Shāng Shì Zhī 商仕芝

## Founder Of Northern Shaolinquan

Shang Shizhi (1795—1880), with the word Dezhou, was born in Zhenglan Banner of Manzhou, and a master of martial arts in North Shaolin. His ancestral home is Tieling City, Liaoning Province. After the Qing Baqi entered the customs, the merchants followed Zhenglanqi to the customs and came to Gyeonggi and settled in Gongleting Village, Ji County, Tianjin City. The Northern Shaolin martial arts inherited by Shang Shizhi has provided us with rich historical materials for studying Shaolin martial arts and Tianjin martial arts, which are extremely precious.

## Lineage

Today, the seventh generation of Shangmen has grown up. Representatives are Shang Mianhui, Shang Mianjian, Shang Yangsheng, Shang Yanhu, Shang Yanchen, Shang Yanhong, Shang Baohong, Shang Baojiang, Shang Baochun, Shang Baoming, Li Kaiyuan, Zhou Haimin, Geng Zhiyuan, Jin Tie Jun, Tian Guoxin, Liu Changhong, Liu Jiuwei, Zhang Jianjun, Wang Lijun, Wang Peng, Jing Dezhong, Zhao Xuewen, Zhang Xuejun, He Pengsheng, He Jing, Zhao Yongsheng, etc. It can be regarded as flowers blooming everywhere, peaches and plums are full of gardens.

## Untranslated Biography

Shang Shizhi (1795-1880), a native of Gongle Village, Chengxi, Jizhou (now Ji County), Qing Dynasty, was born in Dezhou, Manzhou Zhenglan Banner, a martial artist, and founder of Shaolin martial arts merchants, with outstanding martial arts and noble martial arts. Virtue and a wide range of branches are well known throughout the world.

Shang Shizhi's ancestral home was Tieling County (now Tieling City, Liaoning Province) outside Guanwai. The Eight Banners entered the customs and settled in the Dingzhong Plain, and the merchants followed Zhenglanqi to the customs to Gyeonggi and settled in Gongleting Village in the west of Jizhou City. Gongleting is located at the foot of the five famous mountains in the Panshan branch of the Yanshan Mountains, five or six miles away from Jizhou City to the east. There is an endless fertile field in front of the mountain, a Yangquan at the foot of the mountain, a stream of water, beautiful mountains and beautiful rivers, known as the "Northern Jiangnan". The merchants have a banner area of ​​100 acres by the Yangquan Pool. Due to the unique geographical location, drought and flood guarantees harvest, abundant food and clothing, but they still maintain the customs and habits of banner people outside the Guan, and they are good at using military skills.

The Shang family is prominent, and the descendants are ordered by the genealogy: Xianzong Ding Zhaowen Guangshi, Yuanbu Hongqi treasure Mianyang. Qixing and Jiaqing have a long reputation, and the prosperity of the country and Anbang will last forever. The merchant has seven generations from the ancestor of Shang Xian to Shang Shizhi. According to the genealogy, his name should be "Shizhi"—taken from the "Analects of Confucius, Zizhang", which means "study and excellence will lead to officialdom". I hope he Able to enter the official career, glorious lintel. But at first, his father named him "Shizhi". Scholars, there are two ways of saying it in ancient Chinese, one is a scholar who holds an official position, and the other is a soldier in the army. This is the father's hope that he will grow up to become a man of lofty ideals, or an outstanding warrior. The usage of "Shizhi" was changed by his master, the Zen Master Jingli of the North Shaolin Temple. "Zhi" was used as a metaphor for the beauty of human talents. Therefore, after Shang Shizhi entered the North Shaolin Temple to practice martial arts, Zen Master Jing Li officially changed his name to "Shang Shizhi", which has been used today.

Enter the Panshan ancient temple to apprentice martial arts

Shang Shizhi studied martial arts with his father while studying at a private school when he was young. By chance, he got acquainted with an outsider. One morning, the father and son were working in the field. Suddenly heard the villagers shout: "This person can fly!", the father and son turned around and saw that someone was doing light work, stepping on the water and flying over Yangquan Pond. The father saw this person ascendping and crossing the water, and he has done an extraordinary job. So he was kindly invited to teach martial arts for his son. In a blink of an eye, Shang Shizhi has been practicing martial arts with the masters for nearly two years, and his professional skills have advanced by leaps and bounds. Just one night, the master suddenly left without saying goodbye, making the father and son bewildered. Later I learned that it was his enemy who came here. In order not to disturb the merchants, he quietly disappeared, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then. Later, they found a note under the tea tray, which read: In the first two years, they came to Gongleting, and they concealed their names. To ask for my first name and last name, the first generation grandfather is called Sheng Ying, the second generation grandfather is called Sheng Kui, and there is a big name in the case of Peng Gong. In the next third generation, my father was originally known as Sheng Guanbao, but his original name was Sheng Zhenying. The four generations of escorts have been handed down, and Henan has a reputation. The note also urged the apprentices to say: With arms wide open fist in all directions, martial arts are born in Shaolin. Wen Wu is the first Wu Wuer, and Huaquan has made a mistake all his life. The Shang family finally understood Master Sheng's good intentions, and bowed to the north to thank Master Sheng. Under the careful training of Master Sheng, Shang Shizhi has acquired solid basic skills. When he was thirteen or fourteen, his family decided to send him to the North Shaolin Temple of Panshan to learn martial arts as a teacher. From then on, he embarked on a road of seeking art and serving the country, and laid a solid foundation for becoming a generation of martial arts masters in the future.

During the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, Panshan had already become an imperial garden. There are 72 temples and a magnificent palace-Jingji Villa in the deep mountains and dense forests. Many of these monasteries have become royal monasteries because of the presence of royal substitutes or directly ordained relatives of the emperor. The North Shaolin Temple at the eastern foot of Panshan Mountain is one of them. During the Jiaqing period, it was Shang Shizhi's mentor Jingli who presided over this monastery. Zen Master Jing Li Zeng Songshan has studied martial arts in Shaolin Temple for many years, and his martial arts are outstanding and outstanding. His master, Qingning, honored Duke Yunning, and was once ordained by the Qing dynasty. The ancestor of the Qingning Zen Master Ningran changed the public and was the 25th abbot of Songshan Shaolin Temple during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. There is still a stone monument built in the 21st year of Qianlong (1762) as evidence. Until later, Zen Master Jing Li took charge of the North Shaolin Temple in Panshan, and Shang Shizhi worshipped Jing Li, and he became famous for his entertainment. It is an indisputable fact that Shang Wushu originated from Shaolin.

After Shang Shizhi's apprenticeship, Zen Master Jing Li saw that he had a deep foundation in martial arts. After analyzing his personal conditions, he decided to teach four techniques of boxing, swordsmanship, spearmanship and qigong in Shaolin's seventy-two arts. There are about 178 sets of unarmed fists and guns, about 193 sets of weapons, 59 sets of dual exercises, and 115 sets of others, totaling 545 sets. Including the lost routines, it is said that there are as many as 708. After several years of diligent practice, Shang Shizhi has been able to sit like a clock, lie down like sleep, and stand like a pine. Level; Diamond boxing can also be practiced for five minutes, and both palms become double fists. If you can hit the ground with a single fist and stand upside down, this work will be completed; the remaining one finger of gold and the mind will be just around the corner. ; His light work has reached the level of 24 kilograms of thistle money with little finger and half a kilogram of sandbags wrapped around his legs. He walks like flying back and forth between Gongleting and the temple every day, jumping into sand pits and flying with poles. Achieve; in the hard work, one finger drills the wall, and one palm divides the bricks. The meat fist divides the stone and the head breaks the stone. The skill is being practiced. In time, this work will be accomplished. But Shang Shizhi is a caring person after all. He also has his concerns: Faced with such a large number of routines, it is difficult for a person to fully grasp it throughout his life. However, there are not many professions, but specialization. So which of the four techniques of boxing, swordsmanship, spearmanship and qigong should be mainly suitable?

Zen Master Jing Li saw his worries and enlightened him: “Out of the 178 types of routines, only 8 types of thong-arm boxing are used. Compared with Luohan boxing, it is almost half the difference, but it is easy to learn and more practical. Strong. Boxing can mainly be used for punching arms, kicking legs, and artillery legs. The main equipment is Oolong spear and Qingyun knife. Remember, art is fine, not wide."

