Traditional Wushu jokes

With the coming of spring in fighting field in recent years, all kinds of fighting events have entered people's world. As the mainstream of fighting today, mixed fighting is undoubtedly the most eye-catching.

With the improvement of players' level in recent years, Li, Li and others have played their own roles in the domestic high-level fighting arena.

In contrast, traditional Wushu seems to have a bad reputation in recent years. Both Master Yan Fang and Lei Lei have become jokes in the workshop. In the eyes of many people, traditional martial arts has gradually become a means of deception.

This is actually very wrong. Traditional Wushu, as an important part of China culture, can be passed down to this day, which is by no means something a liar can do.

It is only for various reasons that it is really difficult for modern people to reach the level of the ancients, which is the inevitable result of the development of Wushu culture after the end of the cold weapon era.

When it comes to the top masters of traditional martial arts, many people think of Huang Feihong, Huo Yuanjia and Ip Man for the first time. With the development of film and television works, the heroic images of these people are infinitely magnified.

However, if you ask about history, you can find that most of the deeds of these famous Wushu masters are fabricated, and they are often created to meet the needs of publicity.

For example, Huo Yuanjia never defeated Hercules, and Huang Feihong never had the legendary shadowless feet.

However, nothing is groundless. The creator wrote this way because someone did it. Today we will talk about this martial artist who defeated the Japanese with a pair of steel fists.

During the Republic of China, China Wushu was an era of talented people, and various masters emerged one after another. But if anyone can call it the first master, many people will say the same name-Li.

Li's fame is much smaller than those mentioned above, because this man's life is very simple, and he has not left too many traces except practicing martial arts.

Besides, Li never shows mercy when fighting with others, and his men are trying to kill him. The person who fights with him is either dead or injured, and no one can escape, so he got the nickname "Li".

Various factors lead people to know little about this legendary martial artist.

Li Sheng was in the last year of Tongzhi, namely 1862.

In the eyes of ordinary people, people who practice martial arts are often burly, with wide shoulders and thick back, while Li is just the opposite. He is shorter than ordinary people and looks very thin. At first glance, he is a sickly ordinary person.

Li's hometown is Wangnanliang Village, Yanshan County, Cangzhou, Hebei Province.

Here I want to mention Li's hometown, Cangzhou, Hebei Province, Li's birthplace, which is the lair of martial arts.

People know Cangzhou, mostly from the "Water Margin" in which Lin stabbed Cangzhou to death. As we all know, Cangzhou is a famous "hometown of martial arts" in China.

In the feudal era, Cangzhou's martial arts was already famous all over the world, with famous masters like a cloud. At that time, there was a saying on the Greenwood Road that "flying darts don't shout Cangzhou".

What do you mean?

That is to say, the dart car traveling from south to north, whether it is the underworld or the waterway, as long as it is going to Cangzhou or passing through Cangzhou, must pull down the dart flag and pass by quietly, and must not shout the dart number.

Otherwise, no matter how famous you are, just shout the challenge of darts in Cangzhou to ensure that you don't fall and lose face.

The atmosphere of learning martial arts in Cangzhou has been passed down from generation to generation, and it is still martial today.

As we said before, Li was born thin and dry, but he has a special place, that is, his hands are knee-length, which makes the whole person look strange.

But for martial artists, putting your hands over your knees is a unique advantage. This advantage is that when you act, you will move faster and attack farther than ordinary people.

This special place gives Li Tiansheng the advantage of practicing martial arts.

Born in the hometown of martial arts, coupled with his fascination with martial arts since childhood, he gradually embarked on the road of martial arts.

But practicing martial arts has never been an easy task. Wulin experts are mostly children of poor families, because only those born in this way can make their children suffer this crime in order to have a mouth to eat.

This is one of the reasons why modern people can't practice ancient kung fu, because people don't have to practice martial arts to earn money anymore, so they don't have that determination and perseverance.

At first, Li only taught himself martial arts with martial arts books and then practiced it by himself. But slowly, he found that the speed of learning martial arts was too slow, and without the guidance of famous teachers, it was really half the effort.

To truly achieve the ultimate in martial arts, you must worship a famous teacher.

Born in the hometown of martial arts, there is no shortage of martial arts masters. So Li began to learn from the master crazily. Only when he heard that there was a famous teacher there, no matter how far away, Li would visit him.

