanjia in the film and television drama, and the real Huo Yuanjia in history is also legendary, but his story is far from the same as in the film and television drama -
The real Huo Yuanjia was a native of Jinghai County, Tianjin, born on January 18, 1868. His father, Horndi, was a dart master, and with his ancestral "Secret Fist" stunt, Horndi has always been a famous local dart master.
Logically, born in such a family, Huo Yuanjia would definitely have been taught martial arts by his father since he was a child. Unfortunately, because Huo Yuanjia was weak in his infancy, Huo Endi was afraid that he would not be able to learn martial arts and lose the reputation of the Huo family, so he refused to teach him art, and only let him immerse himself in reading.
At that time, Huo Yuanjia was indeed not a "martial arts seed" who could learn martial arts, he always coughed incessantly, and such a child was naturally not considered to be the master who could practice Qigong well.
As a result, when the older brothers and younger brothers were young, they all followed their father to learn martial arts, but Huo Yuanjia could only be locked up in the study, and this result naturally made Huo Yuanjia, who was very angry, very dissatisfied.
In the film and television drama, the young Huo Yuanjia
Where there is dissatisfaction, there is resistance, and Huo Yuanjia's way of resistance is to secretly learn martial arts.
In order to learn martial arts, Huo Yuanjia got up half an hour earlier than his father and brother every day, and he naturally did this in order to "hide" in advance in the place where his father passed on his brother's martial arts. After seeing the moves, he secretly practiced in secluded places such as outside the house and in the jujube forest.
In addition to learning Huo Jiaquan, Huo Yuanjia also learned the tricks of other sects, so that after a long time, he began to learn from his talents. He also invented his own set of boxing techniques.
But even after learning martial arts, Huo Yuanjia, who grew up slowly, still did not have the appearance of a warrior: his height was less than one meter and seven meters, and his figure did not look like a strong warrior, except for that pair of extremely sharp eyes, rough look, he had almost no characteristics of a warrior.
Because Huo Yuanjia was too unlike a martial arts practitioner, it was not until Huo Yuanjia was close to adulthood that Huo Endi discovered his son's "secret". When he and his son tentatively crossed paths, he realized that his son had already practiced on his own. After that, Horndi began to teach his martial arts on the premise that his son promised not to easily compete with others.
After that, Huo Yuanjia practiced martial arts even more desperately.
At the age of 24, Huo Yuanjia defeated a master who defeated his younger brother and brother at a very fast speed in a competition, and this competition was the first time that Huo Yuanjia had emerged in his life.
But it was also in this competition that Huo Yuanjia, who had won, began to wonder, and for the first time he had doubts about the purpose of his martial arts training. Although the victory over his opponent made him grow a face among his brothers, he was not happy, and he felt that "if the purpose of practicing martial arts is to bet darts and test", then what is the point?
Perhaps because of the doubts in his heart, at the age of 28, Huo Yuanjia made up his mind to leave his hometown. After arriving in Tianjin, he first worked as a stevedor at a wharf, and then he went to the Huaiqing Medicine Store opened by NongJinsun as a helper.
Huo Yuanjia
People say that "gold always shines", and it was here that Huo Yuanjia's martial arts were discovered by Nong Jinsun.
The first time Nong Jinsun paid attention to this young man named "Huo Yuanjia", it was when he pushed two large bluestones, and Nong Jinsun at that time was stunned, and immediately he sighed: "Such a Chinese man with such divine power is really a strange person."
Since then, Nong Jinsun has paid special attention to this young man who is not very tall. After observation, he found that Huo Yuanjia was the most uneven on weekdays, and even the foreigners on the street bullied the rickshaw drivers, and he would intervene because he could not see the eyes. At this time, It was already the revolutionary party's Peasant Jinsun who realized that this young man was the same as these revolutionaries in his bones.
Nong Jinsun was a friend of Sun Yat-sen's right-hand man Chen Qimei, who was a wealthy businessman on the surface, but in fact a revolutionary party. In addition to using industry to support the revolution, he often collected talents for the revolution by discovering talents. After talking with Huo Yuanjia in depth, Nong Jinsun admired this very thoughtful young man even more.
