Recently, I happened to see a movie "Chia Bone Steel Fist", although the score value in Douban Film is not very high, but I did not press the fast-forward button to watch it for the first time, the film is about the microcosm of Chinese boxing in the national period and the soldiers who were in danger, fighting for the glory of the country and even heroic sacrifice, a heroic history worth remembering!
I like a passage in the film the most: Boxing is a sport, even if it is knocked to the ground, as long as it survives, it is still necessary to resist tenaciously, which is the spirit that China urgently needs at present.
Due to historical reasons, the fate of China's boxing industry is uncertain, and the Period of Chinese Boxing in the Republic of China has already begun.
Earlier, our country already had world-class professional boxers. In 1919, Chen Hanqiang knocked down the Australian professional boxing champion K·b. Jack in one punch in the Australian International Professional Boxing Championships, and won the Gold Belt of the Australian Featherweight Champion in one fell swoop.
Chinese Chen Hanqiang ascend to the throne of world-class boxing king! The news shook the world's boxing scene, but unfortunately it was a warlord melee at the time, and this pioneering event of Chinese boxing has been little known in China.
In the turbulent national period, when China was in turmoil and turmoil, when China was worried about internal and external troubles, there were warlords and warlords inside, and there were many great powers outside, and a group of great powers were grasping to encroach on China, especially after boxing was introduced into China, they had been challenging the boxers of various schools in China, and the worthlessness of the Chinese kung fu that had been passed down for thousands of years was devalued, and the phrase "sick man of East Asia" deeply shocked the Chinese.
When foreign boxing degraded Chinese kung fu to nothing, they stepped forward to practice boxing, and in the selection competition, four soldiers stood out and entered the boxing training team, and they repeatedly defeated Western boxers who came to China, fiercely struck the arrogance of the great powers, and gave a bad breath to China.
In the 1930s, that is, in 1936, on the eve of the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China's outstanding boxers participated in the 11th Berlin Olympic Games, striving to gallop in the international Olympic stadium and attracting the attention of the international boxing community.
In 1936, the 11th International Olympic Games was held in Berlin, Germany, on the eve of the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, China's selection and preparation for the Berlin Olympic Games, due to the insufficient funds of the Chinese Olympic delegation, and boxing has never been valued by the sports world, so there are very few boxers with a considerable level, so the Chinese Olympic Committee wants to give up boxing.
General Shang Zhen, who was the chairman of Henan Province and the commander-in-chief of the Thirty-second Army, learned of this and decided to use 1,000 yuan from the country to fund the Olympic delegation, and sent four soldiers from the army to participate in the boxing preliminary selection.
Because Shang Zhen entered the Army Lecture Hall after studying in the Army Accelerated School in his early years, he was well aware of the importance of sports to enhance the physical fitness of officers and men, so he advocated modern sports training very much, and widely carried out martial arts teams, wrestling teams, boxing teams and other sports activities in the Thirty-second Army. Among them, the soldiers with a foundation in martial arts or strong physical fitness were selected by the military to form a boxing team, and they hired the foreign boxer Dingle to serve as a coach in the Thirty-second Army at great expense.
In early February 1936, Wang Runlan, Li Menghua, Jin Gui, and Jin Gui, the most outstanding members of the boxing team of the Thirty-second Army, were sent to Shanghai as representatives of Chinese Olympic boxing as representatives of the Sports Department of the Thirty-second Army, led by Zhao Yunhuan, director of the Sports Department of the Thirty-second Army.
Four soldiers in danger
Li Menghua 24 years old Origin: Gaoyang, Hebei Occupation: Military Married Height 1.80 meters Weight 90 kilograms
Wang Runlan 23 years old Origin: Raoyang, Hebei Occupation: Military Unmarried Height 1.80 meters Weight 80 kg
Jin Guidi 21 years old Origin: Lingshou, Hebei Occupation: Soldier Married Height 1.78 meters Weight 79 kg
Jin Gui 22 years old Origin: Quyang, Hebei Occupation: Military Unmarried Height 1.77 meters Weight 71 kg
On the 4th of the same month, he participated in an amateur boxing match at the Gym of the Shanghai Xiqiao Youth Association for pre-selection testing and exchange of ideas. Major newspapers in Shanghai learned that they also went to watch the report, and there were a total of ten boxing matches that night, of which four of the four Chinese players competed in the most intense, but in the end, only Li Menghua won the silver cup awarded by the chinese side.
