Born in the sixth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1728), Wu August was an outstanding leader of the anti-Qing uprising of Miao people in Gansu, Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan. The Miao primitive religion "Badexiong" gave Wu Hualing a legal name, and the Miao Wulin honorifically called "August Xiao", which is the Miao surname, that is, the Han surname "Wu", and "August Xiao" means "Wu August", and Ping Long, Jishou (now Ping Long Village, Shetangpo Township, Jishou City, belonged to Phoenix Hall in Qing Dynasty, and later included in Ganzhou Hall, which is now Jishou City). According to the examination, Wu was originally from Cunningham Village, Fenghuang Hall in August. In August, when he was young, he and his father moved to Ping Long. He had almost no property. He only lives on father and son, sedan chairs and charcoal burning. At that time, the Qing dynasty was carrying out the policy of "returning home" in scenic areas by military means. The political oppression and economic exploitation of the Miao nationality by the ruling class in Qing Dynasty became increasingly serious, and the ethnic contradictions became increasingly acute.

At that time, Wu was in the prime of life in August. The miserable situation of Miao people's life has aroused his determination to change this unreasonable social phenomenon. He visited the old man who punched the stone half-time, and liked his martial arts, so he went to learn from the teacher. Shi Laoxi is a famous Miao martial arts master, and he also knows the Miao teacher "Ba Dexiong" who is proficient in both Yin and Yang, and has many disciples. Moreover, the husband and wife only have one child, making more money and spending less money, and the family is quite well-off.

One day in August, Wu joined the old teacher. Master Shi knew that his family had more mouths to eat and less land to produce, so he said, "Flash, this road can't be learned in a month or two, and it takes a lot of effort, so he doesn't want to eat. Let's go back and work hard and live diligently! "

In August, Wu repeatedly begged and refused, so he thought that Shi Lao liked his poor family and resigned disgruntled, lamenting, "The official protects the Hakkas, and the land god does not save the Miao people. No wonder Guo Xiong was bullied! If Wu Shining has your master's skill, I will try my best to gather the poor young people in the world to practice martial arts and see what his official can do for me. " Stacy was frightened when she heard the news. I think, this boy has seed, and when he is older, he will have ambition. I should teach him well. So he pretended to be angry and scolded, "I'm bold and full of nonsense." What Mandarin are the Miao people speaking? If you really make up your mind to learn martial arts, how about taking the buffalo in my cowshed to the mountain to graze in the morning and bringing it back at night to let the cow nurse for three years? If you can persist, how about I accept you as an apprentice? " Wu August replied: "It's a deal!" Shi Laoxi nodded in agreement. From then on, Wu carried the cow up the mountain every morning in August and went home at night. After three years, the buffalo has grown to two or three hundred catties. Wu August, as always, held up the growing buffalo with both hands and trained a strong body and amazing strength.

Legend has it that Wu once went to Ganzhou to sell firewood in August. Because he didn't know Chinese characters, he mistakenly tore up the poster posted by Kaohsiung, the grandson of Deputy Commander Changsha. This list has been posted for days, and no one dares to disclose it. The guards waited for several days. Today, they saw a Miao youth pull down a placard and insisted that Wu play Kaohsiung in August. Wu August knew that he was reckless and it was too late to regret, so he had to say helplessly, "I didn't mean to pull the placard." I'm not going to fight in the ring. If you will spare me, spare me this time. " If you don't forgive me, please come to Ping Long. "Kaohsiung is worried that no one dares to disclose the list and cannot show their skills. Hearing the news, he readily agreed to move the ring to Ping Long.

The competition is over, and it has spread in all directions. When the date comes, people will surround the playing field. The venue is temporarily located on a dam in front of Ping Long Village. This flat dam is connected with Miao people's houses in the back and fertile fields in the front. In the arena, the right corner is a thousand taels of gold and silver, the left corner is a black coffin, and the front is a couplet: the winner gets a reward and the loser enters the coffin. The horizontal approval is: Han Miao Competition. Miao audience saw this scene and all cheered for this young August Wu.

