HUNG SING KWOON

     THE FUT SAN HUNG SING KWOON WAS FOUNDED IN 1851 BY JEUNG HUNG SING (JEUNG AH YIM), A NATIVE OF SUN WUI COUNTY'S DONG LING VILLAGE.  HE WAS AN ORPHAN WHO ENDURED A LIFETIME OF STRUGGLE AND MOVED ON TO BECOME ONE OF SOUTHERN CHINA'S GREATEST FIGHTERS.  THE LEGACY HE STARTED SO LONG AGO IS STILL FLOURISHING IN MANY COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD TODAY. 

IN 1824 DURING THE QING DYNASTY, JEUNG AH YIM WAS BORN IN THE DONG LING VILLAGE AND UNDER THE CARE OF HIS UNCLE NAME JEUNG KWAN.  HIS PARENTS ARE RUMORED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG. AND, HE ALSO TRAINED IN THE ART OF LEE GAR PRIOR TO TURNING 12 YEARS OLD UNDER LEE YAU SAN, THE FOUNDER OF LEE GAR WHO WAS TEACHING IN THE SUN WUI AREA AT THE TIME.

IN 1836 JEUNG KWAN HAD TO LEAVE DONG LING VILLAGE ON BUSINESS AND WAS UNSURE IF HE WOULD RETURN.  HE COULDN'T TAKE JEUNG YIM WITH HIM AND NEEDED TO FIND SOMEONE HE CAN TRUST TO LOOK AFTER HIS NEPHEW.  THE ONLY PERSON HE COULD THINK OF WAS IN THE CHAN VILLAGE OF KING MUI.  SO, WHEN THE TIME CAME TOGETHER JEUNG KWAN AND JEUNG YIM TRAVELED TO KING MUI TO MEET WITH HIS OLD FRIEND. UNCERTAIN OF THE OUTCOME ALL HE COULD DO WAS HOPE FOR THE BEST.

ONCE THEY ARRIVED IN KING MUI JEUNG KWAN MET WITH HIS OLD FRIEND CHAN HEUNG, WHO, WAS THE FOUNDER OF A NEWLY CREATED MARTIAL ARTS SYSTEM CALLED CHOY LEE FUT THAT SAME YEAR (1836).  UNFORTUNATELY, AFTER JEUNG KWAN EXPLAINED HIS SITUATION CHAN HEUNG WAS FORCED TO REFUSE HELP TO HIS OLD FRIEND BECAUSE OF VILLAGE RULES.  THEREFOR, ONLY THOSE WITH THE CHAN SURNAME WERE ALLOWED TO LIVE IN THE VILLAGE. 

JEUNG KWAN PLEADED WITH CHAN HEUNG TO CHANGE HIS MIND.  AFTER GIVING SOME THOUGHT TO IT, CHAN HEUNG DEVISED A PLAN TO TAKE THE YOUNG JEUNG YIM IN AS A GROUNDS KEEPER/HANDY MAN.  HOWEVER, THERE WAS ONE CONDITION, JEUNG YIM WASN'T ALLOWED TO LEARN THE CHOY LEE FUT SYSTEM BECAUSE HE WASN'T A FAMILY MEMBER.  JEUNG KWAN WAS PLEASE WITH THE ARRANGEMENT, THANKED CHAN HEUNG AND WAS ON HIS WAY.

CHAN HEUNG WAS UNAWARE OF JEUNG YIM'S MARTIAL ARTS BACKGROUND AND HAD NO IDEA HE POSSESSED A STRONG PASSION FOR LEARNING GUNG FU.  NEITHER DID HE KNOW THAT WHILE JEUNG YIM WAS DOING HIS DAILY CHORES HE WAS SECRETLY WATCHING HIM TEACH CHOY LEE FUT TO HIS STUDENTS. lATE AT NIGHT WHILE EVERYONE SLEPT, JEUNG YIM WOULD PRACTICE HIS STOLEN GUNG FU, PERFECTING IT UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS.  THEN ONE NIGHT WHILE JEUNG YIM WAS BUSY PRACTICING HE FAILED TO NOTICE CHAN HEUNG WATCHING HIM IN THE SHADOWS.  BUT INSTEAD OF BEING UPSET, HE WAS GREATLY IMPRESSED THAT THIS YOUNG MAN COULD EXCEL SO QUICKLY WITHOUT PROPER TEACHING.