However, as we said earlier, Li's appearance looks too weak, and the teachers he seeks often reject his idea of learning from teachers when he sees his appearance.

Every master who met him said, "Young man, your body can't practice martial arts. Learn some other skills and support your family. "

Hit the wall again and again, so that Li suffered a lot, but at this time Li has decided that he must practice martial arts and do his best in this life, and he will never give up this idea.

So Li continued to teach himself while looking for a famous teacher.

In the end, where there is a will, there is a way. Li was not convinced, insisted on martial arts, and soon met his own Bole.

This discerning person is Zhang Jingxing, the fifth descendant of Luo Tuan's Bajiquan. Anyone familiar with traditional martial arts knows that Bajiquan can be regarded as the most lethal one in traditional boxing.

As the saying goes: literature has Tai Chi to secure the world, and martial arts has eight poles to make it work. I'm talking about the power of octupole boxing.

This Zhang Jingxing is a famous octupole boxer. When he saw Li, he saw something unusual in his eyes. Immediately accepted him as a disciple and began to teach Li Bajiquan. Since then, Li has studied Liuhe Daqian with his classmate Huang Shihai.

After meeting a famous teacher, Li's skills began to advance by leaps and bounds, and practicing boxing and guns was even more crazy.

Li's home is about 7.5 kilometers away from his old school. He practices there for an hour every night.

From home to his master's house, every time he goes back and forth, he doesn't take the normal road like others, but punches one step at a time, palms one step at a time and elbows one step at a time. It takes him at least three hours to get home in an hour.

It's even crazier when practicing guns, playing with big guns all the way and practicing while walking.

When people met Li on the road, he practiced with one hand and one punch, but Li practiced regardless of others, so he got the nickname "Li Crazy".

Li practiced three or nine times in winter and three days in summer with his extraordinary perseverance. Over the years, his body has completely changed and gained extraordinary strength.

And Li's kung fu is getting higher and higher. Every day, he paddles piles near his home, and the jujube and locust trees with thick bowls around him are shocked to death by his fist, which becomes his acrobatic pile.

In order to practice big guns, Li pricked dates with big guns in the jujube forest near his home. Later, I practiced in front of the mirror, reaching the state of touching without hurting.

After 12 years of hard study and training, Li combined the boxing and marksmanship of four masters, namely, Huang Shihai and Zhang Jingxing, and formed his own fighting style.

At that time, people called Li's magic gun a must. As long as he shakes a big gun, the tip of the gun draws a circle with a diameter of more than one meter like lightning, which is like the water of the Yangtze River thousands of miles away. When stabbing a gun, it's like a shooting star catching the moon, and ghosts are afraid of God. Speed, strength and accuracy are high, reaching the state of being superb and reaching the peak.

According to the disciple who followed Li for more than ten years, Huo Qingyun, the bodyguard of the late Qing emperor, recalled:

At this time, Li was hard to meet his opponent at that time.

As the saying goes, Rome was not built in a day. Li can reach this level not only because of the guidance of famous teachers, but also because of his hard training for twelve years.

There are many people who can work hard, but not many people like Li regard martial arts as the only one.

At this time, Li is like a quenched sword, waiting for the moment when it is drawn.

Li first became famous publicly in 1895.

This year, Li was 33 years old. At this time, Yuan Shikai was training a new army at the station. In order to train, Yuan Shikai hired instructors everywhere. This invitation was sent to Huang Shihai, a teacher of Li.

Huang Shihai felt that he was old and didn't want to get ahead, so he recommended his disciple Li to succeed him.

So Li picked up a big gun, picked up his luggage and set off.

Yuan Shikai also hired many foreign instructors for training, including Japanese karate masters and German military instructors.

When Li, who was carrying a big gun, first appeared in the martial arts school, there was constant laughter around him.

Indeed, that big gun looks out of proportion to him, which is quite funny.

Among these people, the Japanese samurai laughed the loudest. At this time, the Japanese are above everything else. When they saw this little "family boy", their pride was out of control.

When people around knew that Li was performing for the top master Huang Shihai, their laughter was even louder.

