Hung Sing USA

SIFU FRANK “JEW, HUNG LOONG” MCCARTHY
BORN 1968
3RD GENERATION U.S.A. HUNG SING BRANCH DISCIPLE
5TH GENERATION FUT SAN HUNG SING CHOY LEE FUT DISCIPLE

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                                                     Sifu Frank Joseph McCarthy a.k.a. Jew Hung Loong has been doing martial arts for the most part of his life. Both his father and older brother were black belts in Karate, and they were his main inspiration to travel along the same path. He started with Karate, then moved on to Tai Mantis, and eventually on to Tai Kwan Do, all before the age of 13. Still, none of these styles were what he was searching for, so he quit the lessons and sticking to his street fighting abilties for the time being.

Meanwhile, Sifu Frank hooked up with a couple of friends who were also martial artists, all from different styles. Although he couldn’t actively practice at the Tien Loong Gung Fu Club he practiced everything he learned and stayed only with the Choy Lee Fut style. Whenever he and his two friends (Harry Salas and Alan Bartolome) got together it was nonstop sparring no matter where they were be it in the kitchen, living room, in a mall, or even out in the streets. “We used go out cruising and we’ be throwing punches at each other in the car until we got to a red light. Then the cars doors would swing open and all 3 of us would spill out into the streets in a flurry of kicks and punches. People who saw this was like ‘what the hell? Then we’d just pile into the car when the light turned green and keep on going until the next light and it would start all over again. That is one of the reasons we became known as the 3 Deadly Dragons” adds Sifu McCarthy.

In 1987 only two months after turning 19 years old sifu McCarthy was involved in a serious accident where he ended up paralyzed from the waist down resulting from a 50 ft fall. He broke 3 parts of his back, almost died within the first 3 hours of surgery, and was told he would never walk again. This tore him up inside because aside from walking, he would never be able to practice gung fu again, which for him was even more devestating news.

Still, Sifu McCarthy has been a survivor since childhood, and turning to his figther within along with Mental Gung Fu, a form of meditation that originally was meant to aid him in memorizing his gung fu techinqiues he managed to revive his legs and did what everyone believed he wouldn’t. On January 11, 1988 he walked out of that hospital in only two of the expected 6 month recovery stay there, turning all of his doctors into liars.

Around 1991, Sifu McCarthy’s recovery from his accident had come to a stand still. He walked with two canes and literally was taking one step at a time. His recovery wasn’t moving fast enough so he decided that gung fu was going to become his savior. On the two canes, he returned to the Tien Loong Gung Fu Club and asked regardless of his physical condition to be let back into the school. Grand Master Salvatera then took him personally under his wing and foresaw all of his training first hand.The first stage of Grand Master Salvatera’s plan was to start over from scratch, and made him practice the various Choy Lee Fut horses which eventually began to rebuild the strength in his legs as well as stability. Then it was the running horses mixed along with the Hung Sing Chut Sing Kuen stances which slowly helped him to regain his mobility and the confidence to try and take it to the next level. And the final phase of Grand Master Salvatera’s plan was basically forms practice retraining him from scratch how to maneuver in the Choy Lee Fut manner.

Over time as he progressively got stronger and stronger, Sifu McCarthy began to compete against world class performers, even managing to take home a few 1^st and 2^nd place trophies in the process. Little did his competitors know that he wasn’t nearly ready to compete, but sifu McCarthy was determined to get back to normal as much as possible so he never let them know about his condition.

Sometime in the mid 1990’s Sifu McCarthy earned the title of Sifu under Grand Master Dino Salvatera. Ever since, he has worked hard at promoting Professor Lau Bun’s legacy by reaching out to other Hung Sing Kwoon’s around the world, reminding them that they still had one of their own in America. According to Sifu McCarthy, the Hung Sing Lineage in America was locked away tightly within the walls of Chinatown, behind the scenes and out of sight from the non-chinese public for decades, so no one outside of San Francisco really ever knew we existed, especially in Asia until I began my co-respondance.

In the mean time Sifu McCarthy began teaching small groups of people. Included in his students was a man named Henry who is in a wheel chair, partially paralyzed from the neck down, whose dream was to learn martial arts but because of his handicap believed it would never happen. Henry couldn’t open his hands so Sifu McCarthy worked with his limitations and taught him to use the crane techniques, elbows, upper cuts and even sow choys, as well as various blocking techniques. Sifu McCarthy also taught Henry how to use his electric wheelchair as a weapon if needed.

Then in October of 2001 Sifu McCarthy along with two of his classmates and Grand Master Salvatera took a trip to China to Participate in the 150^th anniversary of the organization of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon. There, Grand Master Salvatera has managed to retrace Professor Lau Buns roots to which to have been proven to be true and authentic Fut San Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut by the Fut San elders. During their trip, Sifu McCarthy was faced with a unique opportunity, and with the blessings Grand Master Salvatera, he took Master Lok Gee Hung as his Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon Sifu, who was a senior student of the late Ho Cheurng.

GRAND MASTER
DENNIS “JEW TIEN LOONG” SALVATERA
(1945-PRESENT)
HEAD MASTER OF THE U.S.A. HUNG SING BRANCH

鸿胜 蔡李佛

 2ND SUCCESSOR

4TH GENERATION MASTER OF THE

HUNG SING CHOY LEE FUT SYSTEM

Grand Master Dennis “Dino” Salvatera is the current head master of the Yuen Hai/Lau Bun lineage of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon. This lineage is responsible for being the very first gung fu school to be established on American soil (circa 1921), specifically teaching the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut system. Today its the oldest existing school of chinese gung fu in the United States.

