Quote Originally Posted by hskwarrior View Post
By Sifu Frankie McCarthy
First let's talk about Chan Heung's "Hung Sing" school name. According to the history of the Chan Family lineages when Chan Heung completed his training under monk Choy Fook, in 1836 he returned to King Mui to set up a school in his ancestral village. He chose to call it "Hung Sing" (洪聖) which translates into "Great Sage" or "Holy" and is also in reference to a southern Chinese Deity Hung Shing (洪聖), also known as Hung Shing Ye (洪聖爺) in addition to Tai Wong (大王). This deity's real name was Hung Hei (洪熙), a righteous government official.
Frank,

Your research still sucks, this is just one example: Chan Heung did not choose the name himself, the “Great Sage” name for the Ancestral School in King Mui was given by Choy Fook, who also gave him a door couplet for the first school that says “hong cai ding qu wen zhang shi, sheng suan huan tui wu lue tong”

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聖算還推武略通

“Great talent must obtain its matter from literature (and)
Sagely plans still need martial backing to succeed.”

It is a way for Choy Fook to remain Chan Heung that a great martial artist is a person with a brain as well as brawn - think and plan carefully before you have to fight.

XJ