Hung Kuen
| Also known as | Hung Gar, Hung Kuen, Hung Ga Kuen, Hung Gar Kuen |
|---|---|
| Focus | Striking |
| Country of origin |
 China
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| Creator | Hung Hei-gun |
| Famous practitioners |
Luk Ah-Choi |
| Parenthood | Shaolin Kung Fu, Five Animals, Mok Gar (additional influence for Wong Fei Hung lineage) |
| Descendant arts | Choy ga, Fut Gar, Hung Fut, Jow-Ga Kung Fu |
| Olympic sport | No |
Luk Ah-Choi
Wong Kei-Ying
Wong Fei Hung (son of Wong Kei-Ying)
Tang Fung (student of Wong Fei Hung)
Lam Sai Wing (student of Wong Fei Hung)
Yao Loon Kwong (instructor of Leung Tin Jiu)
Leung Tin Jiu (founder of Fut Gar)
Lei Jou Fun (founder of Hung Fut)
Jow Hung Hei (uncle and instructor of Jow Lung)
Jow Lung (founder of Jow-Ga Kung Fu)
Hung Ga (洪家), Hung Kuen (洪拳), or Hung Ga Kuen (洪家拳) is a southern Chinese martial art (Cantonese, to be more specific), which belongs to the southern shaolin styles and associated with the Cantonese folk hero Wong Fei Hung, who was a master of Hung Ga.
The hallmarks of the Wong Fei-Hung lineage of Hung Ga are deep low stances, notably its "sei ping ma"(四平馬) horse stance, and strong hand techniques, notably the bridge hand and the versatile tiger claw. The student traditionally spends anywhere from months to three years in stance training, often sitting only in horse stance between a half-hour to several hours at one time, before learning any forms. Each form then might take a year or so to learn, with weapons learned last. However, in modernity, this mode of instruction is deemed economically unfeasible and impractical for students, who have other concerns beyond practicing kung fu. Some instructors, though, will stick mainly to traditional guidelines and make stance training the majority of their beginner training. Hung Ga is sometimes mis-characterized as solely external—that is, reliant on brute physical force rather than the cultivation of qi—even though the student advances progressively towards an internal focus.
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