Since then, Shang Shizhi has followed the master's teachings, practicing on March 9th in winter and mid-fall in summer. In the summer and the cold, the martial arts practice never ceases. A few heat and cold passed. Shang Shizhi has made great progress in martial arts, but he has no knowledge of what level he has practiced.

He thought to himself: Shaolin Kungfu pays attention to three realms. The initial realm is to learn its appearance and practice its appearance, which is to exercise one's external body. The middle-level state is "the unity of Zen and fist", which transforms the tangible into the intangible, the law into the intangible, the unreliable, no moves to follow, and the control of the enemy in the invisible. The highest state is "the unity of Zen and Wu", the combination of fist and Tao, man and fist, internal and external, to achieve a state of selflessness of "both body and spirit". You have to ask exactly where you are.

Once he talked about it to the master. The master laughed without answering, and said, "Which is a test." The two masters and apprentices came to an isolated boulder. The master stood in front of the boulder and asked him to punch any part of his body with a fist. He also stated that this is an appraisal of apprenticeship, and don't take into account the relationship between apprenticeship and apprenticeship, otherwise you are not allowed to apprenticeship. Shang Shizhi knows the master's disposition deeply, and has used his life's strength to punch the master in the chest. I saw Master Jing Li motionless, his face calm and calm. What surprised Shang Shizhi was that his fist head was like hitting a cotton bag, soft and weak. When it was his turn to stand in front of the boulder, the master punched him with a boxing punch. He saw the master's fist, guilt like electricity, fast like wind. Although I knew in my heart that the master's punches would not be too heavy and would never hurt his life. But seeing this heavy punch, he couldn't help panicking, and he jumped behind the boulder with a "swish". At this time, there was a loud bang in the ears, and the boulders were snapped into two pieces. He felt like a gust of wind swept over him, staggering, and although he was unscathed, he was shocked in a cold sweat. Afterwards, they tested the equipment again, and the master and the apprentice each held a gun against the broken boulder to test the hard shots. Although Shang Shizhi was initially frightened and didn't have the confidence to win the master, after all, he was young and vigorous, and he was not reluctant to fall under the wind. He clenched the barrel of the gun tightly, shouted, aiming at the root of the boulder and stabbing it fiercely. After a flash of fire, the tip of the gun plunged into the stone, half of it immersed in the crack of the stone. The master nodded slightly: "Good marksmanship!" As he said, the big gun in his hand pierced out with a "boom", the clear smoke drifted by, and the tip of the gun was all submerged in the rock. He was stunned: "Is this a flame gun!"

Shang Shizhi feels ashamed, knowing that he has only learned something. This is the only way to say that there are people on the human side, and the sky is beyond the sky. Learning is endless! From then on, he worked harder and more humbly to ask his master for advice, and did not dare to slacken in the slightest. He is determined to practice a good martial arts and one day serve the country.

In the 20th year of Jiaqing (1815), Shang Shizhi's art was completed, and Master Jing Li arranged for him to go down the mountain. At this time, Shang Shizhi had turned from a young man to a weaker crown, and he became a family and established a career, and martial arts has also made great progress. One hundred and ten tongbei fists can be practiced smoothly; the bullets, kicks, kicks, closes, hooks, and sweeps in the legs of the cannon, as well as the shaking, flying, spinning, swinging, stepping, and cross feet in the footwork. Then he became profound; the eighteen weapons can be used freely, among which the Oolong Spear and the Flame Spear are particularly prominent, and the light work is the most prominent among the exercises.

Excellent martial arts, a blessing in disguise

As early as the early years of Jiaqing, the country had already shown its ruin-Bailian Rebellion continued in the interior, Tianli Religion had repeated incidents, pirates gathered on the southeast coast, and the border court was rioting. In the 7th year of Jiaqing, Tianjin's science education has made great progress. In addition to Yin Laifeng's establishment of the old man's office in Liangjiazui, Yang Wenshan also established the old man's office. In the spring of the eighth year of Jiaqing, the emperor Shenwumen was assassinated; in the thirteenth year, Tianjin Lijiaoxi’s husband was annihilated by the court. In 16 years, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Gansu all discovered the Tiandihui uprising: In September of the eighteenth year, more than 70 Tianli believers violated the forbidden gate, entered the large interior, and impaired military service. These terrible news made Shang Shizhi, who was full of blood, couldn't help but ask for nothing, that the world is like this, people who practice martial arts should come forward and serve the people. But where is the doorway? I have a martial arts, but I can't use it. He was unhappy ever since.

From the end of Jiaqing to the beginning of Daoguang, Shang Shizhi was already well-known in the countryside. In order to protect their homes from soldiers and bandits, farmers in and around the village asked to apprentice teachers to learn art. Many people also sent their children. At that time, he had no intention of opening a museum to teach apprentices, but he could not refuse in the face of the graciousness of the villagers. Later, he thought of a way to get the best of both worlds: dismiss some of the long-term workers at home and hire children to do work. On the one hand, he could not delay farm work, and on the other hand, he could teach martial arts. Can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone. The cold and the heat, the autumn goes to the winter solstice, a few years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the children's kung fu has improved greatly. It is also because he teaches his apprenticeship in the countryside, people call him "Teacher of Business".

In the meantime, a Taoist traveler came to the merchant and meditated on the door which was only four fingers wide and refused to get up. Shang Shizhi understands that the visitor intends to show his skills. He said "How offending" he put one hand into the silk ribbon around the Taoist's waist and gently lifted him up. The Taoist priest praised: "Admire, admire. You really can be called a teacher! Mortals do not have a thousand pounds of strength, and they cannot afford to be poor."

The Taoist priest met his bosom friend and stayed at Master Shang's house for more than ten days. One night, the two talked for a long time, unknowingly late into the night. The Taoist priest lined up two benches, three or four feet apart, and crossed a bamboo pole on top of them. He said, "I'm tired after sitting for a long time. Lie down and talk?" After finishing speaking, he stretched out without waiting for the other party to answer. Waist, lay straight on the bamboo pole.

When Shang Shizhi saw it, he didn't answer. He found a rope, tied one end to the beam of the house, split a short stick with his hands, stepped into the gap in the brick floor, tied the rope straight, and turned back. Lean on the soft rope, with your feet more than half a foot off the ground. Then he smiled and said to the Taoist priest: "It's okay to lie down and talk." The two chatted like this for a long time. The Taoist priest stood up and bowed and said, "The merchant boxing is true to its name. It is a realm of martial arts, a combination of Zen and martial arts, and a combination of realm and god. Please be worshipped by the poor."

Shang Shizhi's superb martial arts is evident. But the more this is the case, the more deeply he feels unfavorable. One is young and vigorous, full of vitality, but has nowhere to display. Both have heard and witnessed, both internally and externally troubled, and they have extra energy, but they have no way to serve the country.

Daoguang five years (1825) coincided with Qingming, and it was the busy farming season. Merchants have dozens of acres of land in the south of Yulu, and they must cross the Yulu to transport manure to the land. However, around the Qingming Festival, the imperial road is not allowed to pass, maybe one day the emperor will go to Dongling Yeling. Surprised Shengjia is not a joke. Don't say that "criminals" are all over the house, even the magistrates can't eat them.

On this day, Shang Shizhi drove the donkey to the field to deliver manure. Just a few steps on the Yulu, people watching the street ran over to stop them saying that no livestock were allowed on Yulu. Besides, there are often imperial chaplains before and after Qingming. You let the emperor walk the same way with the livestock? This charge is no trivial matter. Shang Shizhi did not enter, nor did he retreat. There was really no way. simply! I saw him take off the pancage full of wet manure with one hand, and clamp the waist of the donkey with the other arm, hunched over, made a hi, and walked away. Those who watched the street were dumbfounded and didn't speak for a long time. When he understood, Shang Shizhi had already gone far.

This corresponds to the sentence: Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. Later, this matter was passed on to the emperor's ears. He played a book on the Golden Palace, and Shang Shizhi was a blessing in disguise.

Serving as a court guard

During the Daoguang period, society became more turbulent, and internal and external troubles became more serious. Western powers invaded the country, and anti-Qing churches in the mainland were surging. The repressed Shaolin sect of the Qing Dynasty established the Heaven and Earth Society in the south and the Shaolin Society in the north, and they fought openly and secretly with the Qing Gong dynasty. Shang Shizhi, who was in his prime of life, entered the court to serve as a guard in the palace. In addition to escorting in the palace, he was often sent out to suppress various cult activities or arrest thieves.

