THE TRADITION OF THE SCHOOL

The statue of General Yue Fei in the mausoleum to Hangzhou

Besides the references to authoritative texts written (referred to below), there is what is received through the oral tradition. According to the information handed down by generations of students and teachers, the foundation of the first schools style Liuhéquan would have occurred during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) by the General Yue Fei (1103-1142), which in addition to this martial art "outside", says has created the sequence of exercises outside and soft denominated Shier duangin (twelve pieces of brocade), and subsequently became Buaduangin (eight pieces of brocade), and laid the foundations on which later was developed "internal" martial art called Xingyiquan.

The various sources available to us agree that the key to understanding the evolution of the system Luk Hop Moon is the Grand Master Lau Tsoi San, an expert on various styles of Kung Fu (Liu He Quan, Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, Taijiquan. ..).
The following is what he told, about the latest events School, the Master Tang Kut Cheung. 

The Grandmaster Lau Tsoi San

Lau Tsoi San (Liu Fengshan) also known as Caizhen, was orphaned when he was 16 years old and already started to practice martial arts, has wandered far and wide throughout China for a long time, making trades for more disparate survive and always looking for a real school fu. After a few years, has seen the master Lau Tak Fun (Liu De Kwan), assigned to escort values for the imperial government. , having noted its great susceptibility to martial arts, has adopted (giving its name: Lau) and has integrated and refined its training. Lau Tsoi San has been chosen to turn to the stock values of publicly owned. his was considered a great honor because a person had to have features excellent practitioner of martial arts and honesty unquestionable. Following Lau Tsoi San has learned the Taijiquan of Wu Family from master Wu Quanyou (direct student Yang Lu Chan, founder of the Yang style, Wu Quanyou taught to three important students, one of which - Chuan Wu Chian - was the founder of the style of Wu Taijiquan and another was the Grand Master Lau Tsoi San. Taijiquan School Luk Hop Moon features mixed). Later he learned the Xingyi Quan directly from a descendant of the "dynasty" martial founded by General Yue Fei, the teacher Geng Jishan, whose texts are in the genealogy.

In school it is said an episode, very significant happened to the Grand Master Lau Tsoi San, which makes him famous today. In a village a popular teacher known for the strength of its technical football was invited to Lau Tsoi San greeting ritual. While Lau Tsoi San you going to run it, the teacher attacked him with a foot technique. The experience of Taijiquan enabled Lau Tsoi San avoid the blow and his knowledge of Xingyiquan him to injure and kill the enemy. This aroused the amazement and admiration of the whole people of the village.

The Grand Master Lau Tsoi San had several students, including a son (who died in 1986) and the Grand Master Seung Wong Ting. After the establishment in China of the communist regimen, the school has had to dissolve and the students were dispersed. We know only the countries where they should be gone.

Grandmaster Wong Seung Ting

Wong Seung Ting (Huang Shunting) took refugee in Hong Kong, where for many years he taught martial arts and had many students and nine (some sources say eight) Chinese disciples, then in turn become masters of the School Luk Hop Moon. The first of these, Xie Xishao until a few years ago lived in Beijing, he covered politics and had, at least officially, abandoned the practice and teaching of martial arts. The second, Zhang Binxin, lives in Canton, teaches martial arts students a few trusted. It is considered the best expert techniques School, in particular Baguaquan and Xingyiquan. Zhang Binxin was frequently visited in Canton from teachers and students at the school. In 1976 Wong Ting Seung became in popular China, in Canton. In 1980 is able to go to Beijing where, after some research, she found the son of Lau Tsoi San: Lau Hoi Wan (Liu Wun Hai). With its collaboration has transcribed all in Chinese classical techniques School and has designed to bring together in one large International Association all students connected to the tradition of Luk Hop around the Moon China and the rest of the world. But because of the rigidity of the Chinese political system of two Masters dream remained unfinished.

Lau Wan Hoi died in Beijing in 1986. Shortly afterwards, in February 1987, the Grand Master Seung Wong Ting died in Hong Kong. Before he died Seung Wong Ting gave Tang Kut Cheung the task of completing his operates research and unification School.