Soon, Nong Jinsun became friends with Huo Yuanjia. Soon, Huo Yuanjia was promoted to treasurer. Over time, the two became brothers.
Nong Jinsun was an old-fashioned bureaucrat, because he had studied in Japan in his early years, and he had stepped towards the revolution under the influence of Chen Qimei, an assistant of Sun Yat-sen, so he was well aware of the importance of ideological penetration.
In order to develop Huo Yuanjia, as long as he had time, Nong Jinsun would talk to him about social and state affairs. Slowly, Huo Yuanjia also gained an in-depth understanding of the current situation in China under his influence.
It was also during this period that Huo Yuanjia became acquainted with an important person: the Great Sword King V.
Wang Wu was a martial arts wizard, and because he was good at wielding large swords, he was called "Great Sword King Five" by the people of the time. Because of the ideal of saving the country and saving the people, when Wu Shu changed the law, Wang Wu, who was also a brother with Tan Si, the head of the "Six Gentlemen of Wu Shu", who later became righteous, always tried to support the revolution.
Wang Wu was more than twenty years older than Huo Yuanjia, but the huge age difference did not prevent the two from becoming friends of life and death. According to legend, Huo Yuanjia once learned martial arts from Wang Wu.
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After the failure of the Wushu Reform, Tan Si was killed, and Wang Wu was devastated when he learned of this, and later, in order to avenge Tan Sitong, Wang Wu organized people to assassinate Cixi's favorite minister Ronglu five times. Hou Wang Wu was shot by the coalition forces after the assassination failed and hung up his head to show the public, when he was only 56 years old.
After Wang Wu was killed by the foreigner gang, the foreigners also hung his head at the city gate to show the public, although the Chinese people were angry, but no one dared to collect his body, the sad and indignant Huo Yuanjia heard about it, so he rushed to Beijing alone and took off his head at night and buried it.
Wang Wu's death was a great touch for Huo Yuanjia, and he began to think more deeply about saving the country and saving the people. But at the same time, he also knew through Wang Wu's death that there was no way to save the country with a martial art.
One night shortly after that, Huo Yuanjia stood alone in the courtyard in a daze. Although it was late autumn at that time, Huo Yuanjia still only wore a shirt, because he had been thinking about things, and when Nong Jinsun walked behind him, he only noticed that someone was coming.
Nong Jinsun looked at him after standing near him and said, "What are you thinking?" Huo Yuanjia listened but did not look at him, still only looking at the crescent moon in the sky:
"Let me be born hundreds of years ago, with a spear and a short sword to kill thieves to serve the country, and make immortal deeds, such as picking mustard ears." Now that science is clear, firearms are out, and the formations are changed, although there is martial courage, will they be used for safety? ”
Huo Yuanjia was doubting himself when he said this, he felt: If he was in ancient times, this martial art would definitely help him kill thieves and serve the country, but he was in the present, so he had a martial art in the air, you know, no matter how good the martial arts, in front of the foreign muskets and artillery, they are all white.
Nong Jinsun couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he heard this, he knew that these words were the result of Huo Yuanjia's stimulation by Wang Wu's death. To tell the truth, if the foreigners did not have long guns and short cannons, how could Wang Wu, who was a martial artist, die?
Nong Jinsun sighed and said slowly: "In my opinion, the current China needs to restore self-confidence, and now we all feel that foreigners are superior to us, how can such a China be strong?" ”
Huo Yuanjia listened but hummed his nose: "I don't think we are a 'sick country', and I don't think foreigners are superior to us." ”
Nong Jinsun listened and said loudly, "Well, what I want is your words, now everyone says that we are the 'sick men of East Asia', so we will let them see our strength." After saying that, he introduced Huo Yuanjia into the inner chamber. That night, the two men talked in the inner room before dispersing at dawn.
