looking for wong hun fun info:

[ninjaboy]

hi all, i have a detailed request:

i would like...

1. to know which book(s) of wong hun fun has his selection of 12 character principles

2. a list of those principles written in

a. simplified chinese
b. mandarin pinyin (not romanized cantonese) and
c. a rough english translation

thanks very much,

neil

[mooyingmantis]

Neil,

In the back of the Flying Goose Palms book of Wong Hon Fan, he lists these twelve keywords:

勾 - gōu - hook
摟 - lōu - gather
采 - cǎi - pluck
挂 - guà - suspend
刁 进 - diāo jìn - hook & advance
刁 打 - diāo dǎ - hook & strike
粘 黏 - zhān nián - stick & cling
貼 靠 - tiē kào - attach & lean

Notice that the last eight words are arranged as couplets.

[ninjaboy]

exellent, thanks very much. that's exactly what i was looking for. do you know of other writings of his from different times or other books where this list might be different?

neil

[mooyingmantis]

Originally Posted by ninjaboy

exellent, thanks very much. that's exactly what i was looking for. do you know of other writings of his from different times or other books where this list might be different?

neil

Not that I have yet translated.

[ninjaboy]

and so, technically, i guess it's actually only 11 keywords since one of them is repeated...very interesting.

also very interesting is that when i look up the character that is repeated " 刁 " on google translate, 'hook' is not the meaning given, rather, they suggest 'deceptive or wicked or tricky' as a translation. mooying, may i ask how u arrived at 'hook' for the meaning of this character?

that's why i'm also wondering if he wrote any other lists later or earlier in his career. do u know when the flying goose palm book was published?

[xiao yao]

could it be this diao, which means a fishing hook


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