CHAN HEUNG STEPPED OUT INTO THE LIGHT AND CONFRONTED JEUNG YIM.  EMBARASSED THAT HE WAS CAUGHT IN THE ACT, JEUNG YIM ADMITTED TO MEMORIZING THE CHOY LEE FUT TECHNIQUES WHILE HE DID HIS CHORES.  HE KNEW THE ONLY TIME HE'D GET TO PRACTICE WAS WHILE EVERYONE WAS ASLEEP.  AMAZINGLY, INSTEAD OF REPRIMANDING JEUNG YIM, CHAN HEUNG CHOSE TO PERSONALLY TAKE HIM UNDER HIS WING AND CONTINUE TRAINING HIM DURING THE MIDNIGHT HOURS.  ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS KEEP THEIR TRAINING A SECRET FROM THE OTHERS.

FOR THE NEXT 5 YEARS (1836-1841) JEUNG YIM WAS WORKING HARD AT MASTERING THE BASICS OF CHOY LEE FUT (CONTINUALLY EVOLVING SINCE IT WAS A NEW FIGHTING SYSTEM).  HE WAS 17 YEARS OLD AND HIGHLY SKILLED IN GUNG FU WHICH GAVE HIM ALOT OF PRIDE.   HOWEVER, AS BEING THE OUTSIDER IN THE CHAN VILLAGE, HE WAS CONSTANTLY PICKED ON BY SOME OF CHAN HEUNG'S STUDENTS.  ONE AFTERNOON WHILE CHAN HEUNG WAS OUT ON SOME BUSINESS THOSE STUDENTS FINALLY PUSHED THE RIGHT BUTTON AND FORCED JEUNG YIM TO EXPOSE HIS TRAINING BY DEFENDING HIMSELF AND INJURING A FEW OF THE STUDENTS IN THE FIGHT.  AFTERWARDS, THOSE STUDENTS RAN AND TOLD THEIR PARENTS WHO THEN COMPLAINED ABOUT HIM TO CHAN HEUNG FOR LETTING THE OUTSIDER LIVE IN THEIR VILLAGE.  

CHAN HEUNG HAD NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO ASK JEUNG YIM TO LEAVE KING MUI.  BUT, BEFORE HE DID HE INSTRUCTED JEUNG YIM THAT IF HE WANTED TO COMPLETE HIS GUNG FU TRAINING HE SHOULD GO TO THE GUANGXI PROVINCE WHERE AN EX SHAOLIN MONK WITH THE NAME CHING CHO (GREEN GRASS) COULD BE FOUND AT PAK PAI MOUNTAIN.  THE NAME OF THIS MOUNTAIN DOESN'T EXIST TODAY, BUT IT IS EXTREMELY POSSIBLE THAT ITS NAME WAS CHANGED.  IN CHINA'S HISTORY, MANY DIFFERENT MOUNTAINS OF TODAY WERE KNOWN BY ANOTHER NAME IN THE OLD DAYS.  THE PAK PAI MOUNTAINS ALSO EXISTED IN THE HISTORIES IN OTHER STYLES SUCH AS HUNG FUT.

IN 1841,  THE 17 YEAR OLD JEUNG YIM SAID HIS GOODBYES TO HIS TEACHER AND WOULD NOT SEE HIM AGAIN FROM ALMOST 30 YEARS LATER.  HE TRAVELED TO GUANGXI WHERE HE CAME ACROSS AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN AND ASKED IF HE KNEW THE WHEREABOUTS OF A MONK BY THE NAME OF CHING CHO.  THE OLD MAN ANSWERED HIM AND SAID HE NEVER HEARD OF SUCH A PERSON.  BUT WHAT JEUNG YIM DIDN'T KNOW WAS THAT THIS OLD MAN WAS INDEED MONK CHING CHO.  AND THE OLD MONK WASN'T JUST GOING TO OPENLY REVEAL HIMSELF.

