160 years ago today, on June 2, 1857, Shi Dakai left Tianjin. This was the beginning of the decline of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it also opened the most tragic prelude to Shi Dakai's life.
"The story of the past has passed away, and a thousand years of unfairness is the most impressive person." Wing King Shi Dakai is the most admired person in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, no doubt about it. He was "visited out of the mountain" at the age of sixteen, commanded thousands of troops at the age of nineteen, galloping on the battlefield invincible, and was crowned king at the age of twenty, and was only thirty-two when he was sentenced to death in Chengdu!
There are already many articles about his literary and martial arts stories, so I won’t repeat them. What I am particularly interested in today is that he is actually an incredible kung fu master. Some people even put his martial arts together with Zhang Sanfeng and Gan Fengchi and others. So is his martial arts so magical?
Shi Dakai is indeed a strange man. He was traveling to Hengyang in his early years. At that time, he was only a teenager and taught hundreds of disciples in boxing. Since ancient times, "there is no first in literature and no second in martial arts." So many people are willing to learn skills with him. How can they be shocked without some real skills?
, during his time in Hengyang, he showed his best-killing disciple Chen Bangsen to everyone after drinking one day -
"'My sect is Chen Bangsen's best, and he should compete with each other. I stick to the stele tightly and let you hit three punches; I fight back to you, and they are also each other.' Bangsen's boxing stone, the stone abdomen is as soft as cotton, and Bangsen's fist is as flat as a stele, and the fist is opened and the abdomen is flat. Shi fights back to Bangsen, Bangsen knows that it is invincible, so he avoids sideways, and the stele is cracked in several sections."
means to fight three punches on each other. Chen Bangsen hit Shi Dakai's abdomen as if he hits cotton, and it seems to hit the stone tablet through cotton. He closed his fist and Shi Dakai's abdomen recovered. When Shi Da started fighting, Chen Bangsen dared not take action and avoided it. The stone tablet behind him was cracked...
You should know that this tablet is two feet high and three feet thick. Shi Dakai's martial arts are indeed incredible.
No wonder "Lecture Notes on the Peking National Museum of War" refers him and Master Bodhidharma, Song Taizu , Yue Wumu, Zhang Sanfeng, Qi Jiguang , Gan Fengchi and others as the most outstanding boxing masters in Chinese history!
Does his martial arts only last? Let’s look at:
According to " Qingbailei Chao " and "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Unofficial History", Shi Dakai’s boxing technique is “high: bow and arrow equipment, low: hanging lion equipment, and nine sides respond to the enemy. In each duel, stand in front of the enemy, tie five fingers to cover his eyes, and jump back a hundred steps away. When the enemy arrives, he quickly turns and kicks his abdomen below his navel. If the enemy is strong, he will kick it several times, and the enemy flies with his feet and falls several feet away, which is called a chain of mandarin duck steps.” The people believe that this martial art is the "punching fist" that later was known as the "King of the North Leg of ". Legend has it that Shi Dakai once taught this martial art to selected soldiers for combat.
Therefore, with Shi Dakai's martial arts skills, even if he is surrounded by Dadu River, it should not be very difficult for him to break through the siege. But in order to preserve the lives of thousands of brothers, he resolutely walked into the Qing army's camp...
Brother Ning's comments: Some people say that it was Shi Dakai who added some legendary color to the unkind Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Li Xiucheng The people who admire the most are Feng Yunshan and Shi Dakai. Huang Pengnian, who once fought against Shi Dakai and became the governor of Jiangsu, commented on Shi Dakai as follows in a letter to a friend: "This thief acted very steadily, had a generous speech, neither arrogant nor humble, and was strong in harmony. Just now he died and was calm. If my loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty died like this, he would be included in the historical biography, wouldn't it be bright for thousands of years?"
It is quite convincing to praise the opponent, right? Next he also sighed: "If such a person is not used by the court officials, he is a thief, but is it a thief?"
Yes! Why can't such civil and military versatility be used by the country? Are the officials in the court blind? "Shangshu·Da Yumo": "Good words are unforgettable, no wise men are left behind, and all nations are peaceful." This is a scene of a prosperous era. The late Qing Dynasty government was corrupt, and there was no need to mention recommending the wise and repelling evil, and the people were in vain. Then, a person like Shi Dakai raised his arms and said that most of China was rampant. Can Shi Dakai blame him?
