The real skill of Li Shuwen, a sharp gun

One of the pinnacle figures of martial arts in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China-the sharp gun Li Shuwen, he did not retain the image, money, and descendants in his life. For seventy-two years in his life, he was invincible, and he was the most skillful loneliness in his lifetime. The expert, behind him is the undefeated legend sealed in thick dust.

Li Shuwen, with the word Tongchen, from Wangnanliang Village, Yanshan County, Cangzhou, Hebei. He was born short, less than 1.6 meters tall, but with his hands above the knees, he was very alert, smart and visionary.

The "Cang County Chronicles" of the Republic of China records: (Li Shuwen) is short, barren, thin and powerful.

There are three kinds of human beings, one is God’s appreciation of rice (relying on talent), the other is patriarch’s appreciation of rice (relying on hard work), and the other is eating all meals. Li Shuwen probably belongs to the third Kind. He has been obsessed with martial arts since he was a child, but because of his small size, many martial arts masters were unwilling to accept him as a disciple. However, his temperament was stubborn and arrogant. When he was not convinced, God opened his eyes, and the martial arts expert also opened his eyes.

First of all, Zhang Jingxing, the fifth generation successor of Luotuan Bajiquan, was the first to know the bead; the one who opened the door again was famous for his big spear, Huang Shihai, who was topped by the sixth rank of the court, and Huang Shihai’s two masters Li Dazhong and Zhang Keming .

There are two divisions. The two masters taught art to guide the way. Li Shuwen has been practicing for twelve years. He is fascinated and drunk, and his skills are advancing by leaps and bounds. Eventually there are "lunatics", "magic stunners", "gun idiots" and " The name of "God Man".

No matter at that time or later, there are a lot of rumors about Li Shuwen's martial arts practice, "If you don't become a demon, you can't survive"——

At the beginning of Wushu, Nanliang was away from Luotuan Shiliuli Road, Li Shuwen Every day I go to Luotuan Zhangjia to practice boxing, rain or shine, every time he walks, rushes, or shakes a big pole to go back and forth. It is said that the foundation of his magical work was laid at that time. .

Stroke against the pile near home, and the jujube and locust trees with thick bowls were shaken to death by his fists and feet. They became his practice piles; he practiced punching sandbags, ranging from 50 kg to 300 kg, he boxed , Elbow top, shoulder bump, back leaning, I don't know how many broken.

And the most legendary is that he practiced the big gun, pierced the eye of the coin during the day, pierced the incense head at night, and then pierced the mirror and flies. Li Shuwen’s proud disciple Liu Yunqiao (the prototype of the "Yi Xian Tian" in "The Great Master", who served as two Jiang’s bodyguards) in the later period of Li Shuwen said in the article: "The first teacher has a peculiar way of practicing guns on weekdays, such as applying honey on window paper to attract flies. Use a big gun to stab the flies to death, while the window weaves are still intact; the first teacher often passes the gun through a big wheel, twisting the gun with both hands, making the wheel whirl, but the barrel of the gun will not touch and rattle. "

According to Li Shu's literary and artistic apprentice for more than ten years, Huo Qingyun, the former guard of the Xuantong Emperor in the late Qing Dynasty, recalled: We can't practice the skill of Master Li with a sharp gun. He used a big gun to pick up an eighty catty cart and whirl like a pinwheel. He practiced like this often, effortlessly.

"Cang County Chronicles" records: "Arrow your palms and hit the air indoors, five feet away from the window, pierce the paper and vibrate soundly; use a big gun to pierce the flies on the wall, and the flies fall without a mark on the wall. The iron cone enters the wall, and the force is strong. It is very difficult to draw, he stirs it with a big spear, and the cone is out.”

People commented that the masters of Li Shuwen's collection, Li Dazhong and Li Keming, and the masters Huang Shihai and Zhang Jingxing are four masters of boxing skills and spear skills. , And eventually became his own faction. As long as the big spear flicks, the head of the spear is like lightning, and the momentum is like the water of the Yangtze River, majestic and majestic. The speed of his marksmanship, the fierce strength, and the high accuracy have reached the ultimate level of supernatural power.