In the past few years, in addition to following the Ouchi masters to fight bandits and pirates, Shang Shizhi was sometimes sent alone to visit the palace near Gyeonggi to secretly visit the theft cases, and from time to time between his hometown Jizhou and Beijing.

In the eighth year of Daoguang (1828), during the Qingming Festival, the emperor went to the East Tomb to visit the Mausoleum and returned to Luan Longfu Temple to stay. An accompanying concubine lost the jade bracelet. Shang Shizhi was then sent to the Longfu Temple area for inspection. There is only one mountain away from the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty, and there are many temples and temples. There are many tombs of princes nearby. A lot of tomb robbers were caught watching, and they were ready to move, and some martial arts masters often haunted here. This brings great difficulties to the investigation.

It's just that you can't find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it won't take any effort. Shang Shizhi made an unannounced visit for half a month, but no results. He was very anxious. The deadline was approaching. It is hard to violate his orders! In desperation, he walked into a small mountain village shop to stay in. As soon as he entered the shop, two men in monk robes caught his attention. They were dressed as monks, but they were full of wine and meat. Shang Shizhi deliberately sat closer to them. I want to hear what they say. At this time, the two of them stood up and walked away. He walked a few steps and chased out of the shop, and neither of them was traced. He concluded that these two fake monks must belong to the nearby monastery, and the concubine jade bracelets were most likely the crimes committed by them. But the lights were dim at the time, and the face was not very clear. So he returned to his residence non-stop, gave an order to search the nearby monastery, and squatted to block the two thief monks. Two days later, the thief monk was arrested and the jade bracelet was forced to return. In the eleventh year of Daoguang, the imperial court abolished Panshan Palace. This year, Shang Shizhi was ordered to return to Jizhou to investigate the case of the theft of the palace golden basin. Between handling the case, he quietly came to Panshan Shaolin Temple to visit Zen Master Jingli, his mentor. At this time, Zen Master Jing Li was in the dying year of the wind, and soon died. During the discussion between the master and the apprentice, he clearly felt that the only thing his teacher could not let go was the issue of the successor of the North Shaolin Temple. The priest said: "Lao Na will go to bliss. You are conspiring in the court, and you are unskilled. The descendants of the North Shaolin can only hope in the folk Shaolin society." After speaking, he stopped saying more and closed his eyes calmly. Participate in concentration. Shang Shizhi understood: Master wanted him to escape into the empty gate and preside over the North Shaolin Temple. Is this what Shang Shizhi can do right now? He couldn't answer the master, he could only silently remember it in his heart, and moved backwards. For many years since then, a master's wish has not been fulfilled, which he regretted all his life.

This meeting was the last time the master and apprentice met.

In the second year, someone reported the establishment of Hongyang Sect in Xuedianzhuang, Daxing County, led by Zhou Yinglin and Yu Zuohui. They often "knob their heads at the tenth ancestor of Shaolin in the back hall of the temple and learn Shaolin boxing." Shang Shizhi came to investigate with the imperial commander led by the master insider. The court ordered that cults be bold and reckless, form secret associations, act recklessly, plot wrongdoing, and continue to ban it. They must be swept away.

Shang Shizhi thought that there is no Shaolin Temple in Daxing County, but it is not far from Panshan. Is this the Shaolin Club? will not. Throughout the dynasties, the Shaolin monks have not opposed the court! The previous dynasty had also repeatedly recruited Shaolin monks to protect the country and suppress bandits! The Emperor Kangxi also spent huge sums of national currency to rebuild the Songshan Shaolin Temple. During the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong, he repaired or built several temples in Panshan many times. Our North Shaolin was also deeply favored by the emperor! But why is it that the civil uprisings under the banner of various churches have been endlessly suppressed from Emperor Kangxi until now? Could it be said that the Qing Gong dynasty is really exhausted? It is easy to catch a few cultists. But why does the Hongyang Sect believe in the ten ancestors of Shaolin and learn Shaolin boxing? What does this have to do with my Shaolin veins? Correct! This must be planting, it is the cult's intent to frame me Shaolin for infidelity! Based on this alone, Hongyang Sect and its followers have to be killed!

With this series of contradictory question marks, Shang Shizhi came up with an answer that he felt far-fetched. However, he still resolutely implemented the imperial court's order-Hongyang Sect was quickly suppressed, and the first Zhou Yinglin and his followers were also rectified on the spot. In fact, from this time on, Shang Shizhi had begun to vaguely consider the changes in the whole society from the government's policies and the reaction of the people. However, due to the limitations of the times, he has not been able to find the most reasonable way out.

During this period, the Western powers began their economic aggression against the great powers of the celestial dynasty. The success of the European Industrial Revolution and the changes in the power of various countries gave birth to the imperialists' ambition to redistribute the world. The pioneering countries of capitalism began to plunder wealth in the form of commerce all over the world. In China, opium is dumped, silver is looted frantically, and the Chinese people are poisoned. In the eighteenth year of Daoguang (1838), the national hero Lin Zexu became the governor of Huguang, and in November of the same year he was appointed minister of imperial envoys to ban opium. At this time, Lijiao complied with the needs of the times and proposed the doctrine of "Keeping the eight precepts to be observed, and quitting smoking and drinking, not burning incense paper, not worshiping puppets, and not raising chickens, cats and dogs". The impact is getting bigger and bigger. The government encourages the people to join the education of science and urges to stop drug use, and the income has been effective within three months. Li Jiao has also been awarded by Lin Zexu several times for this. Since then, Lijiao offices have appeared in all provinces across the country, and Lijiao has been formally made public and legalized.

Jizhou is the birthplace of science and education. Shang Shizhi's ancestors lived here, and he was taught at an early age. Today, he does not drink alcohol or tobacco. He was sent by the court to Humen to help Lin Zexu ban smoking and develop science and education. Wherever he went, he vigorously promoted the doctrines of science and teachings and encouraged the local people to join in. For this reason, he was praised by Lin Zexu, and he was promoted to the head of the official guard by a common guard, and then promoted to the head of the household department. The emperor has rewarded him with a yellow mantle, and a golden plaque gifted by him hangs at home. This should be the most glorious period for the business.

Two years later, the first Opium War broke out. Sanyuanli taught the public and the two people set off an upsurge of anti-British resistance. However, the sword and spear against the technological achievements of the Industrial Revolution, of course, could not withstand the bombardment of foreign guns and artillery, and ultimately failed. The corrupt and incompetent imperial court was so scared that it not only dismissed Lin Zexu’s official, but also exiled him to Xinjiang. In the front, the imperial court signed humiliating traitorous treaties with other powers: the "Sino-British Nanjing Treaty" and the "Sino-American Pousada Treaty "Sino-French Huangpu Treaty."

Before the signing of the "Sino-British Nanjing Treaty" in the 22nd year of Daoguang (1842), Shang Shizhi was transferred from Humen by the imperial court and sent to Songshan, Henan Province to investigate the Shaolin monks handing over the tyrants, staying with the bandits, roaring in the mountains and forests, and plotting wrongdoing. At this time, he had been walking around the rivers and lakes for about 20 years, he had heard and witnessed many injustices in the world, saw the defeat of the Qing Dynasty, violently suppressed the uprisings of the surging people of all ethnic groups, and confessed to the slaves of foreign powers and cede land for compensation. The yellow mantle given to him by the court, and the golden plaque at home became a symbol of shame! How can the Manchurians who cross the land of China be slaughtered by others? As a Chinese, a bannerman, he feels ashamed and embarrassed! Shaolin, Shaolin, a sacred place where gods and immortals have gained the Tao, and a monastery that has been enlisted by the court for many times to fight against Japanese pirates, and make great achievements for the country. Litigation, where is the place where the bandits are swarming? This is caused by the weak and weak countries and the brutal greed of foreign enemies. As a martial artist, he couldn't bear the country's defeat and the people's lives were disgraced. Only to keep fit, martial arts will save the country. He made up his mind to learn peerless martial arts in the Shaolin ancestral court to benefit the people. As the saying goes, literature is not the first and Wu is the second. This is an excellent opportunity. He decided to resign from the Ouchi guard and stay to continue to study Shaolin Kungfu and save the people from hanging upside down.