GM Salvatera was born in San Francisco’s Chintatown at the Chinese Hospital. He was born in 1945, and raised during a very racially turbulent period in America’s history. Westerners didn’t take too kindly to Asians, and often mistreated them. And since GM Salvatera was of a racially mixed background, and physically smaller than most his own age, he often had to defend himself from bullies of all walks of life.

Due to the circumstances, GM Salvatera had to become a fighter from a very young age. Many of his friends were already in street gangs, which was very common within the inner city. It was in 1958 in fact that through one of his friends who was a student of Professor Lau Bun that GM Salvatera received his first exposure to the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut system.

Professor Jew Leong was the 1st inheritor of Professor Lau Bun’s Hung Sing Kwoon. And after the passing of Master Bing Chan, GM Salvatera and a group of his classmates decided they wanted to continue their gung fu training, and chose Professor Jew as their new sifu. This way they never went outside the family to keep up with their learning.

After shaking off the after effects of his former life, GM Salvatera chose to delve into learning gung fu full time. Under Professor Jew, he trained every day for at least 4-5 hours a day, even if no one else showed up. It was appearant that gung fu began to take on a positive role in his life. Instead of going out and getting into trouble, he would focus on refining and perfecting his gung fu religiously.

Over time, GM Salvatera was becoming the main attraction in Hung Sing street peformances held all over the San Francisco bay area. Some of his more notable peformances were when he demonstrated the Kwan Do, Double Hatchets, or even his 5 animal internal form.

In 1970, at the age of 25, Salvatera began to privately teaching with his first student (Yusef Hannibal). But his reputation as a good teacher grew, and many wanted to come and learn from GM Salvatera. Over time, the demand was so great GM Salvatera decided he would need a bigger place to teach. So, at the advice of his first student, he began teaching members of the Black Muslims, the Black Panthers, and other youths and adults at the Famous Glyde Memorial Church. At the same time, he was teaching San Francisco’s version of the “Red Guard” at the old historical Hungry I.

Approximately 1975, with the encouragement of his students and friends, Salvatera opened his own school in the Sunset District in San Francisco, calling it the “Tien Loong Gung Fu Club”. Although he had his own group of student now Salvatera continued to make it a point to keep returning to Professor Jew to study at the Hung Sing Studio as often as he could and regularly returned to assist his Sifu in supervising all the lion dance performances.

A milestone in GM Salvatera’s martial arts career happened at the turn of the century when he and a small group of students travelled to China to uncover their roots by visting the birthplace of Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut. Not knowing what to expect, GM Salvatera and his students intended to make a good impression on the members of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon, and set up a little demonstration where the elders of the Fut San HSK instantly recognized Professor Lau Bun’s Gung Fu as true and authentic, directly coming from Fut San.

The very next year in October of 2001, GM Salvatera and his school was invited back to participate in the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon’s 150′th anniversary celebration where he and a couple of his students were directly involved in the opening ceremonies at one of the original Hung SIng Kwoon’s which was owned by Tong Sek. At the same time he and his students were presented with a rare opportunity of taking new sifu’s from the birthplace itself.

In October of 2001 Grand Master Salvatera was instrumental in re-introducing Professor Lau Bun and the long forgotten son (Yuen Hai) to the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon who in turn welcomed Grand Master Salvatera back into the family with open arms re-installing Lau Bun to his rightful place in the family tree of the original Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon. Since then he (GM Salvatera) continously returns to Fut San to train under his sifu Ho Cheuk Wah. Gm Salvatera not only teaches Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut from the Lau Bun and Chan Ngau Sing lines, outside of China he is the only person teaching Choy Lee Fut from the Wong Sei lineage in the United States.

GM SALVATERA DEFENDS AGAINST THEDEADLY CYMBOLS

PROFESSOR JEW LEONG AND GM DINO SALVATERA

GM SALVATERA PERFORMING 5 ANIMALS IN CHINATOWN

GM SALVATERA, MAYOR WILLIE BROWN, SIFU FRANK MCCARTHY

Gm Salvatera poses with Sigung He Xiang

(HUNG SING) TIEN LOONG KWOON (circa mid 1980’s)

GM SALVATERA’S SOW GERK

GM SALVATERA’S CRANE POSE

GM HO CHERK WAH INSTRUCTING GM SALVATERA IN THE FINER POINTS OF THE STAFF FORM

GM SALVATERA WORKING WITH CHAN NGAU SING’S GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER (TSO CHI HAN) AT FUT SAN HUNG SING

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Professor Jew Leong
1926-Present
1st Successor to the U.S.A. Branch Hung Sing Kwoon
3rd Generation Master of the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut system

Professor Jew Leong (Jimmy Ming Jew) or Leong Goh (brother Leong) as he is called by his close friends was born on October 02, 1926, and is a native of Southern China’s Say Yup village in Canton. In the late 1930’s Professor Jew’s family left their home and headed for the United States in search of a better life, and decided to move to San Francisco. As did many of the Chinese new to the bay area, they settled down in the city’s Chinatown district.

In 1941 there were only about two gung fu teachers in the whole San Francisco area, they were Lau Bun a Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut master, and T.Y. Wong- a Shaolin Fut Ga master. Professor Jew was just a young boy then and really wanted to learn gung fu. A friend of his mentioned that he could possibly set up a meeting with Lau Bun since he was accepting new students.

At the time Lau Bun-a high ranking 2^nd generation disciple of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon under Master Yuen Hai, the most senior of Jeong Hung Sings students- was calling his school “Wah Kuen” which was located at 916 Clay Street. Professor Jew couldn’t wait, and after meeting Lau Bun, at the age of 14 he expressed his wishes to become a student and Lau Bun accepted him into his school which later changed its name to Hung Sing Kwoon to reflect their lineage to the birthplace in Fut San.