*THE GREEN GRASS MONK IS BEING ERRONEOUSLY  IDENTIFIED WITH CHAN HEUNG'S TEACHER MONK CHOY FOOK.  THIS IDEA IS TO BE THROWN OUT OF YOUR MIND BECAUSE IT WAS OUTRIGHT THEFT OF CHARACTER.  HE IS NOT NOR WILL HE EVER BE MONK CHOY FOOK.-DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE.

THE GREEN GRASS MONK WAS ONE OF SOUTHERN CHINA'S MOST WANTED REVOLUTIONARIES DURING THE QING DYNASTY.  HE WAS THE FOUNDER OF WHAT WAS ONCE THE MOST POWERFUL TONG IN ALL OF SOUTHERN CHINA AND CO-FOUNDED A SECRET SOCIETY.  FOR SAFETY REASONS, THE GREEN GRASS MONK HAD TO KEEP HIS IDENTITY A SECRET UNTIL HE KNEW JEUNG YIM WASN'T A GOVERNMENT ASSASSIN.  BUT HE WAS CURIOUS TO SEE JEUNG YIM'S GUNG FU AND ASKED FOR A SIMPLE DEMONSTRATION. 

JEUNG YIM WAS PROUD OF HIS ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN GUNG FU SO FAR AND SHOWED OFF A LITTLE FOR THE OLD MAN.   THE GREEN GRASS MONK RECOGNIZED HIS GUNG FU AS BEING AUTHENTIC SHAOLIN AND IMMEDIATELY REVEALED HIS TRUE IDENTITY TO JEUNG YIM.  IT WAS THAT POINT THAT MONK CHING CHO ACCEPTED HIM AS A STUDENT AND BEGAN TEACHING HIM THE ART OF FUT GAR KUEN.   ALTHOUGH, GUNG FU WASN'T THE ONLY THING JEUNG YIM WAS ABOUT TO LEARN FROM THE GREEN GRASS MONK.

  IN 1849, JEUNG YIM COMPLETED HIS GUNG FU TRAINING UNDER THE GREEN GRASS MONK.  IN ADDITION TO THIS, THE MONK ALSO PERSONALLY GROOMED HIM TO FIGHT FOR THE REVOLUTION.  THE GREEN GRASS MONK INSTRUCTED JEUNG YIM TO GO TO THE CITY OF FUT SAN WHERE THE ENTIRE CITY WAS PREPARING FOR THE TAI PING REBELLION.  HE WAS TO CONTACT THE LEADERS OF THE SECRET SOCIETY THERE AND OFFER TO TRAIN FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN THE ART OF FUT GAR KUEN.  HOWEVER, PRIOR TO JEUNG YIM'S DEPARTURE, THE GREEN GRASS MONK HAD ONE MORE THING HE WANTED TO PASS ON TO HIS STUDENT.

THE GREEN GRASS MONK KNEW THAT THIS COULD BE THE LAST TIME HE SAW JEUNG YIM AND WANTED TO GIVE HIM SOMETHING AS A REMINDER OF HIM AND HIS CAUSE.  HE WANTED TO CHANGE HIS NAME FROM "YIM" TO "HUNG SING" BECAUSE THIS NAME CONTAINED A SECRET MESSAGE.  THE MESSAGE WAS "THE HUNG SOCIETY WOULD BE VICTORIOUS IN OVERTHROWING THE QING DYNASTY" AND "HUNG SING" WAS THE ABREVIATED VERSION OF THIS MESSAGE.  THEREBY GIVING THIS NAME TO JEUNG YIM, THE MESSAGE WOULD LIVE ON AS LONG AS JEUNG YIM WAS ALIVE.  IT WAS NOT A SECRET SLOGAN USED BY THE KING MUI CHOY LEE FUT STUDENTS AS SOME TRY TO PASS OVER AS THE TRUTH.

