Foreword: Before digging into the truth about this heroic hero,
first read the encyclopedia. The introduction about Fearless is as follows:
's father, Horndi, is a bodyguard and has extremely high martial arts... He basically lived in his hometown before the age of 27, and often picked firewood to sell in Tianjin. After 28 years old, he went to Tianjin to work as a loader and unloading worker. Later, he worked as a helper at the Huaiqing Medicine Store opened by Nong Jinsun and was promoted to a shopkeeper. In 1909, the 41-year-old Huo Yuanjia was introduced to Shanghai by Nong Jinsun and accepted the bishop of martial arts in the " Jingwu Gymnastics Club " founded by Chen Gongzhe and Chen Tiesheng. He died in 1910. Mr. Huo was only 42 years old when he died. just this!
From the introduction of Fearless on Wikipedia, we can simply divide it into three key points:
- is frail young. Then make a living by picking firewood.
- 28 to 41 years old are stevedores.
- became a martial arts coach after 41 years of age and died at the age of 42.
In this way, according to the encyclopedia, Huo Yuanjia's life history before the age of 28 can be described as "completely blank"! In the movie, there is no such thing as Huo Yuanjia who coaches a large number of apprentices and drinks a large bowl of wine. Then the "Tianmen No. 1" and "killing Lord Qin" did not happen.
This aroused my great curiosity. We used the NBA as an example. The physical fitness of an American professional basketball player is 35 years old, and it will definitely decline in the future. This Huo Yuanjia didn't come up with any famous names before he was 41 years old. How could He De become a great master? There is only one possibility, "He is a blown out myth." But don’t get me wrong. Fearless is a historical figure, while "Fearless Fearless" is a mythical figure; there must be no movie strong. This is nonsense. "How weak is it?" is the question I am really curious about.
2. The myth about Fearless
is adapted and adapted first, and then edited. You must have a plot, but in the end, something must be changed. Where does the true story behind Jet Li's popular "Fearless" come from? According to my guess, it should come from the "Jingwu Sports Association."
This Jingwu Sports Association, also known as the "Jingwu Sect", is called "Shanghai Jingwu Sports Association" with its full name. There is an official website for those interested. There is an introduction by Fearless on the official website. I will help you extract a few "myths": Where does
- come from?
Huo Yuanjia (1869-1910) with the character Junqing, from Jinghai, Tianjin. His father, Huo En, has practiced martial arts all his life and has a strong martial arts. Huo Yuanjia ranked fourth. He was weak and sick since he was a child. His father did not allow him to practice martial arts or enter the martial arts room. Huo Yuanjia, who is eager for art, had no choice but to peek at his father and his brothers practicing martial arts. In the dead of night, he practiced alone in the Zaoyuan. How is
- named Jinmen?
To make a living, Huo Yuanjia picked firewood to sell in Tianjin. At that time, there were a group of land ruffians in Tianjin who used their power to deceive others, especially the poor farmers from the countryside. They even tried their best to blackmail them when they saw Huo Yuanjia selling firewood. Huo Ji commented on it, and the ruffian villain was rude and unreasonable. Huo Ji used force to teach him and defeated more than a dozen in angrily. Since then, Huo Yuanjia's reputation spread to Tianjin. How
- Megatron China!
As early as 1901, Huo Yuanjia had dealt with Russian wrestlers. At that time, there was a Russian strong man who was performing in Tianjin Theater. He called himself "the world's first strongman" and said "the second is the British, and the third is the German." After hearing about it, Huo Yuanjia stepped forward and wanted to compete with the Russian masters. The Russian wrestler was frightened by Huo Yuanjia's fearlessness, so he frankly corrected the report and fled. How
- lost the life of a little Japan!
At that time, there were people selling benevolence pills, and they sometimes showed Huo to Huo’s residence, saying that it could cure hemoptysis. Huo Xinzhi, his condition worsened after purchasing the medicine... After two weeks of treatment, not only did he not get better, but it worsened day by day. Finally, the treatment failed and he passed away. ...The more I travel to the north for the next year... Qiuyi (Japanese doctor Akino) has returned to the cave. The disciples of Luxmen are suspicious. Medicine for rotten lungs." The first paragraph of
, "Self-study of martial arts", this paragraph is a joke, Huo Yuanjia’s father has long seen that he is weak and sick and prohibits him from practicing.Can people who are deemed unsuitable for martial arts practice by experts, can rely on the hard work of no one at midnight to develop a magical skill? It's not Jin Yong's martial arts novel. Guo Jing met the elders of the Beggar Gang to privately tell you the eighteen palms of the dragon. Yesterday, I went to the gym and practiced until my muscles were strained. Did you tell me someone can become a martial arts master in the courtyard in the middle of the night?
In addition, to add a gossip, Huo Yuanjia has a nickname called "Yellow-faced Tiger". If not surprising, Huo Yuanjia is a naturally weakened liver disease patient. The second paragraph of
, "Teaching the Land Rogue", this is even more ridiculous. The official website mentioned that Huo Yuanjia made a living by picking firewood and loading and unloading. According to Encyclopedia, this story is estimated to occur between Huo Yuanjia's 28-40 years old. So let’s not care whether it’s true that one picking firewood can beat a group of rogues; Huo Yuanjia’s father is a martial artist who works as a bodyguard. If you are a martial artist, you have a son who can beat ten of them. Don't let him inherit the family business, but let him go to the dock as a stevedore? This is unreasonable! It is clear that the father sees his son as having no martial arts talent, and asks his son to find a legitimate job outside. In the third paragraph of
, "Prestige repels the foreign guy." The foreign guy was frightened by Fearless's prestige and fled. This fantasy statement feels like an early anti-Japanese drama. The actual situation is that the two sides did not agree on the rules of the game, which led to the unhappy match. The fourth paragraph of
, "Soul Broken Japanese Lung Medicine", the most unacceptable is the last paragraph. According to the truth, Fearless has long suffered from long-term lung disease (remember the yellow-faced tiger?), so Japanese talents will try to treat him with medicine. As a result, this kind Japanese man never recovered and became the perpetrator of poisoning Fearless. The second half of the official website statement is even more ridiculous: "It took a year for the medicine to be tested, and the result of the test is called lung-rot medicine."
