189 1 year, Guofu Zhu was born in Zhu Zhuang, Dingxing County, Hebei Province.
Guofu Zhu has been a sick seedling since he was a child, and his health is particularly poor. His illness has grown to 12 years old and he is still very weak. Not only weak, but also unable to eat more.
At that time, Guofu Zhu's family thought that he would not live long. But his uncle thinks that if he practices martial arts, he will be able to keep fit and cure the disease. So, his uncle took him to learn Xingyiquan under the guidance of Ma Yutang, a famous Xingyiquan.
Needless to say, after only three months of practice, Guofu Zhu's physical fitness has been significantly improved. From then on, Guofu Zhu began his martial arts career.
Although Guofu Zhu is not strong enough, he is very clever. Whether Ma Yutang teaches boxing or recites martial arts formulas, he can master them quickly. He practiced very hard, so his martial arts made rapid progress.
Zhang, a good friend of Ma Yutang, also liked it very much. After getting Ma Yutang's consent, he worshipped Zhang as a teacher and learned Bagua Boxing from him. After making artistic achievements, Guofu Zhu continued to study martial arts under Li Caiting, one of the three Li's in Dingxing.
By the time Guofu Zhu was 20 years old, he was not only proficient in Xingyiquan and Bagua Boxing, but also proficient in Tan Leg, Knife and liuhe gun, and he was quite famous in the village.
Guofu Zhu worked as an escort for some time after she started her career. He has a good reputation because he never lost his property while playing darts. However, with the abdication of the Qing government and the emergence of telegrams and trains, the once prosperous escort agencies were gradually replaced by new things. A large number of escorts lost their jobs, and so did Guofu Zhu.
After the establishment of the national government, Wushu has always been regarded as a magic weapon to strengthen the country and cultivate it. Li Cunyi, a master of Guofu Zhu, founded the first folk Wushu organization at that time-Chinese Wushu Association, and recruited disciples to teach Wushu.
Guofu Zhu immediately went to learn from his master. In the process of learning Wushu, his spirit and character of learning Wushu were recognized and appreciated by Li Cunyi. Therefore, Li Cunyi not only carefully guided him to practice Xingyiquan, but also taught him the twelve forms and eight-character techniques of Juexue Xingyiquan.
19 15, college student Zhou shanpei (who was once Li's consultant) wanted to go around Beijing to Tianjin and settle in Shanghai. Considering the safety of his family and property, he found Li Cunyi, who runs an escort company. But at this time, Li Cunyi was old, and he handed over the task of escorting Zhou Shanpei to Guofu Zhu, who was only 24 years old.
Along the way, Guofu Zhu was very cautious. He not only took care of 73 pieces of luggage, but also carefully considered the safety of Zhou Shanpei and his family. After arriving at Zhou Mansion, Zhou Shanpei tried his best to retain it. In addition, Zhou Jia had great respect and trust, so he stayed in Zhou Mansion and became Zhou Shanpei's personal bodyguard.
Although Guofu Zhu had martial arts, he didn't stop. By chance, he got to know Sun Lutang, worshipped him as a teacher, and learned from him the techniques of eight diagrams and swords. After learning its essence, Guofu Zhu's martial arts became more and more perfect. I have learned martial arts from martial arts masters many times and am in an invincible position. And with superb martial arts, he became a leader in the new generation of Wulin.
As a bodyguard, Guofu Zhu saw the weakness of his national strength. In order to let more people learn Wushu and defend the country, he also founded the Shanghai Wushu Society. There, he recruited disciples and taught Wushu.
When teaching martial arts, Guofu Zhu found that the internal and external skills of traditional martial arts are good, but it takes a long time to practice, so it is not easy to realize martial arts practice.
Just as Guofu Zhu was thinking about how to make people master martial arts, he saw many foreign boxers come to China for boxing competitions. This fierce fighting scene attracted many people to watch. Through watching, Guofu Zhu found that compared with traditional martial arts, boxing lacks routines and ostentatiousness, and its offensive and defensive actions are much simpler and more practical, which is very suitable for people to master skills in a short time.
