It seems to be Liu Canyang's martial arts novel

Gossip about the number one magical skill in Hong Kong movies - the Tathagata Palm

Someone once had a fantasy, to use The martial arts characters in Jin Yong's novels are ranked first in terms of their martial arts seniority. It is said that the unknown old monk of Shaolin Temple in "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" ranks first. He is a nameless cleaner in the Sutra Pavilion, but he combines the two characters of Xiao Feng and Murong Fu. This old man was so convinced that he became a monk and eventually became a monk with him. Someone else listed everyone's martial arts moves and wanted to rank them first, second, and third, but this time there was no conclusion because many of the moves were from different eras, and they had never actually fought each other, and there was no way to compare them.

The most common and most powerful move in Hong Kong martial arts films is probably recognized as the "Tathagata Palm". The Tathagata is the ancestor of ten thousand Buddhas. Sun Wukong has undergone 72 transformations and even after somersaulting for hundreds of thousands of miles, he cannot escape from the palm of the Tathagata Buddha. The founder of this technique probably took the essence of Buddha's teachings from Tathagata Buddha: "The elephant is invisible, the loud voice is silent", and created this unprecedented palm technique. In the movie "Kung Fu", Master Xing's Tathagata palm descended from the sky and created a palm print the size of a football field on the earth's crust. With another wave of his hand, he opened several holes in a reinforced concrete building. He is undoubtedly the best in the world.

According to netizens' research on the various martial arts in "Kung Fu": Tathagata Palm originally appeared in the 1960s TV series "Tathagata Palm". There are two versions of the drama series. The first one stars Cao Dahua and Yu Suqiu and has five episodes; the second one stars Xue Ni and Zeng Jiang and has two episodes and was produced in the late 1960s; the sixth and seventh episodes The episode is called "Tathagata God's Palm Reveals His Power Again". The story originates from the first five episodes, but takes place 90 years later. The genre orientation of the movie is also different. It is a sword-fighting movie more recently and a martial arts movie with gods and monsters far away. Therefore, the imagery is very different. change. According to Film Biweekly, the original film was adapted from the novel "Thousand Buddha's Hands" serialized by Mr. Shang Guanhong in Ming Pao. Unfortunately, Mr. Shang Guanhong's Tathagata Palm novel has been lost. The stories in the first and second episodes of Tathagata Palm are quite similar to the work "Tathagata Palm" by Taiwanese martial arts novelist Mr. Liu Canyang. As for whether the lost Tathagata Palm novel (originally serialized in Ming Pao) is Mr. Liu Canyang's "Heavenly Buddha Palm", it is unknown.

By 1982, Shaw Brothers made a film that combined several previous series into one film, also named "The Palm of the Tathagata", directed by Huang Tailai, and starring Er Dongsheng (later became "Pornography"). The famous director of films such as "Men and Women" and "Mongkok Night"), starring Yu Onan (Er Dongsheng's first love, later became Fa Ge's ex-wife), Hui Yinghong, Man Tsz-leung, Cao Tat-wah and others. I happen to have this film on hand. In the 1982 edition of "Tathagata Palm", it is said that the eminent monk Tathagata God in the Song Dynasty spent seven years facing the wall in the Cave of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and devoted himself to creating the nine postures of Tathagata Palm, which is known as the supreme martial arts. Ironically, the Tathagata God was so disturbed by the crowds of heroes from all over the world who admired his magical skills that he went crazy while practicing and died. Before he died, he gave his disciple the Ancient Han Soul Fire Cloud War Robe.

"Tathagata Palm" is one of the classics created by Hong Kong Cantonese films. Since then, the Tathagata Palm's moves have appeared many times in Hong Kong martial arts films, especially in Sing Yeh's films, but most of them appear in funny ways. In "Descendants of the Dragon", Stephen Chow and Mo Shunyun played with Tathagata Palm when foreigners were filming a video; in "Fist of Fury 1991" when Stephen Chow was apprenticed, four old men used Tathagata Palm on him; in "Manga Power" "Dragon" even combines the Tathagata Palm with the Electric Horn Divine Fist to defeat Yuan Hua with one move. In "Kung Fu", the small temple in the Pig Cage Walled City is the Ancient Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and the film also features the Tathagata God. The palm of my hand breaks through the fire cloud evil god and comes to an end. Behind Sing Yeh's seeming ridicule, there is actually a hidden tribute to the history of Cantonese films.

