much of the clf history remains a mystery. bits and pieces at best are all we have. in attempting to piece together the puzzle, there remains pieces missing in both the chan and hung sing records.
the fut san hung sing kwoon is the birthplace to hung sing clf and is recognized as such by the fut san gov’mnt. no mention of chan heung is present. the people of fut san may have forgotten much of our history which was always passed down word of mouth, and may have mixed up some dates, but our story has always been the same for generations. and some dates are questionable.
yet the chan family have more loop holes in their story then we do. for example, chan heung going to singapore with jeong yim to spread clf. yet according to the singapore hs no clf has ever flourished in singapore before kwan mun keng. and why did chan heung take jeong yim the young boy instead of his other senior students or his own sons?
if chan heung called his school hung sing 1st, the explain why did his son koon pak use a hung sing similar to that of his fathers student than that of his father? it is said it was jeong yim that taught chan koon pak and not chan heung. so it makes sense that koon pak glorify jeong yim as his sifu.
clf established in 1836 yet an image of chan heungs likeness appears only 134 years later. master dave lacey has proven this point on his website beyond the shadow of a doubt. another is chan heung kicking rocks into the air and crushing them into pieces as the hit the ground, how come none of the chan family members possess this skill today? and what about that tiger chan heung killed? was it with his bare hands, what technique did he use? was chan heung injured in this battle with the tiger, i am sure that was a fierce tiger.
another is jeong yim being sent to hong kong to open a school yet their is no record of him but his students who opened the schools such as yuen hai.
for many years the chan clan explicitly stated that there was no ching cho ever mentioned but now he does?! oh, he is now choy fook the scar headed monk, but there has never been any mention of ching cho having a scarred head. a piece of information not easily left out in ching cho’s discription.
according to the fut san gov’mnt the hsk officially organized in 1851-not opened in 1851-organized-during the tai ping rebellion and m entions jeong yim as the founder of the fut san hsk.
it is well documented that the fut san hsk was famous and the largest clf school in all of guandong with over 10,000 students. no mention ever of chan heung.
this controversy has gone far enough. it is safe to say that 99% of you will maintain your anonymity at all costs, resulting in your continued safety. even i believe it is now better to return to our training.
what matters most in the end is that clf is clf. and for the modern day clf fighter we have 3 famous branches to learn from. and in the future someone else will want to know their heritage and will trace their roots. word of mouth was the main way to pass on the history.yet it is crucial that we take into account the eyewitness accounts of how it was in that era.without the personal first hand knowledge the history is left in the hands of individuals more capable of recording the history tipping the scales in their own favor in their quest to control power.
one must take into account the living conditons of when clf first flourished. clf was no doubt very connected to the revolutionary movement. and anyone connected to the movement and were caught or even suspected met with death whether involved or not.
the chan family branch seemed to attract the well educated while fut san contained fierce freedom fighters who could not read or even write their own name. the literate of the chan family wrote the history of the chan family while our history was always spoken to us. yet the fut san freedom fighters could not afford to possess documents linking them to the revolution or the would be beheaded.
it is completely wrong for anyone not to allow their story to be told out of fear of losing thier place in the hierarchy. for some it may make people wonder why the hung sing branches history is being suppressed and disputed. what is their to hide?
it is my intent to tell the history as we have had it passed down to us. in the family of clf there is no “who has the power” because it was never organized as such. we are only a handful people who argue over the pettiness of historical data. if this is what you want, then keep it here on the forum and amongst yourselves.
i’m outta here,
frank mccarthy
jew, hung loong
usa/ fut san hung sing kwoon
yet, we can argue over the loop holes for generations to come, but why?