THE ORIGIN OF THE HUNG SING NAME GIVEN TO JEUNG YIM BY MONK CHING CHO BELONGS TO THE HUNG MUN AND PRIOR TO JEUNG YIM IT HAD NO CONNECTION TO CHOY LEE FUT GUNG FU AT ALL. 

THE NEWLY NAMED JEUNG HUNG SING SAID HIS GOODBYES AND MADE HIS WAY TO THE CITY OF FUT SAN, A MAJOR HUB FOR HARD CORE REVOLUTIONARIES AND GUNG FU STYLES SUCH AS WING CHUN AND HUNG GAR KUEN.  HIS HUNG SING NAME SORT OF WORKED AS A PASS KEY FOR THE LEADERS OF THE SECRETY SOCIETY IN FUT SAN.  ONCE HE MADE CONTACT WITH THEM, THE NEXT THING HE HAD TO DO WAS MEET WITH FUT SAN'S MARTIAL TOP DAWG, WHO, HAPPENED TO BE LEUNG JAN, IP MAN'S SIGUNG (GRAND MASTER).  AFTER AN UNFORTUNATE SITUATION WITH LEUNG JAN'S STUDENT, LEUNG JAN HIMSELF CHALLENGED JEUNG HUNG SING TO A  CLOSED DOOR STAFF DUEL.  NEEDLESS TO SAY, IN THE OUTCOME JEUNG HUNG SING WAS GIVEN PERMISSION TO OPEN HIS SCHOOL AND THE TWO OF THEM EVENTUALLY BECAME GREAT FRIENDS. 

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IN THE PAST, PEOPLE HAVE TRIED TO CLAIM THAT JEUNG HUNG SING WAS SENT TO FUT SAN BY CHAN HEUNG.  SADLY, THIS IS COMPLETELY INCORRECT.  JEUNG HUNG SING HAD BEEN OUT OF THE CHOY LEE FUT PICTURE FROM 1841-1867 ( 26 YEARS). 

BETWEEN 1849-1851 HE EXCLUSIVELY TAUGHT FREEDOM FIGHTERS PREPARING FOR THE UP AND COMING REVOLUTION.  THEN IN PERFECT TIMING WITH THE LAUNCHING OF THE TAI PING REBELLION (1851) JEUNG HUNG SING OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED HIS HUNG SING KWOON.    

THE FUT SAN HUNG SING KWOON WAS ON THE FRONT LINES OF THE REVOLUTION AND CONSTANTLY MAKING THE NEWS.  ALTHOUGH MANY YEARS HAD PASSED SINCE THE LAST TIME SINCE CHAN HEUNG SAW JEUNG HUNG SING,  WORD OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS MADE IT ALL THE BACK TO KING MUI.   STILL, THE REVOLUTION WASN'T THE ONLY THING JEUNG HUNG SING WAS INVOLVED IN.  HE WAS BUSY DEVELOPING HIS OWN FIGHTING SYSTEM WHICH WAS PRIMARILY FUT GAR KUEN BASED MIXED WITH THE BASICS OF CHOY LEE FUT HE PICKED UP FROM CHAN HEUNG.  BUT ALL THE WHILE SINCE JEUNG HUNG SING HAS BEEN OF THE PICTURE, CHAN HEUNG CONTINUED TO DEVELOP HIS CHOY LEE FUT MINUS THE PRESENCE OF JEUNG HUNG SING .

IT'S WIDELY BELIEVED WITHIN THE FUT SAN HUNG SING AND BUK SING KWOONS THAT THE ORIGINAL NAME OF JEUNG HUNG SING'S ART WAS CALLED "FUT GAR JING JUNG" ("佛家正宗" ) AND OFTEN REFERRED TO AS HUNG SING KUEN  MEANING JEUNG YIM'S STYLE, OR EVEN "THE METHOD OF HUNG SING."    STILL, AT THIS TIME HE WAS REPRESENTING THE GREEN GRASS MONK MORESO THAN CHAN HEUNG BECAUSE HE NEVER COMPLETED HIS CHOY LEE FUT TRAINING BUT HE DID FINISH THE FUT GAR KUEN STYLE.

