Among Yang Luchan's three sons, Yang Banhou, the second in line, was the most outstanding. He not only received the True Transmission of Yang Lu Zen, but also had excellent arm strength, exquisite boxing skills, and was even more famous in the martial arts. However, surprisingly, he suddenly retired from the martial arts at the height of his fame, what was going on?
In 1837, at the age of 38, Yang Luchan was pleased with his son, and his wife gave birth to his second son, Yang Banhou. Looking at his infant son, Yang Luchan smiled happily, because he knew that his martial arts would be followed by others and carried forward.
The Yang family is a solid family directly under the Nanguan of Guangping Province. Yang Luchan has a natural business vision, coupled with the good relationship and wide communication of others, so he can always be far-sighted and see business opportunities one step ahead. He has sold coal soil, worked as a cook, set up a grain stall, and no matter what he does, it seems that making money is an easy thing to do.
However, Yang Luchan did not value money, he was obsessed with martial arts, and he wanted to become a martial arts master. Therefore, when he was young, he visited hermit masters and martial arts masters everywhere, just to learn Chen Taijiquan, and he went to Chen Jiagou in Henan three times to visit Chen Changxing, a descendant of Chen Taijiquan.
Originally, Chen's Taijiquan had the rule of "passing on the clan and not passing it on to the outside", and he wanted to learn boxing as a person with a different surname, which was unlikely. However, in order to learn the real kung fu, he forced Chen Changxing to work as a domestic worker for free, and finally impressed Chen Changxing with his firm perseverance, so that Chen Changxing finally violated the ancestral rules and accepted him as an apprentice.
Yang Luchan practiced hard in Chen Jiagou for eighteen years and finally became an artist.
When he returned to his hometown after learning the divine skills, he suddenly caused a sensation in the entire Guangping Province. Some martial arts masters heard that he had learned Chen's Taijiquan and came to him to compete, but they all lost to his men. Therefore, not only people who love martial arts, but even 80-year-old men or children who learn to speak with teeth and teeth know that he is highly skilled in martial arts and cannot be matched by others.
In fact, before Yang Banhou was born, his brother Yang Fenghou had been regarded as a successor by Yang Luchan and carefully cultivated by Yang Luchan.
Yang Fenghou was talented and gentle in temperament, and the most rare thing was that he had been a good martial artist since childhood, which made Yang Luchan very happy.
Therefore, Yang Luchan taught martial arts every day. In order to train Yang Fenghou's internal and external kung fu, he also formulated a considerable amount of practice content for him. Fortunately, Yang Fenghou never cried bitterly and tired, he began to practice three times, and during the day he learned martial arts with other division brothers. Even when it was time to go to bed at night, he lay in bed and was still studying the martial arts he had learned. Therefore, he improved rapidly in martial arts, quite a bit of a heroic Lao Tzu and a good man.
What made Yang Luchan most pleased was that Yang Fenghou's understanding was extremely high. Soon after practicing martial arts, he realized that the trick to practicing tai chi is mainly in the mind, that is, to achieve "no thought, no ear, no sight", so as to truly achieve a state of quiet and vivid. Over time, Yang Fenghou improved his martial arts in his youth, and when he competed with people several times, he easily won, so he became famous at a young age in Guangping Province.
Unfortunately, Yang Fenghou died prematurely, which made Yang Luchan feel pain in his heart.
There is no harm in not comparing. When it came time for Yang Banhou to learn martial arts, Yang Luchan demanded him according to the standards of Yang Fenghou Xiwu. Although Yang Banhou also had the potential to learn martial arts, he was still a little worse than Yang Fenghou's talent. Therefore, Yang Luchan was more strict with him, not only requiring him to practice day and night, but also often physically punishing him for not being able to complete the training tasks on time. Yang Banhou, who was often in a state of distress, often had the urge to flee. However, because he was afraid of Yang Luchan, he never dared to act, so he had to practice martial arts according to Yang Luchan's requirements.