Professor Jew Leong (Jimmy Ming Jew) or Leong Goh (brother Leong) as he is called by his close friends was born on October 02, 1926, and is a native of Southern China’s Say Yup village in Canton. In the late 1930’s Professor Jew’s family left their home and headed for the United States in search of a better life, and decided to move to San Francisco. As did many of the Chinese new to the bay area, they settled down in the city’s Chinatown district.

In 1941 there were only about two gung fu teachers in the whole San Francisco area, they were Lau Bun a Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut master, and T.Y. Wong- a Shaolin Fut Ga master. Professor Jew was just a young boy then and really wanted to learn gung fu. A friend of his mentioned that he could possibly set up a meeting with Lau Bun since he was accepting new students.

At the time Lau Bun-a high ranking 2^nd generation disciple of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon under Master Yuen Hai, the most senior of Jeong Hung Sings students- was calling his school “Wah Kuen” which was located at 916 Clay Street. Professor Jew couldn’t wait, and after meeting Lau Bun, at the age of 14 he expressed his wishes to become a student and Lau Bun accepted him into his school which later changed its name to Hung Sing Kwoon to reflect their lineage to the birthplace in Fut San.

Lau Bun was recognized as one of the most authentic gung fu masters ever to set foot on American soil. A true master from the old school, and an old fashioned teacher. According to Professor Jew training under Lau Bun was tough because he demanded a lot from his students. Just the first 6 months could be spent doing the Jot Ma, or Horse Stance training before learning any hands.

It was obvious that Professor Jew was dedicated to learning gung fu. “He was determined to train hard, and when he wasn’t at the gung fu school he would practice at home often. However, due to World War II Professor Jew had to cut his gung fu training short to serve in the Army/Aircore. Once the war was over, he returned to the Hung Sing Kwoon and continued his learning under Lau Bun. Lau Bun taught Professor Jew to pay strict attention to every detail of the techniques he was taught, which according to Grand Master Dino Salvatera later earned him the nickname of “The Master Technician” by his students.

Between 1939-1967 public gung fu performances were a rare treat for most non-Chinese folks. Lau Bun’s Hung Sing Kwoon was the first to ever demonstrate Chinese gung fu to the general public. Professor Jew quickly rose in the ranks amongst the senior studenst while gaining much recognition for his awesome street performances. Due to his great physical shape and massive arms, his hand and weapon forms such as Sup Ji Kau Da, Tiger Fork, Steel Whip, Staff and the Kwan Do to name a few was an incredible sight to behold. One of his trademark sets to perform was the Shaolin internal 5 animal form called Um Ying Kuen.

Fut San Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut’s

Green Grass Monk

A major source of controversy

The Green Grass Monk for a long time has been at the center of many heated discussions. Ever since the founding of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon in 1851, the Green Grass Monk has always been part of the Fut san Hung Sing lineage since he was Jeong Hung Sing’s last sifu, the one who completed his training.

Now, there are many members of the Chan Family of Choy Lee Fut who’ve completely dismissed the existance of the Green Grass Monk, calling him a fictional character that the Hung Sing Kwoon has made up to elevate themselves within the Choy Lee Fut family tree going back to Chan Heung. And, personally, I’ve contacted a certain master within the Chan Family branch of Choy Lee Fut in regards to learning more about the Green Grass Monk. The response i received was summarized as follows: “There are no records anywhere in the Chan Family scripts that mention the Green Grass Monk. He just didn’t exist.”

However, the Fut San Hung Sing lineage has always maintained that Chan Heung sent Jeong Yim to the Green Grass Monk. This information hadn’t been passed down to us by some fictional story by Nim Fut San Yan. The history of our lineage has always been passed down by word of mouth by those who were too iliterate to write their own names. Sometimes, they didn’t even know when they were born.

According to Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon caretaker Huang Shenjiang, right after the Japanese invasion, Ancestor Tablets were found amongst the rubble in front of destroyed Hung Sing Kwoons which had the Green Grass Monk’s name on it. Also, China’s Premier Zhou Enlai instructed Hung Sing disciple Chen Yilin to include the Green Grass Monk’s name when writing the history of the Hung Sing Kwoon 100 years beginning to end.

Now, further research has uncovered bits and pieces of this incredibly elusive monk.
Still, the Green Grass Monk has been mentioned within such styles as Shaolin, and Hung Ga. Both have placed the Green Grass Monk at the Southern Shaolin Temple, as the Abbott of Shaolin right after Gee Sim Sim See passed away. To learn more about this information click here. Various websites such as this one Click Here
refers to the Green Grass Monk as the man in charge of the Wooden Men Chambers as well as being the Abbott of Shaolin.

The Shaolin Temple also has the Green Grass Monk’s alias as Xing Yin. Certain elder masters of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon believe the Green Grass Monk to be Cai Dezhong, who was a monk at the Shaolin Temple and later became known as the founder of the Hung Mun secret society. Yet, its extremely possible that they are one and the same, and evidence shows that Cai Dezhong existed in the late 1700’s.

Being that Cai Dezhong was one of the 5 Hung Mun Ancestors, and the Fact that the Green Grass Monk changed Jeong Yim’s name to Jeong Hung Sing which means Hung Victory, a secret reference to the Hung Mun winning in their attempt at overthrowing the Ching Empire is a step closer to discovering the truth.

Now, in 1841 when Jeong Yim located the Green Grass Monk, it was in ShenJiang, at the Pak Pai Mountain. The Green Grass Monk then proceeded to teach Jeong Yim one very important hand form. It was called Inside/Outside Bagua Kuen. But, that form was later broken up into three forms by Chan Ngau Sing to make learning a little easier for the newer generation of students who wanted to learn very fast.

As well, Jeong Yim never passed down the idea that the Green Grass Monk had any notable scars of identifying marks. But this is where our issues begin.

