Speaking of China's more than 5,000 years of history and culture, the martial arts culture is definitely a treasure that cannot be ignored. The reason why Chinese martial arts can have extremely high achievements is naturally inseparable from the efforts of many martial arts masters and masters in history. It is worth mentioning that the martial arts masters of our country not only have high martial arts, but also have noble martial virtues.
Wang Ziping (first from left)
For example, the martial arts master that Xiaobian wants to introduce to you today is Wang Ziping, who once served as vice chairman of the All-China Armed Forces Association and is known as "Thousand Pounds of Divine Power". Although, compared with the famous martial arts masters such as Huo Yuanjia, Ip Man and Bruce Lee, Wang Ziping's popularity is indeed not high. However, he is indeed very powerful in martial arts. As for Wang Ziping's actual combat kung fu, how is it? Next, Xiaobian will introduce it to you in detail!
Wang Ziping, who was born in 1881 in Yihe Street, Cangzhou, Hebei Province, grew up in a martial arts family with a strong martial arts culture. Therefore, under the influence of his family environment, Wang Ziping began to learn martial arts from an early age and laid a solid foundation in martial arts. However, due to the turmoil in the late Qing Dynasty, Wang Ziping had to support his family through business in order to maintain his family's livelihood.
Wang Ziping (second from left)
However, this immediate dilemma did not make Wang Ziping give up martial arts. On the contrary, whenever he went to a strange place when he was doing business in various places, as soon as he finished the business at hand, he would soon visit the local martial arts masters and sincerely ask for advice on various skills.
Foreign powers
However, as the Qing government became more and more corrupt (and the oppression of the people became more and more severe), Wang Ziping could only abandon the merchants and join the army. Moreover, with his own ability, he soon became a martial arts instructor in the army. Until 1900, due to the joint strangulation of the rebel army by Chinese and foreign forces, Wang Ziping had no choice but to leave the army again.
Prince Ping
Later, he went to a military martial arts training center in Jinan to continue his studies, and met Yang Hongxiu, a master of Cha Boxing, here. By chance, Wang Ziping entered Yang Hongxiu's door. Moreover, during his martial arts career during this period, Wang Ziping not only learned special skills such as Cha Quan, Tai Chi Chuan and Longquan Sword, but even practiced leg kung fu such as bouncing legs. In this way, Wang Ziping had unconsciously changed from a martial arts newcomer to a well-known all-round martial artist.
After Wang Ziping's martial arts achievements, he was once challenged by a German in Shandong. It is said that in this battle, he directly lifted a large millstone weighing thousands of pounds and threw it at his opponent. This German was naturally powerless, and Wang Ziping became famous ever since. For a time, everyone knew that the prince was superior in strength, and the title of "King of Thousand Pounds of Divine Power" spread from this.
In addition, there are many practical cases of Wang Ziping. For example, in 1919, a russian man named Kang Tai'er performed a stunt in the beijing park. This man not only claimed to be the "world's first Hercules", but he also acted with great arrogance. Moreover, in the process of performance, this Kang Tai'er showed a very dismissive attitude towards the Chinese present.
Old photos of Beijing
As a result, some of the many onlookers in the park soon challenged Kang Tai'er, but all of them lost. Kang Tai'er was even more proud of the situation, and once again he was very arrogant. And Wang Ziping happened to be watching from the stage, and he couldn't help but jump into the ring with his original low-key behavior, and as a result, this vain Kang Tai'er was quickly defeated.
And in 1921, a man named Sullivan in the United States gathered several foreign Hercules to swing in Shanghai. Moreover, under the slogan of "the martial arts field of all countries," it bluntly said that it would hit all of China. In the face of this insulting provocation, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire Shanghai martial arts community. In the end, Wang Ziping was elected as the candidate for this attack.
Old photos of Shanghai
But who knew that before the competition began, when the two sides were still introducing themselves, one of the foreign big men suddenly attacked Wang Ziping. However, Wang Ziping's reaction was even better. Not only did he not let the sneak attacker succeed, but he directly put the big man down in a few moves. This scene made Sullivan, who had originally initiated the provocation, know how bad it was, so they fled in a boat that night.
Until 1960, the 80-year-old Prince Ping was invited to visit Myanmar and showed his "Green Dragon Sword" kung fu abroad. It is said that the superb skill he displayed at that time made countless foreign friends look down on him.
"The Twelve Laws of Boxing" by Prince Ping
To this day, the works of national martial arts left by Wang Ziping are still circulating in the world. And the heroic national pride and self-confidence in him are even more worthy of our lifelong learning!