Organize the fist book to establish a martial arts gym

In the twenty-ninth year of Daoguang (1849), peasant uprisings under the cover of Taoism continued throughout the country. Emperor Daoguang ordered all provinces to strictly enforce Taoist cults, and also included Lijiao. At this time, Shang Shizhi, a religious believer, had returned from Songshan Shaolin Temple to Gongleting Village, his hometown in Jizhou, and was about to calm down to sort out the boxing scores and build a martial arts gym. Hearing this wind, I had to start a wandering and uncertain life again, avoiding the imperial court's copycats.

Two years later, Emperor Xianfeng ascended the throne, and the land of China was precarious. In the year he became the throne, Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, rebelled in Jintian Village, Guangxi. In just two years, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's army designated Tianjing (now Nanjing). Soon, the Northern Expedition and the Western Expedition began. The Taiping army in the Northern Expedition, like a broken bamboo, successfully attacked Baoding, Hebei Province, scaring the Qing court to flee to the Rehe Mountain Resort. The Qing court can no longer take seriously the Taoist cult. Shang Shizhi once again came to Shaolin's ancestral court to realize his martial arts dream of saving the country. He saw the hope of martial arts to save the country from the vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement: many people in Hong Xiuquan's God-Worshipping Society were members of the Heaven and Earth Society. Things can happen in the Southern Heaven and Earth, and the Shaolin Society in the North can still do something. The north and the south echo, the overthrow of the Qing Gong dynasty is just around the corner! But can a new imperial court be established? He was very at a loss.

In June of the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), a "Monastery Monks and Monks Discussing Rules and Regulations Stele" was erected in the Shaolin ancestral court. The inscription said: "In recent years, bandits have been swarming. The team is in groups, seeking to be looters, and the temples are all affected."

Shang Shizhi did not want to cause trouble to Zu Ting, resolutely left, returned to his hometown, and realized his martial arts dream of saving the country.

In the following years, the social crisis intensified. The concessions are everywhere, and the country will not be the country. The voices of the anti-Qing movement were louder than ever. The imperialist countries were not satisfied with their vested interests and launched the second Opium War. Shang Shizhi heard and witnessed the brutality of the British and French forces, the fall of Guangzhou and the fall of Tianjin-the invaders' muzzles were directed at the capital-Tongzhou Baliqiao, the Qing army was defeated, and the capital fell. Emperor Xianfeng fled to Rehe overnight, and died in the palace of Rehe a year later. Social turmoil, the royal family's internal and external difficulties. Shang Shizhi's martial arts career of saving the country has made gratifying progress. Prior to this, 7 martial arts halls have been built within Jizhou, which are located in Niangniang Palace in Xiguan outside the city, Jing'an Temple east of the Alchemy Platform in the west of the city, Taohua Temple in the east of the city, Maitreya Temple in Renzhi Township in the southeast of the city, under the negative tripod. Baoan Town, Taihe Township, Xiayingli Dongshan Township Insurance Office where Qishan Lanshui Cave is located, and Jialing Gongle Township Insurance Office for Xiangqing Tun Section. There are two buildings outside the Great Wall, one is Xinglong Maoshan in the Wuling Mountain of Taizu Mountain in Dongling, and the other is Luoyingyan near Chengde Shuangta Mountain. There are two buildings in the southeast of Beijing, one near Tongzhou Bali Bridge and one in Nanyuan.

At this time, Shang Shizhi's apprentices were scattered all over Gyeonggi, and his four daughters had grown up, and all of them had extraordinary martial arts. The eleven martial arts halls are in charge of apprentices and daughters. The second daughter, Shang Yuanzhen, married to the king’s house in the city, which was close to the Niangniang Palace outside Xiguan. This martial arts hall was in charge of her husband and wife; in the west of the city, Jing’an Temple, the nearest to Gongleting Village, was in charge of this martial arts hall by nephew Shang Yuanxiu; The martial arts hall of Taohua Temple in Chengdong is in charge of Gaosizui; the martial arts hall of Maitreya in Nanrenzhi Township is managed by the three daughters Yuanheng and his wife who married to Jia's family in Henan, Henan; the martial arts hall of Gongle Township Insurance Institute in Qingxiangtun is managed by The eldest daughter Yuanli and his wife who were married to Panzhuangzi in Bangjun Xipan came to take charge; the youngest daughter Yuankun and his wife took charge of the Chengde Shuangtashan Martial Art Museum outside the Great Wall. The Wuguan in Baoan Township and Xinglong Maoshan Wuguan in Taihe Township, Dingding County, are in the charge of their nephews Shang Bugui and Shang Buyang. The Dongshan Township Insurance Institute in Xiaying and the Wuguan in Baliqiao in Tongzhou are in charge of Zhao Liuye of the village and Thuye of the neighboring village. Although they are foreigners, they have high martial arts and both virtues. These two are located in important places, and it is safe to leave them to them. The last Nanyuan Martial Arts Hall was personally in charge of Shang Shizhi.

In the last years of Xianfeng, Shang Shizhi was nearly 67 years old. Many years of apprenticeship in martial arts, strive for perfection; many years of walking in the arena, the profit is quite substantial; many years of establishment of martial arts hall, enthusiastic to teach apprentices; years of accumulation, gradually reaching the realm. New Year’s Eve is approaching again. In a hut in Beijing’s Nanyuan Martial Arts Hall, he finished the last painting of the oolong gun iron ox farming terrain on the fist score with his pen. The moment he stopped the pen, he let out a long sigh of relief. I thought: Six years! This set of boxing scores has finally been sorted out. Whether it can be passed on to future generations and be recognized by people, only time is left to make a conclusion. He put the pen in the wash and pushed the manuscript into the desk, suddenly feeling a lot more relaxed.

Since Shang Shizhi returned to his hometown at the end of June in the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), while preparing for the construction of the martial arts hall, he had already begun to organize the fist scores. Since boxing is the basis of martial arts, start with the boxing table. This set of boxing manuals brings together all the Shaolin martial arts techniques, with careful consideration of words and sentences, and a complete system. Starting from the basic skills, the route is simple to the complex, from single training to dual training, plus Sanshou martial arts, the theoretical system is complete.

Basic fist and foot routines: One is "Twelve Flicking Legs". This repertoire is the basis for boxing practice and is a combination of basic moves. It was ten trips. According to the actual situation of his drill, Shang Shizhi created two times to crack the legs, a total of twelve times. One "Twelve Joint Cannons". This is created by Shang Shizhi in accordance with the style of Shaolin martial arts. These two routines are compulsory courses for learning North Shaolin martial arts, and are the essence of the basics.

Gloves Road: Shaolin Boxing types including Big and Small Boxing, Plum Blossom Boxing, Sun Moon Boxing, Taizu Boxing, Wufeng Pao, Qiankun Boxing, King Kong Boxing, Taihe Boxing and other boxing books-all available.

Sanshou: "Tong Preparation Boxing Table", with 22 gates, one gate with five styles, a total of 110 strokes, and two outside strokes, a total of 112 strokes. There are two tricks, "Hang Printing in the Bosom" and "Magpie Stringing Branches", which were created by Shang Shizhi himself.

"Tong Bei Quan" was originally called "Tong Arm Boxing". Although the difference between "tongbei" and "tong arm" is only two characters, these two characters are soaked in countless efforts of Shang Shizhi! At this time, the same preparation boxing includes five basic boxing methods: throwing, slap, piercing, splitting, and accumulating. The five basic boxing methods include throwing, hitting, shaking, and exploding; slap, catch, slam, and collapse; pierce, squeeze, squeeze, press; smash, thunder, drop, squeeze; save, collapse, chase, and stab a total of 20 Kind of boxing. There are twelve tips for exercise methods including stretching, probing, poisoning, smoothing, closing, relaxing, stiffing, buckling, flexing, following, and destroying. The strength is emitted from the wrists-shoulders-ribs-hips-waist. It is emitted by the Dantian gathering the internal and external Qi of the whole body. The tongs and backs are integrated into the same equipment, perfect and complete, integrating all the functions of Shaolin Boxing, and the power is no longer limited to the shoulder to the wrist, reaching the highest state of the combination of Zen and Wu.

Fist and foot sparring with bare hands: King Kong's eight moves, relying on fighting, Liuhe sparring and so on.

Equipment routines: big and small yaksha sticks, wind magic sticks; "Collection of Oolong Spears" six , a total of 246 guns; "Big Gun Practicing Set", "Six Flower Spears Set", "Liuhe Spears", "Bagua Gun", "Plum Flower Gun", "Serial Knife", "Qingyun Knife", "Liuhe Double Knife", "Five Tiger Broken Door Knife", "Spring and Autumn Broadsword" and other long and short double soft instruments.

