HUNG GAR

Short Historical Essay on Master Lam Sai Wing Written by His Disciple Zhu Yuzhai. As related by Zhang Shibiao from Pangyu. The twelfth year Kuihai of the Peoples Republic (1923), the first month of the summer. 

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contents

1.	Introduction
2.	Master Lam Sai Wing Sets Up a School for Training the Fighting Arts in Canton
3.	Master Lam Sai Wing Becomes a Disciple of Wong Fei Hung
4.	Lam Sai Wing and Wong Fei Hung Talk to a Monk Called "The Iron Head"
5.	Master Lam Sai Wing Gaines the Upper Hand over the Monk Called "The Iron Head"
6.	Master Lam Sai Wing Deals with a Band of Rowdies
7.	Master Lam Sai Wing and his disciples enter "The Society for Cooperation" with the aim of mutual confrontation to robbers and cutthroats
8.	Master Lam Sai Wing is Lured into a Death Trap
9.	Master Lam Sai Wing becomes the Chief Instructor in the army of Fujien province.

Master Lam Sai Wing Gaines the Upper Hand over the Monk Called "The Iron Head"

The monk "The Iron Head" narrated such a story: "Once, early in the morning, after my breakfast that was very scarce, I went to the kitchen to take some more food. There was another monk there, he was also hungry and was eager to get more food. He demanded that I would give him my cookies, but I refused to do so. After that he suddenly rushed to me with a ladle in his hand and gave a very hard blow at my head with it. The sound was like a sound produced by "muyu" ("muyu", literally "wooden fish", a Buddhist wooden beater in a form of a fish or a crab without feet to beet time during a prayer). Oh, it was a wonder that my head was not wounded at all". When he spoke that, he smiled all the time, pleased with himself.

Than the two Buddhists and Masters of Pugilism made up their mind to verify if they could confront that monk. They planned to check monk's fighting art in front of the decorated gates of the monastery. Wong Fei Hung, the tutor, made Lam Sai Wing challenge the monk, although the Buddhists decided not use techniques which could cause heavy wounds or death. Lam Sai Wing agreed to it and promised his tutor to gain the upper hand. 

Master Lam attacked the monk, the monk tried to give a heavy thump with his head. Lam Sai Wing used a method called yue ying shou jiao ("The hand and The foot like the moon's shadow") which is the part of hu he shuang xing (a form of "The Tiger and the Crane") and thanks to it won the victory. The monk was thrown on the ground. Master Lam helped the enemy to raise up and showed him the due respect. The monk closing his palms in a greeting also expressed his admiration to Master Lam Sai Wing. The monk and Master Lam parted, feeling respect for each other. Some disciple Kung made an detailed record of those events.

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