Taigu is the hometown of martial arts that is famous all over the country, and Xingyi boxing is especially characteristic of Taigu County. Among the many famous Xingyi masters www.biquge.info there is an old gentleman who died during the Republic of China, and he is quite famous in the national martial arts circles, he is the master of Song's Xingyi Boxing - Song Shirong.

Song Shirong's father, Song Yonglu, took a fancy to Taigu's location in Jinzhong, with developed transportation and prosperous commerce, so he moved from Beijing to Taigu, Shanxi. At that time, the watch industry was introduced to China not long ago, and people were not very popular in using clocks and watches, and after purchasing clocks and watches, maintenance was a big problem. When the Song family was in Beijing, they mastered the technology of repairing clocks and watches, and Taigu was relatively wealthy and open, and it was a new industry for all kinds of repairs after large households bought clocks and watches. The Song family seized the business opportunity and opened the "Yongshanxing" watch shop in Taigu City, becoming an emerging member of the Jin merchants. Song Shirong is the two brothers, and Shirong is the elder. At the age of seventeen, he participated in business, and his younger brother Song Shide were proficient in the art of watching, and Taigu merchants and gentlemen had dealings, and they were also quite famous in the local area.

Taigu's Xingyi boxing is so developed, and there is a key figure that cannot be mentioned, that is, Li Feiyu, a native of Shenxian County, Hebei. Li Feiyu's character is Nengran, and most people in Qi County call him Li Luonong, or Luo Neng, an old farmer. He also came to Taigu to do business, and when he heard that the Dai family in Dahan Village, Qi County, nearby, was meticulous in his heart, he went to apprentice and humbly sought advice, so he got the true word. After returning to the valley, he had been in the Jin Dynasty for a long time in the Jin Dynasty merchant Mengkou Rujia to take care of the home, and the Meng family got along very well, during the period in the Taigu city and countryside to learn martial arts, especially the training of three Xingyi boxing masters, one is the famous county Che Er master, the other is Song Shirong, Song Shide two brothers. Later, Shide liked the old and Huang Zhishu, and once left home to travel all over the world, while Shirong stayed at home, practiced martial arts, studied martial arts, opened the door to teach apprentices, and made positive contributions to the promotion of Xingyi Boxing.

When Song Shirong was twenty-four years old, he became acquainted with Mr. Liu Xiaotang of Yandu. Mr. Liu Xiaotang once worked in the Shenyang Forbidden City Ministry of Works, which contains the secret book of martial arts "The Four Classics of Internal Strength". This "Four Sutras of Internal Strength" includes: "The Sutra of Internal Strength", "The Sutra of Hexagrams", "The Sutra of Divine Fortune", and "The Sutra of the Earth Dragon". Liu Xiaotang then presented the "Four Classics of Internal Strength" to Song Shirong. After Song Shirong obtained the "Four Classics of Internal Strength", he repeatedly studied and tested, and combined with the two classics of "Yi Jin" and "Washing the Marrow" in his family collection, he concentrated on the study of internal strength, and then integrated Tai Chi and Bagua Zhuquan, and created the Song Xingyi Quan with profound internal strength, unique strength (force) and unique style characteristics. History says that Song Shirong's martial arts have been superb, and he has rushed into the void. Mr. Jia Yungao, who is tall in his feet, said: "Mr. Song Shirong has a burly appearance, his beard is like a halberd, his eyes are like lightning, his light is shining, and his voice is like a bell. The body is like a crane and a pine, a fairy wind and bones, and the elves are shaking, and the air is cold and frosty. It makes people stand up with awe. “

Mr. Song Shirong was born in 1849 (the 29th year of Daoguang), nine years after the First Opium War, China has gradually become a semi-colonial country, and the subsequent Sino-foreign wars have ended with China's defeat, land cession, and reparations, and the unequal treaties that have lost power and humiliated the country have pierced the hearts of every Chinese who love the motherland. Song Shirong experienced all this, and felt that the Chinese people were too weak, and he wanted the Chinese to be physically strong, so why should he be bullied by this? Therefore, he loved martial arts even more, was keen to teach martial arts, took strengthening the country's physique as his vocation, and had a strong idea of national art to save the country. Facts have proved that if we do not change the reactionary and decadent rule and simply strengthen the individual's physique, the country will still not be strong and rich. However, at that time, there was already such an understanding, which was quite commendable and quite patriotic.

