This is our original house. Now it is a key cultural relics protection unit and belongs to the state. I will move to the house I built behind here. Huo Yuanjia's great-grandson Huozi is pointing to a courtyard with Huo Yuanjia's former residence written on it and introducing it to the reporter of global person magazine. The 62-year-old Huo Zi is an out-and-out farmer. In 2006, it became the focus of public opinion for suing the film Huo Yuanjia for infringing its reputation.
The new movie describes Huo Yuanjia as a gangster, a group of fair-weather friends, and doing nothing. He also said that he put killing innocent people first, which led to the disaster of killing his mother and destroying his son. Then what are our descendants? They say it's a literary film, and it can be fictional. I'm going to court to make people look at Huo Yuanjia correctly. Huo Zizheng later lost the case and returned to a quiet farm life.
Huo Yuanjia's great-grandson Huozi is holding a genealogy of Huozi.
Kung Fu from the Graveyard holds a genealogy, and Huo Zi is telling the reporter of global person magazine about the ups and downs of Huo Yuanjia. 1868, Huo Yuanjia was born in a lost boxing family. According to historical records, the basic routine of Fan Trace Boxing (later called Fan Trace Technique) evolved from Yan Qing Boxing of Liangshan hero Yan Qing in Song Dynasty, and spread to Huo Yuanjia's father Huo Dian to the sixth generation. Huo Dian has three sons, Huo Yuandong, Huo Yuanjia and Huo Yuanqing. Legend has it that because Huo Yuanjia was weak when he was a child, Huo began not to let him practice martial arts, for fear of affecting the reputation of the Huo family. I think these stories have been told. The Huo family has a tradition of practicing martial arts, so it is impossible not to let Huo Yuanjia practice. It may be due to insufficient congenital conditions, and his family doesn't think highly of him. Huo Zizheng said.
In Xiaonanhe village, there is a jujube forest, which used to be a cemetery and deserted. Huo Zizheng told reporters that Huo Yuanjia regards this place as a place to practice martial arts. He practiced there in secret day after day. For fear of losing face, he never competes with anyone, and no one knows how he practices. One day, a martial artist came to the village and wanted to have a competition with the Huo family. No one expected that Huo Yuanjia's martial arts surpassed all his brothers and defeated the master who came to challenge. After that, the news of Huo Yuanjia's martial arts prowess spread like wildfire, and he finally walked out of the cemetery and appeared in the Wulin of the Huo family fair and square.
Huo Zizheng said that both movies and TV series have the plot of Huo Yuanjia's extramarital affairs. In fact, Huo Yuanjia has only married one wife and no lover in his life. Huo Yuanjia's wife, surnamed Wang, is an out-and-out peasant woman in the neighboring village. Wang's three-inch golden lotus has been industrious and frugal all his life. When they married Huo Yuanjia, they inherited the adobe houses of the older generation. The magnificent deep house compound and groups of servants described in the TV series are nothing.
After their marriage, Huo Yuanjia and his wife lived by planting dozens of acres of saline-alkali land. During the slack season, he picked firewood and went to Tianjinwei to sell money. 1896, Huo Yuanjia defected to a footman who lived as a porter in Tianjinwei, and soon became an agent shopkeeper. Huo Zizheng said: At that time, the footstep was also a triad organization. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the national strength was weak, and * * was unable to manage the market, so it could only be managed by the foot line or the wharf overlord. These hooligans bully people in various ways and get money by violence. Except part of it is handed over to the government, the others are all their own.
Now there is a shopkeeper named Feng. He thought that when Huo Yuanjia came, he could snatch more power and money by his martial arts. Unexpectedly, Huo Yuanjia not only did not use force, but also quietly saved a lot of extra expenses for the people. Huo Yuanjia often said "no", which became the mantra of many people in Tianjin at that time. Huo Zizheng said: Great-grandfather attracted strong dissatisfaction from his men and Feng shopkeeper, and was locked up by them, and finally left angrily.
