Wong Fei-hung

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Wong Fei Hung

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Hung Gar teacher and doctor in Foshan and Guangzhou, son and student of Wong Kei-ying. A military and militia instructor as a young man, he later ran the Po Chi Lam clinic in Foshan; novels and over sixty films made him a folk hero.

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  Wong Kei-ying

  swordsHung Gar Probable

  Probable

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  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  (1852)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  “In 1847 his son, Wong Fei Hung, was born. Wong began to instruct his son in the martial arts at the age of five.”

  — Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info

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