Zhao Kuangyin was the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty. Perhaps many people don’t know that Zhao Kuangyin was actually a martial arts master. He once created a set of martial arts called Taizu Changquan, such as Qiao Feng in "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" , when fighting against others in Juxian Village, he used Taizu Changquan to beat the heroes of the world until they were unable to fight back. In addition to creating his own martial arts, Zhao Kuangyin also invented a weapon.
Zhao Kuangyin was a general of the Later Zhou Dynasty. There is no record of what weapons he used in historical materials. However, in the folk joke "Send Off to the Lady from a Thousand Miles Away", Zhao Kuangyin used a "dirty iron stick with eyebrows" , he escorted Zhao Jingniang all the way home. When he encountered strongmen and bandits on the way, Zhao Kuangyin relied on a short stick to safely send Zhao Jingniang to her destination.
When Zhao Kuangyin served as a general in the later Zhou Dynasty, he once had a martial arts competition with a big man in the military camp. The opponent used a large steel knife. When the two sides started fighting, Zhao Kuangyin's eyebrow-raising stick was cut off, and the martial arts competition naturally ended. He lost. After returning to the camp, Zhao Kuangyin saw the two broken pieces of the eyebrow stick in his hand. He couldn't help but sigh and went out to relax.
Zhao Kuangyin walked to the back of the mountain and saw a farmer who was beating wheat with a flail. The flail was composed of a long handle and a set of flat rows of bamboo or wooden strips. It was specially used to beat wheat and grains. When Zhao Kuangyin saw the farm tools waiting for him, he suddenly had an idea. He ran back, found a blacksmith shop, and invited the blacksmith to use iron chains to connect the broken eyebrow sticks. The blacksmith finished it in a few days.
Zhao Kuangyin took the mutated eyebrow-leveling stick and attacked the big man last time. As a result, the big man slashed at the iron chain with his sword, but the other stick turned and hit directly. On the opponent's shoulder, the big man screamed in pain. This time Zhao Kuangyin finally won. The soldiers in the army were confused. What kind of weapon was Zhao Kuangyin? Why had he never seen it before? Zhao Kuangyin named it Panlong Stick.
The Panlong Stick is actually the predecessor of the Nunchaku. Although Zhao Kuangyin had already invented it in the Song Dynasty, this weapon was too difficult to use, so not many people used it, and it would accidentally hit themselves. Therefore, in Jin Yong's martial arts novels, almost no one uses nunchucks. Perhaps even Zhao Kuangyin did not expect that more than a thousand years after his death, the nunchucks would be carried forward in the hands of Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee is a martial arts genius in modern history. Needless to say, his contribution to Chinese martial arts, and the fact that the nunchaku became famous all over the world is all because of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee liked the nunchaku very much. In many movies, he used nunchakus as weapons. Under the influence of Bruce Lee, nunchakus became one of the symbols of Chinese martial arts, but many people may not know that nunchakus were invented by Zhao Kuangyin.
In Chinese Confucian culture, the idea of ??"benevolence" is emphasized. Whether it is ancient emperors and generals or today's people, benevolent people are always invincible, so Jay Chou sang in the song "Hurry up and use both hands." "Jiegun, hahaha! Those who practice martial arts must remember that the benevolent are invincible!"
Bruce Lee has the greatest credit for promoting the nunchaku to the world, and Jay Chou also deserves a lot of credit. If Zhao Kuangyin knows something underground, he must also do it! He is very pleased that the weapon he inadvertently invented has become a representative of Chinese martial arts. Do you think he can be unhappy?