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[100] Chen Shijun / sword master / Republic
皖北籍,隱於關東者有年,能出沒無踪,日食全羊,與數日不食。冬不裘,夏不葛,以人盤劍,傳河北李芳辰將軍。
He was from northern Anhui. He spent many years living as a hermit in Guangdong. He was able to appear and disappear without trace. He could eat a whole sheep in a single day or go several days without eating at all. He wore no thick furs in winter nor thin clothes in summer. He taught the “human realm” sword art to General Li Jinglin of Hebei.
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[101] Li Jinglin / general / Republic
籍隸河北棗強縣,親受陳世鈞劍俠之傳授人盤劍術。曩在東省之日本軍人,及海內國術名家與劍術者,無不披靡。其他拳術,槍術亦極優良。 李將軍傳
He was from Zaoqiang county, Hebei. He learned personally from the sword hero Chen Shijun, who taught him the “human realm” sword art. He utterly defeated all contenders, be they the Japanese soldiers occupying the eastern provinces or famous martial artists and sword fighters of China. He also excelled in other boxing arts and spear arts. (Bio of Li Jinglin [See Huang’s 1931 Wudang Sword book.])
https://brennantranslation.wordpress.co ... ang-sword/Li Jingling, called Fangchen, as well as Fangcen, was from an aristocratic family in Zaoqiang county, Hebei. He was the youngest of five brothers, but the fourth of the brothers had died young. All of their uncles were local merchants, but their grandfather had been a martial artist well-known in the area between the two rivers, the Yangtze and Yellow. While Li was young, he was taught by his father, and he had a very heroic prowess.
When he grew up, he did some wandering north of the Great Wall, and there met an unusual man, Chen Shijun of Anhui. Chen was a man of few words. He appeared and disappeared without trace, and he wore the same clothes regardless of winter or summer. An exponent of the Wudang branch, he was skillful in the “sky realm”, “ground realm”, and “human realm” sword arts. Li spent several years learning from him, then also practiced Taiji Boxing, long spear, Shuaijiao, and other skills, and he became very powerful in all of them.
During the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the nation was increasingly in decline. Li wished to go to Baoding and train with the army, but Chen tried to dissuade him: “The purpose you have inherited from your previous life runs deep. You and I are bound together by fate. So far you have only learned the ‘human realm’ sword art. If you keep at it and learn also the ‘ground realm’ and ‘sky realm’ sword arts, then my teachings can be passed down, and you can become a sword hero. If you abandon this work so you can attend to some other, I can see that your skill will earn you a fame that will not be meager. But you will toil in vain, for you will still not have rescued the nation. Five years from now, you will have gradually become a star. But ten years from you, you will be posted to some frontier. Then fifteen years from now, you will be drifting all over the country, having achieved nothing at all, either for others or for yourself. Remember this: twenty years from now, we might bump into each other again on some river.”
However, Li was intent upon serving the nation and ultimately parted ways with Chen and went into the army at the Baoding Accelerated Training School. He then held up his weapon, spurred his horse on, and dominated the battlefield, defeating Wu Ziyu at Guandong and smashing Feng Huanzhang at Nankou