Shocking revelations
SHOCK REVELATIONS
TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW SI GUNG KONG HING & LEONG JI
WARNING: This History of CHOY LAY FUT was given in brief by Si Gung Kong Hing at his home in Kowloon, March 1998. Added are parts from an interview with Leong Ji at the Buck Sing Gwoon Melbourne.
This transcript provides revelations that contradict the history of Choy Lay Fut and it's founder Chan Heung. These are
What is said forthwith conflicts with the popular history concerning the development of Choy Lay Fut. It is presented as we heard it, and without bias. The Buck Sing Gwoon takes no responsibility whatsoever for it's implications, if any. For the record, we, The Buck Sing Gwoon, maintain Chan Heung as the founder of Choy Lay Fut.
Chan Heung began his martial arts career at the age of seven when he went to live with his uncle, Yuen Woo, a famous boxer from the legendary Shaolin temple who trained the young boy in the art of Shaolin kung-fu. By the time Chan Heung was fifteen he became so proficient at his martial arts that he could defeat any challenger from nearby villages. By the time he reached his seventeenth year, he was ready to learn more. So Yuen Woo took him to train with Li Yau-San, his uncle's senior classmate from the Shaolin temple. Chan Heung spent the next four years perfecting his kung-fu under Li Yau San's careful eye
It soon became apparent that after only four years of training that Chan Heung was again ready to move onto higher levels. In only ten years he had already reached a level of skill that had taken Yuen Woo and Li Yau-San twenty years to attain, The young man's potential was so great that Li Yau San suggested a Shaolin monk named Choy Fok, who lived as a recluse on Lau Fu mountain, as the best teacher for Chan Heung.
Realizing that reaching his highest potential in kung-fu meant finding the monk and becoming his disciple, Chan Heung set out on the long trek to Lau Fu Mountain. Chan Heung sought out anyone who could help him find Choy Fok. Finally he located the monk and handed him a letter of recommendation from Li Yau-San. After waiting patiently to be accepted as Choy Fok's disciple, Chan Heung was stunned when Choy Fok turned him down. It seemed that the monk was intent on being left alone to cultivate Buddhism, and no longer wished to teach martial arts. Finally, after much begging from Chan Heung, Choy Fok agreed to take the young man as a student, but only to study Buddhism. So, Chan Heung studied Buddhism for many hours a day, and practiced his martial arts well into the night.
Early one morning Chan Heung was practicing his kung-fu, leg sweeping heavy bamboo trees, and kicking up stones into the air, then smashing them before they hit the ground. Suddenly, the monk appeared and asked him if that was the best that he could do. Chan Heung was shocked when Choy Fok pointed to a large rock weighing about eighty pounds, and told him to kick it twelve feet. Bracing himself, the student exerted all of his strength as his foot crashed against the rock, sending it barely twelve feet away. Instead of giving the expected compliment, Choy Fok placed his foot under the heavy rock and effortlessly propelled it through the air. Chan Heung was awestruck by this demonstration of superpower. Again he begged Choy Fok to accept him as a martial arts disciple. This time the monk agreed, and for eight years Choy Fok taught Chan Heung both the way of Buddhism, and the way of kung-fu.
When he was twenty-nine, Chan Heung left the monk and went back to his village where he spent the next two years revising and refining all that he had learned from Choy Fok. Chan Heung had now developed a new system of kung-fu. In 1836 he formally established the Choy Lay Fut system, naming it in honor of his two principal teachers, Choy Fok and Li Yau-San, and using the word "Fut" which means Buddha in Chinese, to pay homage to his uncle, Yuen Woo, and to the Shaolin roots of the new system.
Today, though still relatively rare outside of China, Choy Lay Fut is one of the most popular and widely practiced styles of kung-fu in mainland China.
Chan Heung' s Being a clan teacher in KingMui village, he chose to take in Jeong Yim, a fugitive wanted by the Manchu authorities, possibly for avoiding conscription. Chan Heung began to teach Jeong Yim Calligraphy and Literature, which led to him being given the title "SIFU". Jeong Yim - Who may have been known as JEONG HUNG SING - was then taught the Shaolin style FUT GAR KUNG FU by Lay Yau San, Choy Ah Fook and Ching Cho.
By the Time Jeong Hung Sing had trained under these three masters, his kung fu had become somewhat distinct. Observers would say that some techniques resembled those of Lau Gar… Others resembled CHOY GAR… and naturally much remained in the roots of FUT GAR. Jeong Hung Sing decided to name his style after the combined names of these styles: CHOY LAY FUT! It is important to note that the three forms known today as the three Buck Sing forms were taught to Jeong Yim Hung Sing by his masters and he was possibly not taught any weapons.
Having formulated and named this new Kung Fu style, Jeong Hung Sing decided to head for the city of FUT SAN to establish and teach it. Before leaving however, he taught CHOY LAY FUT to CHAN KOON PAK who in turn taught it to CHAN YIU CHI and established the lineage that survived in SUN WUI district, and continues to CHAN YONG FA in Sydney Australia. Once his Gwoon was established in FUTSAN, Jeong Hung Sing taught Lui Chan, Who in turn taught TAM SAM. THIS IS THE LINEAGE OF TRUE CHOY LAY FUT THAT WAS ESTABLISHED IN GUANGZHOU.
There is little known of what then became of Jeong Hung Sing. We know of no photo or portrait in existence, and no reported gravesite.
In summarising, Kong Hing stated clearly that FUT SAN was the home of Choy Lay Fut, and spoke of a NEW Choy Lay Fut association that was being formed to propagate this true history.
Footnote:
During the visit to the Buck Sing Gwoon Melbourne by Leong Ji, He told us that the most common known history of Choy Lay Fut is incorrect, stating that:
"Chang Hung was not the sole founder of Choy Lay Fut but rather the person who planted the seed of its true development.
Jeong Hung Sing, one of Chan Heung's short-term students, is really credited developing Choy Lay Fut Hung Sing style to the deadly and lethal level of skill that it is today.
Leong Ji said, "The first Hung Sing Gwoon was opened in Fut San…" "Chan Heung was not a Kung Fu master, He was a scholar, and did he not develop the art of Choy Lay Fut…" "It was Jeong Hung Sing who developed Choy Lay Fut."
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