15 Facts About Hung Ga

Hung Ga, Hung Kuen, or Hung Ga Kuen is a southern Chinese martial art belonging to the southern Shaolin styles.

The hallmarks of Hung Ga are strong stances, notably the horse stance, or "si ping ma", and strong hand techniques, notably the bridge hand and the versatile tiger claw.

Hung Ga is sometimes mischaracterized as solely external—that is, reliant on brute physical force rather than the cultivation of qi—even though the student advances progressively toward an internal focus.

Hung Ga practiced the arts during an era when the Shaolin Temple had become a refuge for those that opposed the ruling class, allowing him to practice in semi-secrecy.

Character "Hung Ga" was used in the reign name of the emperor who overthrew the Mongol Yuan Dynasty to establish the Han Chinese Ming Dynasty, opponents of the Manchu Qing Dynasty made frequent use of the character in their imagery.

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Hung Ga is said to have added to Tiger Crane the bridge hand techniques and rooting of the master Tit Kiu Saam as well as long arm techniques, attributed variously to the Fat Ga, Lo Hon, and Lama styles.

Curricula of different branches of Hung Ga differ tremendously with regard to routines and the selection of weapons, even within the Wong Fei-hung lineage.

Those branches that do not descend from Wong Fei-hung, are sometimes called "old" or "village" Hung Ga Kuen, do not practice the routines he choreographed, nor do the branches that do not descend from Tit Kiu Saam practice Iron Wire.

Curriculum which Jee Sin Sim See taught Hung Ga Hei-gun is said to have comprised Tiger style, Luohan style, and Taming the Tiger routine.

Ha Sei Fu Hung Ga of Leung Wah-chew is a Five Animal style with a separate routine for each animal.

From Miu Hin, the Five-Pattern Hung Ga Kuen passed to his daughter Miu Tsui-fa, and from his daughter to his grandson Fong Sai-yuk, both Chinese folk heroes like Jee Sin Sim See, Ng Mui, and their forebear Miu Hin.

The Hung Ga Mun began life in the 1760s as the Heaven and Earth Society, whose founders came from the prefecture of Zhangzhou in Fujian Province, on its border with Guangdong, where one of its founders organized a precursor to the Heaven and Earth Society in Huizhou.

Hung Ga held incredible knowledge and had the full Hung Kuen system passed down from Lam Sai-wing.

Hung Ga succeeded in successful innovations and creative additions of various Hand and Weapon Routines.

Hung Ga later married Wong Siu-ying, who began learning Hung Ga from her husband.