One of Huo Yuanjia's apprentices was named Zhen Chen. Is there such a person in history?

In fact, in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Zhen Chen did exist in Shanghai, but his story was not like that in film and television dramas and legends.

In 2007, Ni Kuang revealed in the Hong Kong radio program "Ni Kuang See the World" that Zhen Chen was his fictional character and the plaque with the words "The Sick Man of East Asia" was written by him.

However, according to filmmaker Chen Jiashang, Ni Kuang searched Huo Yuanjia's obituary and found that one of his disciples was named Zhen Chen. As a result, it was written into Jingwumen, but the story of Zhen Chen in the film is fictional.

In addition, it is said that Ni Kuang said in the Asian TV program "Nobody Defends Tonight" that Zhen Chen is a real person, and the name Zhen Chen is on the list of Huo Yuanjia's funeral in the newspaper.

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Zhen Chen's identity is an abandoned baby, which Huo Yuanjia met by chance. Because of his kindness, he took the abandoned baby back to Jason Wu school. According to this statement, Zhen Chen belongs to the dragon, because when Huo Yuanjia picked him up, it was 1892, and according to the lunar calendar, 1892 happened to be the Year of the Loong.

There is also a saying that Zhen Chen went out to make a living at the age of twelve and worshipped the one-armed old man as a teacher. After that, the one-armed old man was defeated by Huo Yuanjia and died. Zhen Chen approached Huo Yuanjia for revenge. Later, he was impressed by Huo Yuanjia's personality charm, became a disciple of Huo Yuanjia, and learned the legendary stunt of Huo Yuanjia.

Then one-on-one hit 100 people avenged Huo Yuanjia, which became the most classic World War I in his life. However, this statement did not explicitly mention Zhen Chen's age, only a rough figure, so there is no way to determine what zodiac Zhen Chen belongs to.

The consistency of the two statements lies in that Zhen Chen's date of birth should be around 1892, even if it is not a dragon, it is the last two zodiac signs.

But later generations thought that Zhen Chen was a fictional character, and Zhen Chen was not one of Huo Yuanjia's disciples, just to make a movie for Bruce Lee. However, some people said that Zhen Chen was included in the list of Huo Yuanjia's funeral services published in the newspaper, so Zhen Chen should be real, but I don't know why it wasn't recorded, probably because it wasn't as exaggerated as in the movie.

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