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09-05-2002, 04:47 PM
Are Wong Fei-Hung’s Hung Gar and Fung Siu-Ching’s Wing Chun of true Southern Shaolin Jee Shim lineage?
This perplexing question arose out of the confusing and illogical situation I have found myself with the conflicting histories that I have read about my own Wing Chun lineage.
This is where Wing Chun was supposed to have risen from the southern rebels operating out of the operatic red junks and where there is strong evidence that the rebels of the operatic red junks took part in the Taiping Rebellion.
If this is true then it would make nonsense of the later story of Ng Jung-So, who was consider a one time senior leader of an important Wing Chun lineage, to have taken part in the opium trade that devastated China from the second half of the 19th Century to the first half of the 20th Century. After all the Taiping Rebellion main aim was to stop the opium trade and the social and economic ruination it was causing. So I knowing that Ng Jung-So was a true descendent of Southern Shaolin Jee Shim believe that he would not have taken part in the opium trade.
Can this be said about Wong Fei-Hung and Fung Siu-Ching? The story is that Wong Fei-Hung had once been employed by the Ching Imperial Government to lead and train a large regiment of Ching soldiers in the Province of Guangdong. As to Fung Siu-Ching, he was supposed to have been employed by the Ching Imperial Government as a marshal. The job involved the capture of state designate criminals, and yes you guessed it meaning the capture of southern rebels seeking to overthrow the Ching and restoring the former Ming.
The dilemma I am having is that if Wong Fei-Hung of Hung Gar and Fung Siu-Ching of Wing Chun are true descendents of Southern Shaolin Jee Shim as their lineage histories purported them to be then both would not have cooperated with the Imperial Ching Government in fighting and capturing of other Southern Shaolin rebels who are of the same lineage of Southern Shaolin and in particular of the same Jee Shim’s lineage.
Wai-Sing Fung
This perplexing question arose out of the confusing and illogical situation I have found myself with the conflicting histories that I have read about my own Wing Chun lineage.
This is where Wing Chun was supposed to have risen from the southern rebels operating out of the operatic red junks and where there is strong evidence that the rebels of the operatic red junks took part in the Taiping Rebellion.
If this is true then it would make nonsense of the later story of Ng Jung-So, who was consider a one time senior leader of an important Wing Chun lineage, to have taken part in the opium trade that devastated China from the second half of the 19th Century to the first half of the 20th Century. After all the Taiping Rebellion main aim was to stop the opium trade and the social and economic ruination it was causing. So I knowing that Ng Jung-So was a true descendent of Southern Shaolin Jee Shim believe that he would not have taken part in the opium trade.
Can this be said about Wong Fei-Hung and Fung Siu-Ching? The story is that Wong Fei-Hung had once been employed by the Ching Imperial Government to lead and train a large regiment of Ching soldiers in the Province of Guangdong. As to Fung Siu-Ching, he was supposed to have been employed by the Ching Imperial Government as a marshal. The job involved the capture of state designate criminals, and yes you guessed it meaning the capture of southern rebels seeking to overthrow the Ching and restoring the former Ming.
The dilemma I am having is that if Wong Fei-Hung of Hung Gar and Fung Siu-Ching of Wing Chun are true descendents of Southern Shaolin Jee Shim as their lineage histories purported them to be then both would not have cooperated with the Imperial Ching Government in fighting and capturing of other Southern Shaolin rebels who are of the same lineage of Southern Shaolin and in particular of the same Jee Shim’s lineage.
Wai-Sing Fung