On September 14, 1910, the famous Mizong Quan master and patriotic martial artist Huo Yuanjia passed away suddenly.
When Huo Yuanjia died, he was only 42 years old and in his prime. Moreover, Huo Yuanjia practiced martial arts all year round and was said to be strong. His sudden death is indeed strange.
Huo Yuanjia
But at that time, the level of science and technology was relatively backward, and it was still very difficult to find out the cause of Huo Yuanjia's death. In desperation, Huo Yuanjia's descendants could only bury him first.
After Huo Yuanjia was buried, the cause of his death has been discussed among the people, and it has become a mystery over time. It was not until the renovation of Huo Yuanjia Cemetery in 1989 that everything became clear.
At this time, people discovered that there was such an evil conspiracy behind the death of Huo Yuanjia. So, how did Huo Yuanjia die?
Statue of Huo Yuanjia
Heir of Mizong Quan
In 1868, Huo Yuanjia was born into a family of bodyguards in Jinghai County, Tianjin. His father, Huo Endi, , is the sixth generation descendant of Mizong Quan. He travels around the world with his skills and earns money to support his family by escorting.
During his time in the world, Brother Huo En offended many people and incurred many grudges. Huo Endi felt that it was not possible, so he quit the escort industry at the age of 40 and took his family to settle in Jinghai County, Tianjin.
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During the time when he was a dart boy, Huo Endi accumulated a lot of wealth. So after coming to Tianjin, life was pretty good. He bought a lot of land with the money and concentrated on farm work during the busy farming season.
In his spare time, Brother Huo En teaches the children of the clan to practice martial arts to keep fit. At that time, Huo Yuanjia was already quite old. I saw my father teaching other people to practice martial arts, so I wanted to learn it too.
But Huo Endi is not willing to teach Huo Yuanjia at all, because he has already chosen the successor of Mizong Quan, and that is Huo Yuanjia's younger brother Huo Yuanqing .
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The reason why he is unwilling to pick Huo Yuanjia is also very simple, because Huo Yuanjia was weak and sickly when he was young. If Huo Yuanjia was taught martial arts, his thin body might not be able to bear it. On the other hand, Brother Huo En is also afraid that Huo Yuanjia is not good at studying and will ruin the reputation of the Huo family.
Huo Yuanjia felt helpless about this, but he did not give up. Since Brother Huo En didn't want to teach, he would learn it secretly. So when Brother Huo En instructed other children of the same race to practice dancing, Huo Yuanjia always watched secretly in one place.
Huo Yuanjia has a very good memory. Every time his father teaches him the Kung Fu moves, he always memorizes them by heart after reading them several times. After that, he secretly hid in the woods to practice. Slowly, Huo Yuanjia's kung fu got better and better.
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Of course, Brother Huo En didn't know about all this, otherwise, Huo Yuanjia would definitely be unavoidable in criticism. But Huo Yuanjia accidentally exposed his kung fu in the end.
At that time, a young martial artist heard that Huo Endi was the sixth generation successor of Mizong Quan and had great martial arts skills, so he wanted to join the gym to enhance his reputation.
Huo Endi saw that the person who came to play was a young man, and felt that he was not a match for him, so he asked his son Huo Yuanqing to challenge him. Huo Yuanqing was defeated after less than three rounds with the young martial artist.
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This made Brother Huo En feel very embarrassed, thinking that he had lost the Huo family's face. At this time, Huo Yuanjia stood up and expressed his intention to have a few moves with the young martial artist.
Brother Huo En was very surprised at the time, but with outsiders around, he didn't dare to tell him that he didn't teach Huo Yuanjia Kung Fu, so he could only watch Huo Yuanjia get on the ring.
After Huo Yuanjia entered the ring, his performance surprised Huo Endi. After a few moves with the young martial artist, he knocked the young martial artist to the ground with a sweep of his legs and won the competition.
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Afterwards, Brother Huo found Huo Yuanjia and apologized for not teaching him kung fu before. After that, Brother Huo En began to devote himself to teaching Huo Yuanjia, hoping that Huo Yuanjia could continue to promote Mizong Quan.
When Huo Yuanjia was 28 years old, Brother Huo En felt that Huo Yuanjia was almost done with training, so he asked him to go out and make a living. At that time, he came to work in a drug store in Tianjin. The owner of the drug store was Nong Jinsun .