The game has started. Kaohsiung, dressed as a military commander and holding Longquan sword, is magnificent. Wu August knew that he was going to die, but in order not to embarrass the Miao people, he also took a firewood knife and generously stepped forward. Kaohsiung glanced at August and said to himself, it turned out to be such a reckless person, a newborn calf. I'll kill him as a sword, and I won't show my martial arts. It's not too late for me to practice a few more swordsmanship before I kill him. Wu stared at Kaohsiung in August and thought, "I heard that he is the grandson of the Miao people who came to kill me in the previous dynasty. He didn't take Changsha, but he came to my scenic spot to deceive people. As long as I can get close, I will cut him in half with one knife. " At this moment, I heard a bang. Kaohsiung jumped to the ground, pulled out the onion early, jumped more than ten feet, fell gently, and then danced the sword. I saw a cold light winding, which was difficult to enter, and the flowers were dazzling. Wu felt that there was no gap in August and secretly worried. Kaohsiung danced the sword for a while, and slowly pushed towards Wu Baba. In August, leave hiding and retreat to the edge of the garden. Also used his quick wits, he suddenly pulled out an old tea tree pumpkin rack and rushed to Kaohsiung in the opposite direction. This melon rack has many thick branches and vines, which are close together. Kaohsiung, even if it has the ability, can't resist cutting branches, vines and racks. In August, when Wu Rutai pushed forward, Kaohsiung couldn't dodge and fell under the melon rack, begging for mercy. Wu glanced at the black coffin in August and then at Kaohsiung, which was rolling under the melon rack. He didn't mean to hurt people's lives, so he threw away the melon rack and went back first. Later in August, Wu became famous in Hunan and Guizhou and became a powerful official.

Wu left the arena in August and went directly to see Shi Laoshi. As soon as he saw him, he shouted, "Master, I followed you for three years and almost lost my life. How can you bear it! " Shi Lao smiled and said, "You have learned half the kung fu. I am in the crowd next to you in this game. If that boy really hurts you, should I leave this desperate to feed the dog? If you hadn't been a cow for three years, how could you beat the melon rack too high, coach? " I heard it in August and understood the master's intention. From then on, Master Shi passed on what he had learned from his life to August, and taught him to learn Chinese, learning from Teacher Miao's "Eight Dexiong". August became his favorite student.

Let's start with the history of Stacy's only daughter. She is smart and talented. She learned needlework from her mother and martial arts from her father. Master Shi has no boys and has long been lectured as the head of the family. The couple regard their daughter as the apple of their eye and have long wanted to find a good young man for her. But there are 100 disciples in the division, and none of them are selected. Master Shi and his wife are worried about this matter. Since Wu visited the Shijia family in August, Shi has seen it in his eyes and loved it in his heart. Sometimes he will find opportunities to learn some martial arts skills from Wu Baba to show his love. Of course, Wu knew something in August, but he was afraid to say it because of his poor family. Teacher and his wife also have a mind's eye, so they "invited Lang to the door" and took Wu Baba as their son-in-law. After a round of competition, Mr. Shi became more interested in teaching and studied harder in August. 10 years later, in August, it not only inherited all the skills of the master, but also absorbed the good experience of various factions in the scenic spot and blended the essence of the nation. The newly edited books include Big Four-door Boxing, Eight-in-One Boxing, Nine-roll and Eighteen-Kick, and Nine-bull-make-fence, etc. These routines and moves are unpretentious, flexible and have high practical value. At the same time, Wu Baba not only created Miao Wushu in practice, but also summarized and expounded it in theory. His book "The Secret of Boxing" made the Miao Wushu, a cultural treasure, public for the first time. Wu's efforts in August pushed Miao Wushu to a new height. Wu August's accomplishments in martial arts laid a solid foundation for him to lead the vigorous Miao people's Ganjia uprising in the future.

Stacy passed away. In August, Wu Heshi lived in. They have four sons, the eldest son Wu, the second son Wu Tingying, the third son Wu and the fourth son Wu Tingyi. Later, people called Wu Wei's eldest son, and the rest were pushed back in turn, meaning in terms of talents. Wu taught four sons to read and write in August.