In 1895, Yuan Shikai trained at the small station in the southern suburbs of Tianjin, recruiting the world's heroes, and he heavily hired Oriental karate masters and German military instructors to train elites. Li Shuwen’s master Huang Shihai received Yuan Shikai’s letter of appointment. Because of his advanced age, he recommended his disciple Li Shuwen to teach.

Yuan Shikai saw Li Shuwen in the martial arts hall, but saw him carrying a big gun, and he looked like a boy servant carrying a gun for Huang Shihai. After I was asked about the situation, I learned that Li Shuwen was working for the teacher, which caused a roar of laughter.

Yuan Shikai’s guard martial arts instructor Oriental Ito Taro said Li Shuwen on the spot as "a big East AsiaSick man" and pointed down with his little finger to show insult.

The Dongyang people did not expect that this little man in front of him was not only arrogant and strong, but also a killer move. Under the provocation and humiliation of the Dongyang people, I saw Li Shuwen's big spear flicked, and the Oriental wielded a long knife before he could kill him. Li Shuwen instantly pierced his throat with a "loach turning over the flower", and his tragic body was shot and thrown out of the martial arts hall.

The other three Toyo Budo instructors, Akino, Inoue, and Noda saw their companions stabbed to death by a single shot, and then swung a knife to Li Shuwen viciously and slaughtered them. However, Li Shuwen entered and exited like lightning and retreated like arrows. In this round, these three Orientals flew in blood and blood, and died tragically outside the martial arts hall.

At this time, everyone was shocked, Li Shuwen swung his gun and stabbed the fly on the pillar of the hall. Wuhen, Yuan Shikai repeatedly shouted: "Gunsling! Gunslinger! Shina guns too! "

At that time there was an evaluation, this is the warm wine to cut the oriental samurai, the steel fist is no two (this prestige is still unforgettable by the Japanese).

"Gunsling Li Shuwen" by this name moved the world.

In the second year of Xuantong, the Russian boxing champion Malotov came to China, set up a ring in Beijing, uttered wild words, and wantonly humiliated my Chinese man. Under indignation, many martial artists in the Beijing and Tianjin area went to compete and lost all battles. On the order of his teacher, Li Shuwen went to Beijing immediately and went to the stage to fight.

What was the result?

only punched out, about to break Malotov’s ribs and hit the ring.

This scene The court and courtiers drew attention from the crowd. They wanted to make Li Shuwen the top five-tier martial arts instructor. Li Shuwen thanked his teacher for his filial piety. Puyi and courtiers were helpless and gave a golden Buddha statue as a reward. (After Li Shuwen returned to his hometown, he gave the golden Buddha statue to his disciple Huo Diange for preservation. Later, due to the turmoil of the war, his whereabouts were unknown.)

Today, when it comes to the martial arts masters in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, there are many "dances". Boo, no matter what others, as far as Li Shuwen is concerned, his famous martial arts skills must be the ultimate move. Although legendary, it is by no means a false statement.

Li Shuwen’s kung fu is bloody and fateful.

刘云樵

Liu Yunqiao once said: The first teacher is staunch, stubborn, and the most uncomfortable martial arts practitioners are nonsense, and often try kung fu against others. He has a problem, Using a fist must cost a human life, and using a palm will make a person life-long crippling, and it must be successful first hand. It is by no means like the 300 rounds of wars that are common today, or the "three-legged" or "18-legged whirlwind". The teacher often sighed and said that my trick is like a tiger climbing a mountain. I only used the first punch in my life and the opponent was over. I don’t know how powerful the second and third punches are!

However, Li Shuwen shot. Ruthless, did not give in on the spot, raised his hand without mercy, behind the so-called "Li Ru Zi", but there is a cultivation base that respects martial ethics, he has countless martial arts in his life, and killed a lot of people, but he has never attacked, secretly calculated or lost promises. At that time, some people said that his cruelty only saw life and death, and he was a real martial arts man with real kung fu.

