It is said that Zhao Kuangyin is good at martial arts. Shaolin Temple, the first martial arts school in Jianghu, is said to have been created by Zhao Kuangyin. The full name of Shaolin Changquan is "Song Taizu 32 potential Changquan", also known as "Taizu Boxing". After Zhao Kuangyin ended his career as a ranger and became a professional officer, in order to train his foot soldiers, sum up his life's martial arts and integrate his foot soldiers' fighting experience on the battlefield, he compiled 32 potential fists. Later, Zhao Kuangyin became the first emperor of the Song Dynasty. In the past, the foot soldiers felt that their social status had increased sharply, so they taught Zhao Kuangyin's 32-potential fist among the people and called it "Song Taizu's 32-potential long fist".
In the early Song Dynasty, monk Fuju, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, invited eighteen martial arts masters from all over the country to Shaolin Temple to learn skills, and Song Taizu Changquan was one of the eighteen. The Zen master living in the rear integrated the strengths of various factions into Shaolin Boxing, which is also the origin of Shaolin Boxing. At the age of 2 1, he bid farewell to his wife He, who had been married for three years, and wandered the rivers and lakes alone. This year is 948 AD. Just a year ago, North Khitan invaded Kaifeng, the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty, and captured the late Di Chin Shi Zhonggui. After the death of Jin, Qidan was renamed Liao in Kaifeng.
At the same time, before and after Jin Hedong made Liu Zhiyuan proclaimed himself in Jinyang, and Liu Zhiyuan was the post-Emperor Gaozu. Later, Ye Deguang, the main land of Qidan, plundered and was driven out of Kaifeng by the people of the Central Plains. Liu Zhiyuan took the opportunity to send troops to capture Luoyang and Kaifeng. When Zhao Kuangyin left his hometown, Liu Zhiyuan had died and the throne passed to his son Liu Chengyou. Zhao Kuangyin's home was in Kaifeng, then the capital. His father, Zhao, was a famous university in the later Han Dynasty. In that era when regime change was widespread and people were poor, it was the families of soldiers who could live a carefree life. They are well paid. Compared with ordinary people who are arbitrarily ravaged and plundered, the life and life of soldiers are the most secure. So all promising men joined the army at that time, and all women with unique vision wanted to marry a young and strong officer.
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When Zhao was young, he had no choice but to wander around. Later, I came to Dujiazhuang on the outskirts of Luoyang and met with heavy snow. Zhao Yinhong hid in front of Dujiazhuang. The owner of Dujiazhuang Village is very hospitable on weekdays. When the servant saw a strong man in distress, he invited him into the house to entertain him. Soon, the owner of Dujiazhuang took a fancy to Zhao and married a daughter to him. So, Zhao became the fourth son-in-law of Du family, and later gave birth to three men and three women with Miss Du. Zhao Kuangyin, the eldest son, died, and the other two sons were Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi, Song Taizu and Emperor Taizong.
It is said that there used to be a small pond called Shuanglongtan in front of Dujiazhuang, which indicated the arrival of two emperors. Zhao Kuangyin was born in such an officer's family, and it is difficult for future generations to understand why he left his parents and wandered around when he was 2 1 year old. Some people think that Zhao had a poor career at that time and it was difficult to help his son arrange a suitable position. Perhaps based on years of experience, Zhao knows that if his son starts as an ordinary foot soldier in the imperial army, there is no future. But my son went to visit the warlords. If given the chance, he might find a more suitable job.
However, a novel named Zhao Taizu's Flying Dragon tells us that Zhao Kuangyin is a disobedient naughty boy. Parents let Zhao Kuangyin study in a private school, but Zhao Kuangyin doesn't study hard. He mixed with those bad teenagers in the street, often made deviant actions, and even violated the criminal law, and finally developed to the point where Zhao wanted to sever his father-son relationship. although
In sharp contrast to Zhao Kuangyin, Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Kuangyi is always as serious as an adult. As his parents expected, he studied hard. Zhao Kuangyin is burly, strong, open-minded and has extraordinary spirit. More importantly, martial arts is high. Since Zhao Kuangyin left his hometown and wandered around, there has been another chivalrous man in the Jianghu. His stories have been circulated in rivers and lakes, and many stories and legends were compiled into speeches and operas at that time. Is one of the famous ones. In Kaifeng, Hangzhou and other cities in the Song Dynasty, there were some entertainment places called Wazi.
