霍元甲与精武协会

Huo Yuanjia was a real-life hero, 谁启发了他的生活的神话故事. 他的生活和剥削一直是由布鲁斯·李（Bruce Lee）和李·李（Jet Li）主演的电影的基础. 当其他国家在1800年代末和1900年代初剥削中国时，真正的Huo Yuanjia击败了外国战斗机. His exploits were a source of pride at a time when China was at a low ebb in its history.
Huo Yuanjia was born on January 18, 1868. He was the son of a martial arts instructor, who did not want his son to train in martial arts. Huo Yuanjia saw his father teach during the day and practice with his tutor at night. Huo Yuanjia developed exceptional skills through this unorthodox training.

The family first learned of Huo Yuanjia’s skill, 在 1890, when a martial artist beat his brother. Unlike Huo Yuanjia, his father openly trained his brother. Huo Yuanjia fought the victor and won. Hou Yuanjia was 22 岁.

Huo Yuanjia then defeated a Russian wrestler, other Chinese martial artists, and an English boxer by the name of Hercules O’Brien.

Hercules O’Brien posted insulting articles in local newspapers challenging local fighters to a match. O’Brien was an intimidating looking man, but Huo Yuanjia accepted the challenge.

Huo Yuanjia and Hercules O’Brien argued over the rules for months before they finally agreed that the first person knocked down would be the loser. Depending on the source, Huo Yuanjia knocked O’Brien down and took the victory. Other versions claim that O’Brien no showed. We do know Huo Yuanjia won one way or the other.

Huo Yuanjia set up the Chin Woo Athletic Association around 1900. He focused on teaching martial arts, exercise and diet for overall health improvement and protection. The Chin Woo Association still exists to this day.

八月 9, 1910, Huo Yuanjia passed away at the age of forty-two. 多年来，, historians offered the opinion that enemies poisoned Huo Yuanjia. The motive for the poisoning theory was his defeat of all the foreign fighters. 在 1989, Chinese authorities exhumed his body, and his sternum did have the tell-tale blemishes from arsenic poisoning.

然而, doctors treated Huo Yuanjia for jaundice and tuberculosis in the decade prior to his death. One of the ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine at this time was arsenic. The medicine could have killed Huo Yuanjia without his enemies deliberately poisoning him.

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