Did IP Man really hit foreigners? Why was Wing Chun looked down upon during the Republic of China?

In the modern history of China, the period of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China was a humiliating history in the history of China. Western foreigners have harmed this land of China, and ethnic contradictions are very sharp. So at that time, Huo Yuanjia, Huang Feihong, Zhen Chen, Yang Lu and other martial artists in the Republic of China expelled the Tatars one after another, taking it as their duty to carry forward the power of China. In martial arts schools, they teach national physical skills, and American boxers, Russian Hercules and Japanese martial artists who fight on the stage are stunned by them. ...

However, with the development of international communication, Zhen Chen married a Japanese wife, and Huang Feihong began to learn English from his thirteenth aunt. As a Japanese martial arts master, Lu Xun first studied martial arts, then studied medicine, and finally gave up medicine and devoted himself to literature. Everyone is thinking, is the so-called power really displayed by fists and feet? Is the so-called weakness really due to fighting? But today, the selling point of another movie is hitting foreigners, and that is IP Man. In this case, I have to ask, did IP Man really hit foreigners?

Yip Man, thanks to the series connection between Yip Man and a generation of masters, especially his apprentice Bruce Lee's great international reputation and national popularity, has made Yip Man famous throughout the country as a southern boxer and Wing Chun master. However, as a big martial arts country, Wing Chun is not prominent among many martial arts schools in China. Never won the national Wushu champion representing the highest level of China Wushu competition. It was not even until June this year 165438+ 10 that it was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage and declared by Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.

Of course, this is not to deny "wing chun", but compared with other martial arts schools in China, wing chun is a minority. Only with the popularity of martial arts films in Hong Kong in recent years, "Wing Chun Boxing" began to spread nationwide. In this case, the problem comes. Why is Wing Chun Boxing inferior to Tai Chi, Xingyiquan, Bagua and Shaolin? Is it because you can't beat it?

The answer is obviously no, in fact, China Wushu has never been based on the theory of strength, but on the pattern, inheritance and history. The origin and culture of wing chun are doomed that it is only a branch of a tiny faction, a partial door. According to the origin of Wing Chun Boxing circulating in the world at present, the earliest founder can be traced back to the disciple of South Shaolin in Quanzhou and the master of White Crane Boxing in Yongchun, Fujian in the Qing Dynasty.

According to hearsay, in the twenty-eighth year of Qing Qianlong, South Shaolin was burned by the Qing government because of anti-Qing, and disciples fled to various places to take refuge. The five of them lived in seclusion in Daliangshan. Later, I happened to see a scene where snakes and cranes were fighting. According to the shape of animals and the characteristics of women, Master Wu created a set of boxing methods, named Wing Chun, which focuses on quickly subduing opponents and self-defense (reducing opponents' injuries). Later, five masters passed this boxing to his disciple Yan Yongchun, and Yan Yongchun passed it on to her husband Liang.

Liang Botuo was originally from the foot of Liangshan Mountain. After he married Yan Yongchun, the couple went to Nanxiong County, Shaoguan, Guangdong Province to start boxing classes, which were first passed on to his nephew Liang, and then passed on to the red boat artists in Foshan at that time, namely, the martial artist Huang Huabao, the boatman Liang Erdi and others who sang Cantonese opera. Among them, Huang Huabao and Liang Erdi passed on disciples Wu Suzhong and Liang Zan; Liang Zanchuan Chen Huashun and Liang Bi; Ip Man was a disciple of Chen Huashun and passed it on to Bruce Lee and Liang Ting.

Although Bruce Lee used Jeet Kune Do, it is well known that Bruce Lee exchanged dancing and IP Man for Wing Chun. However, Liang Ting made the greatest contribution to the spread of Wing Chun. He devoted his whole life to the research, teaching and dissemination of Wing Chun Boxing, and founded Liang Ting Wing Chun Boxing. Foreign apprentices spread all over the world, which not only gained high recognition from the global martial arts community, but also made great contributions to the development of China martial arts culture.