The warlord in the Beiyang period respected martial arts, and like Sun Lutang in the same period, Li Shuwen had a reputation in the martial arts. He also had some dealings with the Beiyang warlords, especially the Feng family, and left some martial arts anecdotes.

Li Shuwen was arrogant throughout his life and insisted on not knocking at the door. His dealings with the warlords were other generals. He invited him in. Among them, Xu Lanzhou, who had served as a general in Heilongjiang, was the most.

Xu Lanzhou learned Confucianism and martial arts since childhood, and was a young man who was named "Saitianba". In 1912, major general Xu Lanzhou was stationed. Heilongjiang, because he admired Li Shuwen's reputation as a martial artist, he respectfully invited him into the mansion, Professor Xu Jiafu and Xu Jialu, two of his sons, were employed together with Huo Diange, Li Shuwen's disciple.

Li Shuwen always has an arrogant and murderous aura. Unlike Sun Lutang's later period, he pays attention to the modest cultivation of the master. He kills people when he sees dissatisfaction, and walks away when he sees injustice.

At that time, there were masters in the Beiyang warlord’s mansion. Li Shuwen went to the mansion and killed the dissatisfied man.

In Heilongjiang, Xu Lanzhou worshipped his brother, named Chen Fugui, with profound skill and infinite strength., "Thousand Jins Invincible Hercules", the iron sand palm has deep skills and can beat the grinding disc. Because he didn’t accept Li Shuwen, he wanted to come to the competition. After Xiaobi’s defeat, Xu Lanzhou hurriedly stopped him and said, brother, don’t be ignorant. Teacher Li has already given us face, otherwise you would have died. Up.

Chen Fugui woke up like a dream, and quickly saluted Li Shuwen as a teacher. Li Shuwen sat on the grand teacher's chair in the hall and laughed, shaking his body, and sitting on the grand teacher's chair fell apart.

Li Shuwen has a lot of arrogant tempers, like chewing gravel, eating chicken but not bones, eating chicken will take the lead. One day when I was eating at Xulanzhou Mansion, the new chef didn't know the rules and got the chicken heads gone. Li Shuwen thought this was disrespectful to himself, and after returning to the room he packed his luggage and jumped off the building.

Xu Lanzhou chased the horse, but no matter how he urged the horse, Li Shuwen was in front of him, and the distance was always so far, Xu Lanzhou just couldn't catch up. When he got to the riverside, Xu Lanzhou laughed and said, "Teacher, the river is in the way, can you still go?" Who knows, Li Shuwen plunged into the river, and it took a long time for Xu Lanzhou to emerge from the other side of the water. Only then did I know that Li Shuwen's internal skills had been cultivated to the state of fetal breath.

After Heilongjiang was controlled by Zhang Zuolin, the king of the Northeast, Xu Lanzhou took refuge in Zhang Zuolin and served as the chief of the Fengjun General Staff and the commander-in-chief of the Jihei Bandit. Zhang Zuolin has long heard of the name "Magic Spear Li Shuwen" and respectfully hired him as the general martial arts teacher of the Fengjun Army.

On the first day of Li Shuwen's tenure, the Oriental martial arts instructor in the army saw that the chief teacher Zhang Dashuai had invited for them turned out to be a shriveled little old man, so he refused to accept it and wanted to compete.

Li Shuwen came up again to show his murderous intent. He said to Zhang Zuolin: "The two are more skilled, they are not the same, and they are inevitably disabled. I am a bad old man who is about to fall into the soil. It doesn't matter if the Japanese hurt me; but if I hurt Japanese, how can the Japanese give up with you, Mr. Zhang? Let’s set up a life and death document according to the rules. No matter which side is disabled, don’t pay for my life so that I can fight with the Japanese.”

What is the result?

Li Shuwen only smashed the shoulder blades of the Japanese Okamoto. Zhang Zuolin hurriedly stopped the Japanese from coming forward, otherwise he would definitely die.

