In traditional Chinese martial arts, there have always been sayings such as "the south fist and the north leg" and "the hand is two doors, all by the foot to hit people". From this, we can imagine the importance of "leg method and leg gong" in traditional Chinese martial arts. Next, let's take a look at some of the "leg kings" in classic Chinese martial arts films!
First, Huang Zhengli.
Jeong-ri is a Korean born on December 13, 1944 in Osaka, Japan. He has been called "the greatest leg master in the history of kung fu films".
In 1965, he began teaching martial arts in Korea, and later went to South Vietnam to teach as a team due to Korea's participation in the Vietnam War. Once there was a verbal altercation with a Vietnamese, the Vietnamese took a knife to challenge, Huang Zhengli accepted the challenge of the knife maker, a flying kick hit the temple, the Vietnamese died on the spot.
In 1976, at the invitation of Wu Siyuan, he played the role of the villain leader "Silver Fox" in "South Fist and North Leg", which deeply impressed the audience and became one of his nicknames, so Huang Zhengli also stayed in Hong Kong to develop.
In 1978, in Jackie Chan's "Serpentine Executioner", he played the eagle claw door master Shangguan Yiyun. In the same year, in another famous work of Jackie Chan, "Drunken Fist", Huang Zhengli played Yan Tiexin, making him a "generation of leg master" in the hearts of the audience.
Second, Tan Daoliang.
Tan Daoliang was born in 1947. Tan Daoliang was originally a native of Weihai, Shandong Province, and later became an overseas Chinese in South Korea. In the past years, Tan Daoliang shocked the film world with a move of "Gecko Gong", and was also known as the "King of Legs". The purpose of Tan Daoliang's martial arts training when he was young was mainly to strengthen his body. Later, Tan Daoliang learned taekwondo again, and he once laughed that because people were bullied in a foreign land, he practiced martial arts and became a taekwondo master.
"Chaozhou Nuhan", filmed in 1972, is Tan Daoliang's famous masterpiece. 1975's "Tantric Sacred Hand" was Tan Daoliang's first film for Jiahe, with a box office of 1.1 million and starring Mao Ying, a famous kung fu actress at the time, which included Hong Jinbao, Jackie Chan, Yuan Biao, Yuan Kui, and Yuan Hua Running Dragon Set. The cast was extremely large at the time.
Tan Daoliang was intoxicated with taekwondo all his life, and once refused the invitation of Stephen Chow to play the role of "Fire Cloud Evil God" in the film "Kung Fu". He also founded the "Republic of China Taekwondo Committee" in Taiwan, and then opened a museum in Los Angeles, USA, and Bruce Lee's daughter Li Xiangning also studied taekwondo as a teacher.
Third, Liu Zhongliang.
Liu Zhongliang was born in 1944 and grew up in Taiwan. Liu Zhongliang learned kung fu with his grandfather since childhood, and later met Tan Daoliang, in exchange for helping Master Tan Daoliang cook rice and laundry and do chores, let him guide himself to learn taekwondo, because of the hard training of Liu's leg method also cultivated to become magical, in 1972 he made the first Taiwanese film "Chinese Boxing", probably under the promotion of Master Tan, but only a small role has not been further developed. In the end, it was Mr. Wu Siyuan who had the insight to know kung fu, and discovered that Liu Zhongliang's starring "South Fist and North Leg" quickly became popular on the screen, and then he took over a number of kung fu films out of control, and the early response was still very strong.
As a kung fu martial arts actor, Liu Zhongliang's main works include "Southern Fist and North Leg", "Eagle Claw Iron Cloth Shirt", "Divine Leg Iron Fan Gong" and so on.
Fourth, Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), formerly known as Li Zhenfan, was born in San Francisco, California, and his ancestral home was Jun'an Town, Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China.
Bruce Lee is a pioneer of martial arts reform in the world, a martial arts martial artist, a martial arts philosopher, the father of mma, a martial arts master, the founder of kung fu films and the founder of cut boxing, a Chinese martial arts film actor, the first global promoter of Chinese kung fu, and the first Chinese protagonist in Hollywood. Bruce Lee's four and a half films in Hong Kong broke multiple records three times, including "Raptors Across the River" breaking the Asian film box office record, and "Dragon Fight" with Hollywood with a total global box office of $230 million.
In 1962, Bruce Lee opened the "Zhen Fan Guo Shu Gym", in 1967 he created his own boxing, and on July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong at the age of 33. In 1979, the City of Los Angeles designated June 8, the opening date of the remake of "Game of Death," as "Bruce Lee Day" (July 8 was a mistranslation). In 1993, the 20th anniversary of Bruce Lee's death was released in the United States, and the Bruce Lee commemorative star emblem was laid on Hollywood Boulevard; in the same year, it was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In November 1998, he was awarded the "Wushu Film Superstar Award" by the Chinese Wushu Association.
Bruce Lee's leg method classic signature action is the "Volley Flying Kick" in the movie "Jingwumen" (Volley kicked the "Chinese and dogs are not allowed" sign to smash)! In addition, bruce Lee is said to have the famous "Three Feet of Lee" passed down.
Fifth, Liang Xiaolong.
Liang Xiaolong, born on April 28, 1948 in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, is a martial artist and actor. Growing up in a poor family in Hong Kong, Leung joined martial arts at the age of 15 and began working as a stuntman. In the 1970s, Bruce Leung was known as the "Four Little Dragons" in the Hong Kong showbiz circle along with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Dillon. In 2007, he won the "Best Action Actor" award at the Chinese Kung Fu Global Festival. In 2010, he won the "Legendary Kung Fu Superstar" award at the Pantasia International Film Festival in Canada. He has starred in "Huo Yuanjia" and "Chen Zhen" and has been popular all over the country.
Leung's father was a master of a small drama class in Hong Kong and had been wandering for many years. Xiaolong, who is only eight years old in the family, and his elderly grandmother are dependent on each other, because Liang Xiaolong is the eldest brother among the children, so his parents hope that he can study seriously, but Liang Xiaolong is heavy on martial arts and light literature, and when he is seven or eight years old, he leaves the family and begins to run into his own life. At the age of 15, his uncle Leung Ko-song, who was a martial arts instructor at the Shaw Film Company in Hong Kong, began to formally teach him martial arts, not only learning the Northern Leg Technique with his uncle, but also practicing Wing Chun with other martial artists, and formally learning karate from The Japanese black belt master Yamaguchi. He participated in three hong Kong-wide fighting competitions with foreigners in Hong Kong, winning two first prizes and one runner-up. Once, in the stairwell of his own martial arts hall in the Ping An Mansion in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, he was ambushed by more than a dozen men with sharp weapons, and finally knocked out all the opponents, and he was unarmed and only slightly injured.
Liang Xiaolong's classic leg method in the film and television drama "Chen Zhen" is "sideways flying kick"!
In addition, Jet Li in the movie "Shaolin Temple" and Huang Feihong's series, there are also upper-level performances in the performance of leg methods, and the famous "Foshan Shadowless Feet" has become Huang Feihong's classic signature trick.
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