A few years back, I got onto the Kungfumagazine.com forum and started a discussion about the Green Grass Monk. Many Choy Lee Fut students begin arguing and things were getting out of control. But one benefit from all the mess that took place was my discussion caused many Choy Lee Fut disciples to ask their sifu’s about the Green Grass Monk.

Then, much to the surprise of ALL the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon disciples, a certain gung fu master made a statement that a mistake was made in the translation, and actually the Green Grass Monk is really Choy Fook, Chan Heung’s 3rd teacher. This announcement set the Choy Lee Fut family on their ears. It was completely shocking to hear that after almost 200 years, and browsing through the family manuals that NO ONE ever read that the Green Grass Monk was Choy Fook?!?!

Well, what happened? At first Chan Family members completely denied the Green Grass Monk for decades, but only when his name raised up so much attention, did the Chan Family shockingly make that claim of Choy Fook being Ching Cho. No way. Now, everywhere i read on the net (in chinese mainly) that Choy Fook is the Green Grass Monk.

Choy Fook lived on Mt. Lau Fu, and had a scar on his head after it got burned while escaping from the temple’s destructioin. In fact, Choy Fook’s nickname was Lan Tau Fook or Burned Head Fook.

Now, knowing that very specific information about Choy Fook, there’s one big problem with him being the Green Grass Monk. One, is the Green Grass Monk was on Mt. Pak Pai in ShenJiang, not Mt. Lau Fu. While, the other issue was that the Green Grass Monk was never said to have such telltale scars like that of Choy Fook. Another contradiction is the Green Grass Monk is known to have been a Fut Ga master, while nowhere could that have been said about Choy Fook.

Okay, in the history of our branch, Jeong Yim went back to King Mui and shared what he learned from the Green Grass Monk with Chan Heung. This made Jeong Yim a “founder” of Choy Lee Fut, or perhaps even co-founder. It was at that point that the two separately developed their respective systems. Chan Heung kept his stuff for his family, while Jeong Yim took the Lee Ga from Lee Yau San, the early stages of Chan Heung’s Choy Lee Fut, and Fut ga and founded his own version called Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut.

(Still under construction)

QIAN WEI FANG

FUT SAN HUNG SING KWOON

CHAN,WAI-FONG BORN IN SOM SOY WONG TONG HEUNG AS A YOUNG LAD HE WAS A CONSTRUCTION WORKER WHO LOVED VERY MUCH MARTIAL ARTS AND BECAME THE ELDEST STUDENT OF CHAN,SING. BEFORE THE REVOLUTION CHAN,WAI-FONG JOINED THE BROTHERHOOD ASSOCIATION UNDER LEE,SO WHO LED THE CIVILIAN MILITIA TO OVERTAKE FUT-SAN,IN 1922CHAN,WAI-FONG JOINED THE COMMUNIST PARTY BEING 1 OF 4 MEMBERS FROM FUT-SAN’S COMMUNIST PARTY THAT SAME YEAR HE BECAME SUPERINTENDENT OF THE FUT-SAN LABOR UNION,THEN IN 1925 BECAME EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE SAME UNION.HE WAS LEADER OF THE FUT-SAN LABOR REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. ON APRIL 12,1927 CHANG,KAI-SHEK STARTED THE ANTI-REVOLUTIONARY COUP,CHAN,WAI-FONG PERSISTED IN HIS UNDERGROUND ACTIVITES and PARTICIPATED IN THE GUANGZHOU PROTESTS AFTER THE PROTESETS FAILED HE WENT TO HONG KONG AND CHANGED HIS NAME TO CHAN, GEE-SAHOW TO TEACH MARTIAL ARTS AND PRACTICE HIS MEDICENE AFTER THE ANTI-JAPANESE WAR STARTED CHAN,WAI-FONG WITH UM,KAN WENT BACK TO FUT-SAN AND JOINED THE THE JAPANESE CASUALTY MOVEMENT. HE STARTED “KILL THE ENEMY” BROADSWORD CLASSES AT HUNG SING STUDIOAND ORGANIZED THE THE CIVILIAN MILITIA AND WAS PERSECUTED BY THE KUO- MING- TONG NATIONALISTS AND WAS FORCED TO RETURN BACK TO HONG KONG AT THE FAREWELL GATHERING HE SAID TO HIS HUNG SING BROTHERS THAT THERE SHOULD BE ANOTHER SET OF COUPLETS ON THE HUNG SING GATE READING “THE REVOLUTION IS NOT YET SUCESSFUL, BROTHERS MUST FIGHT ON STILL” ENCOURAGING BROTHERS TO PERSIST IN FIGHTTING ON. AFTER A SHORT PERIOD IN HONG KONG HE PASSED ON