In order to master the essentials of boxing, Guofu Zhu paid a French boxing teacher to teach him boxing. However, the French boxer has always looked down on China people and often laughed at China's martial arts as useless exhibits in front of Guofu Zhu. Guofu Zhu couldn't stand the endless humiliation of the French boxing teacher, so Guofu Zhu suggested a duel and agreed to never use his legs.
The tall French boxing teacher also wants to teach Guofu Zhu a lesson. As a result, as soon as they met, Guofu Zhu's hand was inserted into the throat of the French boxing teacher.
The French boxing teacher refused to accept it, and they gestured again. As a result, Guofu Zhu made another move to defeat the enemy, and the French boxing teacher had no strength to fight back.
Seeing that he was no match for Guofu Zhu at all, the French boxing teacher left without saying goodbye in shame. Guofu Zhu wanted to learn boxing systematically, so he had to find another British boxing teacher to continue his study.
After mastering the essentials of boxing, Guofu Zhu combined the technical characteristics of Xingyiquan, Baguazhang and other martial arts with boxing, created a set of aggressive boxing routines, and then taught them to the students of Wushu Club.
Guofu Zhu is also a chivalrous man. During 1920, a flood occurred in Zhejiang, and a large number of refugees fled to Shanghai. They have no food and clothing, and their lives are in distress. Guofu Zhu see in the eye, very uncomfortable. So he proposed to Zhou Shanpei, hoping to find a venue to raise funds in the form of martial arts performances.
Zhou Shanpei is a social celebrity with strong activity ability. Under his activities, Huang, the boss of green gang, Shanghai, is willing to provide them with a free performance venue in Shanghai World. Guofu Zhu, with his apprentice, personally went on stage to perform martial arts. Because of the wonderful performance, the venue was full. After ten days of continuous performance, Guofu Zhu donated all the money raised to the government, making great contributions to the relief of the victims.
Guofu Zhu is a man who punishes evil and promotes good. Once, Huang Huannan, the boss of Shixian Company, was besieged by a group of hooligans on the road. Huang Huannan's bodyguard at that time was the British boxing champion. As a result, those hooligans were skilled in martial arts and knocked the British boxing champion to the ground. Seeing that Huang Huannan was about to have an accident, Guofu Zhu happened to pass by, and he immediately stepped forward to beat off those hooligans.
Huang Huannan is very grateful to Guofu Zhu for this. He immediately wrote a large check to reward him, but Guofu Zhu refused.
When Huang Huannan learned that Guofu Zhu was Zhou Shanpei's bodyguard, he was very happy. Since then, I have visited Zhou Shanpei and asked Zhou Shanpei to marry me many times, hoping to be his bodyguard.
Zhou Shanpei didn't want Guofu Zhu to leave, but he gave in to Huang Huannan and finally agreed. So Guofu Zhu became Huang Huannan's bodyguard again, and Huang Huannan was like Guofu Zhu's brother.
Although Guofu Zhu and Huang Huannan have an employment relationship, Huang Huannan is very supportive of promoting boxing in Guofu Zhu. He even donated money to help Guofu Zhu set up a boxing team. The boxing team is divided into two teams, the men's team and the women's team. They usually train and hold boxing matches and performances in Shanghai during holidays. Guofu Zhu relies on the money from ticket sales to maintain the daily expenses of the boxing team.
1923, a Belarusian boxing champion named Pei Yi Habor set up a boxing ring in the martial arts field of the French Concession in Shanghai, openly challenging the martial arts masters in Shanghai.
Pei Yi Harper is 1.9 meters long. He is as strong as a bear and has infinite strength. In the first ten days, many martial arts masters played every day. But these Wushu experts are no match for him. Pei Yi Harper, who won in succession, immediately became arrogant. He proudly said that there are no martial artists in China, because China people are the sick man of East Asia. Pei Yi Harper's remarks made the people of China angry, but who can win this super big guy?
