alright, i have two questions that i hope some people can answer.
what are the fundamental principles of the hand form sometimes referred to as “one finger pointing towards heaven”?
why are there no pictures of wong fei-hung? he’s probably the biggest folk hero in the history of china, and lived up until around 1920, so why aren’t there any pictures?
and not really the second one BUT I have seen a debate in a Chinese newspaper a couple of months back when they were debating whether a specific picture shown in the newspaper was either actually Wong Fei Hung or his son.
The story was something like a news reporter ask Mok Gwai Lan regarding pictures taken of WFH and she showed him one. And when he asked to borrow it, she let him, not knowing he would never return it. Years later it became in possession of Leung Ting.
Hope this proves interesting if not completely useless.
Well the one finger points towards heaven is also known as yat jee wai sai, or one finger holds up the world. This is important to hung gar because it shows the historical roots. World can refer to a nation, or even an era.
as i was told,this represents how many ways to heavan?if everybody points to heavan,then they are missing the heavan and therefore seperating themselves from heavan,instead to be heavan for everything is here…now i don’t know what it means but thats what i’m being told.
to die and find out,that would be the ultimate experirience.
tao te ching is another good read as long as the translations are decent and you can understand them.
sui fuw
hell is what we make it, so heaven must be the same. i wonder if having a quiet life, no attatchments will bring narvana? hahaha im far from it, see you all in the next life!
f.t so if i make a child would that be hell?if i menipulate some-one to die would that be heavan? thats is,not getting attached to any of these,say getting paid for it?
The website Ling mentions tells it might be WFH, not that it is; “It looks it might be real”.
It is <most probably> a picture of Wong Hon Hei, the fourth son (and after the oldest son died the third son). This son was one of the two sons that went to HK together with Mok Gwailaan.
The picture appeared in a Wing Chun book by Leung Ting.
In this book there is a little part on Hung Ga (page 92 to be exact) and on page 93 is a picture with following text (translation):
“In 1976, Leung Ting helped a friend to collect some information for magazine Real Kung Fu. So, he visited Mrs. Mok Gwailaan. He didn’t only get some information there, but also a one real photo of Wong Feihung. Since there were many problem, this photo couldn’t be showed until today, in this book.â€
According to the Wong Family and Mok Gwailaan students there is NO picture, as the school and home of WFH burned down and WFH died shortly after.
Also this book contains several pictures of Leung Ting (e.g. with Yip Man) of which is proven that they are fake (Wing Chun sites and the Wing Chun section of this forum), so the source just isn’t reliable.
[This message was edited by CPS on 10-20-01 at 05:22 AM.]