Siulam HungGar KungFu Association - Italy

The arts martial traditional Chinese have a very long history and an ancient origin: the famous monastery of Shaolin was founded in fact in the 495 A.D. on the Sung Shan mountain, in the northern province of the Henan and it it had the opportunity of developing him under the dominion of various dynasties, among which: dynasty Sung (960-1279 A.Ds.) and Yuan (1279-1368), during which Chan SanFeng lived to which the birth of the Tai Ji Quan is attributed; but it is above all under the Mings (1368-1644) that the Temple reaches the maximum shine, when Chen Yuan, LiChen and Pai Yu Feng rearranged the Shaolin in five principal styles that you take the name from five animals: tiger, crane, snake, leopard, dragon. In 1644, however, it conquered the power the dynasty Ching, that made to burn the temple of Henan because the shelter of the rebels was considered to the new regime. The survivors moved him to the monastery of Fukien, in southern China; after the destruction of this last, happened later not a lot of time, the survived monks, five according to the legend, were dispersed giving origin to different styles. The most known systems of fight of southern China are: Hung Gar, Wing Chun and Choy Lee Fut. Founder of the Hung Gar (or Hung Kuen) it was Hung Hei Gung; he, been born to Fotshan, in the province of Canton, it frequented the monastery of Fukien following abbot GeeSin SimSee's teachings. After the destruction of the Temple, it returned to his country native, where he lived up to the 90 year-old age and where it is found today still his grave. Thanks to his strength and his legendary art in the fight you was nicknamed: “fist of the South - Naam Kuen.” The birth of the Hung Gar KungFu, classified as external style, it is object of numerous legends: according to one of these one experienced monk of a based style on the movements of the tigress it was found one day to face a crane that intended to steal him gods just picked fruits; he tried to send away her with a baton and, seeing that the animal eluded his attacks and struck him with rapid movements, definite to study its behavior. His give reflections it was born the HungGar, that united the power of the tigress to the speed of the crane. According to another version it was Fong Wing Chun, wife of Hung Hei Gung, to meet a crane and to elaborate the new techniques. However has gone, two are not alone the animals whose behaviors have inspired this system of fight; in fact besides the tigress and to the crane, the movements of the snake study him, of the dragon, of the leopard. The five animals have associated besides to the five Taoist elements, water, wood, earth, fire and metal. The teaching of the Hung Gar is realized through the training of movements, gathered in encoded forms, profits for the improvement of the motor coordination, the control of the respiraton and the concentration. The Hung Gar doesn't neglect the training of the inside energy however, pursues through the use of particular techniques and exercises. You is not even skipped, obviously, the use of the weapons, among which you detach the long baton, the sabre, the knives butterfly, the trident, the lance and the halberd.

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