Wong Fei Hung

Wong Fei Hung ({{zh-cp |c=??? |p=Huáng F?i Hóng}}; Yale Cantonese: Wong4 Fei1 Hung4) (July 9, 1847–March 25, 1924) was a healer, martial artist and revolutionary who became a Chinese folk hero often described as the "Chinese Robin Hood".

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Yale Cantonese - 1847 - 1924 - Martial art - Chinese folk - Hero - Robin Hood

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As a healer and medical doctor, he practiced and taught acupuncture and other forms of traditional Chinese medicine at his 'Po Chi Lam' (寶芝林) clinic in Foshan, where he was known for his compassion and policy of treating any patient.

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Acupuncture - Traditional Chinese medicine - Foshan - Compassion

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Wong Fei Hung was born in Foshan on the ninth day in the seventh month of Daoguan twenty-seventh year (1847), brought up in Foshan. When Wong Fei Hung was six years old, he started to study martial arts under his father Wong Kei-Ying. As his family was poor, he always followed his father to go to Foshan and Guangzhou to do martial arts shows and sell medicines. In the year when he was thirteen years old, once when he was giving a martial arts show at Douzhixiang, Foshan, Huang Feihong met Lin Fucheng, the first apprentice of Tianqiaosan, who taught him the "tour de force" of Tianxian Boxing Arts and Sling etc, which helped him much in becoming a master of Hongquan.

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Wong Kei-Ying - Sling

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When he was sixteen years old, Wong Fei Hung set up a martial arts School at Shuijiao, Diqipu, Xiguan, Guangdong, and then opened a medicine shop named 'Po Chi Lam' at Renan Street. As a famous martial arts Master, he had many apprentices. He was successfully enganged by Jiming Provincial Commander-in-Chief Wu Quanmei and Liu Yongfu as the military medical officer, martial art general drillmaster and Guangdong local military general drillmaster. He later followed Liu Youngfu to fight against the Japanese army in Taiwan. His life was full of frustration, and in his late years, he experienced the loss of his son, the burning of Po Chi Lam. On lunar year the twenty-fifth day of the third month in 1925, Wong Fei Hung died of illness in Guangdong Chengxi Fangbian Hospital.

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He was a master of the Chinese martial art Hung Gar.

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Chinese martial art - Hung Gar

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Wong systematized the predominant style of Hung Gar and choreographed its version of the famous Tiger Crane Paired Form Fist, which incorporates his "Ten Special Fist" techniques.

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Wong was famous for his skill with the technique known as the "No Shadow Kick" (???).

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He is sometimes included in the Ten Tigers of Canton, ten of the top martial arts masters in Guangdong towards the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912), a group to which his father Wong Kei-Ying belonged. However, Fei-Hung was not one of the Ten Tigers and was known instead as the "Tiger after Ten."

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Ten Tigers of Canton - Guangdong - Qing Dynasty - 1644 - 1912 - Wong Kei-Ying

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Wong died in Canton a few months after a riot burned his clinic to the ground. His wife and two of his prominent students (林世榮，鄧世瓊) moved to Hong Kong, where they continued teaching Wong's martial art. Wong became a legendary hero whose real-life story was mixed freely with fictional exploits on the printed page and onscreen.

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From the late 1940s into the 1960s, there was a Wong Fei Hung movie series in Hong Kong consisting of roughly 100 movies. The star at that time was Kwan Tak Hing who gained his nickname "Master Wong" through this movie series. It is claimed by some sources to be the most prolific movie series ever, and Wong Fei Hung to be the most-portrayed character in movie history. Both Jackie Chan (in Drunken Master and Drunken Master II, as a trouble-making youth) and Jet Li (as an adult contending with European influence on China in the Once Upon a Time in China series and in the comic take Wong Fei-hung chi tit gai dau neung gung) played Wong Fei Hung. The character of Wong Fei Hung also appeared as a child (played by actress Tsang Sze-man) in the movie Iron Monkey alongside his father (played by Donnie Yen).

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1940s - 1960s - Movie series - Hong Kong - Kwan Tak Hing - Jackie Chan - Drunken Master - Drunken Master II - Jet Li - Once Upon a Time in China - Tsang Sze-man - Iron Monkey - His father - Donnie Yen

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Because it was used as the theme song of the films, the Chinese folk song "On the General's Orders" (???) is now associated with Wong Fei-Hung, as is "A Man Should Strive to be Stronger," its arrangement by the late Wong Jim.

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A Wong Fei-Hung museum has been built in Foshan.

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