"Huang Shihai is eighty percent old and confused, so he sent such a little monkey!" Even Yuan Shikai was a little startled. In Li's doubts, he did not move, but continued to stand in the center of the martial arts school with his big gun.

Seeing this, the Japanese samurai on the side couldn't sit still, and he was an insult and humiliation to Li on the spot.

However, just as the arrogant Japanese samurai was still laughing wildly, between crackles, Li's big gun flashed, and Ito Taro stare big eyes and froze in horror, followed by blood, and the whole person fell to the ground.

At this time, people realized that this just-swaggering Japanese samurai had been shot through the throat by this little man.

Because Li's gun was so fast, the Japanese samurai hardly noticed the whole process, so he didn't even have time to resist.

After Li pierced the enemy's throat, he threw him out of the martial arts school lightly. With the end of a scream, the samurai who was laughing just now closed his mouth forever.

Seeing the embarrassment of their compatriots, the other three Japanese samurai immediately looked at each other and drew their swords and pounced on Li. It's not as good as three rounds, and three Japanese people died in the martial arts school like their companions.

As usual, after killing three Japanese, Li angered them with a gun and threw them outside the martial arts school.

At this time, other warriors who witnessed all this were white and bloodless.

They looked at the little man in front of them again. At this time, in everyone's mind, he is like a murderer.

Just when everyone was amazed, Li fired a big gun again, only this time, his big gun was aimed at the mosquitoes and flies on the pillars of the hall. The cold light flashed, mosquitoes and flies were stabbed, and the church column was unscathed.

Yuan Shikai on the side shouted: "The magic gun! Magic gun! It's really a magic gun! "

Soon, the news that Congdong Li picked a samurai spread all over the Wulin, and the title of "Shen Gun Li" quickly became famous all over the world.

In the second year of Xuantong in the late Qing Dynasty, the famous Russian boxing champion Malotov came to China, set up a challenge in Beijing, posted big-character posters, boasted of insulting Chinese sons and daughters, and aroused great indignation among China people and people with lofty ideals.

The famous Wulin masters in Beijing and Tianjin couldn't bear it, and all ended in failure.

When Li's second master was teaching in Tianjin "China Wushu Club", he sent a message to Li.

At that time, Li was waiting on master Huang Shihai who was ill in bed at home. After reading the letter, Li was ordered by his teacher to go to Beijing immediately.

After all the formalities were completed, Li Fei went to the ring and saw that Matof was as strong as a bull, just like a 600-catty sandbag used for practice at ordinary times.

Seeing that Lee was thin and haggard, Matotov put his arms around Lee's shoulder and spat at him contemptuously.

Li was outraged, obviously furious, and with the "overlord whip" lying on the wind palm, he knocked Matof dizzy and knocked off a piece of skin the size of an egg on his left cheek.

Before Matof could react, Lee jumped up with great strength and took advantage of the opportunity to "open his elbow six times". He broke Matof's ribs at lightning speed and knocked down the ring.

Everyone looked at me and I was overjoyed. I wanted to make Li a top martial arts teacher in the Royal Guards.

Li thanked his master Huang Shihai for his filial piety.

Later, Zhang Jiu heard the name of "Li, the magic gun" and hired him as the chief military division of the three armed forces. Li is not good at refusing because of his feelings.

However, on his first day in office, Zhang He's Japanese martial arts instructor was very dissatisfied when he saw that he was looking for such a shriveled monkey as the principal.

So he offered to compete with Li for the position.

At this time, Sino-Japanese relations are already in jeopardy. Li hated what the Japanese did in China, so he was killed when he heard that the Japanese samurai wanted to compete with him.

Compared with fighting swords with Japanese samurai to impress others, Li wanted to show the Japanese how powerful China people are and let them know that China people are not so easy to bully.

But if the Japanese samurai were really wiped out at this time, neither Zhang nor he would have a good job. So, before you start fighting. Li proposed to establish "life and death", he said:

"Two people compare technology, not serious, hard to avoid disability. I am a bad old man who is about to die. It doesn't matter if the Japanese hurt me. But if I hurt the Japanese, how could the Japanese give up their relationship with you in Zhang Dashuai? Therefore, let's make a life and death document according to the rules, no matter which side is disabled, don't pay for it, so that I can beat the Japanese. "

Hearing this, Zhang agreed with the idea of a life-and-death competition, but at the beginning of this competition, Zhang was shocked, because Li only gave a palm, and the Japanese samurai's scapula was shattered.