During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the government directly ruled the Miao people's mountainous areas in Hunan and Guizhou. Not only the administrative ruling institutions such as government, hall, state and county were established, but also military strongholds such as towns, conferences, camps and flood seasons were established, and the system of "hall field" and "military field" was tried, so that farmland was cultivated and brave, and a large number of fields were occupied. Hakka people in Han areas bullied and exploited Miao people one after another, which led to the exploitation of Miao people by taxes, land rent, usury and other exorbitant taxes. It is just harvested every year, and there is no surplus grain. This debt has not been settled, and it is owed to others. After long-term development, the land has dried up. "The land is increasingly concentrated in the hands of usurers, and the vast number of Miao people are struggling to die and are in dire straits.

Officials force the people to rebel, and the people have to rebel. In August, Wu secretly linked Miao village with leaders such as Songtaoshi and Shishi, resumed drum club activities according to region, religion and surname, set up "Lang" and "Kuan" organizations, extensively carried out "immortal" activities, and mobilized the masses. At the same time, he also taught "Wu August Boxing" in four townships. In the fifty-ninth year of Qing Qianlong (1794), the stone from Dazhai, Songtao Hall, Guizhou Province, and Cucumber Village, Yongsui Hall, Hunan Province (now Huayuan County) got together in Yabao Village, Fenghuang Hall to discuss the anti-Qing uprising in secret and drink blood wine in front of the Land Temple, vowing to fight it out. Because Shi was illiterate, he thought his cousin Wu could read and write in August, so he secretly contacted him. In August, Wu stepped forward and wrote a proclamation for the rebel army, propagating the political proposition of rejuvenating the Miao nationality and opposing the national oppression of the ruling class. He took an active part in it. At the beginning of the first month of the 60th year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty (1795), he went to Cucumber Village on foot to discuss with Shi about starting an army. On the same day in August, Wu wrote several "Charcoal Chicken Hair Letters" and sent them to Shi, Wu Banfu, Wu Tingju, Shi Yaomei and Long Wu Deng respectively. Ask them to arrive at Cucumber Village as scheduled to discuss the uprising, which will be held in Ganzhou, Fenghuang, Songtao and Yongsui on February 2 of the lunar calendar. The battle slogan put forward is: "drive away the guests, go back to the old place, go to the Yellow River, but don't stop until you reach the Yellow River."

But unexpectedly, during the preparation for the uprising, Shi was noticed by the commander-in-chief Songtao during an exercise of attacking and defending the array, and sent 300 troops to attack Dazhaiyin on January 16th. The military situation at that time was very critical, so history had to expose the uprising in advance. When the news reached Cucumber Village, Shi made a decisive decision and rebelled on the 18th day of the first month. Wu witnessed the dramatic changes in the situation in August, and immediately put him in charge of the village, Guanhouxi, Liangchaxi, Longzhaoxi, Likouzui, Longya, Banchong, Queerzhai, Jiujiu Cave, Nanban, Ao, Liaojiazhai, Mubao, Qintoupo, Sanchaping, Zhen and Liangshuijing. Chen Lun, a guerrilla in Ganzhou Hall, rushed to Huxiao Village when he heard the news. Killed by rebels, people went belly-up, fled in panic and retreated into Ganzhou. That afternoon, Wu August, Wu Tingju and Wu Maner led the rebels to surround Ganzhou City. The roar shook the earth, and the sword and halberd pointed at the city, scaring the officers and men out of their wits. At noon on the 23rd, Wu August, Wu Tingju and others commanded the insurgents to "weave wood into a wooden party, and the three joined forces to attack the city" and quickly captured Ganzhou City. In August, Wu led the rebel army to fight bravely, taking the lead, waving a large steel knife of 9 1 kg and splitting the gate of Ganzhou city. Tongzhi Song Ruchun fled back to the yamen after being injured, and committed suicide when he was cornered. Dozens of officials, large and small, were arrested and beheaded. Inspection Jiang Yao fled to the north gate with the seal of Ganzhou Guild Hall, and was caught up by Wu Tingju. He hooked the skull with a hook knife. Then, in August, Wu Lingbing marched eastward, attacked Pushi, surrounded Luxi and reached Tiesha River. The flames of the uprising burned overwhelmingly, reaching Tongren and Songtao in Guizhou in the south, Xiushan and Youyang in Sichuan in the west, and Guzhang and Baojing in Xiangxi in the north. The number of insurgents has rapidly increased to 654.38+10,000, and its military goal is directed at the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing court was shocked. Then, around February of 14, troops from seven provinces, including Yunnan, Guangxi, Hubei and Sichuan, were ordered to split up with Fu Kang 'an, the governor of Yunnan, and Bing Lin, the new governor of Sichuan, and went to the border of Hunan and Guizhou to brutally suppress the Miao uprising army.