Wu Qin

Wu industrious martyr
Wu is industrious(1895-1942), original Wu Qinben,GuangdongprovinceFoshansuburb (now link small town) Nampo village Dongguan person. Poor peasant family background, sextual affection military technique, when youth once apprenticed oneself to Foshan great wild goose victory hall Chen Shengshou person Qian Weifang 习武, also acceptedthe communismthought. Long ago joinedthe democratic revolution which Sun Yat-Sen led. In 1924 joinedthe Communist Party of China.
The democratic revolution time, in 1923 for maintained the fellow villager life and property and the place public security, planned to organize the native village 民团, rejectedforSouth China Sea county lotus China 46 townships 民团 joint defenses bureau Bureau Chief Chen Gongshou. The latter appropriate time Foshan labor union organizes person’s communist party member Liang Furan and Shi Qianwei the side support assistance, goes to the province to report the sentiment to farm workerDepartment Chief Liao ZhongJoy, a generation of application organizes the Nampo township agriculture group, must attain the authorized establishment. From this time on, Wu Qin knew all feudal old society are unreliable, then was determined is walking with the communist party, wages the struggle with the reactionary forces.
The Great Revolutiontime, in 1924 in under the Chinese Communist Party Foshan party organization’s leadership and the support, established the Guangdong agriculture to transport the earlier revolutionary armed forces agriculture group armed force. In the same year says in the Guangzhou agriculture studies, for the second session of graduate. In May, 1925 organized the peasant association, no matter what the Nanhai County four areas peasant association association presidents, led the farmer populace to launch the gigantic farmer revolutionary movement. Sets up the farmer dependent’s school, and assists Foshan 工代会 (Qian Weifang for committee chairman) to advance the development progress labor movement, arrests the Buddha town 大魁 hall 劣绅 not 洳 to supply and so on, criticizes them to embezzle the Buddha town righteousness warehouse government money, attacks the Foshan merchant militia merchant strike the struggle. In April, when 1927 Great Revolution’s defeat, escapes from great danger, later still firmly will run Nanhai County greatly to draining, township and so on Lei Gang instigates the township peasant association to continue to struggle, but is suppressed is defeated.
Agrarian Revolutionary Wartime, in 1927 no matter what the Nanhai County farmer Red Guards 2nd are all round long, coordinates the Guangzhou Uprising, is defeated latter to go into exile Hong Kong, goes through many places arrives at Singapore, lives in seclusion to 山塘 Pakistan what 权家 center, cultivates makes the shield. In 1934, Japan invaded China, the people starts the opposition to Japan to struggle. Then returns to the port from Singapore, returns to one’s native country together with Qian Weifang.
The Sino-Japanese Wartime, in 1937 is sent back the party committee area Foshan to organize to oppose Japan the military equipment, after establishes the against Japan volunteer force has fired the first gun which the Zhujiang Delta enemy opposes Japan. In 1938 inShunde, the South China Sea border place, organized “the people’s against Japan volunteer force”, firmly waged the heartless struggle with the Japanese forces.KuomintangGuangdong Province province party committee’s book machine 湛 young Cen andGuangzhoumayor once raised 甫 heard that, arranged the Wu industrious subordinates for the Guangdong Province opposition to Japan guerrilla warfare 2nd crew (abbreviation province swims two crews), was appointed crew commander, attacked Japan the puppet army. Under 1940 transformed into the troop the party to lead the important opposition to Japan to arm, repeatedly set up the meritorious military service, heavily has attack enemy’s false arrogance. Successively in the present sea, Shunde, Panyu, three Shui Gexian attacks Japan the puppet army, eliminates the landlord to arm, eliminates deceitful kills the tyrant, obtains the magnificent victory. South famous campaign, by three security greatly good towns, the west sea war of annihilation, captures the village Big Dipper post, attacks Panyu city bridge Li Langji the puppet army and 金橘 the mouth fierce combat and so on, causes Japan, falsely to panic at the news. Therefore the date, false regards as the trusted friend big trouble, serves with assassinates the violent treachery, wants but to be quick after it. On May 7, 1942, the Japanese and Puppet has bought at that time Kuomintang 3rd garrison Chief Lin Xiaoya in anticipation by the large sum of money thick wealth, after the Kuomintang sanmin youth corps enemies raiding party Chief Liang you the spring, person and so on Li puppet army Li Deming, while was date Wu industrious because of events arrives the Chen village opportunity, ambushes in advance in the Chen village “Shui Zhihua” (geographic name) 步头 the shore. After the noon, the fruit sees the Wu industrious husbands and wives and the attache rides the ship by the opposite shore to ford comes, when from Wu Tingshi to the average, namely puts the machine gun strafe, Wu Qin and so on is unexpected, on the scene is hit died, when 47 years. Afterwards, broadly swims 2 crews to change by Lin Qiangyun is commander, latter changes name the Pearl River garrison, until in 1945 opposed Japan the victory to end.
The Wu industrious loyal Yu Dang’s enterprise, for the people’s liberation enterprise struggle rest, is not the Zhujiang Delta people’s good son, the people forever fondly remembers him. After in 1949 Foshan liberated, the Nanhai County government office and the Foshan municipal government, then in front of the Nampo township (spot market city big luck Lu Weida nearby the bridge head, constructed “the Wu industrious martyrs’ cemetery”, engraved 碑记 its life revolution fact, supplied to be grieved by reminder of deceased and to inspire the posterity. In 1982 repaired, memorial park 苍松翠柏, in the dignified solemn and respectful cemetary, had Wu Qin, Deng Zhuoying and Wu Jianben martyr’s mausoleum, for the sand cement masonry and building, in front of the grave was standing erect 5.3 meter high reinforced concrete monument, on had Lin Qiangyun the topic “grave of the Wu industrious martyr”, in front of the tablet about respectively had the cabin. Is the Foshan people cherishes the memory of the martyrs the important place.
吴勤