Huo Yuanjia became famous for his two attentions. On one occasion, 190 1, a Russian came to Tianjin to perform art and advertised in a newspaper, claiming that he was the world's first Hercules and invincible in China. Huo Yuanjia saw it and offered to compete with one of them. Perhaps forced by Huo Yuanjia's momentum, the Russian strongman fled Tianjin despondently. The second time was 1909. Obi-yin, a British strongman, advertised in Shanghai and insulted China people as the sick man of East Asia. Huo Yuanjia went to Shanghai and Bird to compete with him. Afraid of Huo Yuanjia's fame, Obi-in finally dared not fight. Winning without fighting twice, Huo Yuanjia increased the ambition of the people of China.
Although the Bird Challenge, praised by Sun Yat-sen, failed, it set off a martial arts craze in Shanghai, and universities flocked to invite Huo Yuanjia and his disciples to give lectures and practice martial arts. During this period, there was a person who had a great influence on Huo Yuanjia, and contributed to the transformation of Huo Yuanjia from attaching importance to traditional martial arts to saving the country by force. This man is Huo Yuanjia's confidant farmer Sun Jin when he was young.
Huo Yuanjia met Nong Sun Jin when he was learning footwork. At that time, Nong was a revolutionary under Sun Yat-sen. He opened Huaiqing drugstore in Tianjin to cover the revolution on the grounds of collecting medicine. Huo Zizheng told reporters that Nong Sun Jin studied in Japan in his early years and was fluent in foreign languages, learning and loving martial arts. Sun Yat-sen hoped that he would make friends with some famous martial arts masters to prepare for overthrowing the Manchu rule, while his great-grandfather was eager to learn knowledge. They fell in love at first sight and became friends.
1 910 June1day, Huo Yuanjia founded the Chinese Gymnastics Association (later renamed the Sports Association) in Shanghai with the help of farmers and others. Huo Zizheng said that on the road to saving the country, Huo Yuanjia took two difficult steps: the first step was to break the family rules and start accepting foreigners as disciples. The Huo family's unique skills of seven generations have never been passed on to people with other surnames. In order to save the country, my great-grandfather broke the family rules. The second is to change the maze boxing into the maze technique, so that the fancy routine becomes more practical, so that people can master the essentials as soon as possible and learn to defend themselves.
Mystery is based on Huo's stunts and includes the essence of various factions. Huo Zizheng said: This boxing is not difficult to learn, but it is extremely difficult to practice. Soft and strong, walking like a cat, as fast as lightning. When interacting with people, they often knock each other to the ground without seeing the doorway clearly, which makes their opponents dazzled and disoriented, hence the name. Dr. Sun Yat-sen was very appreciative of Huo Yuanjia's "High Morality and Bright Festival", and he personally wrote four characters of martial spirit and presented them to the Jason Wu Sports Association.
Died at the hands of the Japanese. However, no one expected that the development of Jason Wu Club was extremely tortuous. 19 10 in September, Huo Yuanjia was framed by Japanese troops in Shanghai. According to historical records, Huo Yuanjia died of poisoning. Huo Zizheng said: At that time, a Japanese judo team learned that my great-grandfather had defeated Russian and British Hercules and founded the Jason Wu Club. Not convinced, it chose a dozen experts to compete. As a result, no one from the team leader to the team members can beat his great-grandfather, and the team leader is very jealous. He pretended to make friends with his great-grandfather for advice, but in fact he was looking for an opportunity to get back at him. My great-grandfather coughed that day, and the Japanese team leader said that he wanted to see a famous doctor. He colluded with a Japanese doctor named Akino and poisoned his great-grandfather to take medicine. We Huo family are farmers and have no talent. Great-grandfather is also honest and frank, and he didn't see the ferocious nature of the Japanese. After drinking the medicine, the condition became more and more serious.
19 10 09 14, Huo Yuanjia died in Shanghai. His disciples felt suspicious and went to the hospital to find out that it was caused by a poison called lung rot medicine. However, due to the complicated social environment at that time, Akino had already escaped and was nowhere to be found. Huo Yuanjia was buried in Shanghai after his death, and a year later, the coffin moved to his hometown in Tianjin. My family told me that Tianjin was a sensation at that time, and thousands of villagers came out to meet me. Everyone cried when they were buried.
