ile land, sit and enjoy high and generous salaries. In all prefectures and counties, corrupt officials colluded with local tyrants to seek and seize, and revenge more than tigers and wolves. It is these people from top to bottom that form a double overlap. The large group of squeezing and cutting connected with silk tassels is sucking blood and meat from the hard-working and poor people.
政治已极端腐败，人民更极端痛苦，封建专制已走向尽头，大明皇朗已走向尽头了。就在这景况中，万历皇帝继优登极。这位万历皇帝比他的父，祖更为昏庸。在位四十台年，居然常常十几年不上朝，不见大臣，只在深宫内苑中醉生梦死。他的性情又最爱珠宝，爱金银，不但由太监批奏本、揽朝政、监军和镇守各省，更派太监去收税、采矿、采办珠宝，弄得人怨沸腾。故此，正直之人，学文的要洁身引退，讲学论道，议论弊政;习武的也难遂报国之愿，只求护身卫乡，除暴安良。在这时期，文人方面，出现了清流党议之争;武的方面，出现了拳坛兴起，崛起了几家名拳支派与邪恶相斗，是有其社会因素与渊源的。螳螂拳史，也就是从这个时期叙起的。
Politics has become extremely corrupt, the people have suffered even more, the feudal autocracy has come to an end, and the Ming Dynasty has come to an end. In this situation, Emperor Wanli ascended to the top. The Emperor Wanli was more fatuous than his father and ancestor. After forty years in office, he often did not go to the court for more than ten years, did not see the minister, and only lived in the deep palace. He also loves jewelry and gold and silver. Not only did the eunuchs approve the memorial, take charge of the court, supervise the army and guard the provinces, but also sent the eunuchs to collect taxes, mine and purchase jewelry, making people angry. Therefore, the upright people, those who study literature, should retire clean, lecture on the Tao, and talk about bad politics; Those who practice martial arts can't fulfill their wish to serve the country. They just want to protect the country and get rid of the evil and keep the good. In this period, there was a dispute between the Qing Dynasty and the Communist Party of China among the literati; In the aspect of martial arts, the emergence of the boxing world and the emergence of several famous boxing branches fighting against evil have its social factors and origins. The history of Mantis Boxing is described from this p