Cai Li Fo The earliest out of the country's martial arts schools

Guangdong martial arts has a long history, but people in Guangdong when talking about martial arts, often only mentioned "Foshan Huang Feihong", but not heard of "Xinhui Cai Li Fo". In fact, as the birthplace of the world-famous Cai Li Fo fist, Jiangmen's martial arts tradition is more long, more widely spread, Jiangmen martial arts community in the past two hundred years has emerged as a number of legendary masters of martial arts, but also Jiangmen martial arts for the modern history of China has written a lot of legends.

In the history of the development of Chinese martial arts, there has been a "North has Taiji, South has Cai Li Fo" that, as one of the outstanding representatives of China's southern boxing, Cai Li Fo boxing in recent years in some film and television works of publicity to promote the gradually known.

The founder of the Chen Heung: do not like to be an official love boxing

Cai Li Fo boxing is the creation of history. According to the relevant documents, the founder of the Cai Li Fo Boxing Chen Xiang (1806 ~ 1875) is the late Qing Dynasty Lingnan martial arts legendary leader, he was 7 years old began to follow the clan uncle Chen Yuan Gui learning Buddhist boxing. 15 years old, through the enlightenment of the master recommended to pay tribute to the founder of the Li family boxing in Guangdong Li You Shan as a teacher. 19 years old and through the recommendation of the Li You Shan, to go to Luofu Mountain in Guangdong to pay tribute to the monk Cai Fo as a teacher, learning for ten years.

After he finished his studies, he met with bandits besieging Zengcheng County in Guangdong Province, and saved more than a hundred villagers from being besieged by the bandits, and was given the name "Dating" by the imperial court. However, he had no intention of pursuing a career and returned to Xinhui County to set up a clinic and practiced medicine. In 1836, he founded the Cai Li Fo School of Boxing, and later opened Cai Li Fo Hong Sheng Halls in various parts of Guangdong, which developed into the largest boxing school in Guangdong in the late Qing Dynasty.

Chen Heung continued to absorb and integrate the essence of various martial arts, and compiled martial arts manuals for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Chen Xiang, who was determined to "strengthen the family with martial arts", put forward the concept of learning martial arts that "the fist is used for the main purpose of strengthening the body and the body, and can defend against foreign invasion", and broke many traditional martial arts concepts such as "passing on the male and not passing on the female, passing on the internal and not passing on the external", and so on. It also breaks the traditional martial arts discipline of "pass male, not female, pass inside, not pass outside" and so on, as long as it is a man and a woman of good character can learn Cai Li Fo Boxing.

Disciples in more than 100 countries and regions of the world

Bruce Lee started the Intercepting Fist Do, through film and television works in the world set off the Chinese kung fu fever, but also let has been in circulation for many years in the overseas Choy Li Fut Fut Kung Fu, as another in the rapid development of overseas martial arts schools.

In June 2008, the State Council approved the Cai Li Fo Boxing to become the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects, and is currently the only Guangdong Province approved for the national "intangible heritage" of the martial arts program. According to the Guangdong Provincial Wushu Association incomplete statistics, the world's five continents, more than 35 countries and regions have Cai Li Buddha Kung Fu Association, more than 3 million Cai Li Buddha boxing enthusiasts in more than 100 countries and regions, of which there are more than 20 countries nearly 100,000 people, and the Xinhui Cai Li Buddha Boxing will have exchanges and contacts.

To this day, Cai Li Fo boxing disciples all over the world, every year to Xinhui Cai Li Fo foreign disciples to find their roots in the hundreds of people. However, Cai Li Fo showed "the mainland is not as good as Hong Kong and Macao, Hong Kong and Macao is not as good as foreign countries," the development of the situation, so that the mainland Cai Li Fo disciples feel doubly embarrassed.

The earliest Chinese martial arts to go abroad

Chen Heung was recruited as a staff member of the Governor-General's Office by Lin Zexu to assist in the training of "anti-smoking" warriors in Guangzhou and other areas. After the defeat of the Opium War, Chen Heung, after two years of careful planning, sent more than a hundred male and female disciples to open 44 Cai Li Fo "Hung Sheng Martial Arts Halls" all over Guangdong and Guangxi, to help the Taiping Army to fight against the corrupt Qing government at that time. After the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, Chen enjoyed the Qing court was forced to flee, has been in Hong Kong, China, Nanyang (Southeast Asia), the Americas and other places in order to practice medicine to teach boxing for a living.

According to overseas literature, Chen enjoyed fleeing overseas, learned that the Nanyang Jinshan port of the bully Keithley bully skills forced extortion of overseas Chinese, he went to Jinshan port specifically to fight the bully. After knocking down Keithley, Chen Heung did not take advantage of the situation, but helped him up and treated his injuries. When word of this incident spread, the fame of Cai Li Fo's boxing as a "defense against foreign invasions" spread, and countless overseas Chinese came to learn Cai Li Fo's boxing from Chen Heung. Under the efforts of Chen Heung and his disciples, Cai Li Fo Boxing martial arts centers sprang up all over the world. Cai Li Fo Boxing martial arts halls became the main place for overseas Chinese who were bullied to unite to fight against the oppression and to boost the self-confidence of the nation, and Cai Li Fo Boxing also became the first Chinese martial arts school to go out of the country.