Judging from this recognized inheritance, Wing Chun is at least from Shaolin, although it is not as good as top martial arts such as Wudang Taiji and Shaolin Boxing, but it is also decent to come from a famous family. How can you say that the inheritance is not good? But the problem is that this is only one of the origins of Wing Chun, among which Yan Yongchun founded Wing Chun. Chen, a Shaolin disciple in Songshan, Henan Province, founded Wing Chun Boxing according to the martial arts of "Heaven and Earth Club". Zen master Shan Zhi, a disciple of Jiulianshan Shaolin Temple in Putian, Fujian, founded Wing Chun Boxing, and Yan Yongchun, a disciple of Yongchun White Crane Boxing, founded Wing Chun Boxing.

With the growing popularity of Wing Chun Boxing in Liang Ting's hands, it is easy for believers to perfect, legendary and even mythical it. Coupled with artificial processing and creation, the final version presented to us is definitely far from the real history. For example, the Five Masters, the Supreme Good Zen Master, and Chen Anmin are actually from the novel Gan Long You Jiangnan in the late Qing Dynasty, but they are not real historical figures. Even the well-known incident of burning South Shaolin in the Qing court only exists in jokes and folk stories, and has not been confirmed by real history. In other words, whether Wing Chun originated from Shaolin Temple or Yan Yongchun is not only inconclusive, but more likely fictional.

At present, the most reliable sources of Wing Chun boxing that can be verified and traced back are Huang Huabao, Liang Erdi and Li on the red boat. /kloc-in the summer of 0/854, an armed uprising broke out in Guangdong. Huang Huabao, Liang Erdi, Li and other leaders of the Guangxi Heaven and Earth Society immediately responded, believing that it was the continuation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising against the Qing Dynasty. Most of the Heaven and Earth Clubs were Cantonese opera actors, which led to the event that Cantonese opera was banned by the Manchu government from 1854 to 1869.

Cantonese opera was banned and the guild hall was dissolved, so the members of the Heaven and Earth Society had to find something to do. In addition, Huang and Liang, who were born in Guangdong Opera, learned from Hong Quan Liang and had martial arts, so during this period, they combined the martial arts of Guangdong and Guangxi to create Wing Chun Boxing. According to some data, when Huang Huabao was in the Red Boat, wooden stakes were installed on the boat for dance practice. The narrow sense of the boat bumping was just suitable for the birth of the word "Wing Chun".

However, the real turning point of Wing Chun Boxing came from Liang Zan, a martial artist in the late Qing Dynasty. Liang Zan was originally from Hong Men, and was later sung by Professor Liang Erdi. After Liang Zan won the boxing, he officially regarded Wing Chun Boxing as a separate boxing, summing up what he had learned all his life, so he was known as the founder of Wing Chun Boxing Generation. Ip Man's master Chen Huashun and Liang Bi are Liang Zan's disciples and eldest son respectively.

Although Hong Kong movies can play Wing Chun Boxing, in fact Wing Chun Boxing is a kind of small boxing that members of the Heaven and Earth Society in the late Qing Dynasty combined with Hong Quan, Bai He Quan and Zhuang Quan. Moreover, its founder was not only an insurgent at that time, but also a player who had no position in ancient times, which further led to the historical inheritance of Wing Chun, not to mention that it was not as good as Wudang, Shaolin or even other famous schools. This is also the reason why Wing Chun believers will attach it to Shaolin Gate.

Of course, the funniest thing is that it should be a native of Guangdong Boxing School. Because of the good face of Cantonese people, they went to South Shaolin, and as a result, they were taken by Fujian to apply for world heritage. It's really ridiculous.

But having said that, I haven't answered the first question: Has Ip Man ever beaten a foreigner? The answer is simple, of course not.

Ip Man abandoned his wife and three children and came to Hong Kong from Macau on 1949, and changed his name to Ye Yi. He never mentioned his life in the mainland and concealed his identity in the mainland. Then, because of livelihood problems, he was openly accepted by the Hotel Association of Kowloon, and then moved to Lida Street in Kowloon to open a martial arts school. 1955, IP Man married another Shanghai woman and hid her family background, moved to live with her in Lizhengwu Village, and gave birth to Shao Hua, a cotyledon.

Until 1972 IP Man died, no one reported or recorded IP Man hitting foreigners!