Shortly after the two had this long conversation, in the spring and summer of 1901, a Russian Hercules named Schifferlov came to the Tianjin Opera Garden to perform, and this Hercules was known as the "first Hercules in the world", and he also threatened to say: "Fight all over China with invincible hands, so that the sick men of East Asia can see and open their eyes." ”
After Huo Yuanjia knew about it, he found Nong Jinsun and said that he was going to the theater to compete with Fanlov, and After considering the trade-offs, Nong Jinsun decided to support him to go to the test. What they did not expect was that after Fanlov privately learned of Huo Yuanjia's martial arts, he admitted it without a test.
On the day of the competition, he found Huo Yuanjia and said, "I just came to Tianjin to perform, and what I said doesn't count." ”
Huo Yuanjia listened and said: "It is okay not to compete, but you have to apologize for calling Chinese the 'sick man of East Asia'"! Fanlov saw Huo Yuanjia's serious face and promised "be well" and retreated.
Soon after, Van Lof fled and left Tianjin.
After successfully intimidating Fanlov, Huo Yuanjia became more aware of the importance of martial arts, and with the support of Nong Jinsun, he began to devote more energy to the study of martial arts. He even began to feel that it was his mission to use martial arts to give self-confidence to the people of the country who had been in a state of oppression at that time, and perhaps, this was also one of the ways to save the country.
It was also from this time that Huo Yuanjia decided to teach the Huo family martial arts and the self-created "Lost Fist" to the Chinese people. With the support of Nong Jinsun, Huo Yuanjia went to Shanghai to develop at the age of 41.
41 years old is the age of a man's strength. This year is also the turning point in Huo Yuanjia's life. He quickly grew from an obscure warrior into a well-known Chinese hero in this year, and soon there was even a "Huo Yuanjia wind" in Shanghai.
This "wind" originated from the British Hercules Oppi Yin, who came to China to dig for gold.
Opyn was a hercules, he was born with a large waist and a round waist and a loud voice, so that people would know at a glance that he was a powerful master, and at that time he often performed weightlifting and bodybuilding in major theaters.
Every time he went on stage, Opine would show his muscles on the stage and shout, "See no, East Asian sick men, this is a muscle you can't train," and when he finished, he would grin and pat his chest muscles hard.
Opyn's approach made the foreigners present excited, and whenever he showed off like this, the foreigners took a triumphant posture. And the Chinese people on the field are naturally provoked by him to be "fierce". But infuriating to angry, in the face of such a tall and mighty foreign muscle man, which of the Chinese people at that time dared to say anything?
At that time, China was poor and weak, and the large amount of opium smoke had devastated the chinese people's body and mind. Therefore, even if there are hot-blooded young people, they can only hold their breath back into their stomachs in the face of Opie's provocation.
People's hearts are slowly expanding, and after a long time, Opie Yin became even more rampant, and later, he even shouted at the people on the stage again and again: "Come, try with me, let me see if the bones of your East Asian sick man are hard or not!" ”
Oppiyin's provocation was quickly reported by the major media, and Huo Yuanjia, who was preparing for the martial arts museum in Shanghai at this time, also knew about it. On the day he saw the report, Huo Yuanjia slapped it on the table and said, "Isn't it reasonable to do this, it's just too deceitful." ”
Nong Jinsun didn't feel angry when he saw it, and he said loudly: "If you don't give them some color to see, they will be even more rampant!" ”
Huo Yuanjia's eyes lit up, "I'll fight him!" After hearing this, Nong Jinsun immediately stood up and said, "You can think about it, he is big and an expert, in case of losing, you are afraid of your life." ”
Huo Yuanjia listened to the nose and hummed, "What does life matter, besides, I don't believe that our Chinese martial arts will lose to these foreigners." ”
The day after Huo Yuanjia made his decision, major newspapers in Shanghai published Huo Yuanjia's battle statement, which read:
"The world ridicules our country as a sick man's country, I am a sick man in the sick man's country, and I am willing to try it with the world's healthy people."
Huo Yuanjia also said in the statement: "Exclusively accept foreign Hercules, although they have iron bones and iron bones, they have nothing to worry about!" ”
Huo Yuanjia in the report
As soon as this statement came out, the whole of Shanghai boiled over. With the help of the media, the battle between Huo and Ao became a pinnacle duel concerning the dignity and face of the Chinese nation and showing the "yellow soul" (that is, the courage of the yellow race).