Weapon hand-to-hand (equipment pair training): single-sword into the gun, broad-sword into the gun, double-sword into the gun, three-section stick into the gun, single-sword crutches into the gun, paired flash gun, etc. The gun and the stick are of the same type. The big and small Yasha sticks and the wind magic sticks are paired with the marksmanship. They share a set of fist scores to summarize the "Gun Stick Fist Scores", and detailed illustrations are drawn for learning.

Exercise categories: iron sand palm, yinquan power, point stone power, wooden stake power, foot shot power, patting power, sandbag power, etc. The medicinal function is divided into oral Zhuang medicine, lotion and so on. There are many health-preserving exercises, such as wheel eye exercises, teeth snapping ears, etc. There are also nine bogeys and eighteen wounds.

At this point, it can be said that the Shaolin Boxing Book is all available, and it is an essential boxing book for learning Shaolin Boxing. At the same time, this set of boxing books is the unique boxing table of Shaolin faction merchants' boxing, and it is the only boxing table of Shaolin martial arts in the North of Panshan that has been passed down to the north. The overall style of Shaolin Faction Merchant Boxing is: simple and unpretentious, fierce and quiet, powerful and ingenious, strong internal strength and blood, solid muscles and bones, with ancient martial arts as the main theme.

Self-cultivation in hidden forests and springs in the mountains

Shang Shizhi's Shaolin Club and its martial arts hall are still struggling to sustain it. Shang Shizhi himself is making a deep reflection: Can martial arts save the country? Did the fist and the eighteen weapons resist foreign guns and cannons?

In the early years of Xianfeng, the Second Opium War broke out, Guangzhou fell and Dagu Fort was lost. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the British and French allied forces marched north along the Ji Canal, attacked Tongzhou, and approached the capital. The defeated Qing general led the victory and Bao was ordered to intercept the British and French forces in Tongzhou and returned in defeat. Emperor Xianfeng fled to Rehe for refuge. The Qing Empire successively signed the "Tianjin Treaty" and the "Beijing Treaty" with Russia, the United States, Britain, France and other countries. In the second year, Emperor Xianfeng died in depression at the Jehol Palace.

In the third year of Tongzhi (1864), the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which persisted for 14 years, failed in the joint encirclement and suppression of the great powers of the Hunan Army by Zeng Guofan.

In the 9th year of Tongzhi (1870), Li Jiang, the head of the Ministry of Rites who served in the court, resigned due to illness and returned to his hometown of Jizhou, and built Longquan Villa in Chuanfangyu. Subsequently, the man-made Jinzhi of this Yiju also built the Wenqing Garden here. Li Jiang's student, talented Li Shuping, also returned with the inkstone. At that time, it was called "The Three Ensembles of Fang Fang". They set up a private school and set up a free store for the Fuyuan Nunnery, and they lived a life of “the world’s peach garden” where “you can look up to the mountains and overlook the audible spring”. Li Jiang sang: "One official refuses to change to Longquan. I really suspect that there is a long-term relationship here. For ten years, the eunuch has become the bottom line. It is regarded as bliss to return to the field."

Xu Youtai, the largest money and grain farm in Jizhou and the founder of Shangcang "Xingtaide" pot, is also arty and often visits Longquan Villa as a guest.

These have to touch Shang Shizhi. The imperial court's corruption and incompetence, traitorous and virtuous, gradually shaken his original intention of martial arts to save the country, and gradually sprouted his heart of retreat. Shang Shizhi, who returned to the pastoral hermitage, became a guest of the "Three Ensembles of Fang Fang". He often read Li Jiang's "Longquan Garden Collection", Xi Wangjin's "Mountain Residence Suoyan", and Li Shuping's "Youth Trip". When he read "The young man from the east of the city, explore the pill night and walk to Chang'an Fang. In the autumn wind of the silver saddle and white horse, the sword is bright and bright. The head of the knife is still stained with the blood of the enemy, and the liver is cracked. Shame is called a wise man by the common people." Shi Xing prospered, and he sang and said: "The green mountains and green waters are close to my house, I am leisurely playing with scenery and watching bridges and fishing. I am happy and free in Lin Quanle, I do not envy the four horse carriages of the princes." After that, his poetry Overflowing and unacceptable, I wrote three consecutive poems, namely, "The green water and the green mountains are in the early morning, and the red wheels are shining with purple rays. The scenery of the West Lake with glaze is ten thousand pieces, and the ripples are wonderful." Acres of land, live and work for more than a year. The three meals are full of special flavors, and the wine sings a generation of immortals." "The waves are rippling with the sunny sand, and the water is slanting. The deep planting of wild cats and shallow planting of rice, not deep or shallow planting of lotus. "

The coziness of "talking about wine and sangma" and the tranquility of "seeing Nanshan leisurely" accompanied Shang Shizhi on the last journey of his life. Compared with the vicissitudes of his life, such as investing in teachers and arts, serving the country, wandering through the world, and teaching his career, it can be regarded as old and enjoyable. In addition to his exquisite martial arts skills, complete and detailed textual materials, and the free and easy “singing of wine to a generation of immortals”, the memory he left to people is more commendable for later generations to be his practice of advocating martial arts and morality.

If you want to be righteous, be righteous first. Shang Shizhi is well aware of the charisma of personal cultivation.

The most important manifestation of his martial arts spirit is that he does not have a sense of the door, and he does not fight for the shortcomings. Under the ideological guidance of martial arts to save the country, we are inclusive and open. Shandong martial arts master Liu Ziming, known as Liu Jiu-gun in the arena, his marksmanship belonged to the hard-door marksmanship, not from the Shaolin school. For some reason, he lived in Jizhou without making a living. Shang Shizhi took him to the house, tried his skills with him, and asked him how to use nine shots. Later, in the city boundary, the Chengdong Taohua Temple martial arts hall under the charge of apprentice Gao Sizui was given to Liu Ziming for him to teach his apprentice to survive. From then on, the "nine guns" appeared on the land of Jizhou.

After learning about Liu Ziming's situation, Hu Changqing, a master of Shandong's hard-point marksmanship, also came to Jizhou to find Shang Shizhi. Shang Shizhi recommended him to build a martial arts museum in Zhouzhuang, Xia Ningding (now Bieshan Township). Wu Wanliang of Zhouzhuang first learned Shaolin martial arts. After Hu Changqing left, their father and son also learned the hard shots. Later, the Wu family and his son learned Taijiquan and Xingyi Baguaquan from Sun Lutang, a famous teacher in Baoding Prefecture, Zhili Province. In the end, the Wu family merged the Hu family's Sun family with their own martial arts, forming the Wu family sect, which is unique in the county and won the reputation. Objectively speaking, Shang Shizhi's tolerance towards martial arts schools has played an important role in the development and exchange of Chinese martial arts.

Secondly, he is kind-hearted, approachable and never bullying.

Once, Shang Shizhi went into the city to sell rice, and he just put down the two bags of rice he had brought. At this time, a young man selling rice came, and his export was not inferior, and he pushed and shoved him to move. Shang Shizhi smiled and made no mistakes, while holding up a hundred and ten kilograms of rice bags with both hands and moving them aside, his face didn't change color and his anger didn't grow. The young man was dumbfounded.

Shang Shizhi paid great attention to martial ethics. Only when he thinks that virtue  gnat scar is willing to teach. For those who are not willing to work hard to practice basic skills, and want to play tricks, they will definitely not teach them. He often warned his disciples that practicing martial arts is one to strengthen the body and the other to serve the country. Do not use art to deceive others and fight hard.

Every year from the tenth to the sixteenth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, a temple fair is always held in front of the five mountains. At the meeting, artists from other villages came here to make a living. Shang Shizhi strictly ordered the doorman: "The arena to sell art is the force of life. All the disciples in my door are not allowed to make trouble." No, someone came to the door the next day to apologize. He said that he was Ye Changqing. He first came to Guibao Land. He never bowed to the mountain gate. He was defeated by the people of the Shang clan. He asked Mr. Shang to enjoy the meal. Shang Shizhi was furious when he heard that, and called his apprentice to ask Master Ye to recognize him, but it turned out to be neither. This makes everyone confused. Who is claiming to be a Shang clan to play on the court? Later I learned that it was a shepherd boy who passed the Shang family every day and learned one trick and two tricks. In the interval between herding sheep, practice makes perfect, and even two tricks defeated Ye Changqing, who had been in the rivers and lakes for a long time. Shang Shizhi stayed at home for a few days, and later became a good friend.

