Luqiao

Documentary film that presents the history of Chinese martial arts. This is a Chinese name; the family name is Qi. Painting of Qi Jiguang Names Simplified Chinese: 戚继光Traditional Chinese: 戚繼光Pinyin: Qī Jìgūang Wade-Giles: Ch'i Chi-kuang Zi: Yuanjing (元敬) Hao: Nantang (南塘) Mengzhu (孟諸) Birth Date: 12 November 1528 Death Date: 5 January 1588 (aged 59) Qi Jiguang (November 12, 1528 -- January 5, 1588) was a Chinese military general and national hero during the Ming Dynasty. He was best remembered for his courage and leadership in the fight against Japanese pirates along the east coast of China, as well as his reinforcement work on the Great Wall of China. Qi Jiguang was born in the town of Luqiao (鲁橋) in Shandong province to a family with a long military tradition. His forefather served as a military leader under Zhu Yuanzhang and died in battle. When Zhu Yuanzhang later became the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he bestowed upon the Qi family the hereditary post of commander-in-chief of Dengzhou Garrison (登州衛), a district of the present day Penglai. Qi Jiguang's father, Qi Jingtong (戚景通), was an honest and upright man. He cultivated in his son a yearning for knowledge as well as a firm set of morals. When his father died, Qi Jiguang took over the commandership of Dengzhou Garrison at the age of seventeen. As his siblings were still young, he married Wang and left domestic affairs to her. Besides building up naval defense at the garrison, he also <b>...</b>