Shanghai Xiqiao Youth Association
The Shanghai "Declaration" contained the following on the 5th:
"Jin Gui against Lauren the first combination, Jin Gui first took the attack, Lauren was very calm and waiting for the opportunity to move, Jin was hit in the head, nasal bleeding, in the second round, that is, Lauren's ride, the third round, only to defeat.
Jin Guidi vs. Chaitz Jin Guidi was the best boxer in the Thirty-second Army, but in the first round, the opponent hit the temple, and the ground began to start in seven seconds, and was defeated in the third round.
Wang Runlan against Xia Na In the first round, Wang waited for the opportunity to attack, the opponent had a lot of punches, quite dominant, the second and third combined draws, so the victory can actually be won, but the referee pronounced a victory for Xia Na.
Li Menghua against Butingshi Butingshi was a student of St. John's University, from the point of view of boxing, he was not a weak person, Li because of the three defeats of his own army, so he held the determination to break the kettle and sink the boat, and fought for three rounds, all of which had an absolute advantage, and The mouth of Butingshi was hit by Li, bleeding a lot, and the result was Li Sheng. ”
Western Overseas Chinese Youth Association boxing training
After this boxing match, the National Sports Association believed that Li Menghua and other boxing skills were still considerable, and finally decided to send more boxing teams to Germany to compete. He also wrote to Shang Zhen to allow the four people to go to Shanghai again for special training to senior students. After Shang Zhen's promise, four members of the boxing team of the 32nd Army arrived in Shanghai by car from Beiping on the 23rd of the same month, and the Sports Association hired Ding Ge, the British boxing coach of the Xiqiao Youth Association, and Mr. Chen Hanqiang, the boxing coach of the Jingwu Sports Association, the "father of Chinese boxing", to carefully guide and formulate a boxing training course.
Olympic boxing training class
Boxing training class practice schedule
After nearly two months of special training, the four people lived up to expectations, made rapid progress, and improved their performances very quickly, especially Wang Runlan, who participated in the international boxing match of the Xiqiao Youth Association on April 14, except for Li Menghua, who was frustrated, the other three won the victory. In the end, four people passed the hurdle, and the previous four were selected, but because all four people competed in the Olympic Games, the funds were insufficient again, and finally Shang Zhen generously funded again, which was feasible. After this promotion, it has had a very significant impact on the future development of boxing in China and the experience of Olympic participation.
Chinese weightlifting and boxing representatives
In the boxing ring of the 11th Olympic Games, athletes from Japan, the Philippines and other countries from Asia were generally frustrated and were overwhelmed by boxers from Europe and the United States.
Boxingweight: Jin Guidi
Jin Guidi is a native of Lingshou County, Hebei Province, born in 1916. He learned martial arts from an early age, so he was physically strong and had excellent arm strength, and at the age of seventeen he became a soldier and was incorporated into the Thirty-second Army of the Shang Earthquake Department.
Jin Guidi successfully passed the qualifiers, defeating Canada's Cook and Egypt's AliYusuf. His fierce fists and bravery made the German audience cheer.
In the official matches that followed, Jin Guidi was not afraid of strong hands, and his courage increased greatly, and he beat the British boxing star Xi Rimton left and right, and frequently retreated. Chinese athletes, coaches and overseas Chinese in the boxing ring cheered for Jin Guidi.
Xi Rimton was disgraced, and in shame, he deliberately violated the rules of the game and slammed Jin Guidi to the ground with his left arm. Jin Guidi had not yet gotten up, and he was punched several times, falling down again, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and injuring his waist. When this scene occurred, there was a moment of chaos and boos, and many European spectators were also very dissatisfied with Sirimdon.
French referee Lorraine ruled that Xi Rim dun attacked prematurely, canceled the right to win, and ruled jin Guidi to win. However, the British referee Green did not support it, but decided that Hirimdun was victorious, and there was a big uproar in the venue, so that the "bright and just" black whistle was the first time in the history of the Olympic Games.
