SIFU WONG YU HUA INTERVIEW page 4
Autumn 2005, Pingshan Town
RDH: When did your father go to Malaysia?
WYH: At age 19, my father went to Malaysia, along with other local people. Times were difficult and they all sought food and work. He found labor on a 'junk', a Chinese boat. There were many Kungfu men working on the boats in Malaysia, predominantly Chinese, too.
When the daily work was done, everyone always drank wine and ate together, on the boats. One night, there were too many men, on the boat, and one person took exception to my father, fearing that he might lose his job to my father's efforts.
So, that person, soon, sought a priest to place an incantation, a spell, upon my father.
Later, my father returned home, to China, and settled in Huidong. But, it seems the spell, may have been of effect. He climbed up five stories on the corner of a building. His first wife's account states that he truly looked like an insect, able to climb up walls five stories tall, at once.
Many local people asked him to come down, but he wouldn't listen. It was only when his Sifu, Cheng Yel Chong, came and commanded him to come down, that he immediately scaled the wall back down, in the same way he had gone up.
It was said, that he was fearful of his teacher, Chung Yel Chong, who quickly went to a local temple and used his own incantations to speed Wong Yook Gong's recovery. Witnesses say that after Master Chung's chants, three black worms, about three inches long, emerged from the crown of Wong Yook Gong's (bai hui- hundred meeting points) head.
Afterwards, Wong Yook Gong returned to himself and continued his teachings to many many students. My father's first wife, at the time, attested that she saw the whole affair.
Everyone called my father, Wong Yook Gong, Uncle Rock, because his body could withstand punches and kicks without harm, due to his continual mantis training which strengthens the bones and hardens the sinews.
RDH: How did your father meet his teacher, Chung Yel Chong?
WYH: At an early age, Chung Yel Chong sought students at an opium den in Pingshan village. Chung Wu Xing, who I introduced you to some years ago, was Chung's Yel Chong's first student.
Everyone also called Chung Wu Xing, Iron Bok - Iron Uncle, for the same reason they did my father. You interviewed Iron Uncle several years ago when he was in his mid 90's. He has passed on now. He said students gave sacks of rice or staples to learn mantis instead of giving money, when there wasn't any money to give. The students in those very early years gave their whole-hearted interest, their soul.
RDH: I appreciate that you (in the past and now) still look and care for those Kwongsai Mantis brothers, uncles, and your father's friends, students and teachers. What about your father's introduction to Chung Yel Chong? How did he become Chung Yel Chong's student?
WYH: At that time, in the 1920's or so, in my uncle's opium den, Cheng Yel Chong divided students into groups and secretly taught them Kwongsai Mantis.
One day, as a teenager, my father was caught by Chung Yel Chong, inside, practicing Mantis. He had been secretly watching from the outside wall every day, and exercising himself. Immediately, Master Chung caught my father, the young Wong, by the shoulder and asked, "Who is this boy"?
Afterwards, Master Chung took my father, as a young boy, to be his apprentice and for 17 years he followed Master Chung until his death.
UPDATE - NEW YEAR 2007
The following photo includes L-R
Wong Yook Gong's Sister, Wong Yook Gong's Son (Wong Yu Hua),
and his mother, Wong Yook Gong's Wife
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Chu Gar Praying Mantis
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Training Creed
Kwongsai Dit Da Jow
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