When the warlord Li Jinglin supervised the army in Zhili, Li Shuwen was invited to Tianjin to teach Lieutenant General to lead martial arts. At that time, there were many famous martial artists in the Yanjing area. Because they refused to accept the strong dragon to crush the ground snake, they selected two masters to defeat Li Shuwen's prestige.

The two palms that Li Shuwen hits in this contest are very shocking.

As soon as he fought, Li Shuwen dashed up, and a "Tarzan top" came on his head. A palm hit the head of the first person into the item, two eyes burst and died; the second person still To compete, Li Shuwen still had one move. The other party quickly dodged his head, but his entire shoulder and ribs were interrupted.

In the martial arts of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, there are world-famous martial arts such as Wu Sheng Sun Lu Tang, sword immortal Li Jinglin, single-handed Li Cunyi, and sharp gun Li Shuwen. Who can be called the best in the world? There have always been different opinions.

But some people say that Wu Sheng has a emptiness, and the sharp spear is really killing.

Because the sword fairy and the gunslinger were on the same roof, there are many rumors that the two have competed against each other. The official saying is that the swordsman once sealed the gunslinger’s throat with a sword, but the public opinion is the opposite .

Although Li Shuwen's life is murderous, he also has the great virtue of chivalry.

One, he has the virtue of serving as his father. He studied arts with two masters, Zhang Jingxing and Huang Shihai. He had never sat down in his entire life. He had been standing around to serve the second master. He earned a lot of money abroad and must be sent to the two masters. After Huang Shihai died, he kept the tomb for his teacher for three years.

Second, he regards money and wealth as clouds of dung. He has a simple and down-to-earth heroic saying: "Money does not bring death or death. There are so many houses that the poor cannot afford to buy, and the rich do not want to buy it. Money is white and eyes are black. We men have art. ."

Sanze, he is kind and generous. When he returned to his hometown, he always took out a part of the ocean and replaced it with copper plates, and entered the eight villages ten miles away from his home. The local children took a look at the horses.The Lapon sedan, knowing that it was the "grandfather of power" who came back and ran behind the car, so he asked his apprentice to raise money on the road, and sometimes he even got out of the car to practice harrier crossing the forest among the children. In the face of disaster in the hometown, charity to the neighbors is even more trivial.

However, because of his murderous life, Li Shuwen in his later years is almost a weird person in the eyes of outsiders, and even said that he has mental problems.

Why does this happen?

just because of fear of being tricked.

Liu Yunqiao said that the first teacher has a rule in daily life. No one is allowed to approach within three steps, even family members and students, as long as they approach, there is no one who will not be thrown out by him. When walking on the street, everyone knows his temper and avoids giving way; when crossing the road, they all make sudden sharp turns. The disciples behind will never know where he wants to go; not to mention eating, except when At home and in my family, if you eat outside, you won’t eat it unless you wait for the disciples to eat it. This is also what the martial arts atmosphere forced him to do. It is extremely difficult for a martial artist to become famous, and it is even more difficult for a martial artist to maintain his reputation for decades. At that time, the reputation of Xianshi was so high that many martial artists who wanted to stand out naturally targeted him. What's more, Xianshi killed and wounded countless people throughout his life, and he couldn't figure out how many enemies there were—

Liu Yunqiao also said that the first teacher spent his entire life. The only negligence was that on the way back to the hometown, he suddenly fell ill at the Dongguan inn in the outer city of Weixian, Shandong (poisoned by the enemy). The next day, he was taken to the home of the inner city by a disciple surnamed Liang. He died of illness at the age of seventy.

But another way of saying it is a good death.

In the summer of 1934, Li Shu got a tattoo with a sword, led his grandchildren to practice martial arts, and passed away on a chair in the martial arts field——

is such a hero, mostly rumors, and the words in his mouth are hard to distinguish. True or false, but the brutal force and murderous intent of the flesh is infallible.