Ni Kuang's words were opposed by Huo Yuanjia's descendants. Huo Yuanjia is a real person. In Jingwumen, he is also the master of the protagonist Zhen Chen. Huo Yuanjia's great-grandson Huo Zizheng once said publicly, "Zhen Chen is actually just a fictional character. My great-grandfather never had an apprentice named Zhen Chen." .
When Huo Zizheng's words came out, countless "Zhen Chen fans" were speechless. It is worth noting that the most important thing Zhen Chen did in Jingwumen's life was to "avenge Master". If he is not Huo Yuanjia's apprentice at all, all these stories about Zhen Chen are just floating clouds.
So, how can "Zhen Chen fans" and a group of martial arts fans not be disappointed?
However, as far as Zhen Chen is concerned, the descendants of her family are wrong after all! Because according to textual research, there really is Zhen Chen in history, and his prototype is Liu Zhensheng, a great disciple of Huo Yuanjia who is familiar to the descendants of Huo family.
But the real Zhen Chen, namely Liu Zhensheng, is very different from Marco in film and television dramas.
Liu Zhensheng was born in 1883. His real name is Liu Qingshun and his name is Zhensheng. Shortly after he was born, his father died of illness. After his mother remarried, he also left his hometown and followed his mother to Jinghai County, Tianjin.
When Liu Zhensheng arrived in Tianjin, it was the time when the Boxer Rebellion broke out. The Boxer Rebellion is a group of farmers, craftsmen and workers who know how to fight. The purpose of their unity is to oppose imperialist aggression. Therefore, Liu Zhensheng seldom knows that boxers' fists are used to hit foreigners.
On weekdays, I always see China people being bullied by foreigners, and Liu Zhensheng worships the Boxers. He even secretly found some books to learn martial arts. After the Boxer Rebellion was suppressed, people in Liu Zhensheng and Tientsin were angry for a long time.
Fortunately, during this period, a samurai named Huo Yuanjia won a competition with foreigners on behalf of the people of China. At that time, there was a Russian strongman named Shifanlov, who claimed to be the first strongman in the world. He also publicly said that China people were "the sick man of East Asia", so Huo Yuanjia challenged him. He never imagined that Hercules had fled when he learned that Huo Yuanjia was skilled in martial arts.
It was after this incident that Liu Zhensheng saw the power of China Wushu. He firmly believes that China's martial arts can revitalize the country and defeat the imperialist powers. Unconsciously, Liu Zhensheng began a "heroic dream", hoping that one day, he could use China Kung Fu to drive the imperialist powers out of China.
Once a person has a real dream, his behavior and so on will change. After dreaming, Liu Zhensheng gets up early every day to practice martial arts. He made a stake and stood on it every day to practice boxing. He also tied sandbags to prepare for running the next day. After a long time, he really felt that his body had become better than before.
By chance, I met a businessman named Liu in Laoting County. Chatted with him for a while, and the boss appreciated him very much. Later, knowing that he had no father since childhood, Mr. Liu offered to accept him as an adopted son. After that, the two were indeed commensurate with their father and son.
Seeing that his son is obsessed with martial arts, Boss Liu simply introduced him to Huo Yuanjia. Huo Yuanjia met Liu Zhensheng, who likes martial arts very much. Soon, he was officially accepted as an apprentice. From then on, Liu Zhensheng officially embarked on his martial arts road.
Liu Zhensheng's master Huo Yuanjia was born in a martial arts family. Because of his outstanding martial arts, he repeatedly scared away the "Hercules" of other countries. He is very famous in Tianjin, and he also developed the "Fan Boxing" handed down by Huo Jiazu into a "Lost Boxing".
After following Huo Yuanjia, Liu Zhensheng began to concentrate on practicing martial arts under the guidance of Master. Liu Zhensheng is a diligent person. On weekdays, he always tries his best to take care of things other than Master's martial arts. After a long time, Huo Yuanjia is naturally partial to this disciple. Later, he also taught Liu Zhensheng his lost fist.
In just a few years, Liu Zhensheng, who studied martial arts hard, surpassed most of his contemporaries in martial arts.
It can be said that the first half of Liu Zhensheng is basically similar to Zhen Chen in the film and television drama, but the difference is that Zhen Chen in the film and television drama has been shaped more artistically. In some TV dramas, Zhen Chen was originally the enemy of Huo Yuanjia, and Huo Yuanjia killed Zhen Chen's master, the one-armed old man by mistake, so Zhen Chen held a grudge against Huo Yuanjia. After becoming his disciple, he even waited for an opportunity to kill Huo Yuanjia and avenge the one-armed old man.
In real history, when Liu Zhensheng entered the gate of Huo Yuanjia, it was just the time when Huo Yuanjia wanted to spread martial arts abroad, even to China people all over the world. Therefore, when he taught Liu Zhensheng, he was almost unreserved.