Zhang immediately stopped the competition, because he knew that with one more hand, the life of the Japanese samurai would be lost.

Li Yisheng hated the Japanese, but the Japanese revered Li. In Japanese culture, people who can beat their opponents by strength are extremely obedient.

This was the case in the United States during World War II, and so was Lee.

Therefore, we can see that Li's stunt Bajiquan is now widely circulated in Japan, and Li's image has appeared in Japanese comics and games many times.

Even Li is more famous in Japan than in China.

Because the Japanese know that "one punch without two dozen, the magical Li Gun Wen Shu" relies on real strength and real kung fu.

However, to measure a martial artist's status, on the one hand, depends on his own level, on the other hand, depends on whether he can pass on his unique skills.

Li's own Kung Fu chinese odyssey, his disciples are all the best in the Wulin.

Three of them are the most famous.

The first is Huo Diange, the martial arts teacher and bodyguard of the founder of Huojiaquan and the last emperor Puyi.

A few decades ago, there was a famous TV series called "The First Guard of Kant", which told the story of Huo Diange.

The other is Liu Yunqiao, a representative figure of Bajiquan, a martial arts master who promoted China Wushu in Taiwan Province. He used to be Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguard.

The other is Li Jianwu, who also studied Bajiquan with Li. He used to be a guard in Mao Zedong.

The prototype of Zhang zhen's role "A glimpse of heaven" in The Master is a mixture of Liu Yunqiao and Li Jianwu.

The three disciples, the Guardian of Puyi, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, have made unprecedented achievements.

Li Yisheng has killed countless people, but none of the people who fought with him can get away with it.

Even he himself said:

As a result, Li fell into the title of "only one punch without two dozen".

Some people say that it is true that Li laid hands on him too hard and killed too many evils.

However, at that time, "literature is no first, martial arts is no second", and there was no concession on the spot, and there was no mercy in lifting a finger.

Since the tournament, it means that both of them are pinning their lives on their own martial arts. No matter which side loses its life, it is voluntary. No wonder someone.

Win or lose, life and death depend on you.

Let's judge whether a person belongs to a generation of heroes, not whether he is vicious or not, but how his character is.

The so-called chivalrous man is for the country and the people. Like Li, the word "chivalry" is well deserved.

Li Yisheng served his master and was never careless. He studied under two masters, Zhang Jingxing and Huang Shihai. He has never sat in his life and has been serving in the Second Division. He made money abroad and sent it to two masters' homes. Huang Shihai was seriously ill, and Li served in front of the bed. After Huang Shihai died, he guarded the teacher's grave for three years.

In terms of money, Li regards it as dirt. He has a simple and resounding heroic word:

It is such a person that Li has a high status in his hometown, and Li also takes care of his hometown. Whenever someone asks him, he won't refuse anything he can help.

But after all, Li has killed too much in his life, and he also has some enemies in the Jianghu. He himself is not afraid of being challenged by the other party, but he is only worried about being countered.

According to his disciple Liu Yunqiao recalled:

This is also the ethos of the martial arts world at that time forced him to do so. It is not easy for a martial artist to hit the world with his fist, and it is even more difficult to become famous for decades.

Li's reputation at that time was so high that many martial artists who wanted to get ahead naturally took him as their goal. Moreover, there were countless casualties in Li's life, and he couldn't count the number of enemies.

As the saying goes, cause and effect have a cause, and this is also Li's retribution.

In his later years, Li Etang, the second son of Li Yin, founded the martial arts school in Changsha, Hunan Province, and lived in the south for a period of time.

But he didn't adapt to the climate in the south, so he moved back to Sun Lizhifang, the North Gate Hall in the southern suburbs of Tianjin.

1934 One evening in autumn, Li sat in a chair in the yard, drinking tea and teaching his grandchildren to practice martial arts. He died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 72.

A generation of heroes passed away and were buried in the wilderness. They didn't move out of the north gate until 1973. Although later generations still learn their skills, it is difficult to reach their heights.

I have lived for 72 years, and I have never lost in Wulin. I am the lonely master who is best at shooting, and behind me is an unbeaten legend!