On another occasion, he went to the market with an apprentice, and a group of people were fighting at the market. The master and apprentice stepped forward to persuade. On a whim, the apprentice punched one of his donkeys to death. The other party refused to comply and demanded compensation. Master Shang Shizhi rushed forward and said, "We have killed your donkey. Naturally, we should pay for it. Please go to the livestock market to pick it yourself. I will pay the money."

Although Shang Shizhi settled the dispute. Afterwards, he taught his apprentice: "You beat the donkey to death, and we can cover the compensation. What if this is an individual? People who have never learned arts should learn rituals first, and those who practice martial arts should take the lead in morals, otherwise life will be a matter of life!" Since then, he no longer recognizes this apprentice.

He is very strict with his four daughters Yuan Heng, Yuan Zhen, Yuan Li and Yuan Kun. They strictly abide by women's morals, respect their parents-in-laws, teach each other to their husbands and sons, treat others well, and work hard. Although all of them are proficient in boxing, they never run wild with martial arts. So that for a long time even the family of the mother-in-law did not know that they could martial arts.

Martial arts save the country, justice and help others

The civil servants used his pen to settle the world, and the generals carried swords to keep the peace. Shang Shizhi has always taken martial arts to save the country and justice to help others. From the first day he practiced martial arts, no, it should be said that he had the idea of ​​justice and helping others from the day he became sensible. This is the family education of the merchants, and it is the inheritance of the martial arts heirs' responsibility and virtues.

Although Jizhou is at the feet of the emperor, it cannot change the natural disasters of seven years of floods and three droughts. In the summer of the last year of Jiaqing (1820), Jizhou flooded, and Qingtai two depressions were in a vast ocean. Both Jizhou and Baodi looked at each other closely, guarding against the other side's levee opening and releasing floods to help themselves. Xu Zhicheng, the head of Jizhou Banner, invited many martial arts masters to tour the embankment, and the young and promising Shang Shizhi was also invited. One night, several sailors from Baodi dived to the north bank and were secretly destroying the embankment, wanting to flood Jizhou and protect themselves by flooding. Shang Shizhi saw it from a distance, but it was never too late to run to the front to stop it? When he was in a hurry, he picked up a few stones and shot them out in succession. The sailors hurriedly fled from the embankment. It was dark and the road was slippery, some of them were washed away by the torrential flood, and some of them escaped to the other side by chance and died. Only two or three of them survived. The dike protectors on the north bank of the Ji Canal arrived in time to repair the dike, so that the people along the coast could be saved. Shang Shizhi repelled the enemy by attacking the stone, and the reputation of saving the people by protecting the embankment was also widely spread.

At the same time, the Panshan Palace was abolished, and the court had no time to protect itself, let alone protect the people. During the Tongzhi period, four, five or even ten circuses came to Jizhou to perform every year. Among them are some gangsters who use the name of the circus to commit robbery and theft. They went around committing crimes, making people panic. As current affairs become more and more severe, the Jizhou area has become more and more disorderly, bandits are rampant, and the people are struggling to survive. Shang Shizhi is deeply anxious about this. He ordered the surrounding martial arts apprentices to recruit newcomers in various villages, step up training, and tried to protect the village, with great results. The bandits were all frightened by the prestige of Teacher Shang, and dared not easily commit crimes in this area. Only some fleeing foreign gangs who are not aware of it will take action here. Shang Shizhi and his followers were often invited to maintain public order or detect burglary cases in various parts of the state, uphold justice, punish evil and promote good. He never counts remuneration for such acts of justice. Although he is not "an official", he is really "benefiting the party." The "chivalrous business teacher" has also spread far and wide, and many martial artists often regard themselves as the disciples of the teacher. In Xianfeng, political affairs were decadent and the war situation was worrying. It is not uncommon for foreigners to deceive my compatriots on the streets. At this time, Shang Shizhi was in the Nanyuan Wuguan in the suburbs of Beijing. Every time I hear it, I feel sad and angry. Relying on his stunts, he often punishes these arrogant aggressors without showing off his face. Once, drinking tea in a teahouse near the martial arts hall, a few foreigners broke in to blackmail, smashed their bowls and smashed their tables, and were very arrogant. Shang Shizhi really couldn't stand it anymore, and quietly took a sip of tea in his mouth, knocked down the foreigners one by one with his arrows, and then quietly left. In the following days, one or two foreigners often fell on the sentry post or died on the bed in the house for no reason. This caused the invaders' military spirit to be greatly frustrated, their morale languished, and they were in panic all day long. The most incomprehensible thing for them is that the body of the deceased was not damaged or broken, and they saw God in a confused manner. The shadow of this matter lingered like a ghost. Soon, they had to move elsewhere. Although no one has seen it in person, this magical technique has led people to unanimously believe that it was Mr. Shang.

The Qing Dynasty is going downhill. With the technological civilization of the Industrial Revolution, the British and French powers broke through the gate of China's coastal defense and went north along the Jiyun River to the capital. The state is in danger of being overwhelmed with eggs, and the national calendar is hanging upside down. Shang Shizhi's simple and strong patriotism made him hate the invaders. Today's imperial court is weak and incompetent, and the servants and maids are servile. To save the country, the people can only wake up with white hair. Although flesh and blood is hard to beat foreign guns and cannons, they must never be willing to be subjugated slaves. He relied on his personal strength to struggle with the invaders unrelentingly.

After worrying about the country and the people, Shang Shizhi immediately recruited a group of apprentices and members of the local Shaolin Society to come to Tongzhou to assist the officers and the army, and fight against foreign humiliation. Unexpectedly, the Qing generals led the victory and commanded no direction, and escaped immediately. Coupled with the disparity in strength, the Qing soldiers fled in all directions, defeating the ground. Shang Shizhi led the disciples. Although they fought bloody battles, they were lonely and lonely. In the end, they could not stop the coalition forces from advancing straight ahead. When the Emperor Xianfeng heard the news, he fled in a hurry and the capital fell.

The Battle of Tongzhou was enough to show that it is impossible to save the nation from peril by going alone. Although Shang Shizhi was struggling, he couldn't help it. In a twinkling of an eye, Tongzhi was approaching the dynasty, and the Empress Dowager Cixi dropped her curtain to listen to politics. The society is turbulent, and internal and external troubles are urgent. Under the rule of Jizhou, the people's livelihood was worrying, and even the bells and drums in the temple temple were unpleasant, but they smelled the smell of wine and meat.

The north of Yangquan Mountain is connected with two refining platforms in the south and north, and there is a Jing'an Temple on the hills between the east of the refining platforms and the size of O Mountain. The incense in the temple is depressed and monks are scarce. In the reign of Tongzhi, there were suddenly more monks in the temple, and they spent the whole day drinking and making noise. At the same time, the merchants who passed by on the Yulu Temple were often robbed. The homes of the local rich were constantly stolen, and the girls of good families disappeared from time to time. The voice of the rural people to punish the evil monks is getting louder and louder. Shang Shizhi, who lives in seclusion in the mountains and forests, has no more leisure time to appreciate the idyllic scenery, and his passion for justice and helping others prevents him from watching from the sidelines. Therefore, he sent his nephew Shang Yuanxiu and his daughter Yuankun to sneak into the temple to find out the details.

Hard work pays off. After several twists and turns, the case finally came to light: the evil deeds that harmed the village were exactly what these evil monks did. There is an underpass leading to the imperial road underground in the temple, and all crimes are carried out in the underpass. Shang Shizhi then dispatched troops to arrest the gangster overnight. After the trial by the state government, the law was rectified on the spot. Apart from a major harm for the people, the neighbors clapped their hands and cheered. Later, his nephew, Shang Yuanxiu, became a monk at Jing'an Temple and took charge of temple affairs.

