The palace monkey is the late Qing Dynasty master Gong Baotian, the head of Cixi's personal bodyguard, who escorted Cixi to flee thousands of miles during the Gengzi Kingdom Disaster, and protected the royal family from a hair.
From Kokorata:
First of all, let's talk about Master Gong, Master Gong has been a martial artist from elementary school, studied diligently, and learned the bagua palm with the greatest lethality in modern times.
Master Gong once showed a martial art, when he was still in the Su King's Mansion, the crowds of people were watching the play, and the Su Wang Ye was on the inside. He was carrying a tray with teapots, cups and refreshments. Then Master Gong put a foot on the pillar, got up and walked, and only borrowed strength on the shoulders of others once in the middle, and then landed safely in front of King Su. The cornices walked on the wall, the tea was not sprinkled at all, and king Su was surprised, and this end of the plate also had such skills, so it was greatly used. Later, I recommended to go to the palace.
Northeast Military Career:
Later, the northeastern warlord Zhang Zuolin came to admire him, not to mention the three Gu Maolu, and those who had talent could serve under Zhang Dashuai. At first sight master Gong, Zhang Dashuai is a northeasterner, playing small to large, the brothers around him are all tiger-backed bear waists, everyone is strong and powerful, and Master Gong is dwarfed in size. At one point, the Grand Marshal suspected that he was a second-rate practitioner with a bit of a false reputation, and later Master Gong dodged two bullets at close range, shocking the Grand Marshal and his subordinates. The marshal successfully took him under the account and served as a martial arts instructor for the Northeast Army.
I think that Lin Chong was the head of the 800,000 forbidden army guns and sticks in Tokyo, and Miyahota was the martial arts instructor of the 400,000 soldiers of the Northeast Army.
Master Gong immersed himself in teaching martial arts in the Northeast Army, and for a time the physical fitness of the Northeast Army improved rapidly, and the ability to fight and kill in close combat was also greatly improved. At that time, Master Gong and the local martial arts schools in the northeast trained each other to form a set of techniques suitable for modern melee combat. Master Gong, as the representative figure of the Bagua Palm, played a great role in it, and at the same time, there were other martial arts sects that fully supported it.
Li Zhijian of Dongpingdu County taught mantis fist in Shenyang; Duan Luoxu, Duan Luoyong, Xu Zhaoxiong, and others from Hebei taught poking feet and flipping fists; Guo Jinyong, a native of Cangzhou, Hebei Province, taught Yanqing fist in Dalian; and Li Shufeng and Sun Risheng of Shandong Qixia taught Mizu fist and Secret Sect Fist in Dalian. In addition, Li Maochun, a famous boxer of Beiba Prefecture who is known as "Bazhou Li", also went to Dalian to teach Nanshan Quan.
The above martial arts have played a great role in promoting the national arts, and the subjects of the national arts examination are divided into two parts: guoshu and guoxue, including fist and foot, wrestling, and instruments (designated guns, sticks, and swords), and guoshu includes guoshu, physiological essentials, and health essentials. The examination is mainly based on the fist and foot test (wearing hands, slipping legs, Shaolin twelve styles, etc.), and the winners of the examination at all levels are given different titles, and the top three in the national examination A are awarded "defense", "auxiliary guard" and "Yi wei", the second class is awarded "school guard", and the C class is awarded "warrior": the provincial level is "samurai", and the county (city) level is "strong man".
Zhang Xueliang, then chairman of the Northeast Political Affairs Committee, always attached importance to sports, advocated "strengthening the body and strengthening the country", and advocated "a strong country and a strong species". During the competition, Zhang Xueliang and other government officials came to the scene many times to watch the competition, and Master Gong's disciples performed well.
Resignation and homecoming:
After Zhang Zuolin was killed by the Japanese in Huanggutun, the palace was protecting and teaching martial arts to Zhang Xueliang. After learning of the death of the Grand Marshal who had the grace of knowing himself, he felt disheartened, and he had a martial art in the air but could not be used; second, he was also dying of old age and his qi and blood were in decline; and although the palace-style Bagua palm was widely spread, its essence was not yet truly passed down.
Therefore, Zhang Xueliang submitted a request to resign and return to his hometown, and Zhang Xueliang also approved.
Then the "918" and "July 7 Incident" all made Master Gong feel that the country was in difficulty, and he could not repay the country with his old bones, so he could only teach the Bagua Palm to the disciples and let them participate in the defense of the country.
Therefore, the Bagua Boxing Club was widely set up in the Jiaodong Peninsula to teach the villagers martial arts. A large number of Shandong Wu people responded to the call, joined the army to resist Japan, and made great contributions to the anti-fascist.
This all contains the painstaking efforts of Master Gong Baotian.