{"id":10955,"date":"2019-11-21T17:29:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/hung-ga-kuen-hong-men-quan\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:29:35","slug":"hung-ga-kuen-hong-men-quan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/hung-ga-kuen-hong-men-quan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hung Ga Kuen \u6d2a\u95e8\u62f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to legend, Hung Ga was named after Hung  Hei-Gun, who learned martial arts from Jee Sin, a Chan (Zen) master at  the Southern Shaolin Temple. Jee Sin (ak Gee Sum Sim See) was also the  master of four other students, namely Choy Gau Lee, Mok Da Si, Lau  Sam-Ngan and Li Yao San. These five martial artists later became the  founders of the five major family styles of Southern Chinese martial  arts: (Hung Ga, Choy Gar, Mok Gar, Li Gar and Lau Gar).<\/p>\n<p>The temple wher they trained had become a refuge for oppo<em><\/em>nents of  the Qing Dynasty, who used it as a ba<em><\/em>se for their activities, and was  soon destroyed by Qing forces. Hung, a tea merchant by trade, eventually  left his home in Fujian for Guangdong, bringing the art with him.<\/p>\n<p>Because the history of the Chinese martial arts was historically  transmitted orally rather than by text, much of the early history of  Hung Ga will probably never be either clarified or corroborated by  written docu<em><\/em>mentation.<\/p>\n<p>The character &quot;hung&quot; (\u6d2a) was used in the reign name of the emperor  who overthrew the Mo<em><\/em>ngol Yuan Dynasty to establish the Han Chinese Ming  Dynasty, oppo<em><\/em>nents of the Manchu Qing Dynasty made frequent use of the  character in their imagery. (Ironically, Luk Ah-Choi was the son of a  Manchu statio<em><\/em>ned in Guangdong.)<\/p>\n<p>Hung Hei-Gun is itself an assumed name intended to ho<em><\/em>nor that first  Ming Emperor. Anti-Qing rebels named the most far reaching of the secret  societies they formed the &quot;Hung Mun&quot; (\u6d2a\u95e8).<\/p>\n<p>The Hung Mun claimed to be founded by survivors of the destruction of  the Shaolin Temple, and the martial arts its members practiced came to  be called &quot;Hung Ga&quot; and &quot;Hung Kuen.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2911610328\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to legend, Hung Ga was named after Hung  Hei-Gun, who learned martial arts from Jee Sin, a Chan (Zen) master at  the Southern Shaolin Temple. Jee Sin (ak Gee Sum Sim See) was also the  master of four other students, namely Choy Gau Lee, Mok Da Si, Lau  Sam-Ngan and Li Yao San. These five martial artists later became the  founders of the five major family styles of Southern Chinese martial  arts: (Hung Ga, Choy Gar, Mok Gar, Li Gar and Lau Gar).<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2858],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-kung-fu"],"views":201,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}