吴勤烈士
吴勤（1895-1942），原名吴勤本，广东省佛山市近郊（今环市镇）南浦村东莞地人。贫农出身，性爱武技，少年时曾师事佛山鸿胜馆陈盛首徒钱维芳习武，且接受共产主义思想。早年参加孙中山领导的民主革命。1924年加入中国共产党。
民主革命时期，1923年为维护乡亲生命财产和地方治安，拟组织本乡民团，为南海县莲华46乡民团联防总局局长陈恭受拒绝。后得当时佛山工联会组织人的共产党员梁复然与师钱维方支持协助，赴省将情向农工厅长廖仲恺报告，代申请组织南浦乡农团，得获批准成立。从此，吴勤更认识一切封建旧社会不可靠，遂决心跟着共产党走，与反动势力作斗争。
大革命时 期，1924年在中共佛山党组织的领导和支持下，成立了广东农运较早的革命武装农团军。同年在广州农讲所学习、为第二届毕业生。1925年5月组织农民协 会，任南海县四区农民协会会长，领导农民群众展开了轰轰烈烈的农民革命运动。开办农民子弟学校，并协助佛山市工代会（钱维方为主委）推进发展进步工运，拘 捕佛镇大魁堂劣绅莫洳供等，清算他们贪污佛镇义仓公款，打击佛山商团罢市的斗争。1927年4月大革命失败时，逃出虎口，以后仍坚决奔走南海县大沥、雷冈 等乡策动乡农会继续斗争，但均被镇压而失败。
土地革命战争时期，1927年任南海县农民赤卫军第2团团长，配合广州起义，失败后一度流亡香港，辗转抵达新加坡，隐居于山塘巴何权家中，以耕种作掩护。1934年，日本侵略中国，人民掀起抗日斗争。遂从新加坡回港，与钱维方共同返国。
抗日战争时期，1937年受党委派回佛山一带组织抗日武装，所建立的抗日义勇队打响了珠江三角洲敌后抗日的第一枪。1938年在顺德、南海交界地方，组织一支“人民抗日义勇队”，坚决与日军作无情斗争。国民党广东省省党部书机湛小岑及广州市 长曾养甫所闻，将吴勤所部编为广东省抗日游击第2支队（简称省游二支队），任支队司令员，攻打日伪军。1940年间将队伍改造成为党领导下的重要抗日武 装，屡立战功，沉重打击了敌伪的气焰。先后在现海、顺德、番禺、三水各县攻击日伪军，消灭地主武装，除奸杀霸，取得辉煌战果。其中著名战役，以三次保卫大 良镇，西海歼灭战，夺取南村七星冈，进攻番禺市桥李朗鸡伪军及金橘嘴激战等，使日、伪闻风丧胆。因此日、伪视为心腹大患，施以暗杀毒手，欲除之而后快。 1942年5月7日，日伪事前以重金厚禄收买了当时国民党第3纵队队长林小亚，国民党三青团敌后挺进队大队长梁汝泉、李部伪军李德明等人，乘是日吴勤因事 到陈村之机，预先埋伏在陈村“水枝花”（地名）步头岸边。中午后，果见吴勤夫妻和随员由对岸乘艇渡河而来，当吴艇驶至中流，即放机枪扫射，吴勤等猝不及 防，当场中弹身亡，时47年。事后，广游2支队改由林锵云为司令员，后改名珠江纵队，直至1945年抗日胜利而结束。
吴勤忠诚于党的事业，为人民解放事业奋斗不息，是珠江三角洲人民的好儿子，人民永远怀念他。1949年佛山解放后，南海县府和佛山市府，遂在南浦乡前（现 市城区大福路尾大桥头附近，建设一座“吴勤烈士陵园”，刻碑记其一生革命事迹，以供凭吊和启发后人。1982年重修，墓园一片苍松翠柏，庄严肃穆的陵园 内，有吴勤、邓卓英和吴俭本烈士的陵墓，为灰沙水泥砌筑，墓前矗立着5.3米高的钢筋混凝土纪念碑，上有林锵云题“吴勤烈士之墓”，碑前左右各有小亭。是

Jeong Ah Yim was his original name, and he was born in the Sun Wui Dong Ling Village during the Qing Dynasty. His parents were killed and he was under the care of his uncle Jeong Kwan. Starting at a very young age, Jeong Yim had a passion for learning the martial arts. His first teacher was the Shaolin Monk Lee Yau San-master of the Lee Ga system- and who is said perhaps to have been a disciple of Lee Sik Hoi-one of the 5 ancestors of the Hung Mun secret Society.

The government was after Jeong Yim for as we say “dodging the draft.” The government was trying to recruit him in the military and Jeong Yim didn’t want to go. And if things weren’t bad enough, his uncle Jeong Kwan had to leave town on business and wouldn’t be able to take his young nephew with him. So, he came up with the idea of paying his old friend in King Mui a visit. His friend was a gung fu master and founder of a new fighting system. Hoping that his old friend could take in the young Jeong Yim, they set out for King Mui’s Chan Village.

Upon their arrival in King Mui, the two were met by Chan Heung, the chief gung fu instructor there. Jeong Kwan explained their situation but was faced with the unfortunate fact that those without the Chan Surname were allowed to reside in their village much less learn their gung fu. But Jeong Kwan pleaded until Chan Heung devised a plan. He was able to take in the young boy, but only in the capacity of a groundskeeper. However, the young Jeong Yim wasn’t allowed to learn the gung fu from their village. An agreement was made and in 1836, Jeong Kwan left his young nephew with Chan Heung.

During his daily chores, the young Jeong Yim watched as the students practiced their gung fu. Since he already was accomplished by the age of 12, he was able to pick up Chan Heung’s Choy Lee Fut rather quickly. At the time, Choy Lee Fut was based off of the styles taught by Monk Choy Fook, and Lee Yau San. Jeong Yim was already familiar with the Lee Ga system, which ironically they shared the same sifu. So at night time while everyone was sleeping, Jeong Yim would practice his stolen gung fu until he was caught in the act by Chan Heung.

It’s obvious that Chan Heung saw the great potential in Jeong Yim because for the next 5 years this late night training continued. Everything went smoothly during this time, but the one time Chan Heung went away, his senior disciples decided to point their attention at the outsider Jeong Yim. Believing Jeong Yim didn’t know gung fu at all, the senior disciples ultimately got Jeong Yim to fight them. Unfortunately for them, Jeong Yim whooped them pretty badly. This forced the parents of the senior students to order Chan Heung to kick out the outsider.