Shang Shizhi's outstanding martial arts allowed him to settle down, and won the praise and admiration of his colleagues; his kindness and upright conduct gave him lofty prestige. In the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), two earth-shattering incidents occurred in Jizhou. The first is that Wu Ke, the chief of the Department of Jixun of the court officials, admonished the Empress Dowager Cixi at the Sanyi Temple in Ma Shenqiao; the other is that the Shang Shizhi flattened the village feud between the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The former has a record of history, while the latter praises the folks, and it has been passed down from word of mouth to this day. The corpse admonishes the Empress Dowager Cixi has nothing to do with this biography, so it is omitted. A single table of Shang Shi Zhi pinged the village rivals between the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The Shang clan in Gongleting is a big clan, and the Zhou clan in Zhouzhuang, which is separated from Yangquanchi, is a big clan. Although the two villages started in the Ming Dynasty, they have been in harmony for generations. But in the war-torn era, survival is difficult, and a little friction is inevitable. The cause of the matter was that between the two farming households, both families were arguing over the ownership of a small stone slab that blocked the water outlet of the rice field. As a result, the village was feuded. In the end, the two sides went so far as to hire Mongolian thugs, which led to a fight. The villagers of the two villages glared at each other and their swords were drawn at each other, causing casualties on both sides from time to time. The village feud has developed to the point of being out of control.

When Shang Shizhi saw it, he was anxious: how can the two villages have had a good relationship for generations. Although it didn't happen because of me, the people of the tribe would inevitably be eager to win and use Wu to overpower them. Therefore, he invited the ninth-generation Sun Xu Youtai of the Xu family, the head of the Qianliangzhuang family of Huiwangfu Banner, a prominent local family, who had just been given a golden plaque with "Happy Goodness" by the emperor; and "Wear the Three Hidden Fangs" by Li Jiang, Wang Jinzhi, and Li Shuping Et al. Shang Shizhi followed the example of the ancients and led his tribe to defeat Jing ascends the gate. His sincere heart touched Xiangxian and influenced both sides. A long time-consuming village feud has melted.

In the second year (1880), a generation of martial arts master Shang Shizhi drove west.

Carry on the past and open the future

A generation of martial arts masters are gone. On the same day, there was a rumor of "Tianhuo accepting heavenly scriptures". Shang Shizhi had just entered the land for security, a raging fire suddenly ignited in the village, and all the houses of Shang Shizhi's house and his neighbors were reduced to ashes. The villagers exclaimed: "This is God's will! Teacher Shang's martial arts is too high to allow him to be left in the world. God fears that the world does not have the noble virtue of Teacher Shang, so he learned the martial arts of his old man to create evil in the world. Tianhuo has accepted the heavenly book."

However, Tianhuo failed to take away Shang Shizhi's boxing record, nor his martial arts. His martial arts and martial arts and martial arts cheats have been handed down from generation to generation, and will continue to be known through the ages.

Shang Shizhi’s personal disciples included Shang Yuanxiu (later the abbot of Jing’an Temple), Shang Yuanheng, Shang Yuanzhen, Shang Yuanli, Shang Yuankun, and Zhao Liugong. The disciples again include Shang Bugui, Shang Buyang, Zhou Huichun, and Li De. Together with Shang Shizhi, these disciples participated in the battle against the British and French coalition invading Beijing, punishing the evil monks, eliminating violence, peace, justice and helping others.

The fourth-generation disciples include Shang Hongliang, Shang Hongshun, Shang Hongkui, Shang Hongyou, Gao Sizui, Zhang Hanqing, and Li Gong. This was when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing. The turbulent Boxers spread all over the country, one after another to fight against the Eight-Power Allied Forces, most of the martial arts masters participated in the Boxers. Gongleting Li Gong died heroically in the battle against foreign invaders in Tianjin.

The more famous among the fifth generation descendants are Shang Qihui, Shang Qilan, Shang Qixiang, Shang Qicheng, Shang Baoshan, Shang Baoxun, Gong Junming, Gongjun, Qiu Entong, Zhou Shangwu, Zhou Jun, Chen Rong, Gong Zhongxiu, Xu Ming, Zhou Zhongliang, Liu Haiqing, Guo Qin, Jia Chun, etc. Among the outstanding ones are:

Shang Qi juniper, later changed her name to Shang Xiangge. The Republic of China warlord government promoted the conversion of the banner to the people, which was unanimously opposed by the people. He organized the Shaolin Society to demonstrate to the promoters and killed their minions. To avoid persecution, he fled to the northeast. At this time, the Tohoku has fallen under the iron shoes of Japan. In 1936, he organized an armed riot among workers in the Qianjiazhai coal mine in the northeast, and then joined the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. After the volunteer army was broken up, he returned to the mine again to organize a riot and was arrested by the authorities. After being released from prison, he returned to his hometown and continued to participate in anti-Japanese activities. In 1938, he participated in the Great Anti-Japanese Armed Riot in East Hebei and served as the captain of the Fifth Corps of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in Jixian County. In October of that year, he sacrificed his life for the country and made a heroic sacrifice. Wang Junming, named Jingxuan, alias Wang Jianguo. In his early years, he served as the village head, the security director, and the head of the three district civic groups. Always anxious for justice and righteousness, speak up with righteousness, and devote himself to his hometown. In July 1938, organized an anti-Japanese armed riot, which fired the first anti-Japanese anti-Japanese shot in both east and west. Later, he made outstanding contributions to the cause of national liberation and was hailed as the "King of Panshan" by the soldiers and civilians of the Panshan Anti-Japanese Base. After liberation, he served successively as Jixian People's Representative, a member of the County People's Committee, and the first and second vice chairman of the County CPPCC. Died in October 1961.

Wang Jun, pseudonym Wang Qunying. In July 1938, more than one hundred armed riot teams were formed, serving as company commanders, and participated in the anti-Japanese armed riots in eastern Hebei. He successively served as the supply director of the 13th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and the captain of the propaganda team. In December 1944, he encountered an enemy during a propaganda mission and was shot and died. He was only 36 years old.

Qiu Entong, later renamed Qiu Xiting, was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. Enthusiastic about education and sympathetic to the resistance against Japan. In 1943, he finished "Jixian Chronicles" and left and continued his education. In his later years, he and Zhou Shangwu, a martial arts coach at Xicheng District Sports School in Beijing, co-authored the book "The Explanation of Shaolin Boxing and Bouncing Legs". Zhou Shangwu was an apprentice of Shang Shizhi's direct sect, and he won the exquisite Shaolin boxing technique of the merchant.

Zhou Jun, another disciple of Shang's Northern Shaolin Wushu. He used to sell charity in Beijing Tianqiao, and was later recruited by Li Jinglin, a martial artist who was then the commander of the army, to serve as an instructor in the army. After liberation, Zhou Jun worked as a martial arts coach in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Chen Rong, a famous swordsman in North Shaolin merchants. Invited to teach the sword technique to the 29th Army Broadsword Team of General Song Zheyuan, who was well-known at home and abroad during the Great Wall War.

Shang Baoxun attended the North China Revolutionary University after joining the army. After graduation, he went south to suppress bandits and killed more than 100 bandits. Served in the capital steel plant after liberation.

Wang Zhongxiu, who practiced business boxing when he was a teenager, participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and participated in the battle to capture the Presidential Palace of Rhee Later, he retired in Tianjin.

Shang Baoshan, in the early days of the War of Resistance, joined General Song Zheyuan's martial arts guard to participate in the Great Wall of China. After the Great Wall defeated the Japanese War, he joined the Eighth Route Army led by the Communist Party and took part in the battle of Baicaowa, which is well-known in Jidong. Served as a security guard for Li Ziguang's political commissar in the East Hebei Army. After liberation, he led a migrant worker team to fight at the Haihe construction site and made great contributions to the eradication of floods.

Xu Ming, a county resident, admired the Shang's door boxing and continued to practice martial arts. When he was young, he used his outstanding martial arts to beat and oppress the people of Jiang Beijun company commander, and it was a good talk for a while. After the reform and opening up, he started teaching martial arts to teenagers.

The sixth generation of Merchant Menquan was during the Cultural Revolution, and it was once reduced. However, there are still people from the Shang family and the Shang family's door boxing enthusiasts who persist in adversity, inheriting and developing. Such as Shang Baoliang, Shang Baotong, Zhou Zhenchun, Zhou Zhenlin, Deng Jingquan, He Baolin, Liu Lianyi and so on.

Shang Baoliang, the sixth-generation grandson of Shang Shizhi, a farmer, determined to save the inheritance of Shangmenquan when Shangmenquan was almost extinct. Participate in heavy production labor during the day, and learn art from teachers everywhere at night. After more than a dozen hard work in the cold and heat, the ancestor Shang Shizhi’s legacy of "Tong Bei Quan", "Oolong Gun Qian", "Qingyun Daopu", and "Twelve Roads of Cannon Legs" was finally practiced one by one. Come down. What is very gratifying is that he finally found a set of boxing scores written by his ancestor Shang Shizhi in Xianfeng in the 11th year.

