PeterScholz
03-05-2017, 14:48
Michael Tang veröffentlichte am Montag, den 10.04.2017 04:26
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8. He Tang Yik's Early Age
Tang Suen's wife gave birth to 6 children, 5 girls and 1 boy. Tang Suen was the only son, so he worried and always thinking of getting more boys.
He eventually met a lady, Miss Meng, who came from GuangXi. Miss Meng came from a martial arts family and also learnt Weng Chun arts in Ba Pai Shan (八排山). Eventually Tang Suen married her as a concubine. She gave birth to Tang Yik in 1910, who was the 8th child of Tang Suen. One thing worth noting is that, both Tang Yik's parents were martial artist and obviously he got some good genes positive to his later development of his martial art skills. Also, with his mother also came with martial arts background, Tang Yik got training at his very early age.
Tang Suen had experienced many abrupt changes in his life, changed from a well-off second generation to be a martial arts Sifu and experience told him that the only thing that would benefit throughout life time at different hard challenges would be some special skills, particularly martial art training. As such, Tang Yik was given intensive coaching and training very early on.
Tang Yik did not fail expectations from his father. He was actually helping his father to teach at age of 17 to 18. At old days, not too different to nowadays, the Sifu, particularly when old, would not teach personally and would rely on his senior students to do teachings. Tang Yik was actually doing all the teachings to students of his father, particularly to those who lived in other villages or townships as Tang Suen would not be good for travelling far, at that age. In fact, as confirmed by Tang Yik and his students in the 橫溪 [ Waang Kai ], he was the one who actually teaching people like Pak Cheung and Taam Brothers.
Life had not been kind to Tang Yik, as will as most of people in China. After the Revolution and forming of the Republic of China, situation had not been improving and different war lords were fighting each other. After the Northern Expedition by Chiang Kai Shek, there were the rising of communist and in 1932 when Tang Yik was about 22, Japan started invading China. Although it was in the far north and not affecting the south that much, hardship started and starting 1937, full scale invasion started and eventually in early 1940's GuangDong fell under Japanese rule.
Tang Yik's wife was killed by Japanese soldiers and his 3 year old son was lost. That was when Tang Yik was at early 30's. This had imparted a major impact on him, which affected his whole life and partly affected the development of the Weng Chun arts inherited from his ancestors. He actually remained single throughout his life, granting a faithful life-long memory of his wife.
Quelle:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1936493169928490/permalink/1950219731889167/
Kapitel 9: http://www.kampfkunst-board.info/forum/f134/weng-chun-history-sicht-tang-familie-9-a-lonely-journey-to-the-unknown-fut-182842/
UTC+01:00 folgenden Text:
8. He Tang Yik's Early Age
Tang Suen's wife gave birth to 6 children, 5 girls and 1 boy. Tang Suen was the only son, so he worried and always thinking of getting more boys.
He eventually met a lady, Miss Meng, who came from GuangXi. Miss Meng came from a martial arts family and also learnt Weng Chun arts in Ba Pai Shan (八排山). Eventually Tang Suen married her as a concubine. She gave birth to Tang Yik in 1910, who was the 8th child of Tang Suen. One thing worth noting is that, both Tang Yik's parents were martial artist and obviously he got some good genes positive to his later development of his martial art skills. Also, with his mother also came with martial arts background, Tang Yik got training at his very early age.
Tang Suen had experienced many abrupt changes in his life, changed from a well-off second generation to be a martial arts Sifu and experience told him that the only thing that would benefit throughout life time at different hard challenges would be some special skills, particularly martial art training. As such, Tang Yik was given intensive coaching and training very early on.
Tang Yik did not fail expectations from his father. He was actually helping his father to teach at age of 17 to 18. At old days, not too different to nowadays, the Sifu, particularly when old, would not teach personally and would rely on his senior students to do teachings. Tang Yik was actually doing all the teachings to students of his father, particularly to those who lived in other villages or townships as Tang Suen would not be good for travelling far, at that age. In fact, as confirmed by Tang Yik and his students in the 橫溪 [ Waang Kai ], he was the one who actually teaching people like Pak Cheung and Taam Brothers.
Life had not been kind to Tang Yik, as will as most of people in China. After the Revolution and forming of the Republic of China, situation had not been improving and different war lords were fighting each other. After the Northern Expedition by Chiang Kai Shek, there were the rising of communist and in 1932 when Tang Yik was about 22, Japan started invading China. Although it was in the far north and not affecting the south that much, hardship started and starting 1937, full scale invasion started and eventually in early 1940's GuangDong fell under Japanese rule.
Tang Yik's wife was killed by Japanese soldiers and his 3 year old son was lost. That was when Tang Yik was at early 30's. This had imparted a major impact on him, which affected his whole life and partly affected the development of the Weng Chun arts inherited from his ancestors. He actually remained single throughout his life, granting a faithful life-long memory of his wife.
Quelle:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1936493169928490/permalink/1950219731889167/
Kapitel 9: http://www.kampfkunst-board.info/forum/f134/weng-chun-history-sicht-tang-familie-9-a-lonely-journey-to-the-unknown-fut-182842/