Reluctantly, Chan Heung asked Jeong Yim to leave, but not before instructing him to go to the Pak Pai Mountain and locate a Shaolin Monk there to complete his training. So, in 1841, Jeong Yim left for ShenJiang and found the Monk Ching Cho Wo Serng (Green Grass Monk) at the Pak Pai Mountain. He was accepted as a student and for the next 8 years (1841-1849) Jeong Yim learned the deadly art of Fut Gar Kuen.

Monk Ching Cho or Green Grass Monk was a famous monk from the Shaolin Temple. In fact, at some point he was even the Abbott of the temple. After the destruction of the Southern Temple, Monk Ching Cho (who is also believed Tsai Te Chung-one of the 5 ancestors of the Hung Mun) helped establish the Hung Mun Secret society. Therefore,the Green Grass Monk not only taught Jeong Yim gung fu, but he instilled the revolutionary spirit within him.

Once Jeong Yim’s gung fu training was complete, the Green Grass Monk changed Jeong Yim’s name to Jeong Hung Sing, which translates into Hung Mun Victory. He then instructed Jeong Hung Sing to go to Fut San, contact the Hung Mun branch there, and offer his school to help train their revolutionary fighters. For the next two years Jeong Hung Sing intensely trained his student strictly for combat. In 1851, Jeong Hung Sing responded to the launching of the Tai Ping rebellion by organizing all his Hung Sing Kwoons throughout southern China and formally established his Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon.

Just prior to this, Jeong Hung Sing returned to King Mui where Chan Heung warmly welcomed him back. In their meetings, Jeong Hung Sing shared what he learned from the Green Grass Monk with Chan Heung. But when Jeong Hung Sing Returned to Fut San, he and Chan Heung began to separately develop the style of Choy Lee Fut. While Chan Heung’s Choy Lee Fut is based off of the Choy and Lee Ga styles, with Fut attached at the end to represent their shaolin and buddhist roots, Jeong Hung Sing’s Choy Lee Fut was developed based off his teachings from Lee Yau San, Chan Heung, and Mong Ching Cho Wo Serng. In essence, Jeong Hung Sing put the “FUT” in Choy Lee Fut.

In no time at all after the launching of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon, the effectiveness of Jeong Hung Sing’s fighting style quickly spread throughout southern China like wildfire. He was pretty busy with the fact that he was the founder of a new Choy Lee Fut system, training freedom fighters, defeating all challengers, and running from the law. Because the Hung in his name was the same as that of the Hung Mun, the government was after him, and closed down his school on more than one occasion. Each time, Jeong Hung Sing and his disciples re-opened Hung Sing Kwoons elsewhere.

Jeong Hung Sing had many, many students. But three of his oldest disciples were Lui Chun, Lee Yan, and Yuen Hai. Other students included Tham Lup, Jeong Sam Bing, Wong Sei, Chun Mien, Lee So, Wong Fook, and Chan Ngau Sing. Senior disciple Lui Chun went on to produce Tam Sam-who became the founder of the Choy Lee Fut Buk Sing lineage. Through Lee Yan’s line the Singapore Hung Sing Kwoon was established, and Yuen Hai produced Lau Bun who became the founder of the first gung fu school on the american continent, as well as the first Hung Sing Kwoon established there.

Then in 1864, the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon was closed down once again. This time, Jeong Hung Sing fled to Hong Kong where he stayed until 1967. In that year, he returned to Fut San when he believed things had coolded down and re-opened his Hung Sing Kwoon. At this point, Jeong Hung Sing had to change the “Hung” in his name to something tha sounded similar but had a different mearning. The new Hung used mean Wild Goose, yet in Chinese Culture the Goose represents longevity and could perhaps be another secret meaning of Long Live the Hung Mun.

Evidence of Jeong Hung Sing’s involvement with the Hung Mun is found in a number of places. The first is found in the pair of couplets ALL Hung Sing kwoon’s use. The left side reads, “A strong fist releases out like a tiger raising its head” while the right side reads, “A graceful staff flies above like a dragon whipping its tail.” Now, when you string the first two words of each couplet together, it means “Hero” as in revolutionary hero. Another link is found in the set up of Jeong Yim’s alter. A true Hung Mun based school will have the alter, a table in front of it, and two chairs. One is for the master, and the other is for his top disciple.

The next confirmation to the connection to the Hung Mun is the following which was discovered on the front of walls of Jeong Hung Sing’s school.

“大鹏展翼反天手，魁星踢斗清名留，拱拜五湖复四海，日月拱照万世流”
the first line reads:

The big bird spreads its wings like an overturned hand

The Second is:

the scholar who excels so much that his name or fame will remain forever

the third reads:

Salutations to the brothers in the 5 lakes and four seas or four corners

the fourth reads:

the sun will shine brilliantly for generations

( CERTAIN WORDS IN THESE LINES WHEN STRUNG TOGETHER WILL FORM THE HUNG MUN SECRET SOCIETY SLOGAN “FAN CHING FU MING” WHICH
TRANSLATES INTO “OVERTHROW THE CHING, RESTORE THE MING”)

Jeong Hung Sing continued to develop his Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut and training freedom fighters for the rest of his life. His successor-Chan Ngau Sing-didn’t come into the picture until 1883 when Jeong Hung Sing was about 60 years old. According to material passed down from the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon, Yuen Hai was responsible for recruiting Chan Ngau Sing, whom, at first was extremely skeptical of Jeong Hung Sing. He felt that he was actually better than this old gung fu master. However, the old Jeong Hung Sing matched up with Chan Ngau Sing and advised him to pay attention, because he’s going to fall first the to the east, then to the west, and finally down the center.