Nong Jinsun is a progressive person. He studied in Japan in his early years and got acquainted with revolutionary figures such as Sun Yat-sen. After returning to China, he came to Tianjin and opened a pharmacy. On the surface, he is a businessman, but secretly, he has been secretly recruiting talents for the Revolutionary Party.
Nong Jinsun
When Nong Jinsun saw Huo Yuanjia for the first time, he felt that he was an extraordinary person. Especially when he could push two big bluestones by himself, Nong Jinsun was even more impressed by Huo Yuanjia.
At that time, there were many coolies like Huo Yuanjia in Tianjin, and they often got into fights because they were competing for work. But Huo Yuanjia never participated in these things and always kept a low profile on weekdays.
Nong Jinsun felt that Huo Yuanjia had a "heroic style" and was the talent that the Revolutionary Party had been pursuing.
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Lifelong confidant
After feeling that Huo Yuanjia was a little different from ordinary people, Nong Jinsun began to take the initiative to contact Huo Yuanjia. Nong Jinsun was well-informed and often told Huo Yuanjia about foreign things.
In this process, Huo Yuanjia felt the country's backwardness, and gradually established the belief in serving the country in his heart. This made Nong Jinsun very happy and felt that he had not misjudged the person.
But not long after, Nong Jinsun suddenly discovered something was wrong with Huo Yuanjia. It turned out that for a period of time, Huo Yuanjia was always in a depressed mood and absent-minded in doing things.
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Nong Jinsun finally found Huo Yuanjia and asked the reason. Huo Yuanjia said:
If I were born a hundred years ago, it would be very simple to kill thieves with spears and daggers. But now that technology is advanced, tools such as , guns, and are extremely lethal. In this case, what's the use of all my abilities?
After listening to Huo Yuanjia's voice, Nong Jinsun finally understood why he was so depressed. It turns out that not long ago, Wang Wu, a martial arts master in the world, was shot dead, and his head was cut off and hung on the city wall.
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This incident was a severe blow to many martial arts practitioners, including Huo Yuanjia. After Nong Jinsun thought for a while, he said to Huo Yuanjia:
If people who practice Chinese Kung Fu look down on and belittle Chinese Kung Fu, then what are we talking about revitalizing China? Even though the power of the musket is huge, it can only kill people, but it cannot convince the crowd.
After listening to Nong Jinsun's words, Huo Yuanjia's ideas began to change, and his belief in serving the country was ignited in his heart.
In 1910, the Russian strongman came to Tianjin. At that time, he published news in newspapers that he would defeat all Chinese people, which aroused dissatisfaction among the Chinese people.
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At this time, Fearless stepped forward and expressed his willingness to compete with Russian strongmen in the ring to safeguard the dignity of the Chinese people. This contest ended with Huo Yuanjia's victory.
After this battle, Huo Yuanjia became famous and became a hero in the hearts of the people. It was also from this time that Huo Yuanjia suddenly discovered that martial arts could inspire the people of the country, and perhaps it was also a way to save the people.
From then on, he began to open martial arts schools to promote and expand Chinese martial arts. After that, Huo Yuanjia opened the martial arts gym in Shanghai and became more and more famous.
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At this time, after a strong man from the UK heard about Fearless Yuanjia's fame, he also uttered wild words in the newspaper, saying that he would fight with Fearless Yuanjia in the ring and defeat Fearless Yuanjia.
The result is that Huo Yuanjia won and once again safeguarded the dignity of the Chinese nation.
Huo Yuanjia's great-great-granddaughter refuted the rumors
As mentioned earlier, Huo Yuanjia once competed with the Russian strongman and the British strongman and won.However, when his descendants were interviewed, they made it clear: Fearless did not defeat the Russian Strongman and the British Strongman. These plots were all fabricated by the movie.
Great-great-granddaughter of Huo Yuanjia (right)
So, what is going on?
First of all, the Russian strongman did publish news in the newspapers that he would defeat all the Chinese. After Huo Yuanjia learned about it, he indeed expressed his willingness to challenge.
But on the day of the decisive battle, the Russian strongman did not appear. Later people learned that this strong man was just a bluff. The reason why he talks wildly is to hold an arena and sell tickets to make money. He himself doesn't have any skills.
When he heard that Huo Yuanjia had challenged him, the Russian strongman became frightened. After Fearless learned about it, he asked him to publicly apologize to the Chinese.
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The Russian Hercules finally agreed to Huo Yuanjia's request, and then left Tianjin in despair. The British strongman who challenged Fearless in Shanghai, like the Russian strongman, did it to make money by selling tickets.