FIVE YEARS OF DEDICATED TRAINING TO ANY SYSTEM IS NO SMALL FEAT.  IN FACT IN THAT TIME JEUNG HUNG SING COULD HAVE EASILY MASTERED CHOY LEE FUT BASICS AS ITS ALLEGED THAT HE WOULD TEACH CHAN HEUNG'S CHOY LEE FUT AS THEY TRAVELED AROUND SPREADING CHAN HEUNG'S ART. 

REGARDLESS, FROM 1851-1864 JEUNG HUNG SING WAS BUSY TAKING ON ALL CHALLENGERS INTERESTED IN MAKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES AND FIGHTING IN THE REVOLUTION.  HE NEVER LOST A MATCH UNTIL HE REACHED HIS 60'S AND ONLY LOST ONE  BY A SINGLE STROKE.  MOST OF HIS CHALLENGERS WOUND UP BECOMING HIS STUDENTS WHILE OTHERS TURNED TO THE POLICE OUT OF JEALOUSY TO INFORM ON THEIR REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES.  DURING THIS TIME THE QING GOVERNMENT CLOSED THE HUNG SING KWOON DOWN ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS AND JEUNG HUNG SING AND HIS STUDENTS HAD TO FLEE THE CITY TO AVOID HAVING THEIR HEADS CUT OFF.  INSTANT BEHEADING WAS THE PENALTY FOR ANYONE CAUGHT IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE OUTLAWED HUNG SOCIETY.

IN 1864 THE FUT SAN HUNG SING KWOON WAS CLOSED DOWN ONCE AGAIN BY THE QING GOVERNMENT.  JEUNG HUNG SING AND HIS STUDENTS FLED FUT SAN AND HEADED FOR HONG KONG, A SAFE HAVEN FOR REVOLUTIONARIES.  IT AS THERE THAT JEUNG HUNG SING AND CHAN HEUNG FINALLY REUNITED AFTER 26 YEARS.   RECORDS FROM BOTH OF THE FUT SAN AND KING MUI LINEAGES SHOW THE TWO WERE IN HONG KONG AT THE SAME TIME.   THEY SPENT THE NEXT THREE YEARS TOGETHER CATCHING UP AND EVOLVING THE CHOY LEE FUT SYSTEM TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

DURING THE TIME JEUNG HUNG SING AND CHAN HEUNG SPENT TOGETHER, CHAN HEUNG ADMITTED TO KNOWING OF JEUNG HUNG SING'S ACHIEVEMENTS.  IN RETURN, JEUNG HUNG SING THANKED CHAN HEUNG AND ADMITTED IF IT WEREN'T FOR HIS HELP HE WOULD NEVER HAVE MADE IT.  

CHAN HEUNG WAS INTERESTED IN SEEING JEUNG HUNG SING'S PROGRESS FOR HIMSELF AND ASKED TO SEE WHAT HE LEARNED FROM THE GREEN GRASS MONK.  AFTERWARDS, CHAN HEUNG WAS INTERESTED IN INCLUDING SOME NEW  TECHNIQUES FROM THE FUT GAR SYSTEM INTO HIS CHOY LEE FUT.  SO, THEY CLOSELY WORKED TOGETHER AS BROTHERS TO TAKE CHOY LEE FUT TO THE NEXT STAGE OF ITS DEVELOPMENT.  NOT ONLY DID THEY WORK ON NEW TECHNIQUES, THEY ALSO DEVELOPED SECRET CALL SIGNS SUCH AS YIK WAH AND TIK.  SINCE CHAN HEUNG'S STUDENTS AND JEUNG HUNG SING'S STUDENTS DIDN'T KNOW EACH OTHER, THEY USED THE TIGER CLAW AS A SECRET SIGNAL TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS BROTHERS OF CHOY LEE FUT.

