"Martial God" Sun Lutang

Sun Lutang (1860-1933) was known as Fuquan, known as Lutang, later known as Hanzhai, alias Live Monkey, a native of Beiguan, Shunping County, Hebei Province, the founder of Sun-style Taijiquan and Sunmen martial arts, and a famous martial artist in modern China. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info is known as the martial saint, the martial god, the almighty, the tiger head Shaobao, and the world's first hand in modern martial arts.

Sun Lutang was gifted and diligent since he was a child, lost his father at the age of nine, and his family was poor, and he was raised by his mother. He loves martial arts, and once studied Shaolin boxing from a Jianghu boxer, although the time was short, but he was eager to learn and practice hard, and practiced a good kung fu. At the age of eleven, he left his hometown and went to work as an apprentice in a brush shop in Baoding. At the age of thirteen, Sun Lutang worshipped Li Kuiyuan, a famous boxer in Hebei Province, as a teacher, learned Xingyi boxing, and at the same time learned both civil and military. Two years later, Sun's martial arts were outstanding, and Li Kuiyuan recommended him to his master, Guo Yunshen, to continue his studies. Soon he learned the true skills of Xingyi Fist. In the meantime, it was personally taught by Song Shirong, Che Yizhai, and Bai Xiyuan's predecessors, and Sun Lutang was highly gifted and had a tranquil temperament. However, he was not satisfied, in order to study the relationship between boxing and the Book of Changes, he went to Beijing to learn art with Cheng Tinghua, a famous master of Bagua. Cheng Tinghua praised: "I have taught hundreds of apprentices, and I have never had the talent and intelligence to concentrate on learning like a younger brother." My brother and I are like-minded, so I will pass on the rest of my skills. The younger brother can only achieve this when he has Su Hui. In order to let him see the world through ups and downs, widely understand the essence of various schools of martial arts in Shenzhou, pursue the source, break free from the barrier of the teacher, and become a family of his own in the future, he sincerely persuaded him to leave the master and go to the four seas to visit the arts.

In the spring of 1886, Sun Lutang traveled alone to the eleven provinces in the north and south, during which he visited Shaolin, Wudang, Shangemei, and heard that there were artists who must visit it, and he did not meet opponents when he competed with people. In 1888, he returned to his hometown, and in the same year, he founded the Puyang Boxing Club in his hometown and recruited many disciples. In 1907, Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces, heard that Sun Lutang's martial arts were superb, so he hired him as a guest and went to the northeast together, and in 1909, Sun returned to Beijing with Xu. In 1912, Sun Lutang met Hao Weizhen, a famous Tai Chi master, in Beijing. Hao passed on his experience of Taijiquan to Sun Lutang. At this time, Sun Lutang's martial arts were outstanding, his morality was highly respected, and his reputation was full of the capital. In 1918, Sun Lutang finally combined the three schools into one furnace, integrated the old and the new, and founded Sun's Taijiquan, which became a family of its own. In the same year, Xu Shichang invited Sun Lutang to enter the presidential palace and serve as a military propaganda official. In March 1928, the Nanjing Central Guoshu Museum was established, and Sun Lutang was hired as the director of the Wudang Gate of the museum, and in July, he was hired as the deputy director and dean of the Jiangsu Guoshu Museum. Sun Lutang's teaching is good and inducing, and his disciples are more famous such as: Jin Yunting, Li Runru, Chen Weiming, Sha Guozheng, etc., his descendants Cunzhou, and his daughter Sun Jianyun can also pass on his father's business. Sun Lutang has many disciples throughout his life, all over the world, and his youngest daughter, Ms. Sun Jianyun, is the former president of the Sun Taijiquan Research Association and the second generation head of Sun's Taijiquan. From 1915 to 1932, in addition to writing "Taijiquan", Sun Lutang also wrote important monographs and articles such as "Xingyi Boxing", "Bagua Zhangxue", "Boxing Yishu Zhen", "Bagua Sword Learning", and "On the Difference between Inside and Outside Boxing". He died in the winter of 1933 at the age of 73.

In Sun Lutang's later years, when the great powers were waiting, the national strength was declining, and the national danger was becoming more and more serious, in the face of foreign insults, Sun Dayi was awe-inspiring, when he was nearly half a hundred years old, he had stunned the challenge of the famous Russian martial artist Petrov, when he was over the age of sixties, he defeated the Japanese emperor and ordered the great samurai Itagaki Kazuo, and in the ancient years, he defeated the joint challenge of five Japanese technical masters in one fell swoop, so he has the reputation of "tiger head Shaobao, the first hand in the world" in the martial arts.

The people of the time commented: Sun Lutang's martial arts have reached the highest state of martial arts according to the principles of heaven, criticizing Dahe, and guiding Dajiao, and he was the leader of the martial arts world at that time. Xingyi and gossip master Zhang Zhaodong said to his friends in his later years: "With the rest of my life, martial arts can be called the most holy of gods, but Sun Lutang is one ear." ”