What's your favorite movie type? What was the first Kung Fu movie in the history of China?

The first kung fu movie in China history was 1928 version of Burning Red Lotus Temple.

Burning Red Lotus Temple is a martial arts film released on 1928, directed by Zhang Shichuan and starring Xiao Ying.

1928 The burning of Honglian Temple is of great significance, which triggered the first chivalrous monster craze in the history of China movies. Since then, chivalrous movies have become the most China-featured movies in the world cinemas.

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Zhao Jiaping, located at the junction of Liuyang and Pingjiang counties in Hunan Province, is a famous battle place in history. Liu Fengyang, the local leader of Liuyang, suffered a loss in a duel, so he was introduced to his son, Lu Xiaoqing, to learn martial arts from Master Kunlun.

Lu Xiaoqing, who was ill since childhood, returned to her hometown after school. After his parents died, he left home again to find a teacher. One day, Lu Xiaoqing went to the Red Lotus Temple for the night and found many ghosts praying to the Buddha in the temple. Take a closer look, there is a deep cave behind Lotus, which smells bad. Seeing that Lu Xiaoqing discovered his secret, the monk in the temple threatened him to obey the temple and was appointed as a monk.

Lu Xiaoqing refused, and the monk wanted to kill Xiaoqing. Later, when he saw Xiaoqing had martial arts, he suddenly ran away. Xiaoqing wanted to leave the ancient temple, only to find that there were iron walls all around. In a crisis, he broke out of the house and rescued Xiaoqing. On the way, they met Zhao Zhenwu, a police officer who was looking for the missing leader Bu Zheng Wen.

It turns out that Bu is an honest official. During his private visit, he was kidnapped by a monk in Honglian Temple and starved to death in a bronze bell. Liu and Lu asked Zhao Zhenwu to go back to the soldiers, and they went back to the red-violet temple to inquire about the situation. On the way, they met Chang Deqing, the temple owner of Honglian Temple. Chang Deqing's palm thunder made Liu and Lu unable to parry. Fortunately, the heroine Gan came to help and defeated Chang Deqing with plum blossom needle stunt.

At this point, Zhao Zhenwu has led the troops surrounded the red-violet temple. After fierce fighting, they rescued Bu Zheng Wen and broke the crypt, but Zhiyuan and Zhike escaped from the tunnel.

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