At the end of three quick rounds, Jeong Hung Sing honored his word, and Chan Ngau Sing landed exactly where Jeong Hung Sing, this old dying relic, predicted he would. Chan Ngau Sing learned the hard way that this old master really was one of southern China’s greatest fighters and requested to be taken as a disciple.

In 1893, Jeong Hung Sing came down with an illness, and Chan Ngau Sing tried to take him to see his own personal doctor. However, Jeong Hung Sing, founder of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon passed away due to this illness. As it’s passed down within the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon, Jeong Hung Sing left behind his wife (Chan Kay) and his two sons who died pretty young themselves. Chan Ngau Sing from that point on became the next inheritor of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon.

PROFESSOR LAU BUN
(1891-1967)
2ND GENERATION MASTER OF THE FUT SAN HUNG SING KWOON
FOUNDER OF THE 1ST U.S.A. HUNG SING (FUT SAN) BRANCH.

“AMERICA’S GUNG FU PATRIARCH”

A Native of Toi San, China, Professor Lau Bun was born in 1891 during the Ching Dynasty. He started learning gung fu (Hung Ga) as a kid. However, he switched over to the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut system after losing a friendly match of skills with one of his friends. Professor Lau’s friend was a student of Yuen Hai, who was apart of the oldest group of senior disciples of Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon founder Jeong Yim. When Professor Lau was young he was determined to become a disciple of the elder Yuen Hai.

It took some coaxing, but Lau Bun was eventually successful in convincing Yuen Hai to take him as a new student. Yuen Hai and his wife was moved into Lau Bun’s Toi San home where he began to teach the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut system to his newest disciple. Eager to learn, Lau Bun absorbed as much of the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut system as he could, including herbal medicines.

Lau Bun was taught the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut system as it was developed during his time. But unfortunately Yuen Hai passed away in Lau Bun’s home leaving behind his wife and son. Yet, his learning just didn’t stop there. Yuen Hai’s wife turned out to be part of a famous northern stylist family but she never had a student to pass on her gung fu to. Yuen Hai Si-Mo chose Lau Bun to pass on a traditional Shaolin form called Um Ying Kuen (5 Animals) which is still passed on today through Grand Master Doc Fai Wong, Grand Master Dino Salvatera, and Sifu Frank McCarthy.

Within the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon, Lau Bun would have called Chan Ngau Sing-the first successor-Si Sook (Uncle) since Yuen Hai was Chan Ngau Sing’s senior by more than 20 years.
Professor Lau Bun arrived to the United States under the paper name of Wong On Low during the early 1920’s. For some time, he resided in Los Angeles and recognized that there was no one teaching gung fu within the Chinese Community there. During his stay, he began to teach Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut in Southern California when there were no other gung fu teachers in America at that time.

At the time, there was a well known chinese benevolent association set up in the United States to assist their newly arriving countrymen. Lau Bun also joined this association where he was eventually brought to San Francisco. This benevolent association then hired Lau Bun to be their Chief Gung Fu instructor-amongst other duties. So, between 1931 to 1939 Lau Bun began privately teaching the Hung Sing Choy Lee Fut system in America. And also just like in Los Angeles, Lau Bun was the only gung fu master in the whole San Francisco bay area until the likes of Wong Ark Yuey, and T.W. Wong.

In 1939, the demand for learning gung fu rose, and Lau Bun officially opened- to the Chinese Community only- the first established gung fu school on American soil. At first he called his school Wah Kue (Strong Chinese), but later changed it to reflect the schools true lineage. In fact, Lau Bun was also responsible for establishing the first American Branch of the Fut San Hung Sing Kwoon.

Being raised during the era of the Ching, Lau Bun was the type to remain in the background, unseen and hidden within the shadows. For him, it brought less attention and drama. Over time within the martial arts community, Lau Bun began to gain an underground sort of fame, often referred to as being a part of a rare breed of “authentic gung fu masters.” Many had come to pay their repect, others came in hopes of learning, ALL left with the same responce….”the Real Deal!”

However, Lau Bun had a strict rule against teaching outsiders (anyone non chinese). But, from time to time he may have bent the rules a bit. Waiting for confirmation are stories of how there were a few NON Chinese Lau Bun did teach, like the legendary actor Anthony Quinn. Yet Masters like Ed Parker, Adriano Emperado, and even Ralph Castro has mentioned that Lau Bun has made some lasting effects on them, even after just one meeting. So, to return the favor, many had agreed to keep quiet about Lau Bun who didn’t want all that attention.

Still, every once in a while throughout the year, the general public would get a glimpse into part of the Chinese culture rarely shown outside the chinese community. Most Americans believe Bruce Lee to be America’s first introduction to Chinese Gung Fu. Little did they know that right in the heart of Chinatown lay the first and oldest gung school in America.

Outside of Chinatown, few had ever heard of Lau Bun. But within the confines of Chinatown, Lau Bun was a local hero. He protected Chinatown, settled disputes, and healed the sick. Within the martial arts community, he is recognized as being America’s gung fu partriarch. Unfortunately, in September of 1967 the Hung Sing and Martial arts community was hit hard by the loss of a great gung fu master when Lau Bun passed away from a massive coronary.

Under Lau Bun was some very very good martial artists. He produced such well known masters as Jew Leong, and Doc Fai Wong. However, Jew Leong stepped forward and assumed the responsibility of continuing Lau Bun’s legacy.

THE FOLLOWING WOULD BE SOME OF PROFESSOR LAU BUN’S CLASSMATES IF HE NEVER CAME TO AMERICA.

ABOVE L-R: CHUI CHEUNG, WU VAN CHEUK,TONG SEK

ABOVE IS: CHAN NGAU SING,
1ST INHERITOR OF FUT SAN

HUNG SING KWOON