The master Si Fu Tang Kut Cheung

Master Tang Kut Cheung (Deng Jixiang) was born in Hong Kong on December 20 1946. He orphan of father at the age of eight years was adopted by the Grand Master Seung Wong Ting, who was a professor of English in a School of that city. Under the strict control of the Grand Master, Kut Cheung has learned the written Chinese and English and has spent many hours on the day to study and practice of martial arts.

In 1969 Tang Kut Cheung came in Europe, he spent short periods in Spain, Sweden, Germany, before settling in Holland, in Amsterdam, where he lived from 1974 to 1982. Then he moved to Italy. ounder of several centers of traditional Chinese martial arts, is considered the best knowledge of the techniques of Chi Kung (Qigong) and Traditional Medicine School. It is the technical supervisor of the "Chinese Shaolin North Luk Hop Moon International Wushu Association. The information related to activities Tang It was in Italy are on that page "LHM in Italy".

Liuhequan (Luk Hop Kuen) in the martial Chinese tradition

The style of wushu named Luk Hop Kuen (Liuhéquan) - core which revolves around the study of various disciplines in our school-dealing within the varied world of traditional Chinese martial arts, a place of prestige undisputed. It includes references faith in specialized works.

The citations more easily available in the West are as follows:

1) "The following is a list of the methods of Chinese boxing which includes the names of some of the famous masters.- In some cases so little is known about the method that not even the names of the masters are available.- In other cases the names are known though their dates, and Chinese readings are unknown.

LIU-HO CH'UAN North

"Six Combinations" boxing
reportedly created in Sung
dynasty at Hua Shan in Shansi.

 CH'EN HSI-I
LIU-HO PA-FA North

"Six Combinations, Eight
Methods" boxing.

 WU I-YUN
LO-HAN CH'UAN North "Buddha's Disciples" boxing
an offshoot of shaolin... "

(Donn F.Draeger, Robert W. Smith - Comprehensive Asian Fighting Arts - previously published under the title of Asian Fighting Arts, Kodansha International, Tokio-New York-London, 1969-1980, pag.199-200).-

2) "... in 960 General Chao K'uang Yin unified China again giving rise to dynasty Sung (960-1279) .- begins as another period of splendid cultural and artistic flowering, however, characterized by a serious political crisis military .- Thanks to the great masters of the martial arts continue to improve and the name Shaolin becomes increasingly popular ...- ... A well-known teacher, Chen Hsi I founded the style Liu Ho Ch'uan ie Six Boxing Combinations.-

The name refers to the six relations between the various parts of the human body, mind and Ch'i (internal energy) that we must bear in mind when running techniques:

1. Hand and foot
2. Bend and knees
3. Shoulder and hip
4. Technique and thought
5. Tought and Ch'i
6. Ch'i and strength

..."

(Chang Dsu Yao, Roberto Fassi - Enciclopedia del Kung Fu Shaolin - (in 3 vol.), Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma, Vol. 1°, 1986, pag. 23).-

3) "During the Song Dynasty (960-1279) wushu associations were organized among the people. There are records of archery, cross-bow, staff and wrestling societies, every street and alley became a practice ground, with performances of horn-butting. boxing, kicking, staff and cudgel play, dances with broad-swords, spears, and archery. Traditional tales such as Outlaw of the Marsh, about the rebellion of peasant heroes against the corrupt Song government officials give a vivid picture of wushu in that period (p.7)... It is difficult to accurately assess just how many styles are practised today across China. There are more than 100 schools and many individual styles within each of these schools... Nan Quan, the Southern School of boxing, a vigourous and aggressive school popular south of tha Yangtze River (p.15)... Bei Quan, the Northern School of Boxing is a generic term for those schools in the provinces north of the Yangtze River.- Characterized by speed and strength, the Northern School emphasizes variations of kicking and footwork, hence the common saying "Southern fists, Northern legs".- The major styles of the Northern School are...Liuhe Quan (Six-Harmony Boxing) ... (p.16)".

(Li Tianji e Du Xilian - A Guide to Chinese Martial Arts - Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1991, pagg. 7, 15-16).-

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