The nationalist major general was invincible in martial arts, and the Japanese samurai and American bodyguards were defeated in his hands
Chinese kung fu versus Western boxing has always been a hot topic, from Huo Yuanjia vs. Russian Hercules, to The Boxer played by Ip Man played by Yen Zidan, played by Tyson, which can cause strong national emotions.
However, such a plot seems to be only seen in TV dramas, and it is rare to hear of the real-life version. So is there a wonderful showdown between Chinese and Western martial arts? Of course, there is, and the protagonist is still a Kuomintang major general, whose name is Lü Zijian.
Back in 1924, when the shipping business on the Yangtze River route was very busy, but most of them were foreign-oriented, and there was only one poor shipping company in China, and they often faced bullying from foreigners. Lu Zuofu, who happened to be the founder of China Minsheng Steamship Company at the time, was a good friend of Lü Zijian, so the two joined forces to call on Chinese to take a Chinese steamship.
In this way, of course, the foreigners were not happy, so they deliberately found a Japanese ronin Hideo Mitsui to find stubble and challenged Lü Zijian.
As a result, on the competition ground of the Yichang School Military Field in Hubei Province, Lü Zijiansheng beat Hideo Mitsui to vomit blood, and finally the rescue was ineffective and directly swallowed.
At this time, Lü Zijian could be said to be very famous, not only was he called the "Great Hero of the Yangtze River" by the common people, but even Chiang Kai-shek "heard the wind and moved", personally awarded him the rank of major general, and also pulled him to his own command as the chief instructor of the national art.
So, who is this Lü Zijian?
Lü Zijian was born in a martial arts family, in his early years he studied art from many masters, we may as well count, Lü Zijian became a disciple of Wudang master Li Guocao when he was 12 years old; at the age of 15, he became a disciple of Hubei Iron Leg Jiang Ying; at the age of 18, he became the apprentice of Empress Dowager Cixi with a sword, Ding Shirong, and then Li Changye, the head of the Emei God, and Xu Benshan, the head of the Zixiao Dao...
From this point of view, Lü Zijian had almost learned the kung fu of all the gate sects, and the strengths of a hundred schools were gathered, could he not be powerful?
Can you compare the founding general Xu Shiyou, who only did eight years of miscellaneous work in the Shaolin Temple, then kung fu has few opponents, not to mention that Lü Zijian has been a famous teacher who has been learning art for decades?
He studied art for 20 years, and it was not until 1920 that Lü Zijian was considered a master of martial arts and officially came out of the mountain. And his ring debut, it is indeed a lot of people, with the impressive record of continuously defeating various masters, Lu Zijian won the national martial arts championship in one fell swoop.
If he is only famous in the industry at this time, then a battle with the Japanese ronin Hideo Mitsui is tantamount to making him "popular overnight".
If the battle against a Japanese ronin warrior is not exciting enough, let's look at the match between Lü Zijian and Tom John, the personal bodyguard of General Marshall of the United States.
This is not only an authentic Chinese-Western contest, but more importantly, Lü Zijian was already 52 years old at that time, and it was really a sweat to fight against a quirky Western boxer at such an old age. But guess what? That John Tom was stunned that he could not resist Lü Zijian's set of "wandering gossip serial palms", and died three days later.
This was originally a matter of raising eyebrows and being very happy, but old Jiang was not happy, because he still had to ask Marshall, and he had killed everyone's bodyguards. Therefore, in a fit of anger, Old Jiang drove Lü Zijian away.
In this way, on the contrary, Lü Zijian was completed, and he was light and innocent, and has been committed to the promotion of folk martial arts since then, until he died in 2012, living for 120 years!