Since ancient times, the so-called "wen wu first, wu wu second".
Lao Qin plans to write a series of modern martial arts figures this Spring Festival, talking about the modern martial arts.
Then, who to write first and who to write later, there is a question of order.
Lao Qin's idea is not to write according to the chronological order, but according to the size of the fame.
The purpose of this is to determine the length of the series according to the reader's reaction to reading. The reason is clear, the less famous the character, the smaller the reader's desire to read. And when the reader has no interest in reading anymore, the series is over.
But who is more famous and who is less famous?
Lao Qin thought about it for a while and felt that this matter was easy to solve - whose deeds were interpreted more by film and television dramas, whose fame would be greater.
After all, film and television are an excellent medium for promoting celebrities.
Therefore, Lao Qin first wrote Huang Feihong, Ip Man, Huo Yuanjia, Dong Haichuan... Yesterday I wrote about Du Xinwu.
Some readers say, where is this? The fame of the ten Huang Feihong is not as good as that of one Du Xin Five.
This reader's statement cannot be wrong, after all, in the martial arts world, Du Xinwu's achievements are very great.
But Lao Qin stressed again that the "fame" mentioned by Lao Qin refers to the fame within the scope of the whole people, not just to the martial arts world.
If we talk about the martial arts world alone, the person lao Qin wants to talk about today, his fame is probably greater than That of Huang Feihong and Du Xinwu, and his names are numerous, including "Martial Saint", "Martial God", "Universal Hand", "Tiger Head Shaobao", "The First Hand in the World" and so on.
He is Sun Lutang, a generation of martial arts masters and the founder of Sun's Taijiquan.
However, in Lao Qin's impression, there does not seem to be any film and television work with Sun Lutang as the protagonist.
Oh, something weird.
Among the many titles of Sun Lutang, the most dazzling and honorable is the title of "Martial Saint".
After all, before Sun Lutang, thousands of years ago, there were only three people who could be awarded the title of "Martial Saint": Jiang Ziya, Guan Yu, and Yue Fei.
In the minds of thousands of people, Jiang Ziya, Guan Yu, and Yue Fei are all heroes who have already been enshrined as immortals.
Since Sun LuTang is known as the "Martial Saint", it is hidden that it is already side by side with them, but is it not the supremacy of glory and the infinite scenery?
So, what virtue and ability does Sun Lutang have to receive this honor?
The answer can be found in the book "Research on Sun Clan Martial Arts" written by Sun Jianyun's high-ranking disciple Tong Xudong, the daughter of Sun Lutang.
The second chapter of "Sun Clan Martial Studies", "Memorabilia of Mr. Sun Lutang", says two things: First, in 1920, the Japanese Emperor Taisho ordered the great samurai and all-Japanese jiu-jitsu champion Kazuo Sakagaki to challenge Mr. Sun Lutang, who was 60 years old at the time. Mr. Sun Lutang defeated Kazuo Sakagaki with a show of hands and feet; second, after ten years, in 1930, Japan sent six more martial arts masters to challenge the then 70-year-old Mr. Sun Lutang. This time, Mr. Sun Lutang decided to shock the Japanese in his lifetime, he offered to take a one-on-five, and let the five Japanese first press themselves to the ground, and then cut off the drink, shocking the five Japanese out of "a few feet away" and "fainting on the ground". When the five Japanese people woke up, they were so shocked that they even called Mr. Sun Lutang a "god man." They returned to China to make a big publicity, so the Japanese regarded Mr. Sun Lutang as the "Three Heroes of the Two Ways of Literature and Martial Arts".
Generally speaking, people believe that the title of "martial saint" of Sun Lutang came from this way.
However, things are not so simple.
Because the so-called "Japanese Emperor Taisho Emperor Chin-appointed Daimyo Itagaki" can not find this person in the Japanese archives, the so-called "in 1930, Japan selected six more martial arts masters", are also traceless.
In fact, not only is Itagaki Kazuo and the so-called "six Japanese martial arts masters" uncorredited, but many of the things recorded in the Memorabilia of Mr. Sun Lutang are uncorredited.
For example, from 1907 to 1909, Sun Lutang went to the northeast to serve as Xu Shichang's guest of honor, and "lightly" took the Russian and European fighting champion Petrov.
In fact, there is no European fighting champion named Petrov in Russia.
It is also said that between 1912 and 1914, Mr. Sun Lutang participated in the "World Hercules Fighting Competition" and won the championship with a total victory. Shake the world.
But between 1912 and 1914, there seems to be no place where the "World Hercules Fighting Competition" was held — or was the "World Hercules Fighting Competition" just held quietly by a small group in an unknown place?
Among them, the most easily debunkable is that in the "Memorabilia of Mr. Sun Lutang", it is said: In 1909, Huo Yuanjia went south to Shanghai to challenge the British Hercules Opiyin, worried that this trip would be lost, and specially invited Mr. Sun Lutang to press for him, but was rejected by Sun Lutang.