In addition to the ancestral fan-tracking boxing, he also taught Liu Zhensheng the 72-style fan-tracking technique and the three-light gate martial arts. Huo Yuanjia once told Liu Zhensheng that his ideal in this life is to make most people in China know martial arts, so as to strengthen the country. After listening to Master's talk about ideals, Liu Zhensheng felt his blood boiling all over.
But in the era when Huo Yuanjia and Liu Zhensheng lived, this ideal was somewhat big after all. At that time, China was bullied by foreign powers. As a result of long-term opium abuse, China people are very weak, and the Japanese directly call China "the sick man of East Asia".
Liu Zhensheng, like Zhen Chen in the film and television drama, once learned the two-section stick, and Huo Yuanjia personally taught him the two-section stick. According to his amazing arm strength, Huo Yuanjia also improved his two-stage stick technique, which they later called "self-defense patriotic stick".
Once people find the meaning of this matter when doing things, they will be particularly active in doing things. Huo Yuanjia and his disciples also invented various boxing methods, such as Weiguo Boxing and Weiguo Red Collar Boxing.
Later, Liu Zhensheng followed Master to many places, and finally established the Jason Wu Club in Shanghai. The purpose of establishing Jason Wu Club is to promote Wushu throughout the country and strengthen the country through vigorous training.
When his martial arts improved day by day, Liu Zhensheng also wanted to try his hand, and soon his chance came.
19 10 September, the Japanese Judo Association, which has been dissatisfied with the Jason Wu Association founded by Huo Yuanjia, kicked off the pavilion. On that day, they made a special trip to select more than a dozen masters and named Huo Yuanjia.
On that day, Huo Yuanjia's apprentice Liu Zhensheng finally confronted the Japanese judo master. He adopted the method of static braking and won five consecutive victories.
Of course, the Japanese team leader was not satisfied that Huo Yuanjia only sent one apprentice to send them, but he couldn't beat the Japanese judo team leader in Liu Zhensheng, and there was nothing he could do. Finally, these so-called Japanese masters had to leave disgruntled.
This competition is the only open competition in the history of Liu Zhensheng. His achievements in this competition have also become one of the stories that set off Huo Yuanjia. When people mention the history of Liu Zhensheng, they always regard Huo Yuanjia as a master, but they don't pay much attention to his contribution to winning the Japanese army. On the whole, this is somewhat unfair.
In some TV series, Liu Zhensheng, a great disciple of Huo Yuanjia who once defeated the Japanese judo master, was interpreted as a character who often needed help from others, which was naturally to set off "Zhen Chen" based on him.
Huo Yuanjia's real cause of death in film and television dramas was Japanese poisoning, and Huo Yuanjia died of poisoning in real history.
Different from TV dramas, Zhen Chen didn't know the truth until after the investigation, but Liu Zhensheng realized that Master's death was related to the Japanese.
After playing Japanese judo masters in Liu Zhensheng, the Japanese knew that they were no match for Huo Yuanjia. In order to eradicate this "scourge" completely, they decided to resort to "despicable means".
Therefore, the Japanese made friends with Zhen Chen under the pretence, and also recommended Dr. Akino, the imperial doctor, to Huo Yuanjia, who had hemoptysis (equivalent to tuberculosis). It was after taking Ren Dan by Akino that Huo Yuanjia's condition deteriorated step by step, and then he died suddenly. This year, Huo Yuanjia was only 42 years old.
When Huo Yuanjia and the Japanese just started to "make friends", Liu Zhensheng reminded Master that "they must have no good intentions". But Huo Yuanjia doesn't think so. He just said, "They are not all bad people, and some are very friendly to China people."
Seeing that he could not convince Master, Liu Zhensheng kept a secret, but he never knew that Master had been taking Ren Dan by Akino.
The day after Master's death, Akino, who was in charge of treating him, fled back to Japan. About this passage, the book Biography of Jason Wu once recorded:
After the incident, Liu Zhensheng, who knew something was fishy, sent Ren Dan prepared by the Japanese to the hospital for testing. The test results show that there are chronic lung rot drugs in the medicine, which can not be found in a short time and can not be cured after a long time.
At this time, Liu Zhensheng and Wu Jinghui's disciples were sure that Master's death was really a plot carefully planned by the Japanese. This result was later confirmed when Huo Yuanjia's mausoleum was moved and cleaned: there were black spots on the crotch of his body, and after comprehensive forensic examination, it was determined that "the black spots were caused by poisoning".
In the film and television drama Jingwumen, Zhen Chen learned that Master had died at the hands of the Japanese, went to avenge himself, and finally died with the Japanese Sato. In The Hero of Jason Wu, Marco, after revenging Master, went to the Northeast to participate in the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement with his fellow disciples of the Jason Wu Institution.
The real Liu Zhensheng is a far cry from Zhen Chen in film and television dramas. Although he is bent on revenge for master, it is almost impossible for him to avenge master himself because his opponent is too strong. This sense of powerlessness always made him suffer. Later, he left Jingwumen on his own initiative.
It's the same as in the film and television drama Hero of Jason Wu: after leaving Wujingmen, he did go to the Northeast.