MANY IN THE CHOY LEE FUT FRATERNITY ARE AWARE OF THE USE OF THE TIGER CLAW TO IDENTIFY THEMESELVES. THEY'RE EQUALLY UNAWARE TO WHY THE TIGER CLAW WAS SPECIFICALLY CHOSEN.  THE REASON BEHIND THEIR CHOICE IS THE FACT THAT THE TIGER CLAW IS THE SECRET HAND SIGNAL USED TO IDENTIFY THE GREEN GRASS MONK WITHIN THE SECRET SOCIETY. 

JEUNG HUNG SING'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CHOY LEE FUT SYSTEM MADE HIM IN EFFECT A CO-FOUNDER AS HE WAS RESPONISIBLE FOR THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYSTEM.  IN 1867, IT'S BELIEVED THAT AN AGREEMENT WAS MADE THAT BOTH JEUNG HUNG SING AND CHAN HEUNG WOULD RETURN TO THEIR RESPECTIVE SCHOOLS AND DEVELOP THE CHOY LEE FUT SYSTEM SEPARATELY FROM ONE ANOTHER.  AFTER THIS, CHAN HEUNG LEFT HONG KONG FOR KING MUI AND JEUNG HUNG SING RETURNED TO FUT SAN TO RE-OPEN HIS HUNG SING KWOON.

FIRST, JEUNG HUNG SING WAS GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE THE NAME OF HIS SCHOOL IF HE WANTED TO RE-OPEN IT OR IT WILL JUST BRING ON MORE UNWANTED ATTENTION.  PERHAPS DURING THEIR REUNION, CHAN HEUNG SUGGESTED HE USED A DIFFERENT HUNG CHARACTER INSTEAD OF THE OLD ONE.  THE FACT WAS, HE NEEDED TO CHANGE THE NAME NO MATTER WHAT.  HE COULDN'T AFFORD TO KEEP CLOSING DOWN SO HE CHOSE A NAME THAT WAS DIFFERENT VISUALLY AND IN DEFINITION, BUT HAD THE SAME PRONUNCIATION. 

THE ONE THING HE DID WAS KEEP THE SING (VICTORY) IN HIS NAME AS IT WAS CONNECTED TO THE SECRET SOCIETY.  BUT THE NEW HUNG SING LITERALLY TRANSLATED AS GREAT WILD GOOSE VICTORY.  THIS NAME WAS AMBIGUOUS AND CONTAINED NO OBVIOUS SIGNS OF BEING CONNECTED TO THE HUNG SOCIETY,  AT LEAST TO THE UNTRAINED EYE.  LITTLE DID THE GOVERNMENT KNOW, JEUNG HUNG SING CHOSE THIS NAME PRECISELY FOR ITS CONNECTION TO THE HUNG SOCIETY. THE KEY IS KNOWING WHAT TO LOOK FOR BECAUSE THERE IS MORE TO THE NEW CHARACTER THAN MEETS THE EYE.
 
IN 1867 JEUNG HUNG SING RETURNED TO FUT SAN TO RE-OPEN HIS HUNG SING KWOON.  AFTER RENAMING  IT USING THE NEW CHARACTER, THE QING AUTHORITIES WERE SATISFIED AND EVERYTHING WENT ON AS BUSINESS AS USUAL.  THE HUNG SING KWOON WAS GAINING ALOT OF POPULARITY AND EVENTUALLY HIS FIGHTING SYSTEM BEGAN TO ECLIPSE MANY OF THE OTHER SCHOOLS IN FUT SAN.  SINCE HUNG SING KUEN (HUNG SING CHOY LEE FUT) WAS DESIGNED FOR PURE COMBAT, IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT HIS SKILLS STAYED SHARP SO HE ACCEPTED ALL CHALLENGERS. 