Huo Yuanjia's murder tested the descendants of the Huo family. At that time, he had two sons and two daughters, the eldest son Huo, the second son Huo Dongge, the eldest daughter Huo Dongru, the second daughter Huo Dongling, and the other daughter Huo was still in the king's womb. It was after overcoming all difficulties that Wang brought up his children. The eldest son Huo has been farming at home, and the second son Huo Dongge took over his father's unfinished business.
At that time, Jason Wu Club was in danger of dissolution. Farmers and others immediately went north and took Huo Yuanjia's younger brother Huo and his son Huo Dongge to Shanghai as coaches. Although Huo Dongge is only 16 years old, he is good at martial arts. He taught his students martial arts while teaching himself. Thanks to the efforts of Huo and Huo Dongge, the martial arts of the club students have been greatly improved. With the support of Nong and Sun Yat-sen, the club finally survived the crisis.
China Kung Fu was introduced to Nanyang. After Huo Yuanjia, Huo Dongge was recognized as a legend among the descendants of the Huo family. Under his management, Jason Wu Club developed rapidly, first establishing three branches in Shanghai, and then establishing branches in Hankou, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. 19 19, 25-year-old Huo Dongge came to Guangzhou. According to Huo Zizheng's memory, when Huo Dongge taught in Naval Headquarters, Guangzhou, he was highly valued by Chen Jiongming, a warlord who controlled the whole of Guangzhou at that time. But to Huo Dongge's surprise, Chen Jiongming finally betrayed Sun Yat-sen, and the officers and men collectively launched a rebellion, which made Huo Dongge deeply regret, so he wanted to leave Guangzhou and go to Nanyang.
Huo Zizheng recalled: Grandpa's first wife didn't want to go to Nanyang to suffer with him. She feels that she has suffered a lot from following her grandfather in Guangzhou, because she doesn't understand the language and has different habits. She doesn't want to go so far to Nanyang. So stay in Tianjin. Grandpa married his second wife Ye on 1935 after he arrived in Indonesia. She is a local overseas Chinese.
Huo Dongge had three sons and one daughter in his life, including Ya Ting, Wen Ting, Liang Wen and Elliot Ngok. Yating and Wen Ting are his children born to his Chinese wife, while Liang Wen and Yue Hua are his children born to his second wife in Indonesia. Huo Zi is the son of Huo's second son.
In Huo Zizheng's view, Huo Dongge chose to go to Nanyang because the information there was blocked at that time, and many Chinese living in Java did not know about the Jason Wu Club. He hopes to use this place as an entrance for Jason Wu Club to go abroad. At first, the Huo Dongge family suffered a lot. When Grandpa first came to Surabaya, Java to preach martial arts, people regarded him as a juggler. He teaches martial arts in schools in China and Wen Zhen during the day and teaches employees in tobacco companies at night, all of which are voluntary. He has less and less money on him, which is his most embarrassing period.
But in a fund-raising performance, Huo Dongge's supporting performance caused a sensation in Surabaya. He shouted to overseas Chinese: I know you are all enthusiastic and patriotic. Don't forget Chinese when you study, Mandarin when you speak, and National Anthem when you sing. It's a pity that you still lack one thing, that is, China's martial arts. Later, the press and education circles in Surabaya began to pay attention to this martial arts descendant who preached the quintessence of the country and vigorously promoted him. Taking this opportunity, Huo Dongge gained a firm foothold in Surabaya.
In Surabaya, Huo Dongge not only promoted the spirit of Jason Wu, but also became a famous doctor. Huo Zizheng told reporters that the Huo family has a secret recipe for healing and healing, as well as a self-made strange medicine god Ricky, which can increase strength if eaten regularly. With the secret recipe handed down from family and self-taught, Huo Dongge became a famous pharmacist in Java. The biggest business of the descendants of the Huo family now is the pharmaceutical group founded by his grandfather.
1960, Huo Dongge died in Bandung, Indonesia. Huo Zizheng said: Grandpa spent the rest of his life in Nanyang, and his heart should be very lonely. He never had a chance to return to the motherland.
