Hung Gar

Also known as

Hung Kuen · Hung Ga

Description

Southern Chinese boxing style of Guangdong. The book separates the older village Hung Kuen, an eighteenth-century family style known only through legend, from the later lineage built by Wong Fei-hung and his students in Foshan, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

Related styles

Variant ofNanquan

Sources

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

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M69Z4SFKYNB3YG0C3ZA4S3NM

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Cite and reuse

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Plain text

Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Hung Gar. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M69Z4SFKYNB3YG0C3ZA4S3NM - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.

BibTeX

@incollection{martialis_01M69Z4SFKYNB3YG0C3ZA4S3NM, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Hung Gar}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M69Z4SFKYNB3YG0C3ZA4S3NM}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }

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