Yan Shi made a high disciple, survived the Devil's teaching of Yang Banhou, and indeed learned the true transmission and realized the mysteries of boxing. In the fist knife and gun, he is the best at distance, that is, jumping kung fu. The bouncing ability is very strong, like an ape, and Yang Banhou, who has amazing arm strength, is even more fascinating to the tai chi pole dance.
Yang Luchan was already a famous boxer at that time, and there were often martial arts masters who came to him to compete. As a result, on one occasion, he lost his hand and seriously injured the other party. After the other party reported to the officials, in order to avoid being pursued by the government, he had to leave his hometown and flee to the city of Beijing.
At that time, Yang Fenghou had already died prematurely, and his younger brother Yang Jianhou had already followed Yang Banhou and began to learn martial arts under the guidance of Yang Luchan. Perhaps because Yang Fenghou died prematurely, Yang Luchan was hit, so in the matter of learning martial arts for the brothers, Yang Luchan only hated that he could not teach them a martial art immediately, so he demanded strictly every day and asked them to practice without rest. Yang Luchan said that if you eat bitterly, you will be a superior person.
Therefore, by the time Yang Luchan fled the city of Beijing, the two brothers had already received their true inheritance.
Since he left, Yang Banhou has consciously taken Yang Jianhou to practice three volts in summer and three nines in winter every day, and he still practiced hard. In the process of continuous practice, the two often discussed the mysteries of Tai Chi, and also continued to meet friends with martial arts, so that they were more refined in martial arts.
By the time Yang Luchan wrote to ask Yang Banhou to go to Beijing, he was 19 years old. After not seeing his father for several years, he saw that his father was already a boxer in the Duanwang Mansion.
It turned out that when Yang Luchan first arrived in Beijing, in order to hide his eyes and ears, he became a teacher at Zhang Sifat, the manager of the "Tianyishun" pickle garden.
Zhang Sifat's pickles are exclusively for the royal family and the royal palace, so Zhang Sifat has a close relationship with the imperial relatives and nobles. Zhang Sifat, who has a big family, also hired more than 20 family members with high martial arts to take care of the family nursing home, and these family members practiced martial arts during the day and took shifts at night.
Yang Luchan taught Zhang Si fat's two sons to read and write every day. The guys were dancing in the yard with guns and sticks, and he never looked at them much. The Zhang family only regarded him as a weak teacher.
Of course, people who practice martial arts will inevitably form a beam.
One night in the middle of the night, Yang Luchan, who was resting in the study, suddenly heard a noise outside. He got up dressed and followed the sound to the back garden, where he saw a dozen bandits with weapons, fighting with their families. Seeing that the family members were knocked to the ground, Yang Luchan was eager to save people's hearts, so he rushed forward and knocked the bandits down with a few punches. When the bandits saw that they had encountered the masters, they had to concede defeat and promised to write off their grievances with the family, and Yang Luchan let them go.
Yang Luchan's martial arts were thus known to everyone. Yang Luchan did not want to drag Zhang Si fat down, and told Zhang Si Fat about the hurt in his hometown. Zhang Sifat was enthusiastic, and in order to help Yang Luchan, he introduced Yang Luchan to the Duanwang Mansion to teach boxing, and Yang Luchan was thus spared the pain of the lawsuit.
After settling down, Yang Luchan wrote to Yang Banhou and asked him to come to the capital to develop. At the recommendation of Yang Luchan, Yang Banhou taught boxing with him at the Duanwang Mansion.
Yang Banhou was only twenty years old, and he actually became a boxer in the palace, which made some martial arts masters very dissatisfied. In addition, Yang Banhou has a strong personality and is good at fighting and holding uneven, so he has not been in the capital for a long time, but he has beaten all the strong beams in the capital and has never been defeated. He also soon became famous in the capital city, and like Yang Luchan, he had the reputation of "Yang Invincible".
Wen Wu is the first, Wu wu is the second. People who practice martial arts have always liked to compete for high and low. At that time, there was a famous boxer named "Xiongxian Liu" who also taught boxing in another royal palace. He saw that Yang Banhou was in the limelight and was extremely unconvinced.