"Tathagata Palm" was adapted into a long-form ancient martial arts comic by Hong Kong comics predecessor Huang Yulang in the 1980s. Together with "Dragon and Tiger Gate", "Drunken Master" and "Heroes of China", it is also known as the Yulang Group's The "Four Great Classics" were all the rage. Among these comic series, the early "Tathagata Palm" adapted the works of many martial arts masters in the story. For example: Liu Canyang's "Disciples of the Evil God" and "The Eight Dharmas of the Tathagata", Jin Yong's "The Legend of Heaven and Slaying the Dragon", and Gu Long's "The Peerless Two Prides" and so on. Most of the time, the main character in the play is renamed and the same plot development is maintained. Until the protagonist dies and the plot progresses to the transitional plot between the next generation, the transitional plot is created by oneself. And the protagonists will change. From Long Tian, ??Long Ren, Long Jianfei to the fourth generation Long Jiuzhou, they will be passed down from generation to generation, not the protagonist for ten thousand years.

According to the Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia, there are twelve styles of Tathagata Divine Palm martial arts: the first appearance of the Buddha's light, the golden-domed Buddha lamp, the Buddha moving the mountains and rivers, the Buddha asking about the Buddha, welcoming the Buddha to the west, The Buddha's light shines everywhere, thousands of Buddhas come to the world, ten thousand Buddhas pay homage to the sect, and the Buddha's Dharma is boundless (Zhang Sanfeng left a message before his death, and Long Jianfei figured out the message before he died and created this move). Jiujiu returns to the Yuan Dynasty, and the Buddha is born and ascends to the world. On earth, I am the only one who is supreme (later only referred to as "I am the only one who is supreme in the heaven and on the earth"), to save all living beings, to become a Buddha immediately, and to unite gods and demons! Bodhi created the world! Nebula blooms! The void is shattered! (The final chapter did not indicate in detail that this was the name of the move, and it was mistakenly listed as the eleventh move). In the 1982 edition of "Tathagata Palm" and "Tathagata Legend 5 Tathagata Palm", there are only nine postures of the Tathagata Palm, and the names of the eighth and ninth postures are interchanged, that is, the eighth posture is boundless Buddhism and the ninth posture For the Ten Thousand Buddhas Chaozong.

Among them, the ninth form of the Tathagata Palm, "Ten Thousand Buddhas Chaozong", has Buddha palms all over the sky and is extremely dense. It is the strongest form among the Tathagata Palms currently taught. Star Master has fantasized about using this move in many movies to defeat his enemies. It is said that the soundtrack of "Kung Fu" quoted the music of the old version of "Tathagata Palm". At the 2003 Academy Awards ceremony, two seniors in the entertainment industry, Cao Dahua, who has starred in "Tathagata Palm" the most, and Shi Jian, who is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people for his role as "The Traitor Jian" in "Once Upon a Time", both won the "Professional" award. Spirit Award", Cao Dahua, who is over 80 years old, put on the classic pose of "Ten Thousand Buddhas Chaozong" on the stage. In addition, in the 1997 "Brothers in Distress", we can also see the scenes from the filming of "The Palm of the Tathagata".

"Tathagata Palm" was still being filmed into a 38-episode TV series by TVB in 2002, starring Julian Cheung, Athena Chu, Chen Long, etc., but the response in the mainland was not strong. In addition to movies and TV series, "Tathagata Palm" has also become the main song in Eason Chan's new album. The lyrics were written by Hong Kong's genius lyricist Lin Xi. It is the essence of receiving the "Tathagata Divine Palm".