Today's protagonist is a boxer, he is the master of the eight pole martial arts. Friends who are familiar with traditional Chinese martial arts will not be unfamiliar with Bajiquan, which is mainly spread in the northern region of China and is an extremely fierce fist. This type of punch belongs to the short punch type of boxing, and its movements are basically all rigid and fast. To put it simply, there is no fancy frame style, and all moves are based on the principle of actual combat defeat. The popularity of Bajiquan in the traditional martial arts circles in China has always been very high. For example, statements such as "Wen has Taiji to secure the world, Wu has eight poles to settle Qiankun" and "Tai Chi does not go out for ten years, and the eight poles kill people in one year" are all affirmations of the status and actual combat ability of the Eight Pole Quan. Some people will ask, usually see there is practice, look at the general well. As everyone knows, the eight-pole fist is more suitable for actual combat, and the moves are all killing techniques. The real Eight Pole Fist is extremely powerful, and the enemy is often within a few moves. A few moves down, so that the other party loses the ability to resist. Most of the circulation is routine, so it will make people have this illusion.
Two gossip: Wong Kar-wai's movie "A Generation of Grandmasters" played by Zhang Zhen," the "first-line heaven", used the eight pole fist to kill a killer in a second, and the kung fu showed the power of the eight pole fist to make people exclaim. Speaking of film and television actors who practice eight pole boxing, we have to talk about several film and television actors who insist on practicing eight pole boxing: Wu Fan, Zhang Zhen, Gu Wenze and so on. Zhang Zhen, for the movie "A Generation of Grandmasters", Zhang Zhen practiced eight pole boxing for 3 years and participated in the national competition to win the first prize. Wu Fan, in 1996, won the first place in "Eight Pole Quan". Gu Wenze is the champion of the 14th Hong Kong International Wushu Festival, in addition, Gu Wenze is also the descendant of Wu Kaimen Eight Pole Quan.
The official will say, isn't it a martial arts practitioner! You must know that those who practice martial arts are not the same as those who practice martial arts. Huo Yuanjia, Chen Zhen, Bruce Lee, and Ip Man, who are well known to everyone, are all well-known. Their deeds are also common in film and television works. Due to the development trend of traditional martial arts in China, which gradually tends to be performative, as well as the influence of various types of martial arts action film and television works. As a result, the popularity of Bajiquan in the hearts of ordinary people in China has gradually been overshadowed by the brilliance of Shaolin Kung Fu, Wudang Tai Chi, and Ip Man Wing Chun. However, in contrast, the popularity of Eight Pole Quan in Japan is very high. In addition, places such as the Eight Pole Boxing Research Association and the Eight Pole Boxing Dojo are located in various regions of Japan. There was even a time when the Japanese regarded it as the strongest combat boxing technique in China. The reason for this is because the protagonist I want to talk about today is Li Shuwen.
Li Shuwen (李書文), also spelled Tongchen , a Han Chinese from Wang Nanliang Village, Yanshan County, Cangzhou, Hebei Province, practiced martial arts since childhood, and when he was young, he first worshiped Zhang Jingxing, a descendant of the Eighth Pole IV, and practiced Eight Pole Quan for three years. Hou Bai practiced the big gun for six years under the Master Huang Sihai Gate. In addition to having a fierce eight-pole kung fu, his gun skills are also very powerful. Regarding the strength of his marksmanship, there is a record in the Cangxian Chronicle: "Flies gather on the wall, stab them with guns, and fall to the ground in response to the sound, while the wall leaves no trace." The basic meaning is that Li Shuwen used a 3-meter-long gun to stab down a fly that was parked on the wall (the wall was not damaged at all). According to this description, it can indeed be called a magic skill. Therefore, it has the reputation of "just fist without two blows, sharp gun Li Shuwen".
In the nineteenth year of the Republic of China (1912), Li Jinglin served as the director of the Shandong Guoshu Museum and invited Li Shuwen to teach art in Shandong. At this time, foreigners were rampant in the land of Shenzhou, every field was impacted, politics, economy, culture were affected by the West, the martial arts community naturally could not escape, the embodiment of martial arts is that Western boxers have come to China to build a ring and challenge Chinese martial artists. It coincided with the Japanese martial artists posing in Yantai Nanshi, putting up posters, and deceiving me that there was no one in China. Many local masters came to the stage to fight, and they all lost. Li Shuwen went alone.
On this day, when the defender Koji Ishizawa was speaking wildly to the audience, he saw a person jump on the stage. It was Li Shuwen who came. Shi Ze Saw that Li Shuwen was thin and dry, so he put his hands on his shoulders and spat at Li Shuwen with contempt. Li Shuwen was full of anger and anger at Dantian, and casually slapped the "Overlord Whip" lying wind palm, making Ishizawa Koji dizzy and knocking off an egg-sized piece of skin on his left cheek. Before Ishizawa Koji could react, Li Shuwen rose up with great power, followed the trend with a move of "six big opening elbows", and with lightning speed, transported a thousand jun forces to crack Ishizawa Koji's ribs and knock him out of the ring. In two or three rounds, defeat your opponent. Suddenly there was a cheer on the stage! At this moment, the Japanese martial artists Muto, Ito, and Zuo Tian saw that their companions were injured by Li Shuwen, and Qi swung his sword viciously at Li Shuwen. But when he saw Li Shuwen pick up the spear he had brought with him, the big gun trembled like a dragon out of the water, stabbed left and right, and immediately blood and flesh flew everywhere. In an instant, three Japanese martial arts masters were thrown off the stage, and the skills were shocking! Seeing that li Shuwen could not be beaten, the Japanese withdrew from the ring in a gray and slippery manner, never saying anything about the swing!!! Koji Ishizawa recovered from his injuries and returned to Japan. After this defeat, he has a profound understanding of the martial arts of our country. After years of research, he has come to China many times to collect eight pole quan materials and return to China for research. Since then, japan has arisen to study the eight poles of the wind, and it has been until today.
There were successors to the great hero: the early disciple Huo Diange (1886-1942, a native of Xiaoji Village, Nanpi County, Cangzhou) was elected as the chief instructor of martial arts in the 16th year of the Republic of China (1927) of the Emperor Ai xinjue Luo Puyi's guard at the end of the Qing Dynasty. A late disciple, Liu Yunqiao (1909-1992, a native of Jibeitou Village, Nanpiwang temple town, Cangzhou), at the age of seven, worshiped Li Shuwen as a teacher, and after several years of pure skill, he was a brave and courageous man who defeated the Japanese kendo master Tokusaburo Ota. He served as a martial arts instructor in Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo's bodyguards. The late disciples Li Yuhai and Liu Yunqiao were from the same village, the sons of a poor tenant adopted by Li Shuwen when he was staying at Liu Yunqiao's house, and he practiced martial arts at the same time as Liu Yunqiao. Li Yuhai joined the revolution after completing his martial arts studies and served as a martial arts instructor in the Central Leading Guard.