Later, when the country got out of chaos, the economy recovered, and all industries were waiting for prosperity. Shaolin martial arts flourished like bamboo shoots after the rain under the influence of the Shaolin ancestor Songshan Shaolin Temple. Shang Baoliang seized this favorable opportunity, and after working hard, he not only stepped up to practice martial arts himself, but also widely mobilized young people from his village and several surrounding villages to practice martial arts. And successively established the adult and youth Shaolin Club performance team-Shaolin Club, which performed in the county and villages during the slack season, especially during the Spring Festival, to inherit and promote the Shaolin Merchant Fist. At the same time, he also actively participated in martial arts competitions organized by cities and counties for the Peasants Games, and achieved remarkable results.

In 1976, when Shang Baoliang represented Jixian to participate in a martial arts competition held in Tianjin, Mr. Gao Wenshan, a martial arts professor at Tianjin Institute of Physical Education and a North Shaolin martial arts expert, was pleasantly surprised to discover that he was practicing the North Shaolin boxing method that had been lost for many years. Since then, the two parties have been fortunate to get acquainted and jointly opened a new chapter in the study of North Shaolin culture.

With the country's prosperity and constant emphasis on cultural undertakings, merchant martial arts has also ushered in its own spring.

Shang Baoliang successfully passed the "Seventh Duan of Wushu" certification granted by the Chinese Wushu Artists Association and was established as the "Inheritor of the North Shaolin Wushu, Tianjin Intangible Cultural Heritage". In the process of inheriting Shaolin martial arts, Mr. Shang Baoliang not only attached importance to martial arts training, but also emphasized the cultivation of martial arts. Among his descendants, some have been engaged in martial arts, and some have worked in other units. But no matter what position they work in, fulfilling their duties and treating others with sincerity are their fundamental principles. It can be said that Mr. Shang Baoliang not only made a lifelong contribution to the inheritance of martial arts, but also sent many talents with both ability and political integrity to other industries.

Today, the seventh-generation descendant of Merchant Menquan has grown up. Representatives include Shang Mianhui, Shang Mianjian, Shang Yangsheng, Shang Yanhu, Shang Yanchen, Li Kaiyuan, Zhou Haimin, Geng Zhiyuan, etc. It can be regarded as flowers blooming everywhere, and the garden is full of peaches and plums.

Shang Mianhui, the son of Shang Baoliang, a physical education teacher in the county middle school. Since childhood, he followed his father to practice martial arts, specializing in merchants' gate boxing, and has achieved small results. During the winter and summer vacations, he organized a youth training class for Shaolin martial arts merchants door boxing, and trained nearly a hundred students. Through his father, I met Gao Wenshan, a professor at Tianjin Institute of Physical Education, and under the guidance of Professor Gao, Shaolin Kungfu has greatly improved.

In July 2003, Songshan Shaolin Temple held the "Shaolin Kungfu International Academic Seminar". Professor Gao Wenshan and Shang Mianhui were invited to attend the meeting at the same time. At the meeting, Professor Gao Wenshan announced the thesis "North Shaolin Temple Test"; and submitted the paper "North Shaolin Wushu Test" co-authored by Gao Wenshan, Shang Mianhui, and Han Fengzhi (Tianjin University). These two papers were included in the first and second issues of Shaolin Kungfu Essays edited by Shi Yongxin published by Shaolin Book Company in 2003 and 2004, respectively.

On December 31 of the same year, Shi Yongxin, vice-chairman of the Chinese Buddhist Association and abbot of Songshan Shaolin Temple, accompanied by professor Gao Wenshan from Tianjin Institute of Physical Education, visited the site of North Shaolin Temple in Panshan.

In 2004, Shang Mianhui, the seventh-generation successor of North Shaolin Wushu merchant boxing, went to Songshan Shaolin Temple to apprentice. Shaolin Temple held a grand conversion ceremony, the abbot Shi Yongxin accepted Shang Mianhui as a disciple of the layman, and gave the name "Yan'an".

The eighth-generation descendants of North Shaolin Wushu have begun to take shape. They are the younger generations of Shang Yangfeng, Shang Yangyu, and Shang Qitao. We can be delighted to see that there are successors to the inheritance of North Shaolin martial arts!

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A brief introduction to the activities, social influences and media reports of North Shaolin Temple and North Shaolin Martial Arts Merchant Door Boxing is as follows:

In June of the fifteenth year of the Republic of China, Beijing Yishibao published a martial arts novel "Anecdotes about an official Yin Yiguan, a hero of Jidong in the Qing Dynasty", written by Zhao Huaanting and Oyang Laonongjing. Readers in Jixian agreed that Yin Yiguan was enough to write by Shang Shizhi as a model. Yin and Shang belonged to a family and could not be separated. Many of the plots in the book were based on Bai Shang Shizhi's deeds of eliminating violence and helping the world to save people.

In March of the 33rd year of the Republic of China, "Rebuilt Jixian Annals" was published, the writer Qiu Xiting. There is a chapter devoted to Shang Shizhi in Volume 4 of Wushu. It states that "Shang Shizhi, Zi Dezhou, Gongletingren, Jing Shaolin Boxing", "Master Jing Li studied at Shaolin Temple, Shi Zhi used his skills and exquisite skills. Enlightenment, then becomes profound." He also commented on Shang Shizhi with Tai Shigong's writing style, "Thirty or forty years ago, there were many boxing factories, each with their own teachers and inheritances, and each other taught and learned. However, there are more powerful players, and less art winners, while Shang Shizhi It is really outstanding in the meantime", "The heroes are always there, or they may shine in the boxing world as shining as Shang Shizhi!"

On March 8, 2003, Tianjin's "Daily Xinbao" published a report on "Shaolin, Shaolin, and another in Tianjin-Xinbao reporters visited Shaolin Temple in Ji County". On March 12, the newspaper also published a news report on "Rebuilding the North Shaolin Temple is incumbent."

In 2005 and 2006, the "Entrepreneurship Life" column of Jixian TV Station introduced the performance of North Shaolin merchants' door boxing activities.

In 2007, the "Four Seasons" column of Tianjin TV introduced the current situation of the activities of the North Shaolin Temple in Panshan and the successors of the Shaolin martial arts merchants.

Tianjin "Daily News" published the news "Panshan North Shaolin Temple will be rebuilt next month" on November 16, 2007, and published Gao Wenshan's article "Shaolin is divided into north and south Panshan is also authentic", and published the message "Hundred-year merchants will return. "Shaolin Temple" introduces the deeds of Shang Baoliang, the sixth generation descendant of Wushu Martial Arts in North Shaolin Merchants, and Shang Mianhui, the seventh generation descendant, and his sons.

The next day, on the 17th, the "Daily News" published an article on the special report on the development of Shaolin culture, an interview with Master Yongxin of Shaolin Temple. At the same time, he published several articles introducing the situation of North Shaolin Temple.

On February 23, 2008, "Tianjin Daily" published the article "Visit the Descendants of Northern Shaolin Martial Arts" written by Dong Xiuna, introducing the North Shaolin Temple in Panshan, and introducing the deeds of the descendants of Shang Baoliang, Shang Mianhui, and other descendants of the Northern Shaolin martial arts.

In 2008, Tianjin Intangible Heritage Committee approved the North Shaolin Merchant Gate Boxing as an intangible cultural heritage. Master Shi Yongxin, the abbot of Songshan Shaolin Temple, wrote in the document: "North Shaolin martial arts are still inherited by the people of Jixian County. There is a Shang family who has practiced North Shaolin martial arts for generations. We looked at his routines and the basics of his martial arts. The characteristics are the same as those of Shaolin Temple."

In 2009, CCTV's "Walk Through China" column featured a special report on the reconstruction of the North Shaolin Temple, and introduced the recognition of the Songshan Shaolin Temple Master Shi Yongxin to the North Shaolin Temple in Jixian County. At the same time, it introduced the sixth generation, seventh generation, and The inheritance of the eighth generation of martial arts.

In 2012, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine established the "North Shaolin Wushu Development Base".

In 2013, the Wushu College of Tianjin Institute of Physical Education established the "North Shaolin Wushu Research Institute", which is now listed.

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