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A boy learns kicks beside his father's escort cart, grows up in Shandong, mounts an exam platform in Nanjing and walks south with four other masters; in a Guangzhou courtyard he defends with one hand.

十五 · 虎 · Spirit · 1894 – 1952 · 2:06

The northern tigers

  1. In 1894, in Funing in eastern China, Grandmaster Gu Ruzhang was born.

    History Wikipedia: 顧汝章chinesemartialstudies.com: lives-of-chinese-martial-artists-8-gu-ruzhang-northern-shaolin-master-and-southward-bound-tiger

  2. His father ran an armed escort company and taught him tan tui, the art of kicking.

    History chinesemartialstudies.com: lives-of-chinese-martial-artists-8-gu-ruzhang-northern-shaolin-master-and-southward-bound-tigerWikipedia: 顧汝章hk01.com: 五虎下江南-一文看清-顧汝章-萬籟聲-傅振嵩-王少周-耿德海

  3. Before he died, his father sent him to a master named Yan, in Shandong.

    History chinesemartialstudies.com: lives-of-chinese-martial-artists-8-gu-ruzhang-northern-shaolin-master-and-southward-bound-tigerWikipedia: 顧汝章hk01.com: 五虎下江南-一文看清-顧汝章-萬籟聲-傅振嵩-王少周-耿德海

  4. He trained there over ten years: the Ten Routes of Northern Shaolin, weapons, Iron Palm.

    History chinesemartialstudies.com: lives-of-chinese-martial-artists-8-gu-ruzhang-northern-shaolin-master-and-southward-bound-tigerWikipedia: 顧汝章

  5. At the 1928 exam in Nanjing, Grandmaster Gu placed in the top grade.

    History hk01.com: 五虎下江南-一文看清-顧汝章-萬籟聲-傅振嵩-王少周-耿德海onlypower.pixnet.net: 5051103342Wikipedia: Gu Ruzhangchinesemartialstudies.com: lives-of-chinese-martial-artists-8-gu-ruzhang-northern-shaolin-master-and-southward-bound-tiger

  6. In 1929 he went to teach in Guangzhou with four northern masters: the Five Tigers.

    History chinesemartialstudies.com: bringing-northern-styles-south-a-brief-history-of-the-lianguang-guoshu-institutehk01.com: 五虎下江南-一文看清-顧汝章-萬籟聲-傅振嵩-王少周-耿德海

  7. In the south, Grandmaster Gu's style got a name: Northern Shaolin.

    History Wikipedia: Northern Shaolin kung fuhk01.com: 五虎下江南-一文看清-顧汝章-萬籟聲-傅振嵩-王少周-耿德海chinesemartialstudies.com: bringing-northern-styles-south-a-brief-history-of-the-lianguang-guoshu-institute

  8. It is told that he broke a stack of twelve bricks, unsupported, with one palm strike.

    Legend Wikipedia: Gu RuzhangHKPL: 華僑日報 1969-08-09

    Chinese newspaper clipping in vertical columns, with a photo of Gu Ruzhang standing in a wide stance, one arm raised.

    Wah Kiu Yat Po (華僑日報), Hong Kong, 9 August 1969, 6th sheet, p. 3. An article by 何漢邦, “My impressions of Gu Ruzhang”, on iron-sand palm (鐵沙掌). The caption says the photo shows Gu demonstrating the palm strike about thirty years earlier. The author writes that he never saw Gu.

    Hong Kong Public Libraries, image 23 Full page

  9. Our lineage tells that he bore a 400-kilogram stone on his body.

    Source: the lineage and the master

  10. It is told that Hung Gar master Yim Sheung Mo asked Grandmaster Gu for a friendly bout.

    Legend sinobrasileira.org: index

  11. Grandmaster Gu defended with one hand, and Master Yim became his disciple.

    Legend sinobrasileira.org: indexkungfuconnection.net: grand-master-yan-shang-wu

  12. Grandmaster Gu died in 1952 in Guiyang. He left no money and no property.

    History Wikipedia: 顧汝章chinesemartialstudies.com: lives-of-chinese-martial-artists-8-gu-ruzhang-northern-shaolin-master-and-southward-bound-tiger