Belarusian Hercules

This book contains two novellas: "The Hercules of Belarus" and "Maitreya, the Messiah". "The White Russian Hercules": Huo Yuanjia, Huang Feihong, Sun Lutang... The older generation of martial artists became famous because they competed with foreigners; today's martial arts movies are so popular because Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Zhao Wenzhuo and Wu Jing all fight foreigners in their movies. "The Belarusian Hercules" begins with the story of the Tianjin Wushu Organization's "Guoshu Practice Association" organizing a challenge to the Belarusian Hercules Niknov in 1916, interspersed with the story of the grandson of Gao Qingzhu, the martial artist who defeated Niknov in 1979. The story of first love, with a historical span of more than half a century and four generations, combines the Chinese people's attachment to "foreigners" with martial arts movies, martial arts anecdotes and youth stories in the 1980s, and depicts an interesting "hidden history". "Maitreya, the Messiah" Jews claim to be a nation that has made a covenant with God. In 1943, nearly 30,000 Jews gathered in Shanghai, half of whom lived in the "designated stateless refugee area" established by the Japanese army. One day, a young man came to the "designated place" and claimed to be a Jew and asked to enter. Rose Hill, a Jewish scripture lecturer, was responsible for checking the pass. Various coincidences convinced him that the young man was the Messiah, the savior in the Jewish faith.