After Huo Dongge left China, the task of developing the club was mainly undertaken by local celebrities with financial resources and strength, while the teaching task fell on farmers and Huo disciples. Thanks to Sun Yat-sen's support and media propaganda, the development of Jason Wu Club has never stopped.
From 19 10 to 1920, the membership of Jason Wu Club increased from 10 to more than100. Jason Wu branches have been set up all over the country, and teachers from the Shanghai General Association have been hired for guidance. 1920 On July 3rd, at the invitation of overseas Chinese, five key members of Shanghai Jason Wu Club went to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia to promote the spirit of Jason Wu and set up branches, which were called five South Asian ambassadors in the history of Jason Wu Club. Since then, Siam (Thailand), Macau, the United States, Canada and other countries and regions have also held the Jason Wu Conference.
Huo Zizheng introduced that the Jason Wu Association advocated the all-round development of body, intelligence and morality, and gradually established 30 sets of basic Wushu routines at the beginning, middle and advanced levels. The core of moral education is patriotism, self-cultivation, justice and helping others. Today, Jason Wu Club has 58 branches all over the world. Not only teach martial arts and gymnastics, but also set up photography, music and other departments, as well as various books, newspapers and inspirational groups, focusing on comprehensive training.
However, after leaving Huodongge, the Huo family in China had no connection with the association, and most of them worked in the agricultural sector. Uncle Yating and his father like studying, reading and drawing. My uncle later came to Tianjin as a worker, and my father taught in a private school. Huo Zizheng said.
It is especially regrettable for Huo Zizheng that the quintessence of Chinese martial arts is gradually declining in China, but it is becoming more and more popular abroad. Last year's centennial celebration in Huo Yuanjia, Jason Wu clubs from the United States, Britain, Japan and Canada all came. The leaders of the United States and Malaysia spoke highly of the Jason Wu Club, saying that the Jason Wu Club stresses patriotism, fitness, justice and helping others, which has a great influence on the people and foreigners' enthusiasm.
The descendants of Shao Huojia, who practiced martial arts in those days, now live in a scattered way. Huo Dongge went to Nanyang with his eldest son Huo Shousong. Huo Shousong inherited the medical skills of the Huo family. His son Huo is now a local famous doctor and the richest of the descendants of the Huo family. Huo Zi is often invited to Indonesia. He described to reporters: Huo's old house in the center of Surabaya is 500 square meters, which is inlaid with 20 kilograms of gold. Now the new villa has been built, covering an area of 1000 square meters. It's magnificent, with drivers, doormen, gardeners and nannies. It is very luxurious. According to Huo Zizheng, descendants of Liang Wen, Huo Dongge's third son, now live in Bandung.
In China, the Yating family, Huo Dongge's eldest son, has been living in downtown Tianjin, and the Wen Ting family, his second son, has been staying in Xiaonanhe Village, his hometown. We have contact from time to time, but we are far apart, so we have less chance to get together.
In Huo Zizheng's view, only his niece Huo Jinghong is still engaged in martial arts-related careers and works as a martial arts teacher at Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. But she doesn't practice all the kung fu of the Huo family. The descendants of the Huo family have no masters, just hobbies. After all, everyone is busy making money, and there is not much economic source for practicing martial arts. The martial arts of the Huo family have not been well inherited by future generations. Huo Zizheng said frankly.
However, in Xiaonanhe Village, Huo Yuanjia's hometown, villagers still get together to learn martial arts in their spare time. Although everyone's work has nothing to do with martial arts, they will still practice it as an interest. Children get together to fight; Old people practice martial arts mainly for fitness.
Huo Zizheng is now the honorary principal of Huo Yuanjia Wu Wen School in the village. His son and daughter both became families and opened several clothing stores. We are ordinary people, but the villagers respect us very much. I used to be the workshop director and deputy director of the village factory, and retired at the age of 60. Now the village has given me a position as a member of the village Committee. My wife and I earn more than 20 thousand yuan a year, and we have enough to eat and drink. The Huo family is a farmer, so it's good to be a farmer. Everyone in our family has this mentality.