The "Boxe of the Hung family" is defined by many the purest successor of the south China's
Shaolin.

There are evident connections with the style Siun-Lam-Jow, like the study of five animals
(Dragon, Tiger, Snake, Heron, Leopard).

The founder of the style is Hung-Hey-Gwong, who studied for the most part of his life with two
monks:Gee-See-Sim-See, Sam-Tak and Fong-Wing-Cheun, around 190 years ago.

The legend days that in Fukien raised a monastery.

It is said that all the secrets of the Shaolin were gathered there, after th famous fire that stroke the Honan's monastery. It seems that the monks keepers of the Kung-Fu secrets, wich gave them the mythical invincibility, found refugee in the south, actually in Fukien, and for that the importance of the place grew more and more. Hung-Hey-Gwong was a tea merchant.

One day, while selling his goods around Canton, had some trouble with lords of the ruling
government (i C'hing) and he was forced to ask asylum at the monastery.

So he asked to the monk Sam-Tak to be admitted as a "not shaved" monk.

The commitment and the talent shown by Hung really impressed the abat of the temple,
Gee-See-Sim-See, who personally trained him.

Six years of hard work passed, and he was rewarded as best "external" pupil.

Unfortunately this peaceful times won't last long and, like the Honan's monastery, the C'hing attacked Fukien as well. Hung had a great reverence for his master Gee-See, so much that, while saving himself, he took the abat with him (at that time almost 80) togheter with Sam-Tak.

The three monks found refugee in Canton, at the monastery of "Heavenly Buddah".

Eight more years passed, meanwhile the spirit of Hung-Hey-Gwong become always more
restless. He thought to have a fundamental duty: teach the Kung-Fu to fight the injustices
of evil.

So, when he knew that the government allowed the teaching of Kung-Fu, in order to train
people and to prepare them against possible foreign invasors, Hung asked for the permission to
exit the monastery to transmit his knowledge.

The C'hing, anyway, kept a close surveillance over the possible Shaolin pupils, for this reason
Hung-Hey-Gwong was forced to rename his teaching "Hung-Gar", that is "Style of the Hung
family".

This kind of Kung-Fu became great succesful, so much that, togheter with styles like Choy-Gar, Ley-Gar, Mok-Gar, Lau-Gar (by whom it was real influenced) became one of the most famous and feared of the south China. A very famous pupil of Hung was Lok-Ha-Choy, who tought Wong-Kay-Yng who, again, traveled many miles in order to improve the style by the knowledge of other styles of the south. The Wong's fame was so great that gave him the much aspired name by all the prcticers, one of the "10 tigers of Canton".

He had a son called Wong-Fey-Hong, who also became an Hung-Gar practicer and had even
the honor to improve his skills with a Buddhist monk called Tit-Kiu-Sam (Leung-Gwan).

His fame surpassed the feather's one and he became a feared hero all over China, helping the
weaks and fighting bare hands against twenty people, even riders on the horses.

To become one of the 10 tigers of Canton, he entered a cage with two tigers and killed them
with just one stroke each.

The most famous pupils of Wong-Fey-Hong are: Lam-Tsai-Wing and Tang-Fung.

After them: Lam-Cho, Chan-Hon-Chun, Chu-Kao, Yuen-Ling.

Often this style's practicers undertook famous fights against the injustices of the government
and against the triad of chinese mafia, for these reason today it is still defined as style of the
"Heroes".