Is there really a Huo Yuanjia in history?

The real history of Huo Yuanjia is that he was a famous patriotic martial artist in modern China and a very powerful boxer.

Huo Yuanjia was born in 1869. His ancestral home was Xiaonanhe Village in the western suburbs of Tianjin (now Xiqing District). His father Huo Endi was a famous boxer. Huo Yuanjia was thin and weak when he was young. He was often bullied by children from his hometown and was often laughed at by his brothers. Huo Endi was afraid that Huo Yuanjia would harm his family tradition, so he forbade him from practicing martial arts and made him study poetry and books hard.

This greatly hurt the young Huo Yuanjia's self-esteem. So, he practiced martial arts secretly. A few years later, a famous martial artist came to challenge the Huo family's boxing. Huo Yuanjia stepped forward and kicked his opponent down in just a few rounds. Huo Yuanjia's reputation for "excellent martial arts" spread from then on.

According to the older generation of martial arts people, although Huo Yuanjia is only a little over 1.6 meters tall, he has been physically strong since he was a child, with superhuman fighting ability and explosive power. He is a highly qualified martial arts genius. When he was a boy, in addition to learning martial arts from his father, Huo Yuanjia also broke the sectarian concept and learned from martial arts masters from other sects, thus developing good skills.

Despite his unique skills, Huo Yuanjia has always kept a low profile and only makes a living by selling firewood and legwork. At first, his martial arts was only for self-defense. Later, because of his chivalrous heart, he often drew his sword to help when encountering injustice, and he became known to the world. However, what really made Huo Yuanjia famous all over the world was his several martial arts competitions with foreigners.

Huo Yuanjia’s experience

Huo Yuanjia was frail when he was young, and his father Huo Endi did not allow him to practice martial arts. He was worried that Yuanjia’s martial arts practice would damage the Huo family’s reputation in the future, so he refused to teach him. Art is his. But Yuan Jia has high aspirations and steals the opportunity of passing down his skills from his father to his brothers. He practiced hard in the secluded jujube forest outside his house. Later, he was informed by his father and was blamed. Yuan Jia promised not to compete with others in martial arts and not to disgrace the Huo family's reputation, so Fang Zhun's father and brother practiced martial arts together.

Yuan Jia is talented and has amazing perseverance. His eldest brother has great martial arts and is outstanding among his brothers. At the age of 24, he defeated a Huo Huo in 5 minutes with only three moves. Yuan Jia's elder brother and younger brother. Seeing this, his father changed his old mind and passed on his skills to him with all his heart. Hou Yuanjia used martial arts to make friends, integrated the strengths of each family, and developed the ancestral "secret boxing" into the "mysterious art", bringing the ancestral boxing art to a new peak.