This is but a small version of history without the "he said"
of politics. I am a martial artist not a politician. This is as told to me by my sifu
Cheung Siu-Man, an honourable man.
The style was named by Cheung Lai Cheun after his sifu's sifu. What name it had before
was not known. Probably, it was a Daoist type taught in the temple Cheung Lai Cheun was
in. Cheung became obsessed with learning after he observed a young monk in a restaurant
that the Manchus didn't bother. It took some time to get the monk to talk, but he finally
got the monk drunk. As Cheung Lai Cheun was proficient at Leung Ying, they eventually
played. The monk easily defeated him and, as they say, he was hooked. After chasing after
the monk's teacher, Cheung became a Daoist priest. I have this picture. Cheung did teach
at the Wong Poe military college for three months until Ng Nam King found him and took him
to his home. There have been many claims and statements made by certain people. Most, I am
sure, out of ignorance or because they wish to make themselves a reputation on the backs
of others. The ignorant are to be ignored as they are small, the others should hope they
never have to back their mouths. There are others that are in my art that are real, and
should people talk of things they know nothing about they may need their health insurance.
This is as I was taught by an honourable sifu from the Pak Mei Boxing Association Hong
Kong.
Lee Chun Pai, April 1998
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