Nong Jinsun, who had been supporting Huo Yuanjia behind his back, began to make final preparations for this competition, and the core figure of the alliance was more energetic than ever, and he firmly believed that the "Yellow Soul" with high martial arts would be able to defeat Opie Yin.
At the critical moment, some stage-frightened Opie Yin actually threatened with a deposit of 10,000 yuan, and the purpose of setting up this obstacle was to make Huo Yuanjia retreat. This obstacle was easily broken by Nong Jinsun, isn't it necessary to ask for a deposit of ten thousand yuan, easy!
When Oppi Yin saw that the beating barrier he had set up was easily broken, he felt some drumming in his heart, and then he proposed that the competition time should be postponed until June of that year.
Before the competition, Huo Yuanjia had set up a 4-foot-high and 20-foot-wide ring in Zhang Garden, and everything was ready.
However, on the day of the match, Huo Yuanjia once again encountered a similar situation to the first fight: the opponent Opie Yin escaped from the battle. On the day of the match, Huo Yuanjia was waiting for his opponent in the ring, but what he was waiting for was the news that his opponent had heard the wind and fled.
Undoubtedly, Opie Yin was frightened by the Chinese kung fu represented by Huo Yuanjia. This time, Huo Yuanjia once again "surrendered his soldiers without a fight," and the result was that this contest greatly increased the morale of Chinese and destroyed the arrogance of imperialism.
Huo Yuanjia in the film and television drama
Therefore, the real Huo Yuanjia in history has not really fought with the "Yang Lux", and the bridge sections in the film and television dramas are all the interpretations of novelists.
It is worth mentioning that this time, although Huo Yuanjia did not compete, he showed his martial arts to the Chinese people present in the ring. On the same day, the organizer saw that there was "no beating" to fight, so they proposed to let the audience on the stage to "fight", which adopted the Chinese often said "point to the end": to not hurt the other party as the principle, to the body fell to the ground to divide the victory and defeat.
In the ring, Huo Yuanjia and his apprentice naturally won easily, and since then, Huo Yuanjia has made a name for himself on Shanghai Beach.
After hearing the news, Sun Yat-sen also praised Huo Yuanjia: "Defend the country with force and strengthen the species." Shortly after this fight, Huo Yuanjia determined the ideal of "martial arts to save the country".
On June 1, 1910, Huo Yuanjia, with the help of Nong Jinsun and others, founded the "Chinese Jingwu Gymnastics Association" in Shanghai, which was later the Jingwu Sports Association.
After the jingwu sports club was launched, it caused a huge sensation in Shanghai. As soon as the Jingwu Association was established, it welcomed countless people to attend. The fiery heat of the Jingwuhui soon attracted the attention of the Japanese, who were a martial country, and their samurai thought that they were invincible, so how could they allow Huo Yuanjia to exist.
In order to defeat Huo Yuanjia, shortly after the establishment of the Jingwu Association, the Japanese Judo Association sent more than a dozen masters to compete with Huo Yuanjia. The Japanese felt that Huo Yuanjia had not dueled with the Russians and British after all, so his martial arts were not necessarily really as powerful as the legends.
Huo Yuanjia saw that the Japanese masters were not good but not in a hurry, and he first sent his disciple Liu Zhensheng to duel with five of them. Huo Yuanjia's move was naturally to see the tricks of the Japanese, and after a few rounds, Liu Zhensheng won five consecutive victories over the other side.
Liu Zhensheng
The Japanese leader was furious when he saw nature, and he was extremely angry at Huo Yuanjia's refusal to compete in person, and he even felt that Huo Yuanjia was insulting the Japanese spirit of Bushido.
Huo Yuanjia had already figured out the Moves of the Japanese master at this time, and he naturally agreed to fight with the Japanese leader without even thinking about it.
What the Japanese leader samurai did not expect was that as soon as he fought, he was skilled in self-confidence and defeated, seeing that the Japanese martial arts he represented would be easily defeated by Huo Yuanjia, and the Japanese leader used a black move, what he did not expect was that his flower tricks had not yet come out, and Huo Yuanjia had preemptively recognized it. After seeing through the black move, Huo Yuanjia quietly used his strength to smash the Japanese leader into a broken arm bone.
