- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wong.
Wong Kei Ying (simplified Chinese: 黄麒英; traditional Chinese: 黃麒英; Mandarin Pinyin: Huáng Qíyīng; Jyutping: Wong4 Kei4 Ying1), also known as Wong Leung Ying, (ca. 1815 - 1886) is best known as the father of the Chinese folk hero and martial arts master Wong Fei Hung.
Wong Kei Ying was born in the village of Saichiu, Naamhoi, Gwongdung (Pinyin: Xiqiao, Nanhai, Guangdong), probably around 1815. He used to perform as a street artist showing kungfu and acrobatics. During one of these performances in Guangdong, he was noticed by Luk Ah Choi, who clearly saw the talents of this young acrobat and took him on as a student. Within the Hung Gar Style Luk Ah Choi is known as the first and best disciple of Jee Sin Sim See. He learned from this Chan Abbot, who was staying in the Hoi Tong Monastery in Gwongdung, Taming the Tiger Fist (Gung Yi Fuk Fu Kuen), a southern Shaolin form. He past it on to Wong Taai (黃泰), who lived in Saichiu, who past it on to his son Wong Kei Yin. A different story that reflects the sense of history and lineage in Hung Gar.
After ten years of training and mastering all the skills of Luk Ah Choi, he became a martial arts instructor and member of the famous troop the Black Flag Army. His wages were so low that he had to sell herbal medicines to support his family. He had a herbal medicine dispensary on Jingyan Street, Guangdong.
Wong Kei Ying was a great master of the martial arts and so renowned to be included in the Ten Tigers of Canton, a group of ten of the top Chinese martial arts masters in Guangdong (Canton) towards the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).
In the many movies made about Wong Fei Hung, especially the Once Upon a Time in China series, Wong Kei Ying is a supporting character with little screentime. However, the 1993 film Iron Monkey is a fictional depiction of the filial relationship between Wong Kei Ying and a 10-year-old Fei Hung and hints at how the younger Wong is shaped by the example of his father.
Father and son were both masters of the martial art Hung Gar, which Kei Ying had learned from Luk Ah Choi (陸阿采), a classmate of Hung Hei Gun (洪熙官), after whom Hung Gar is named. Kei Ying in turn imparted to his son the knowledge that was handed down to him: Single Hard Fist, Double Hard Fist, Taming the Tiger Fist (伏虎拳), Mother & Son Butterfly Knives (子母雙刀), Angry Tiger Fist, Fifth Brother Eight Trigram Pole (五郎八卦棍), Flying Hook, and Black Tiger Fist (黑虎拳).
His date of birth is not specified. His son, Wong Fei Hung, lived from 1847 to 1924, so it is very possible Wong Kei Ying was born in the 1810s-1820s, but no documentation has been offered here.
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