HISTORY
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In
the monastery of Shaolin of the North some systems
of kung fu practised it was based around 5 fundamental
animals: dragon, tiger, leopard, crane and snake. |
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Many
are the styles
derived by the
Shaolin and
the Hung Gar
it is one among
the most important
appartenentis
to the tradition
of the Nan Siulam
(Shaolin of
the south of
China). |
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After
this episode the monastery Shaolin of Fukien saw
to grow his importance in the popularization of
the Chinese martial arts.
Toward the end of 1700 the dynasty Qing decided
to also destroy the second monastery. The legend
narrates that few monks survived.
Among them there was the abbot Gee Sim Sin
See and 5 students: Hung, Li, Mok, Lau
and Choy.
Hung Hee
Gung learned the style it fu jaw
( tiger claw style), that represented the movements
of the tiger and the respiraton of the dragon.
With the time this sequence is identified with the
form Kung Gee Fook Fu Kuen, from which the
bases of the style Hung Gar was developed subsequently.
The system developed the techniques of the tigress
uniting her to those of the crane and became the
actual Hung Gar, based around five animals (it is
told that the Teacher Hung Hee Gung married the
direct student of the founder of the style Wing
Chun).
Hung taught secretly his art to Kuangtung (Canton)
and it stopped hiding himself in 1813 when the Qings
eliminated the proclamation on the Kung Fu.
Gee Sin also taught
to Lok Ah Choy, that later
he was trained with Hung and a school opened to
Canton.
The good student of Lok was Wong Tai,
that his child Wong Kay Ying introduced.
Don't satisfy of what he had learned after years
of study, Wong Kay Ying looked
for other teachers that had directly learned from
Hung Hee Gung.
He became so much strong that was chosen from his
peers as one of the "ten tigers of Canton", reserved
title only to the bestest apprentices of kung fu.
The child of Wong Kay Ying, Wong Fei Hung,
was born in 1850, it began the training to the five
year-old age and thirteen years it was already famous
for as it used the baton of the 8 trigrammis.
To the twenty year-old age he had already been chosen
one of the "10 tigers of Canton."
And one of the heroes famous for his ability in
the martial arts.
For his worth, toward the end of the eight hundred,
the Hung Gar became the most important style of
the south of China.
Of Wong Fei Hung is famous above all his fight against
two true tigers happened inside a pit and the fact
to have defeated with the baton, to the 13 year-old
age, a famous Teacher of kungfu.
During a demonstration in fact, the teacher Gwan
Dai Hung, jealous of the fact that Wong Kai Ying
had more public, challenged him with the baton.
Wong Kai Ying asked his child Wong Fei Hung to fight
himself with the baton of the 8 trigrammis.
In few second the young Wong won the rival, and
this gave to him great fame.
Wong Fei Hung is dead in 1933 to the 83 year-old
age.
Another Teacher
of accredited Hung Gar of the title of "Tiger of
Canton" it was Tid Kiu Sam.
He passed to the history to have won varied challenges
with famous deriving Teachers from every part of
China.
The true name of this Teacher was Leon Kwan and
he was nicknamed "third iron arm", because its arms
were hard and strong as the iron.
It is told that one day, to show him, made to climb
on his arms well six people.
The Grandmaster Wong Fei Hung had many students,
but few were those people that learned everything
from him.
Another student named Tang Fung
was nicknamed Lo Wan Ku, literally "old honest
mind", because of an obstinate rigid traditionalism.
One of his dearrest pupils it was Lam Sai
Wing, that was born to Nam Hoi in
the Guangdong.
He trained the army and he had a school of Hung
Gar in Canton and then in Hong Kong.
Lam was already following the teachings of a teacher
of a style of the south.
One day wanted to go to verify with its eyes all
the voices that circulated on the extraordinary
abilities of Wong Fei Hung.
As it was custom of the epoch, Lam respectfully
the teacher Wong challenged to "to cross the hands",
and he was found again dashed out of the room of
training by a "shadow kick" of the same Wong.
Lam remained of
it so impressed that it reentered on the knees asking
Wong Fei Hung to accept him as student.
As it was custom the turned challenges to a teacher
were picked up by the bestest student, and Lam Sai
Wing fought in a lot of occasions for his teacher.
Of profession butcher, Lam Sai Wing created the
form of the knives butterfly ( wu dip do ).
One of the most famous fights of Lam Sai Wing have
been that mot "the battle of the theater Lok Sin."
Its group was in fact select to make the watch to
the theater.
One day however the theater changed owner and they
was named other bodyguard.
The student of Lam, Chiu Ha, entered as usual the
theater without paying and hee was thrown out.
These it reported the thing to his Teacher that
told him: "Our kung was it doesn't have to serve
for disputes as these."
Wanting then to pacifically close the thing, Lam
went to make visit to the new bodyguard, together
to some students.
Just entered the theater however these quickly closed
the door and they attached them going out of every
angle.
Lam tore a baton from one of his adversaries and
started to defend his life.
The day after the newspapers they brought that eighteen
people are been sheltered in the hospital, and that
Lam Sai Wing was the only one gone out uninjured
from the theater.
The fame of Lam Sai Wing quickly spread in all Canton.
When in 1911 the dynasty Qing fell, Lam taught kung
fu to the Chinese army .
It's to this point that the genealogical tree of
the style Hung Gar is branched.
Lam Sai Wing introduced varied changes to the style
as a more approach next to the styles of the north
of China.
He left his teachings and his school in the hands
of his nephew Lam Cho.
