HungGar is WingChun

Differences are similarities between styles of kung fu:

Hung Gar is Wing Chun

Interview released in occasion of the last visit in Italy by dr. Chiu Chi Ling, grand master of Hung Gar kung fu to sifu Giuseppe Cucci.

Many practising and people that they take an interest of martial arts, want to understand if I there have pointed of contact between the different styles of kung fu. He on the matter is recently intervened, in an interview, the grand master Chiu Chi Ling (one of the greatest living experts of the Hung Gar style). The fonts bring again to support of his reasoning's, Lin Nam pugilistic of Singapore originates from the association, with written articles during the period 1955/ 1993 and reported also on the newspaper of the H.K.C.M.A.A.L. dated 1995.

The history of the Hung Gar style tells that a student of the monk Shaolin Gee Sim Sin See (during the Ching dynasty, Kun Lon period) called Hung Hei Gung, after have received the direct teaching from the aforesaid monk, he went in the south from China, precisely in the city of Guangzhou (Canton) for look for job. He came familiarly called from the friends with the abbreviation of his name, Hei Gung.

To Canton, he found job like cook and boatman on a small boat that he ferried the inhabitants from a bank to the other of the river for small shifts between the near villages. His boat had called "red boat," from the strong red colour of his hull.

You are told that once, during a crossing, the current of the river carried Hei Gung along a district of Canton that had not ever visited. He on that bank had faced from a gang of outlaw that they intended make pay the toll for have arrested in that area. Hei Gung, you are refused to pay, he was forced to use the his excellent kung fu for succeed to have the good on the group of bandits that they had attacked it for steal it of his possessions. Many citizens saw the clash and appreciated the his big ability of fighter. In succession the same people asked with insistence that has taught them to fight, that they could learn the "secret of the his big martial ability." He began to teach and shortly time found with a thick group of students that they followed his lessons to the Sai Sim monasteries in Canton and to the Fu Kong Han temple. Departed of the time, Hei Gung, a woman knew whose name was Fong Wing Chun (also she experienced in martial arts) and he married it. He to her taught part of his acquaintances and he with her continued to teach to those people that they want to learn, as he often happened that the practises happens in narrow places or straight, during the pauses of job and therefore on the boat where he was cook. To his death many of his students continued to hand down the style of Hung Hei Gung as like also his wife, Fong Wing Chun that continued to teach what he had learned from his husband.

Nowadays the Hung Gar style one practice in all the world and he comes taught also to the soldiers of the Chinese army. In more recent times the Hung Gar finds his maxima practising the legendary Wong Fei Hung between the, three of the called fighters "the ten tigers of Canton" they practised this style, and in Lam Sai Wing succession, Chiu Kao, Chan Hon Chung, Lam Jo (only for quote most famous).

In the Hung Gar style the technique has contained in the forms where, in the varied Gung Gee Fook Fu Kuen, Tid Sin Kuen, Fu Hok Seung Ying Kuen, Wu Dip, finds synthesized all the system. E' yes clear, that between the Hung Gar and the Wing Chun there are many similarities, both uses the manikin of wood, both has the inch power punch and many of the concepts is similar. According to the grand master dr. Chiu Chi Ling that is true in as the styles originate from the same region of the south from China, only that, being the younger Wing Chun, he has very absorbed from the more ancient style, the Hung Gar. The motive of the small shifts of the Wing Chun style is perhaps dictated from the fact that Hei Gung and his wife taught in narrow spaces that didn't permit, therefore, ample shifts. The Hung Gar Kuen style could be defined "complete," he has a more elevated number than techniques as regards the Wing Chun, many more forms, he includes the study of varied I arm, of the traditional medicine, of the lion dance. The idea of GM dr. Chiu Chi Ling is that Hung Hei Gung and his wife exchanged the techniques of their cognisance, inclusive the techniques of the "sticky hands." There he is enough to makes one add that the Hung Gar boasts a descent directed from a Shaolin monk, Gee Sim Sin See, and results a complex style, rich, while the Wing Chun is more recent and more easy learning.

In conclusion the grand master dr. Chiu Chi Ling wishes to all the apprentices of consider the history of the varied styles of kung fu that they are practised attentively. Only as the possibility will be had, from part of the students, of create of the opinions on the truthfulness of any affirmations that at times circulate in the environment of the Martial Chinese Arts.