After Mr. Song Shirong apprenticed to Li Feiyu to learn Xingyi Boxing, he was not satisfied with general exercises and exercises, but continued to explore and study the theory of boxing, and carefully studied the classics of "Neijiaquan" such as "Nei Gong Sutra" and "Washing the Pulp Sutra". "Inner family boxing" means that you can practice your fists and feet at home, and you don't need to "leave" to practice and study. The types of boxing of "inner boxing" mainly include Taijiquan, Bagua boxing, Xingyi boxing and other boxing, all of which are "mainly based on resisting the enemy". Mr. Song Shirong earnestly studied the theory of "inner family", and then, in the practice of practicing boxing, pondered the truth, experienced its essence, in 1884 (Guangxu ten years), he got a volume of "Inner Strength Four Classics" from Beijing, Mr. cherished it, personally copied and retained it one stroke at a time, and passed it on to future generations. He insisted on the cultivation of internal strength, paid attention to the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine, deduced a move and a style of boxing, starting from the "Neigong Sutra", and again for the "Na Hexagram Sutra", "Shenyun Sutra", and finally to the "Earth Dragon Sutra" to collect the gong, he not only inherited and studied the traditional Xingyi boxing, but also according to his own years of practice, the development and summary of the "three-body pile gong", "internal strength packing", "five elements boxing", "twelve-shaped boxing", "big gun shaking skills", "single operation and loose hands" and some basic boxing routines. People especially respect Mr. Song Shirong's "packing roots" stunt, his "epitaph" and biography have its "roots, punching" records, we understand: "packing roots" refers to "when practicing to the depth of kung fu, the body can be vacated", Song Shirong's "vacant" situation, we can't see it now, but it does not mean that he does not have this kung fu. According to the explanation of various martial arts websites, it can be synthesized as: according to Master Song's "root and empty" exercise routine, unremitting practice, hard into the bone marrow, the fascia around the body rises, especially the fascia on both sides of the thighs to the toes are rising, over time, the legs and feet become very flexible, the body appears light, convenient, and move freely, not only in the technical attack, can achieve the effect of "step to the person that turns", and also has great benefits for health care and health preservation.

Although Mr. Song Shirong has unique skills, he is peaceful, indifferent to fame and fortune, and on weekdays, he carefully teaches apprentices and teaches people tirelessly, insisting on the watch repair business, as if he is a watch repairer. He has a wide range of contacts on the ground of Taigu, and he is unwilling to be left behind. He knew Mr. Cao Runtang, the patriarch of the Cao family, a Jin merchant magnate, and had a close relationship. Cao Runtang was a poet, and in his poetry collection "Selected Poems of Mushi'an", there is a poem dedicated to Song Shirong. The title is one of the eight songs of "Chinese New Year's Eve Feeling Nostalgia", the content is: "Seeing the most skilled super screen skills, the elderly especially feel like a rainbow, who knows that Yan Zhao is a tragic singer, mostly in the fishing salt version of the building." After this poem, Mr. Runtang also wrote the following words: "Song Youzhai, a native of Yanjing, is brave and brave, good at talking, and has never met in his life, and people only regard him as a trademan." It can be seen here that Cao Runtang sighs at Mr. Song Shirong's martial arts and talents! And Mr. Song in life is so plain and treats all this. He was fond of tea, and in order to seek good water, he had to go to the county scenic spot fifteen miles away every day to draw water from the spring. Persist for years, never stop. That's how his superhuman kung fu was actually practiced.

Song Shirong is very strict in teaching apprentices, although there are few apprentices, but more than ten disciples, all of them are outstanding. Its most famous disciples should be Song Huchen, Song Tielin, Ren Erqi, and Jia Yungao. These four people are known as the four King Kongs of the Song Gate, and they are the key performance figures of the Song Xingyi Fist to inherit the past and forge ahead into the future, and have played an important role in the final formation, development, finalization and perfection of the Song Xingyi Fist. Nowadays, Mr. Song Shirong's martial arts career has developed rapidly under the inheritance and promotion of his grandchildren, nephews and disciples, not only in China and six generations, but also in Japan, Russia, the United States, France, Germany and Taiwan.