On the day of the ring, he disappeared and only Huo Yuanjia arrived at the scene alone. Therefore, Huo Yuanjia's defeat of the Russian Strongman and the British Strongman are all fictitious and not true.
But this did not affect Huo Yuanjia's status in the hearts of the Chinese people. In that dark era, foreigners always felt that the Chinese were easy to bully, and when they made all kinds of wild remarks, Huo Yuanjia stood up. Although in the end he failed to teach these madmen personally, he did uphold the dignity of the Chinese people and made countless Chinese people excited.
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After these two incidents, Huo Yuanjia became famous, and even Mr. Sun Yat-sen admired him. This was also the most glorious moment in Huo Yuanjia's life, but just one year later, Huo Yuanjia died suddenly.
At that time, everyone was very puzzled by the death of Huo Yuanjia, who was strong and practiced martial arts all day long. Moreover, he was in his prime at the time, how could he die for no reason?
It was not until 1989 that this mystery was finally solved.
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The mystery of the death of a great master
In 1989, it was the 79th year of Huo Yuanjia's death. At that time, Huo Yuanjia's hometown was preparing to expand the Huo Yuanjia Cemetery. During the process, Huo Yuanjia's coffin was also dug out.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, experts also conducted tests on Huo Yuanjia's bones, hoping to find out the real cause of Huo Yuanjia's death. After careful inspection, experts found that Huo Yuanjia's remains were black, which meant that he died of poisoning.
In August 2000, a news article reported the real reason for Huo Yuanjia's death. According to Huo Wenting, Huo Yuanjia's second grandson, Huo Yuanjia's death was inseparable from the Japanese.
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It turns out that in June 1910, Huo Yuanjia founded the "China Jingwu Sect Gymnastics Association" in Shanghai, hoping that citizens would learn martial arts to strengthen their bodies and resist foreign invaders.
This caused dissatisfaction among the Japanese in Shanghai at that time. The Japanese at that time wished that the Chinese were cowardly. And Huo Yuanjia suddenly came out to let the Chinese people practice martial arts and strengthen their physical fitness, which caused huge trouble to their attempts to invade China.
For this reason, Japan sent many judo masters to challenge Huo Yuanjia, hoping that Huo Yuanjia would stop teaching martial arts. However, the masters they sent out were all useless and were all defeated by Huo Yuanjia.
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The Japanese were also very angry about this, so they invited more experts from Japan. After Huo Yuanjia learned about it, he was not afraid at all and firmly believed that he could defeat them.
But not long after, Huo Yuanjia died suddenly. According to records at the time: Huo Yuanjia suffered from hemoptysis, which brought great trouble to Huo Yuanjia's life.
So on weekdays, Huo Yuanjia always takes medicine to recuperate his body. The Japanese didn't know where they got the news, so they had bad intentions and sent someone to poison Huo Yuanjia's medicine.In this way, a generation of great masters died unexpectedly.
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"The Chronicles of Jingwu" also described this matter in detail: After Huo Yuanjia died, the Japanese doctor Akino fled back to his hometown. Huo Yuanjia's disciples felt something strange, so they took the medicine Qiuye prescribed to Huo Yuanjia for testing. After a laboratory test, I found out that this was a chronic lung-damage medicine.
In other words, it is clear that Fearless was killed by the Japanese. At this point, the truth about the cause of Huo Yuanjia's death was finally revealed. I have to say that the Japanese at that time really had no lower limit. If you can't beat someone head-on, you actually play dirty tricks behind your back. This is a very unethical approach.
summary
In that extremely chaotic era, we were very fortunate to have people like Fearless Yuanjia. He used the spirit of martial arts to inspire a generation of Chinese people to move forward.
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Northern Song Dynasty poet Zhang Zai said this: "Establish a heart for the heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the people, carry on the unique knowledge for the saints, and create peace for all generations."
This sentence is actually the most appropriate to describe Huo Yuanjia's life. He is a generation master who insists on using martial arts to strengthen his body, strengthen his body and protect his country and his family.
When outsiders looked down on the Chinese, he stood up and faced the challenge calmly. Although there was no fight in the end, he used practical actions to defend the dignity of the country and the people.
It is a pity that he could not escape the murderous hands of the Japanese and died in the most glorious stage of his life. However, although Huo Yuanjia's body disappeared, the spirit he left behind will last forever.
After his death, his deeds were remade into movies, and his spirit was also praised by people.