It turned out that Liu of Xiongxian County was very strong in martial arts, he was born tall and strong, brave and powerful, and often performed the kung fu of palm crushing large stones in front of everyone. It is said that he slapped his palm on the boulder, and the boulder shattered. He can also clip several copper coins with two fingers, and with just a slight pinch, the copper coins become powder. Many people who have seen his performance have been impressed by his thousand pounds of divine power.
Once, Yang Banhou was drinking with people in a tavern. Someone at the table asked Yang Banhou if he let him compete with Liu Wu of Xiong County, who would be stronger? Yang Banhou laughed and said, that must be Xiongxian Liu Qiang, I am not as good as him. Unexpectedly, it was Liu's apprentice who happened to be eating at the table, and after the apprentice returned, he deliberately said in front of Liu of Xiongxian County, and Yang Banhou made a wild remark, saying that if there was a contest, Liu of Xiongxian Would be a defeated general. Xiongxian Liu was furious and immediately rushed to the Yang family to compete. As a result, Yang Banhou went out and let him pounce.
After Yang Banhou returned home, his family told him about Liu From Xiongxian County who had come to him to compete. In order to resolve the misunderstanding, Yang Banhou visited Liu of Xiong County. As a result, the two did not speculate, and Xiongxian Liu stretched out his strong arm on the table, saying that as long as Yang Banhou could hold his arm and make him not move, he would concede defeat.
Unexpectedly, Yang Banhou not only made Liu of Xiongxian county unable to move, but also let his feet be half a foot off the ground with a gentle move. Liu of Xiongxian county was still not convinced, and he fought with Yang Banhou again. As a result, he was beaten by Yang Banhou and fell three or four feet away.
Xiongxian Liu was still not convinced, and he and Yang Banhou made a big deal with Wu Bi, and agreed on a place and time.
As a result, on that day, Yang Banhou had been waiting at the place of the contest early, but Liu of Xiongxian County had been delayed. Later, I learned that Liu Yi of Xiongxian County left the capital early in the morning with his apprentice and went back to his hometown.
Yang Banhou was a remarkable martial arts master in the capital, and he was even more famous in the martial arts world, and there was an endless stream of people who admired and learned from his teachers. However, what was surprising was that when he was at the height of his fame, he suddenly retired from the martial arts. This also makes many people who study martial arts deeply doubtful, but they can't solve this mystery for a long time.
In fact, the reason why Yang Banhou did this has a lot to do with the invasion of the great powers.
At that time, due to his high martial arts, he was recommended by Wang Ye to the flag camp as an instructor for the flag soldiers. Because he had a good set of training flag soldiers, the Qing government also awarded him the position of Lan Lingwude cavalry lieutenant. Although this was a five-pin official position, it was already quite good for Yang Banhou, who had no foundation.
Later, the Anglo-French coalition invaded China and aimed foreign guns and cannons at the city of Beijing. The Xianfeng Emperor fled to Rehe, and the British and French troops entered no man's land and burned the Yuanmingyuan. Yang Banhou was very angry when he saw that the country was humiliated and his compatriots were killed, and called on patriotic soldiers and ordinary people to actively participate in the battle against foreign enemies. Moreover, in the fierce fighting, several times single-handedly entered the invading army, killing and injuring many of the other side, posing a threat to the arrogant invading army.
However, the officials who remained in charge of the capital, seeing that Yang Banhou had killed the foreign devils, were so frightened that they immediately expelled him from the army and dispersed the common people who participated in the War of Resistance.
Yang Banhou saw that the Qing government was a slave to the outside world and bullied the people internally, and he was very disappointed in the Qing government in his heart. Depressed, he refused to stay in the capital any longer, so he packed up his luggage and went back to his hometown.
In order to train more martial scholars to resist foreign enemies, Yang Banhou instructed his apprentices to learn art all day long, and cultivated their blood and patriotism. As a result, he became ill with overwork, coupled with the depression in his heart, and as a result, he died of a serious illness and died at the age of 55.