There, many small and large huts dedicated to performance and rap were built side by side to perform speeches, dances, songs, plays and so on. All day, very lively. Since the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, apart from the customs of the Water Margin and the Five Dynasties, speeches have also performed celebrity stories. During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were all kinds of discussions about love and marriage, immortals and ghosts, case-solving legends and heroes. These original stories will be adapted into novels, such as Zhao Taizu's "The Legend of the Dragon" and "The History of the Three Kingdoms". There are still many vernacular Chinese in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, such as Water Margin and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It's some famous vernacular scripts.
Unfortunately, The New Five Dynasties Historical Pinghua, which tells the legendary story of Zhao Kuangyin at that time, has been lost. In fact, Beijing popular novels were very popular with ordinary people at that time. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there was a textbook about Koreans in China, named Zhao Taizu's The Story of the Flying Dragon. There is a dialogue in the book: I go to the department to buy books.
I bought Zhao Taizu's Fei Long Ji and Park Tong's Yan Shi Jie. In addition to the story of Zhao Kuangyin's flying dragon, there is also a short story about Zhao Kuangyin's chivalrous spirit, called "Journey to the West in Tang Sanzang".
It is said that Zhao Kuangyin, a young man, is a chivalrous man who takes one as ten and ten thousand as one. When he saw the rough road, he drew his sword to help him. Because of the catastrophe in Kaifeng, he broke the royal law and was forced to flee the capital. Along the way, Zhao Kuangyin continued to punish villains everywhere. When he came to Taiyuan, Shanxi, he met his uncle Zhao. At that time, Zhao became a monk in a local Taoist temple called Qingyouguan and lived there.
I happened to see a beautiful girl in a closed temple in Taoist temple. First of all, it turns out that this girl is from Zhou Pu, where she was robbed by robbers. Chivalrous Zhao Kuangyin listened to the girl's tragic experience and decided to send her home. On the way, they were attacked by robbers, who robbed the girls, but the warrior Zhao Kuangyin repelled them one by one and finally sent the girls back to their hometown safely. The girl's parents were overjoyed and treated Zhao Kuangyin warmly, hoping that he would stay there longer, and said that they would marry their daughter to him. But Zhao Kuangyin resolutely refused and left immediately.
The girl's parents didn't get what they wanted. They are very puzzled: a young man and a young girl traveled thousands of miles, and their relationship should be very close, but the young man abandoned his daughter and left alone. What a heartless man he is! So she asked her daughter to tell her true relationship with this young man. My daughter has repeatedly explained that Zhao Kuangyin is an honest and pure young man and a Liu Xiahui-style gentleman, but her parents always refuse to believe him. The girl felt very sad and jumped into the well to show that her relationship with Zhao Kuangyin was perfect.
A Japanese scholar believes that the central meaning of this story is that although the Song Dynasty was inferior to the Han and Tang Dynasties in many aspects, its monarch was much better than the Han and Tang Dynasties in not being greedy for women. Zhao Kuangyin, a young man who appeared in novels and operas, was a hero with a big stick. He often becomes sworn brothers with a group of street hooligans of noble birth. It is generally believed that this may be just a fictional artistic image of a Quyi writer.
But unexpectedly, some historians think that the true image of Zhao Kuangyin may not be far from that described in these manuscripts. Because even when he became emperor, Zhao Kuangyin still kept many chivalrous and unrestrained habits. For example, he often drinks from a big bowl, likes to decide state affairs at banquets, and especially likes to travel incognito alone.