Wong Kar-wai's "A Generation of Masters", which is the most accessible to the audience this time, tells the story that "boxing can be divided into north and south, and the country cannot be divided into north and south". The film mentioned "Five Tigers Going South" and "Guangdong and Guangxi Martial Arts Schools". It did happen in the history of Guangdong Wushu. Although it was only a flash in the pan, Wong Kar-wai magnified it, which is understandable as a film creation.

As we all know, "Jiangnan" refers to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but I don't know why Lingnan is regarded as Jiangnan as far as Wulin is concerned.

1one day in the spring of 929, Guangzhou Dongxiao Racecourse (now Guangdong People's Stadium) was crowded with businessmen, which was very lively. Li, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, also appeared in the crowd-it turned out that this day was a big day for the establishment of the Guangdong and Guangxi martial arts museum. The East Campus was once the place where soldiers of Ming and Qing Dynasties trained and practiced martial arts, and it was also the place where the National Revolutionary Army swore the Northern Expedition. Therefore, it is of self-evident significance to choose this place as the opening ceremony of the Guangdong-Guangxi martial arts museum. At that time, the purpose of the martial arts schools in Guangdong and Guangxi was to "promote China Wushu and popularize Guangdong and Guangxi Wushu". The curator is Wan Laisheng, the head of Naturalism.

Who is Wan afterlife? It turned out that in the month of 1928+00, that is, six months ago, Li was in Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, and heard that the national examination was held in the Central Martial Arts School, and Wan Laisheng, the head of the natural school, was among them. Wan Laisheng is one of the few highly educated people in Wulin high flyers of yenching university Forestry Department. He likes martial arts since he was a child. He specializes in Shaolin Liuhe Gong for 6 years, and is a close disciple of Du, the master of natural door internal skill. He combined qigong with martial arts and created a natural gate. At that time, there was such a description of his martial arts: "Two hands are like ropes, five fingers are like steel hooks, coming like a storm and going like a flood." In the national examination, he won the most praise. Li immediately persuaded him to go south to Guangzhou and set up the Guangdong-Guangxi Wushu Museum.

At that time, Li Xianwu and Wan afterlife went south at the same time. Soon, Fu, Gu, Wang Shaozhou and other northern school teachers also joined hands to go south, including the legendary "Five Tigers Going South" in Guangdong Wushu circle. However, another way of saying it is that the "five tigers" are Wan Laisheng, Fu, Gu, Geng Deqiang and Wang Shaozhou. No matter "Five Tigers" or "Ten Tigers", it shows that the masters of the Northern School don't mind going south to teach and dispel doubts, and it has also become a symbol of the Northern School's martial arts. The "Five Tigers" and Guangzhou local masters Lin, Liu Xufeng and others formed a teaching group of Guangdong and Guangxi National Martial Arts Museum, which taught in public. At this time, elites from all walks of life in Guangzhou gathered in an unprecedented grand occasion, and people from all over Lingnan came in an endless stream. In just over a month, Guangdong and Guangxi martial arts schools have developed into 1 1 research class with 9 characteristic classes.

In fact, it was a long time ago that people from south Wulin went north to study-1910. Huo Yuanjia, a Tianjin hero, founded the Wu Jingshe Society in Shanghai, recruiting world famous teachers and making public apprentices. The news spread like wildfire, from north to Guanwai and south to Lingnan, and people from all walks of life who thought they had stunts or were interested in learning martial arts gathered on the Huangpu River. After Li Peixian, Guo Zishuo, Huang Jueshan and other masters of Guangfo returned to the south, the disciples opened their eyes and saw what twelve Tan legs, mantis boxing and eagle claw boxing were. However, due to the local culture and customs, the local martial arts practitioners in Guangdong have an absolute majority in learning Nanpai Kung Fu. For example, lion dancers are mostly martial arts practitioners. They all dance the Southern Lion, but if they are only northerners, it is difficult for them to dance the Southern Lion.

19 18 Li Fulin, a small local warlord and commander of the fifth army who was entrenched in Guangzhou and Henan (now Haizhu District of Guangzhou), was also a man who loved fighting. He sent someone from Shanghai Museum to invite famous teachers Ye Fengqi and Yang Zaijun to teach northern martial arts. Later, he simply established the Guangzhou Jason Wu Association. 19 19 In April, Guangzhou Jason Wu Club held its founding ceremony at Haizhu Grand Theatre in Chang Di, Guangzhou (which still exists). More than 4,000 people attended the ceremony, and countless congratulatory flower cards and baskets were arranged on the north bank of the Pearl River on both sides of the theater, which was huge and spectacular. At that time, Guangzhou Jason Wu Guild Hall was located in Ningbo Guild Hall of Xiguan Paddle Road, and then moved to Fengning Road (now Renmin Middle Road). Huo Dongge (the son of Huo Yuanjia), Shen Jixiu, Ye Fengqi, Li and other famous teachers from northern schools went south one after another, and famous teachers from Yangcheng, such as Lin, Kong Chang and others, also participated in it, opening the door to learn martial arts from masters from northern schools. Famous teachers from north and south gathered together, and northern martial arts such as Bagua Palm, Fan Trace Boxing, Black Boy, Dragon and Phoenix Double Knife opened the horizon of southern martial arts. Southern Wushu such as Hongquan, Wing Chun and Sheng Da's divination also benefited northern Wushu, which was the first large-scale spread of northern boxing to the south in Lingnan history.

Ten years later, the "Five Tigers Going South" and the "Guangdong and Guangxi Martial Arts Schools" failed to be re-elected as governors of Guangdong and Guangxi because of Li's failure in the political struggle soon after, and the Guangdong and Guangxi Martial Arts Schools could not survive for more than two months without rice. Martial men from the south have returned to the north one after another. Only Fu (1881-1953), the former head coach of the Central Martial Arts School, stayed in Guangzhou.

Although most northern martial artists came and went in a hurry, they also planted seeds of northern martial arts such as Baguazhang, Bajiquan, Chaquan and Mantis Leg.