But before going to the northeast, he had been wandering around and even left home. But because of political turmoil, his idea of spending his life with the ancient Buddha was forced to stop.
In desperation, Liu Zhensheng moved to the northeast, where he became the bodyguard of the wealthy businessman Du Huilin for the first time. Du Huilin has always taken care of him because she values his character and martial arts, and gave it to him in the form of a firm. But the easier it is, the more inexpressible it is.
Dissatisfied with Du Huilin's extravagant life, he resolutely left Du Fu. Du Huilin introduced him to Zhang, the king of Northeast China, after he left, and he also received Zhang's power of attorney. 1926 or so, Liu Zhensheng was employed as the martial arts teacher of Zhang Xueliang's brothers.
Just two years later in the northeast, Zhang was killed by the Japanese army. After that, Zhang Xueliang retreated from Kanto. Liu Zhensheng was stung by Zhang Xueliang's compromise attitude towards the Japanese. At this time, he really understood that China people could not achieve the goal of strengthening the country with their fists. The real way to save the country and strengthen the country lies in political change.
This is the second time that Liu Zhensheng feels very depressed. The ideal he once had with Master Huo Yuanjia has been completely smashed into powder. These setbacks finally made him realize the cruel reality.
When people face reality, there are usually only two ways to deal with it, one is to face and the other is to escape.
When facing the cruel reality for the second time, Liu Zhensheng once again chose to escape. This kind of Liu Zhensheng is very different from Zhen Chen in later movies and TV plays. The truth is: In reality, almost no one can be as "indifferent" as Zhen Chen in film and television dramas, and most people eventually become "caring" Liu Zhensheng.
Zhen Chen's martial arts skills in film and television dramas made the Japanese feel frightened. Although he is good at Liu Zhensheng's kung fu in reality, he has never been to the position of Zhen Chen in film and television dramas. More importantly, during the Republic of China, Shanghai was dominated by foreigners. At that time, if foreigners killed China people, they could calm down at will, but if China people killed foreigners, it would be a terrible thing.
In other words, if the real Liu Zhensheng really killed Master's killer, the whole Jason Wu Club would not continue. At that time, his other disciples will also be implicated.
It is precisely because revenge is extremely difficult that China people who were bullied by foreigners at that time called it "Zhen Chen", as Ni Kuang, the author of Jingwumen, said: What can't be done in reality is also a kind of psychological compensation.
So, Zhen Chen appeared in Jingwumen-
After Master was killed, Zhen Chen, who knew the truth, challenged the Hongkou Dojo of the Japanese martial arts school alone and returned the plaque of "The Sick Man of East Asia". He even tore up the paper with the words "The Sick Man of East Asia" and fed it to the Japanese. While feeding, he also viciously threatened the Japanese: "This time we will eat paper, and next time, we will let you eat glass."
Every time in battle, Zhen Chen always excites all China people. When he first showed the nunchaku skills on the screen, he gave the Japanese a "color" with the explosion. At the end of the movie, Zhen Chen jumps in the air and the picture suddenly stops. This picture is still a classic in kung fu movies.
The film and television drama Zhen Chen raised the theme of revenge to the national justice. Zhen Chen's strong sense of patriotism and national spirit has aroused widespread concern in Revenge. With the popularity of Zhen Chen in movies, Zhen Chen's fame even overshadowed his master Huo Yuanjia.
In contrast, in reality, the life of Zhen Chen's prototype Liu Zhensheng will disappoint the world. In film and television dramas, Zhen Chen is fearless and affectionate, but in reality, his prototype Liu Zhensheng often chooses to escape.
But in essence, Liu Zhensheng and Zhen Chen are the same. In particular, both of them hated the attitude of the Japanese who killed Master.
After the bombing of Zhang, hatred of the Japanese reached its peak. Then, when he saw the Japanese bullying China, he personally killed a Japanese. Afterwards, he had no choice but to escape from the northeast and began to remain anonymous. He changed his name to Liu Qingshun.
After leaving the Northeast, he chose to go to Laoting's elderly adoptive father, Boss Liu. It is only natural that an adoptive father can be accompanied by an adopted son when he is old. Perhaps it was Master's death and subsequent fate that hit him too hard. After arriving at Laoting, he completely lived a normal life.
After marrying his daughter-in-law, Liu Zhensheng founded a small martial arts school in the village. His disciples are Yu Yu, Yu Yu, Yu Yu, He Qingrui and dozens of others.
After the opening of Wushu School, Liu Zhensheng became more and more famous in Laoting. Naturally, more and more people are interested in him. But no matter how others asked him, he always kept his origins and martial arts secret. So the local people will naturally stop asking questions.
Liu Zhensheng's wife later gave birth to a daughter named Cai Xia. Liu Zhensheng didn't teach Cai Xia Kung Fu. When she grew up, she married a neighboring village and became an ordinary village woman.
1960, Liu Zhensheng died of poverty and disease at the age of 77.
When he died, he left three relics: a treasure knife, a string of beads and an invitation card from Zhang. These three relics seem to tell the master's life silently. ...