Looking for historical information.

[SimonM]

Hi! I'm looking for some information on a few martial artists. The first is Master Wong Sil-Jang; he was a student of Lam Sai Wing but I haven't been able to find out anything else about him.

The other is a Taiji Master with the family name Chang. He was a master of Yang and Chen style Taiji. He would have probably lived during the 1800's. This is very fragmentary information but if anyone has any pointers about his history I would be very interested.

Thank you.

[SimonM]

I guess nobody has any info on these guys. :( Oh well.

[HopGar]

I'm no expert, but I vaguely remember Chang Tai Chi being closely related to Shuai Chiao. Maybe look at a shuai chaio website, should send you in the right direction

Peace

[SimonM]

Yeah, there was a guy named Chang Fong Yen who was a Grandmaster of Shuai Chiao but I don't think he is who I am looking for. Thanks for the help though.

So nobody has heard of Wong Sil-Jang then.

[X-Warrior]

Is Lam Sai Wing = Lam Fai Wing maybe? If not, sorry I can't give you any information, I however was a student of a Lam Wing Fai's student in the Southern Mantis Jook Lum art.

What style this Lam Sai Wing was/is a master of?

-X-

[SimonM]

Hung Gar - he was Wong Fei Hong's most famous disciple.

[hasayfu]

simonM,

Any more info on this Wong Sil-Jang? Lam Sai Wing was probably the first prolific Hung Gar Sifu. So he probably had many students no one has ever heard of.

With a sir name of Wong, that could be a lot of people. Have any chinese characters, date of life, etc?

[SimonM]

I'm afraid not. :D

[YuanZhideDiZhen]

Hop Gar's statement is reverberated here.

the Chang name became Cheng durring the time of troubles for some people. A surviving descendant was a doctor from taiwan who worked at NIH near Washington, D.C., who's children studied Hung Fot with Tai Yim and were in thier thirties before thier father revealed Shuai Chiau to them. i've never seen it. but a hung fot instuctor in San Juan, Ca also practices Shuai Chiau.