Peter Sellers
The Hung-gar (in Cantonese) or Hongjia (in Mandarin) is a Martial art Chinese (a style of Wushu gong fu ). Hung-gar (洪家) means “Hong family”. Indeed, its legendary founder is Hong Xiguan.
He belongs to the Wushu gong fu of the south of China. He is originating in the province of the Guangdong. He is mentioned in Chinese texts towards the end of the 18th century.
It is one of the styles of wushu of the south of China most practiced today all over the world. It is especially known for its low and stable positions, its powerful attacks mainly developed with the upper limbs, of many blockings and also the work of internal energy.
The Hung-gar is often called “style of the tiger and the crane”, although the style takes again posture imitating the five traditional animals of the Shaolin quan : the dragon, the tiger, the crane, the leopard and the snake. The Hung-gar account four taolu (“the imaginary shapes of combat”) principal (traditional): the boxing of the tiger embusquée, the boxing of the mixed fist of the tiger and the crane, the boxing of the five animals and the five elements and the boxing (intern) of the wire.
Among the large ones of the Hung-gar , one can quote Huang Feihong dead towards 1920 and Lin Shirong died in 1933.
One should not confuse the Hung-gar with one of other Chinese boxings of the South which, in the same manner as the Hung-gar , style mixture of the crane and style of another animal: Mo-gar (crane and snake), hop-gar (crane and monkey).
Some figures of the hung-gar
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