By Lambe Lamis 
The record encompassing the fighting arts in and about China are exceptionally vague. This is mainly thanks to hiding the arts from the Manchu’s all through their rule over the Chinese. I have read a range of accounts and stories about the progress of Kung Fu and although there are numerous similarities there are also are a excellent variety of contradictions. I am not telling you that this is “THE” accurate account of Kung Fu’s record but relatively a gathering of phrases and situations that provide us out of the darker ages. (More historic notes will be incorporated in upcoming classes.)
Mui Fa Kuen (Plum Flower Fist)
Mui Fa is an incredibly frequent topic in Chinese Martial Arts because of to the recognition of the flower in the rest of Chinese lifestyle. Many other kinds of kung fu also have Mui Fa forms. It is reported that the original Mui Fa Kuen was a Northern Shaolin established, considered to be founded by Hou Yuan Jia. As very well as the Mui Fa fist variety there is also a lot of other sets such as sword and spear sets, earning Mui Fa to be a little process in alone.
This small and uncomplicated but quite sensible type is presented in four instructions, like the petals of a plum blossom flower, instructing attacking and defending in each individual course. The to start with Mui Fa established teaches fundamental footwork and stances as well as preliminary bridging and kicking approaches. A lot of fundamentals as effectively as some of Hung Gar’s trade mark strategies are taught in this established.
A Temporary Historical past of Hung Gar Kuen
The evolution of Kung Fu is pretty carefully related to the advancement of Buddhism practiced by monks all more than China. Buddhism wasn’t native to China, but launched from India (involving 58-76 A.D all through the Eastern Han Ming Dynasty) where it originates. In excess of the adhering to Generations, many Chinese Emperors embraced Buddhism slowly but surely turning into China’s most practiced religion and with it was the introduction of 1000’s of Buddhist Temples.
In around 540 A.D, an Indian priest named Bodhidharma traveled to China to distribute what would later on be named Zen Buddhism. On his journey he came throughout a temple termed Shaolin, at the time popular for translating Buddhist writings into Chinese. Bodhidharma noticed that the monks had been in bad bodily form as they put in heaps of their time creating and meditating, so workouts were being introduced to boost bodily toughness and the energy flow. These exercises have been created from Indian Yoga and were primarily based on the actions of both equally authentic and mythical animals.
Preventing variations had existed in China for lots of Generations in advance of Shaolin started to build any type of martial arts. Monks at the temple had been pretty peaceful but in the distant places of the countryside they would usually come across bandits or wild animals. Not all monks would examine martial arts, but as time handed quite a few retired troopers of all ranks transformed to Buddhism and joined the temple. This meant that the soldiers could accompany fellow monks creating unsafe journeys to offer security, and with there skills put together with the each day training, Shaolin kung fu started to acquire. Monks analyzed and imitated animal actions realizing that they possessed organic self protection and killing strategies in order to endure which the monks refined into there own fighting programs.
As time went on, the Shaolin sect commenced to divert from the other Buddhist sects as there target turned ever a lot more conditioned toward the analyze of martial arts which appeared to be to some degree of a contradiction of Buddhist ideas. The monks replied simply just stating along the lines of “To have an understanding of a little something these as violence makes you superior geared up to resolve a conflict”.
In the mid 17th Century, Manchurian invaders led by the Ching spouse and children finished the Ming Dynasty and sooner or later conquered China. People fleeing from the Chings sought refuge in the Shaolin temple, initially only passive home was permitted but owing to the injustice that the Chinese men and women experienced, Shaolin soon grew to become the centre of the resistance. At this time Shaolin had five elders:
Jee Shin Sim See- Founder of Shaolin Iron Cloth, creator of Wing Chun and founder of Hung Gar Kuen.
Bai Mei – Founder of Golden Bell Iron Physique Chi Gong
Fong Sai Yuk- Renowned Swordsman, Founder of White Tiger Kung Fu.
Miu Hin- Founder of Five Designs Boxing and aided to develop Wing Chun.
Ng Mui- Buddhist Nun and Dim Mak skilled, aided to create Wing Chun, founder of Dragon Form Boxing and Wu Mei.
In 1647 A.D, the primary Shaolin temple in Henan province was burnt to the floor by the Ching. Several of the monks had been slaughtered and the rest fled, heading into hiding, in search of refuge in other temples and monasteries. The five elders are reported to have escaped serving to to sort other rebel groups and training the men and women up working with there professional combating understanding. Fong Sai Yuk, took refuge at Wudan mountain in the Hubei province (property of the inside martial arts), with the support of his fellow elders he organised a adhering to of up to a million powerful referred to as the Heaven and Earth Society.
The Buddhist Nun Ng Mui is later on explained to have taught Yim Wing Chun, just one of her close close friends a close assortment preventing system later on to adopt her title (wing chun) , so that she could publicly problem her partner from a pressured relationship to get again her liberty.
Fong Wing Chun, relative of Fong Sai Yuk, was a master of White Crane Kung Fu. She married Hung Hei Goon and it was he employing his abilities in Tiger kung fu, mixed it with his wife’s awareness of the White Crane process created Southern Hung Gar Keun. Hung Hei Goon created a status for being a fighter of excellent skill and was regarded as “The Southern Fist”. The essence of Hung Gar can be observed in its title. “Hung” usually means to “stand tall with integrity”.
Hung Hei Goon was a disciple of Jee Shin Sim See. As Hung’s master he generally appears at the best of most Hung Gar lineages, inserting the origins straight back again to the Shaolin temple.
My Masters & Lineage
Hung Hei Goon
Luk Ah Choi (1740-1845)
Leung Kwan aka “Tid Kiu Sam”(1815-1888)
Ng Hei Kwoon
Hang Yat Sui
Lai Ng Sam (1927-1995)
Jeff Hasbrouck (1947 – )
Phil Dandridge (1962- )