Hung Sing Choy Li Fut
鴻勝蔡李佛The fighting branch of Choy Li Fut, founded in Foshan in 1851 by Jeong Yim. It trained Taiping rebels and builds on unbroken combinations of strikes.
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About Hung Sing Choy Li Fut
Hung Sing is one of the main branches of Choy Li Fut, and this entry until now recorded Choy Fook as its founder in the year 1836. Both have been corrected, because each of those items belongs to someone else. Choy Li Fut was founded in 1836 by Chan Heung (1806–1875). The style's name honours his three teachers: the monk Choy Fook, with whom he studied Choy Gar for nine years, Li Yau-San for Li Gar, and his uncle Chan Yuen-Wu for Fut Gar. Choy Fook was therefore not the founder but the founder's teacher — one generation out. The Hung Sing branch has a founder and a year of its own. He is Jeong Yim, known as Cheung Hung Sing (1824–1893). He came to Chan Heung at the age of twelve and trained under him until seventeen; by tradition he first learned part of the system by watching and practised it in the middle of the night, until his master caught him and began teaching him in secret. In 1851 he opened the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon in Foshan and trained fighters there for the Taiping Rebellion. After its defeat he reopened the school in 1867 under an altered name, to keep it clear of official attention. The branch's technical character follows from this. Hung Sing builds on aggression and unbroken combinations of strikes, and keeps only some eight core empty-hand sets — a selection made for fighting rather than for display.
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