If the official website The statement is true, which means that Huo Yuanjia had been suffering from lung disease for many years, and then the Japanese gave him medicine for bad lungs. Note that this lung-rotten medicine cannot be acute and highly toxic, and Huo Yuanjia must be dragged for more than two weeks to die. Folks, is this logical? Also, crimes demand motives and incentives. What are the benefits of killing Fearless by the Japanese? Poisoning a firewood picker, is it because he can beat Nakamura Lion Boy single-handedly? Speaking of
, no matter what age you are in front of the screen, if you think about it a little rationally, you will feel that Fearless's life is basically a myth. Huo Yuanjia put it bluntly, but he is a weak and sickly third-rate martial artist. But when we analyzed it, there was another huge problem. Since Fearless is a third-rate martial artist, why can he be the coach of Jingwumen? Why can you become a master of martial arts on the big screen?
3. Fearless's god-making process
martial artist has not been a stable and profitable industry since ancient times. If a Qing martial artist wants to make a living, there are several ways:
- to be a bodyguard in a rich family
The dream career of a martial artist. Living in an East Asian cultural circle that emphasizes culture over martial arts, this is the only way to live the standard of living of the rich second generation by relying on martial arts.
- opened a martial arts school to recruit apprentices
opened a martial arts school as a cram school teacher. Very few successful people. There is a famous martial arts cram school teacher named Ye Wen, but even if he is as famous as him, he can only use martial arts as a side job (Ye Wen's profession is a professional soldier).
- The bodyguard of the general escort
Huo Yuanjia’s father belongs to this category. Although he is not a bodyguard for high-ranking officials, he can at least be a transport guard or a brothel. And Fearless? He can't do anything. Because he has no talent in martial arts, his job when he was young has nothing to do with martial arts. He can only be a challenger.
Do you still remember Fearless's good friend Nong Jinsun in the movie? The two are actually the relationship between the boss and the employee, because Fearless is helping him pick firewood. It’s strange that this story becomes more and more susceptible. Why on earth is Huo Yuanjia, who is like you and me, attracted to become the coach of Jingwumen? We continue to analyze from the organization "Jingwumen".
4. What is Jingwumen?
Jingwumen is actually the name of the movie, which is actually called "Jingwu Gymnastics Club", but this is not the point. The point is, who founded it? The founder of the Jingwu Gymnastics Club was Nong Jinsun, and in addition to the well-known big businessman, he was also a member of the Revolutionary Party of the League. In the year of
, although the Tongmenghui was very prestigiousHigh, there are many supporters, but the vast majority of supporters are villagers watching opera. Let's interrupt here. There is a Chinese saying "Three heads are better than one Zhuge Liang." You will know when you leave the society, let alone three, 300 heads can't beat Zhuge Liang. Heads can only be light-hearted, unless there is an expert in the back, otherwise heads can only be heads forever.
In order to transform the villagers into militiamen, the senior leaders of the League, who have read too many martial arts novels, decided to practice martial arts to strengthen themselves, and decided to organize a martial arts school. Jingwu Gymnastics Club was born from this, and the organizer was Nong Jinsun. When Nong Jinsun wants to open a martial arts school, the most important thing is to find a teacher. He is a businessman and can never go down to fight on his own, so he started looking for coaches everywhere.
just mentioned that the only way for martial arts practitioners to get rich is to work as bodyguards in rich people's homes. The most common wealthy people at that time can be divided into two types, divided by power, one is related to the Qing Dynasty, and the second is related to the Beiyang warlords.
This is a headache. Nong Jinsun’s fine martial arts gymnastics club is supplemented by martial arts training and unity. The political purpose is greater than the sports purpose. How can we find those martial arts related to the Beiyang warlords or the Qing Dynasty to be coaches ? When the time comes, the talent pool of this alliance will become the enemy's talent pool. At that time, the grandson of the farmer was so exhausted that he could not find a martial artist who was proficient in martial arts and had a simple background. Looking for it, he suddenly thought:
"There is a rough worker under me who once learned martial arts from my brother and dad!"
has no general in Shu, and Liao Hua is the vanguard. In this way, Huo Yuanjia drove the ducks to the shelves and became the first-generation martial arts teacher of the Jingwu Gymnastics Club. Of course, there was no real-name system for cram school teachers in those days. With the guidance of professional marketing team, Huo Yuanjia's background was so ordinary that he became a national hero.
Later, Huo Yuanjia, who had been suffering for many years as a coach of the Jingwu Gymnastics Club, passed away less than a year later. The group gave him a plaque with the words "Cheng Ren Qu Yi" on it. The grandmaster of a generation will always stay in his heart, even though we can't tell who he became and what meaning he took?
Later, there was a novelist named "Pingjiang not Xiaosheng", who wrote a modern martial arts novel in which Huo Yuanjia was written as a national hero with extraordinary powers. At that time, the Kuomintang was in desperate need of a hero to boost morale, so it took the lead to acquiesce in the author's plot and portrayed Huo Yuanjia as an evocative man.
Huo Yuanjia's life has changed from the frail yellow-faced tiger to the martial arts master in the writer's pen. In the end, he made a lot of TV and movies and became a generation of heroes who will always live in the hearts of Chinese people.