After this confrontation, the Japanese completely knew how powerful Huo Yuanjia was.
After that, the Jingwu Society naturally became more and more prosperous. The whole country has set off a wave of martial arts training because of Huo Yuanjia, and the Chinese people are also proud of Chinese kung fu.
However, what no one expected was that on September 14, shortly after this competition, Huo Yuanjia suddenly "died of illness". At this time, only three months had passed since the founding of the Jingwuhui, and he was only 42 years old.
Because of his death in his prime and sudden death, the Jingwu Huimen, who suspected that someone had poisoned him, specially tested Huo Yuanjia's medicine, and they found that the medicine was a chronic poison.
Regarding huo Yuanjia's poisoning to death, it is recorded in the early Jingwuhui historical materials:
"On the morning after lux (referring to Huo Yuanjia) died, qiu doctor (that is, doctor Qiu Ye) had already returned to the cave, and the disciples of Lux Gate were suspicious, and the remaining medicine that Lux took every day was inspected by the public hospital, and the hospital doctor said: 'This chronic rotten lung medicine is also'."
This passage comes from the 1919 Jingwu Honki, and its meaning is very clear: Huo Yuanjia was poisoned to death by a lifetime in Japan, and it has always been considered the strongest evidence that Huo Yuanjia was poisoned to death.
Sun Yat-sen's inscription to Huo Yuanjia
According to the recollection of Chen Gongzhe, one of the actual operators of the Jingwuhui in the "Fifty Years of the Jingwuhui", the medicine used by Huo Yuanjia to treat lung disease was provided by the Japanese. He was sure that Huo Yuanjia's condition had quickly worsened after taking the drugs given by the Japanese.
However, although Chen Gongzhe told this fact, his view of the cause of Huo Yuanjia's death was different from that of the Jingwu Benji, and he speculated that Huo Yuanjia's cause of death was related to practicing Qigong, rather than poisoning as determined by the world. When talking about Huo Yuanjia's condition, he said: "Swallowing qi and injuring the lungs", his implication is that Huo Yuanjia's death was because he was unable to practice Qigong himself.
Because of Chen Gongzhe's denial of the "poisoned death theory", huo Yuanjia's cause of death began to become confusing.
The real cause of huo Yuanjia's death in history is consistent with the version interpreted in the film and television drama: it was poisoned to death.
However, the time when this truth was officially revealed was 1989, nearly eighty years after Huo Yuanjia's death. It turned out that when huo yuanjia cemetery was built this year, the relevant personnel tested his bones and found that there were black spots on his crotch. This feature indicates that Huo Yuanjia's death is related to poisoning.
In the film and television drama, after Huo Yuanjia died, his disciple Chen Zhen avenged him. However, in real history, although Huo Yuanjia had many disciples, there was not a single person named Chen Zhen, and naturally no one took revenge for him.
The character of Chen Zhen is purely a character fabricated by novelists for the needs of the plot.
After Huo Yuanjia's death, the disciples of the Jingwu Society and patriots in the Martial Arts community in Shanghai held a solemn funeral for him. They also offered him the "Cheng Ren Zhi Yi" tie, and Huo Yuanjia was originally buried in the northern suburbs of Shanghai. Later, his disciple Liu Zhensheng moved him to the south of Xiaonanhe Village in Tianjin.
Since then, Huo Yuanjia has finally been able to return to the roots.
It is extremely noteworthy that after Huo Yuanjia's death, the Jingwu Society he founded did not lose because of his death. The reason why the Jingwuhui can be carried forward is related to Huo Dongge, the son of Huo Yuanjia.
Huo Dongge was huo Yuanjia's second son, and although he was only 15 years old when his father died, he was a man with superb martial arts and extreme endurance. Under the control of him and his clan huo Yuanqing, the momentum of the Jingwu Society was even stronger than that of Huo Yuanjia' period.
Huo Dongge, son of Huo Yuanjia
Such a result is naturally something that the Japanese people never dreamed of. (The next issue will be online Huo Yuanjia's love legend and the legend of huo Dongge!) ）