Dan Sui Town - 40 minutes drive from Pingshan Town

The following is an interview of Chung Yel Chong's family from
2002. Chung Yel Chong was the third generation Ancestor and first teacher of the Late Lam Sang's Kwongsai Mantis Kungfu. The Chung family home and the Lam family home was across the street from each other in early Pingshan Village times.

The above clip shows Chung Wei Fei, Chung's
grandson, treating a patient in the same clinic Chung Yel Chong opened in 1942. This clinic has seen three generations of the Chung family treating patients.  Today, it treats some 30-40 patients daily.

Winding down crowded narrow lanes I arrived, with Wong Yu Hua and his son, at the door of Chung Yel Chong's clinic.  His grandson Chung Wei Fei, was treating a patient's ankle and foot.

When the treatment was over, we all settled back for some tea and talk.  I found Wei Fei to be a rather soft-spoken straight forward kind of fellow.  He didn't hesitate to speak of his father and grandfather openly.  And so I asked:

RDH:  How did your Grandfather meet his teacher, Lee Siem Si?

CWF:  My grandfather's, Chung Yel Chong's, parents were travelling acrobats performing in Kwongsai province.

Coming down Dragon-Tiger Mountain in 1917, Lee Siem Yuen went to see my great grandparents acrobatic performance when their young son, Chung Yel Chung, swiftly recovered the hat of a monk that had been blown off in the river.

Recognizing the good nature and agility of the young boy, Lee Siem brought Chung Yel Chung up the mountain and taught him Som Dot's highest kungfu order of 10 soft-one hard and the Shaolin medicine. 

Of course, as a Monk, Lee instilled the virtues of morality, kindness, charity and avoidance of bad deeds into his young student. 

After some ten years my grandfather was sent back down the Mountain to spread the art over the southern seven provinces.

It was my grandfather, Chung Yel Chong, who added the name "Kwongsai" to the praying mantis art in remembrance of his teacher, Lee Siem Si, his parents and their heritage from Kwongsai Province.

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CHUNG YEL CHONG'S
FAMILY INTERVIEWS
Chung Yel Chong's Clinic
Lee Siem Takes A Student Chung Go Wah
Chung's Manuscripts
Chung Ying
Chung Yel Chong, Soldier Chung Opens Schools Chung's Family Today

SIFU
LEE KOK LIANG'S INTERVIEWS
Sifu Lee's Curriculum
Lee Talks About Lam Sang Lee's Published Article

ON SOM DOT'S TRAIL
WU TAI SHAN
Panorama of Central Town
Up the Road to Jook Lum Outside the Gate
Old Jook Lum Temple
Inside the Old Temple
Monk Speaks About Som Dot

DRAGON TIGER MOUNTAIN Wonders of Longhushan Taoist Mansions and Palaces Bottom Line

HONG KONG
JOOK LUM TEMPLE
Bottom Line

MACAU
JOOK LUM TEMPLE
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Map of Temples

VOLUME ONE
Pingshan
Mantis Celebration

VOLUME TWO
China Mantis Reunion

VOLUME THREE
Iron Ox / Kwongsai Interviews

VOLUME FIVE
Chu Gar Praying Mantis

ADDENDUMS
Wong Yu Hua Interviews

Wong Yook Gong's
Training Creed

Kwongsai Dit Da Formula 

CONCLUSION

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