Is there really a Zhen Chen in history?

Zhen Chen does exist in history, but it is not a legendary story. The story of Zhen Chen in film and television dramas is fictional.

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Zhen Chen was born in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, and later lived in Xuhui District, Shanghai. He was a disciple of China martial artist Huo Yuanjia in the late Qing Dynasty. Legend has it that he was killed by the Japanese after revenging his master who was killed by the Japanese. In fact, this is just a rumor from outsiders. Zhen Chen did not die, but fled Shanghai, emigrated to the Philippines (there are also rumors that he emigrated to Malaysia), and then went into seclusion. This legend has been made into movies and TV series many times. Many film and television works depict Zhen Chen as five apprentices of Huo Yuanjia.

Legend has it that Zhen Chen was abandoned by the roadside in Xiangyang, Hubei. At that time, Huo Yuanjia, a kind-hearted Wulin middleman, met a friend in Hubei and happened to find the baby boy by the roadside. Huo Yuanjia suddenly felt pity, adopted the poor orphan, and took it back to the Jason Wu Museum, named Zhen Chen.

As a child, because Zhen Chen was weak, Huo Yuanjia thought that Zhen Chen was not martial arts material, so he didn't teach Zhen Chen martial arts and so on. But Zhen Chen secretly vowed to get ahead and win honor for Master! Every day, when Huo Yuanjia was fighting among younger brothers and sisters, Zhen Chen secretly studied Huo Yuanjia's martial arts on the beams and practiced it privately. Until one day, Zhen Chen and Master Huo Yuanjia said: I learned your most vivid martial arts-Fan Jiquan. Please accept me as a disciple, and I will try my best. Huo Yuanjia was surprised that Zhen Chen learned martial arts that Zhen Chen's brothers and sisters had never learned! While I am distressed by Zhen Chen's poor life experience, I am even more proud of Zhen Chen's super-high talent! Huo Yuanjia immediately taught Zhen Chen all kinds of more powerful peerless martial arts (it is said that Huo Yuanjia personally taught Zhen Chen more than 60 kinds of peerless martial arts! After Zhen Chen's death, many people lost it.

Zhen Chen was not only skilled, but also came back from Japan to avenge Master Huo Yuanjia's sudden murder and rehabilitate Wu Jingtang's bloody shame. Together with Huo Yuanjia, this figure enjoyed a considerable reputation and became a national hero who bravely resisted Japan. In fact, Huo Yuanjia's apprentice did have Zhen Chen in history, but it was not the legendary one. At the beginning, when Bruce Lee filmed Jingwumen, he asked Ni Kuang to write a script. Zhen Chen, the highest-grossing "Jingwu hero", was tailor-made by Ni Kuang for Kung Fu superstar Bruce Lee on 1972. Many stories of Zhen Chen in the play are fictional. Zhen Chen's life experience should be taken from Liu Zhensheng, with an art teacher; His character should be taken from Chen, who dares to think and do, and has a background of studying in Japan; His martial arts must have been learned from Chen Gongzhe and Chen Tiesheng. He is a real martial arts master.