IN 1883 JEUNG HUNG SING LEARNED OF A YOUNG FIGHTER BY THE NAME OF CHAN NGAU SING AND WANTED HIM TO BECOME HIS STUDENT.  HE SENT YUEN HAI, ONE OF HIS MOST SENIOR AND LOYAL OF STUDENTS TO GO AN CONVINCE CHAN NGAU SING TO JOIN THE HUNG SING KWOON.  IT WASN'T AN EASY TASK.  CHAN NGAU SING KNEW HE COULD FIGHT AND SINCE JEUNG HUNG SING WAS CONSIDERED AN OLDER PERSON CHAN NGAU SING FELT HE COULD DEFEAT HIM EASILY.  JOW GUM BIU, HIS HUNG GAR SIFU FELT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO TRAIN WITH SUCH A WELL KNOWN MASTER AS JEUNG HUNG SING AND ENCOURAGED HIM TO GO.

CHAN NGAU SING EVENTUALLY AGREED TO PAY A VISIT TO JEUNG HUNG SING AND SEE WHAT HE HAD TO OFFER.  UPON ARRIVING AT THE HUNG SING KWOON CHAN NGAU SING SPOKE WITH JEUNG HUNG SING FOR A WHILE BEFORE THE SUBJECT OF WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT.  OF COURSE CHAN NGAU SING NATURALLY THOUGHT HE WOULD WIN.  HOWEVER, IN AN ATTEMPT TO PROVE IT TO HIM PRIOR TO THE FIGHT, JEUNG HUNG SING EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT FIRST HE WOULD DROP HIM TOWARDS THE LEFT, THEN THE RIGHT AND FINALLY DOWN THE MIDDLE.  ONCE THE MATCH STARTED JEUNG HUNG SING HELD UP TO HIS WORD AND DID EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID HE'D DO.

AFTER THE MATCH WITH JEUNG HUNG SING, CHAN NGAU BOWED DOWN AND ASKED TO BE TAKEN AS A STUDENT.  WITHOUT QUESTION JEUNG HUNG SING ACCEPTED AND THE REST IS HISTORY.  JEUNG HUNG SING REALLY LIKED CHAN NGAU SING AND FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS TRAINED HIM VERY HARD IN HUNG SING KUEN.  IT WAS OBVIOUS HE WAS BEING GROOMED TO POSSIBLY TAKE OVER THE HUNG SING KWOON. IN RETURN, CHAN NGAU SING REMAINED A LOYAL DISCIPLE UNTIL THE END. 

EVEN IN HIS OLD AGE, JEUNG HUNG SING WAS COMPETING WITH MANY CHALLENGERS.  HE ALLEGEDLY NEVER LOST A FIGHT UNTIL SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE MID 1880'S AND THE MID 1890'S, AND THIS WAS BY ONE STROKE, OR POINT.  THE LOSS DIDN'T BOTHER JEUNG HUNG SING AS MUCH AS IT DID CHAN NGAU SING WHO WENT AND TRACKED THAT MASTER DOWN.

THE IDEA OF HIS TEACHER LOSING BY ONE POINT WAS JUST TOO MUCH FOR CHAN NGAU SING TO HANDLE.  HE CHALLENGED THE MASTER WHO BEAT JEUNG HUNG SING AND ENDED UP KILLING HIM IN THE MATCH. THEN, IN 1893 JEUNG HUNG SING FELL ILL AT THE AGE OF 69 AND CHAN NGAU SING TRIED TO TAKE HIM TO SEE A DOCTOR. SADLY, JEUNG HUNG SING PASSED AWAY LEAVING BEHIND A WIFE AND TWO SONS WHO DIED EARLY ON IN THEIR OWN LIVES.  

WITH TAM SAM'S TEACHER (LUI CHUN) IN GUANGZHOU AND MASTER YUEN HAI (LAU BUN'S TEACHER) IN HONG KONG, CHAN NGAU SING TOOK OVER THE FUT SAN HUNG SING KWOON AS ITS FIRST SUCCESSOR.  TODAY, THERE ARE HUNG SING KWOONS ON VIRTUALLY EVERY CONTINENT AROUND THE WORLD.