Just when everyone was sad, Guofu Zhu jumped down from the stands and walked to the ring, demanding a boxing match with Pei Yi Harper. Pei Yi Harper saw that Guofu Zhu was small and thin, and he was very disdainful of him. The referee also thinks that Guofu Zhu and Pei Yi Harper are not on the same level in terms of height and weight. Therefore, I have repeatedly opposed games. However, Guofu Zhu insisted on boxing, and even signed a life-and-death document with Pei Yi Harper to decide the outcome in six rounds.
That night, many citizens heard that Guofu Zhu challenged Pei Yi Harper and beat him. They all gathered to cheer for Guofu Zhu. I hope he will live up to the expectations of the people of China and defeat the arrogant Pei Yi Harper.
In the end, it took Guofu Zhu only four rounds to knock Pei Yi Harper to the ground and win. At that time, the audience stamped their feet in excitement to celebrate the victory, and the floor of the martial arts school was crushed.
Guofu Zhu also became famous in World War I and became a famous national hero in Shanghai.
Some people may wonder why a small Guofu Zhu can beat the powerful Pei Yi Harper by boxing under the circumstances of disparity in strength. In fact, Guofu Zhu made full preparations. Before being beaten, he watched Pei Yi Harper's boxing for several days in a row, and only after knowing it clearly did he go on stage to be beaten. In the process of beating, he used martial arts skills in boxing. First, he used guerrilla techniques to consume Philip Harper's physical strength. When he was exhausted, he immediately seized the opportunity to pour the power of Xingyiquan into his fist and hit his chest and abdomen. The other side couldn't stand it and collapsed, so Guofu Zhu won.
1928, the Central Wushu Museum was established in Nanjing. In order to select the elite of Wushu, the national examination of Wushu was held. At that time, in order to compete for the first place, famous martial arts masters from all walks of life signed up for the competition, and the number reached more than 600. After the preliminary test, more than 300 people competed fiercely.
After all, experts are like a cloud, and some Wulin experts have fallen in the fierce battle, such as Jia's famous Bagua Palm and Zuo Zhenying's Bagua Palm with both form and meaning. After one contest after another, only 17 people were left. On the other hand, Guofu Zhu knows not only martial arts, but also boxing. So with these two skills, he finally defeated all his opponents and ranked first. Later, he was hired as the teaching director of the martial arts school, specializing in boxing.
In the process of teaching boxing, Guofu Zhu repeatedly emphasized that both traditional martial arts and boxing should "reject gaudiness, emphasize practicality and practice for fighting", which broke the boundaries of different schools and put forward the teaching policy of making foreign things serve China and making the past serve the present. Under his advocacy and reform, great changes have taken place in the teaching of martial arts schools, thus cultivating a large number of martial arts talents, including many martial arts masters.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, these students rushed to the battlefield and made great contributions to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War with their martial arts.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the Central Martial Arts School moved to Chongqing, but it was once closed due to insufficient funds. After Guofu Zhu came to Chongqing, he raised funds everywhere and established the Chongqing Wushu Museum, which was later renamed the Capital Wushu Museum. He served as deputy curator. It can be said that he revived the Central Martial Arts School and trained a large number of talents. At the same time, Guofu Zhu also teaches martial arts in many universities such as Chongqing University.
After the founding of New China, Guofu Zhu continued to teach at Chongqing University and was elected as the first vice chairman of Chongqing Wushu Association. Later, at the invitation of Marshal He Long, he wrote military textbooks for the troops.
1On June 5th, 968, Guofu Zhu died of a stroke at the age of 77.
Guofu Zhu changed from a sickly child to a martial arts master. Combining boxing with traditional Wushu and attaching importance to the actual combat effect of Wushu can be said to have made great contributions to the development of Wushu in China.