Nevertheless, Jin Guidi's spirit of daring to fight and win glory for the country has always been written in the annals of modern Chinese sports history.
Heavyweight Wang Runlan
Wang Runlan was born in 1913 to a squire family in Raoyang County, Hebei Province. In the turbulent years of warlord melee in old China, Wang Runlan loved martial arts since childhood, and the local famous little boxer king.
Entering adulthood, his father issued a "ban on martial arts", telling him to learn how to do business, not to dance guns and sticks all day, and not to learn no skills! But Wang Runlan did not obey his father's orders, and finally chose to run away from home. In 1934, Wang Runlan applied for the second phase of the Hebei Military and Political School held in Beiping at the hebei military and political school, and was determined to use the barrel of a gun to defend the "ancient country of a thousand-year-old civilization from being humiliated by the Wokou."
In the preliminary round of the boxing match, wang Runlan appeared in the first match against the Japanese player, who with an excellent record of winning all three sets, knocked the Japanese player who despised China to the ground three times in a row, making him convinced.
In the face of the Dutch player Ford, Wang Runlan and this strong opponent played very hard, he was beaten by the opponent in the last round, almost unstable, still with a tenacious will to support himself, until the final game is still standing, this game, Wang Runlan was praised by the media as "China tough guy, although defeated!" ”
In the final match for the right to the final and the British players, Wang Runlan was tied 1:1 in the first and second sets. From the third set, Wang Runlan quickly found the opponent's flaws after familiarizing himself with the opponent's boxing sets, he quickly grabbed the fighter, punched the opponent's head continuously, and finally knocked the opponent to the ground with a heavy blow, and the opponent failed to stand up for a full 10 seconds. As a result, the referee decided that Wang Runlan won 2:1 and won the final right to the boxing match. He is the second Chinese Olympian to win the final, and the Chinese athletes are excited.
Unexpectedly, when the final was about to start three days later, the leader of the Chinese delegation suddenly received a notice from the Olympic Organizing Committee that Wang Runlan had been judged by the referee team to fail in the preliminary round and could not participate in the final final.
Hearing this notice, all the Chinese participants and delegation members were indignant and protested one after another, the Chinese team leader made many representations with the organizing committee, and some foreign representative teams that presided over justice also expressed their solidarity after hearing about this matter. However, the matter was delayed again and again, and several exchanges were fruitless. At this Olympic Games, the organizing committee openly reversed black and white in front of everyone's eyes, and vividly embodied the "weak countries have no fairness".
Despite this, Wang Runlan's outstanding performance during the Olympic Games still attracted the attention of many domestic and foreign media and became a sensational news figure. The indignant Wang Runlan was determined to be humiliated at the next Olympic Games, play the prestige of the Chinese boxing king, and give Chinese a breath of air.
In 1937, the Sino-Japanese War broke out in full swing, the Tokyo Olympic Games were also disillusioned under the flames of war, the boxers' dream of humiliating the country was shattered by the guns and cannons of the invaders, and at the critical moment of life and death when the country was broken, the four people actively threw themselves into the battlefield to resist the enemy and defend the country, defending the dignity of the country with their lives, and finally all of them sacrificed heroically, expressing their loyalty and love for the Chinese nation with blood.
In 1937, Wang Runlan, who was seriously wounded, rushed to and blew up the Japanese tanks with a cluster grenade, spilling blood on the battlefield, and he was hailed as the first Heroic Olympic Hero in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and awarded the title of "National Hero" by the Nationalist Government.
In early October 1937, the Anyang Defense War broke out, in order to destroy the Japanese tanks, Jin Guidi and many Chinese warriors tied grenades and explosives rushed to the Japanese tanks and martyred, only 21 years old.
Time has long stepped into the 21st century, now That China is gradually becoming stronger and Chinese boxing is constantly developing and stronger, we should not forget these pioneers of Chinese Olympic boxing, who not only used their strong fitness bodies to represent the country for the first time on the Olympic boxing ring, but also defended the national dignity with their dignified bodies and spilled blood to repay the country! They are national heroes who should not be forgotten, and they are national warriors who deserve our eternal memory and admiration.