Chinese Government Official History of CLF

[extrajoseph]

The Chinese Government has recently published an official history of sports development in the Guangdong Province and the whole book is available on the web. It is official because the web address ends with "gov.cn".

Under Section 3 Chapter 1, there is an official record of the development of folk martial arts group in Guangdong prior to the founding of the Republic and there are two entries on CLF at the beginning of the chapter.

One is on the history of the King Mui Hung Sing Gwoon and the other is on the Futsan Hung Sing Gwoon.

It is written very clearly that Chan Heung was the sole founder of CLF and Jeong Yim was his disciple and Jeong took over the Futsan branch in 1851 after the original teacher went blind. The name was then changed from Heroic Hung Sing to Great Goose Hung Sing.

No mention whatsoever of the GGM or Cai Dezhong.

You can read all about it, the book was researched and written by a committee of government official historians:

http://www.tyj.gd.gov.cn/shengzhi/docc/3th/jie12.htm

I hope this official record will settle the question of who is the founder of CLF and whether there is a GGM, once and for all.