At present, Wu has selected Tianxingshan in time on March 24th, presided over an emergency meeting, and discussed with Shi, Shi, Wu Bansheng, Wu Tingju, Wu Longdeng, Shi Mimei and others the strategic plan to deal with the Qing soldiers. At the meeting, everyone unanimously recommended Wu Baba as the "King of Wu" (because of superstition that Wu Baba was the reincarnation of Wu Sangui). At the same time, in August, Wu named Shi as the "founding general", Shi as the "general to protect the encirclement", Wu Bansheng as the "general to conquer heaven", Shi Mimei as the "super-male general" and Oolong lamp as the liaison ambassador of the rebel army. In August, Wu and the leaders agreed on the guerrilla strategy and tactics of "officials have thousands of soldiers, I have thousands of mountains, I come and I go, I come and I go", and decided to make full use of the natural mountains, quickly build a wooden city stone tablet, take a sparrow war, disperse the enemy, and achieve the goal of defending the enemy.

Wu August and other rebel leaders vigorously promoted the new land policy in the base areas, and all the reclaimed "church fields" and "military fields" were distributed to farmers for farming, which won the support of the broad masses of farmers, and all young and middle-aged farmers were "willing to participate" and jointly strived for new achievements.

In mid-April, Fu Ning, governor of Huguang, led his troops from Luxi and threatened to recover Ganzhou. Under the cruel "repression" of the Qing army, Wu personally defeated dozens of senior generals of the Qing army, such as Su Ling, the company commander of Yongzhou Town, Liu, the prefect of Hunan Province, and Peng Tingdong, the prefect of Guizhou Province, and wiped out 6,000 people, including Fu Ning, the governor who invaded the scenic spot. Fu Ning, the governor, fled with his head in his arms and got into the trench in a panic to avoid death. It won a great victory that shocked the Qing Dynasty, and consolidated and developed the territory of the Miao People's Uprising Army.

Since then, due to the various armies of the Qing army marching to the bottom of the temple, the defense war of the Qing army base with Ping Long as the center has been formed. Although the Qing army was like ants, the natural conditions were unfavorable to them, so they were beaten everywhere. In the uphill battle, Liu, the prefect of the Qing Dynasty, was beaten black and blue and escaped from the encirclement alone. Most of his remaining people became ghosts under the sword of the rebels. Fu Kang 'an, governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was seriously injured under the back rock near Dongcun and died in Tongren. The governor of Sichuan and Lin died in a fierce battle at the foot of paradise slope in Sanchaping. Later, Fu Nai took over as the leader, and changed Wei Yuan's strategy of "governing foreign countries with foreign countries" to "governing them with seedlings". 196 1 year1kloc-0/on the third day of the month, Ganlong was arrested by traitors in Wopanzhai, Fenghuang Hall.

In the first year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (1796), Wu was tortured in Qingying in August, put into wooden cages, and transported to Miao villages to be cut (sliced) for public display. In August, Wu Yi spoke sternly and would rather die than surrender. Every time he cuts a knife, he sprays blood on the enemy. Everything you see is crying, and everything you hear is crying. On this day, Wu died heroically in August at the age of 67. . Shi supported Wu, the eldest son of Wu August, and Wu Tingyi, the fourth son, holding high the banner of righteousness and commanding the rebels to fight bloody battles with the Qing army. The wail shocked the Qingshan Canyon, and the roar shocked the scenic spot thousands of miles away. People turned grief into anger, and the flame of Ganjiamiao Uprising burned 1 1 year.

Wu was born in August. He had four sons, 1 girl. The third son, Wu, was the second "King of Wu" and died in the army. Fourth, Wu Tingyi is three "kings of Wu". He was captured on the battlefield because of serious injuries, and was sent to Beijing to be executed in Lingchi. Wu Aogust, an outstanding leader of the Ganjia Miao uprising and a famous martial arts master in the history of Miao martial arts, devoted his life to the Miao people.