Now check the Shanghai "Declaration" dated December 3, 1909, which published an advertisement entitled "Chinese Hercules Invites People to Compare Forces", saying that Huo Yuanjia set up a fist to compare fists on the Zhangyuan Grand Theater Stage on Jing'an Temple Road in Shanghai; the next day, the Shanghai "Times" published an advertisement "The Pioneering Act of Comparing The Strength of Chinese and Western Hercules", saying that Huo Yuanjia set up a ring in ZhangYuan, and that there was an American Hercules Oppiyin who planned to take the stage to fight and wanted to stand up for life and death with Huo Yuanjia.
From these two advertisements, it can be seen that it is not Huo Yuanjia who went south to Shanghai to challenge the British Hercules Oppiyin, but Huo Yuanjia who set up a ring in Shanghai and was challenged by the American Hercules Oppiyin.
Therefore, in the "Memorabilia of Mr. Sun Lutang", it is said that "Huo Yuanjia went south to Shanghai to challenge the British Hercules Oppiyin, worried that this trip would be lost, and specially invited Mr. Sun Lutang to suppress the battle for him", which was made up by modern people who did not know the ins and outs of the matter.
Moreover, Huo Yuanjia was a great figure who was once the president of the Chinese Martial Arts Association and a generation of masters of the martial arts circles in Jingjin at that time, how could he have Sun Lutang, who had no record, to "suppress the battle" for himself?
The reason why Sun Lutang has no record is that, first, the "lightly taking" Russian and European fighting champion Petrov, the overall champion of the "World Hercules Fighting Competition", the defeat of the all-Japanese jiu-jitsu champion Itagaki Kazuo, and the six japanese martial arts masters of Zhenfei are completely untraceable; second, according to the memoirs of Zhang Zhijiang, Yang Songshan, and others, Prince Ping, who was born in Shaolin, openly wanted to consult with Sun Lutang, and Sun Lutang, his son Sun Cunzhou, his disciple Li Yulin, and others did not dare to fight. Gao Zhendong of the Jiangsu GuoshuGuan was engaged. As a result, Gao Zhendong was seriously injured by Wang Ziping, and Sun Lutang had to avoid returning to Beijing.
Since Sun Lutang had no record, why did he become famous and win such a high reputation in the martial arts world?
The main thing is that he has a deep foundation in martial arts and has a very high theoretical level. Since 1915, he has been writing books and sayings, rough statistics, including "Shape and Meaning Boxing", "Bagua Boxing", "Taijiquan", "Fist Intention Truth", "Bagua Sword Science" and so on.
How influential were his martial arts works?
Xiang Kairan, famous for writing "The Biography of Chivalrous Heroes in Modern Times", wrote in 1925 that "(Sun Lutang) has written three books in recent years: Bagua Quanxue, Shape-Meaning Quanxue, and Taijiquan, and no one who studies these three kinds of boxing has not taken these three books as reference materials. ”
Because of the richness of martial arts works and the establishment of a family of its own, its origins and boxing theories are all exquisite, so it is looked at by people in the martial arts community, and its reputation is getting bigger and bigger.
Xiang Kairan also said: "Since the printing of these three books, the reputation of [Sun Lutang's] has gradually overflowed. ”
However, fame alone is not enough, there must be a martial arts status.
Sun Lutang's martial arts status was mainly due to the promotion of "Sword Immortal" Li Jinglin.
Li Jinglin was the only disciple of Song, the first writer of Wudang swordsmanship since the end of the world, and his martial arts achievements are not discussed here, but only that he was directly subordinate to the Military Affairs Inspector and the commander of the First Front Army of the Fengjun Army, and was a warlord on the Side of Wei Zhen. After he retired from the army, he served as a member of the Military Commission of the State Government, was keen on promoting Chinese martial arts, put forward the slogan of "national artization for the whole people", and was invited by Chiang Kai-shek to establish the "Central National Art Museum" and served as the director. He recommended Zhang Zhijiang as the curator, and contributed a lot to the establishment of the "Central Guoshu Museum". He had read Sun Lutang's martial arts works and invited Sun Lutang to teach at the "Central Guoshu Museum".
Needless to say, for Li Jinglin, Sun Lutang is both grateful and admired, and he admits himself in the "Tale of Boxing": "An Neng is the same as the Japanese? ’”
It was under the promotion of Li Jinglin that Sun Lutang first became the head of the Wudang Gate of the Central Guoshu Museum, and later served as the director of the Jiangsu Guoshu Branch, the vice chairman of the Zhejiang Guoshu Amusement Conference and the Shanghai Guoshu Competition, and gradually became famous, and the number of disciples increased dramatically, and finally became an evergreen tree in Wulin.