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Biography:
Wong Fei-Hung was born in 1847, and passed away in 1924. He was a martial arts master, teacher, healer, and revolutionary. He would protect and help those who were weak and defenseless. Wong Kei-Ying was his father, and he was a physician and great martial arts master also, and part of a group known as the "Ten Tigers of Canton", and he and his son lived in the city of Canton.
Wong Kei-Ying's famous medical clinic was Po Chi Lam, and Wong Fei-Hung was there assisting his father. He learned traditional Chinese medicine, and also learned many important values such as generosity and compassion. Wong Kei-Ying always treated a patient, even if he or she was rude and impolite or was poor. He would also secretly treat revolutionaries who were the resistance against the corrupt Ch'ing Dynasty.
The Ch'ing Dynasty consisted of Manchu emperors, who had conquered China from their home in Manchuria. They were foreign invaders to the southern Chinese. The southern Shaolin Temple in Fukien was a place where revolutionaries would go to train to fight against the Manchus. The temple was destroyed in 1734, but the few monks and students who escaped traveled throughout China to teach their skills. Some styles such as Wing Chun (Bruce Lee's original style) and Hung Gar Kung Fu (Wong Fei-Hung's style) emerged. The creator of Hung Gar was Hung Hei-Kwun (another martial arts master that was portrayed by Jet Li in New Legend of Shaolin). He was a Fukien tea merchant.
Wong Fei-Hung's martial arts training began when he met with his father's teacher, Luk Ah Choi. Luk Ah Choi taught Wong Fei-Hung the basics of Hung Gar. After, Wong Kei-Ying took over his son's training. By his early 20's, Wong Fei-Hung had made a name for himself as a dedicated physician and a martial arts prodigy. In addition to becoming a master of hung gar, he created the tiger-crane form and added fighting combinations now known as the "nine special fists." Wong Fei-Hung was also skilled with many weapons, especially the long wooden staff and the southern tiger fork. One occasion where he utilised his skill with the staff was when he defeated a thirty-man gang on the docks of Canton. He also protected the weak and poor from both criminal gangs and government forces. He set up his own school, "Bao Zhi Lin", a branch of Po Chi Lam, which was reknowned for both martial arts and doctoring. He instructed the Cantonese Black Flag militia, and taught his private students his Hung Gar techniques, the most famous of these being a pork butcher, Lam Sai-Wing, also known as "The Magnificent Butcher".
However, his life was not all joy and triumphs. Wong Fei-Hung came to Hong Kong after the branch of Po Chi Lam opened by Lam Sai-Wing was challenged by a rival school. After a bloody battle at Possession Point resulted in the death of the challenger, Wong was forced to return to Canton.
Wong Fei-Hung's son, Wong Hawn-Sum, followed his father's foot steps by protecting the weak and poor of Canton. Unfortunately, he was killed in the 1890's after being gunned down by the drug gang Dai Fin Yee. After this tragedy, Wong Fei-Hung vowed never to teach his remaining 9
sons martial arts, unless they were targets themselves.
Wong Fei-Hung's first three wives died young, and after, decided to live the rest of his life alone. But in 1903, during an outdoor martial arts demonstration, he met a 16 year old girl named Mok Gwai Lan, and asked for her hand in marriage. She was also a skilled martial artist who taught all of the women's classes, and even taught some of the men's classes, which was rare since hardly any women mastered kung fu at the time. No photos or drawings were taken of Fei-Hung during his lifetime. In 1924, Wong Fei-Hung died peacefully, a happy and humble man.
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