Lion's Roar
Pinyin:	Shīzi Hǒu
Yale Cantonese:	Si1 ji2 Hau3

Lama Pai
Pinyin:	Lǎma Pài
Yale Cantonese:	La1 ma4 Paai1
Literally	"Lama style"

Tibetan White Crane
Pinyin:	Bái Hè Pài
Yale Cantonese:	Baak6 Hok6 Paai1
Literally	"white crane style"

Hop Gar
Pinyin:	Xiá Jiā
Yale Cantonese:	Haap6 Ga1
Literally	"knight family"

This article is about the closely related Lama Pai, Hop Gar, and Tibetan White Crane styles of martial art. For the Fujianese style of White Crane, see Fujian White Crane (martial art).

The closely related martial arts of Lama Pai, Tibetan White Crane, and Hop Gar have their most recent common ancestor in a martial art called Lion's Roar and a Tibetan monk, Sing Lung, who in 1865 relocated to Guangdong Province, to the Green Cloud Monastery. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Shi1-lion. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Zi0. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Hou3. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to... The Yale Romanizations are four systems created during World War II by the United States for its soldiers. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links La3. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Ma5. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Pai4. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to... The Yale Romanizations are four systems created during World War II by the United States for its soldiers. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Bai2. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links He4. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Pai4. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to... The Yale Romanizations are four systems created during World War II by the United States for its soldiers. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Xia2. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Jia1. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pinyin (Chinese: 拼音, pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to... The Yale Romanizations are four systems created during World War II by the United States for its soldiers. ... This article is about the Fujian style of White Crane. ... Jump to: navigation, search Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: Xīzàng; older spelling Thibet) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... Jump to: navigation, search Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1; Vietnamese: Quảng Đông), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Though Sing Lung had many students, his legacy was handed down to the present day primarily through two of them: Wong Yan-Lam and Wong Lam-Hoi.

Tibetan White Crane

The name "Tibetan White Crane" is associated with the lineage passed down from Wong Lam-Hoi through Ng Siu-Chung, whose training with Wong was later supplemented by training with Chu Chi-Yiu, and Ng Siu-Chan. Ng Siu-Ching and Ng Sui-Chan then continued to passed the teachings of Wong Lam-Hoi through their senior student, Au Wing Lin.

Lama Pai

The name "Lama Pai" is associated with the lineage passed down from Wong Yan-Lam through Jyu Chyuhn and Choi Yit-Gung, two of his later students.

Hop Gar

The name "Hop Gar" is, with the exception of Harry Ng Yim-Ming, associated with the lineage passed down through Wong Yan-Lam's earlier students, especially Wong Hon-Wing.

Hop Gar master Harry Ng Yim-Ming

The original Lion's Roar system is attributed to a monk named Ādátuó (阿達陀), said to have been born in 1426 to a tribe known for its horsemanship and for its joint-locking techniques. Ādátuó also received training in wrestling including, after his ordination, a style called "Dinah" from an old man from Tala. Ādátuó eventually decided to become a hermit in the mountains so that he could follow the dharma without distraction. One day by the side of a pond, his meditation was interrupted by a fight between an ape and a crane. Inspired, Ādátuó devised a style that incorporated both the ape's powerful swinging motions and the crane's evasiveness and precision strikes to vulnerable points. According to the White Crane (Pak Hok) Athletic Federation in Hong Kong, the style was developed secretively in Tibet during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Ng_Yim-Ming. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Ng_Yim-Ming. ... Events March 6 - Battle of St. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chin Na or Qinna (æ“’æ‹¿, pinyin: qín ná, Wade-Giles: chin2 na2) is a Mandarin Chinese term describing joint-manipulation techniques for self defense used in the Chinese martial arts. ... Jump to: navigation, search Dharma (sanskrit, roughly law or way) is the way of the higher Truths. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: XÄ«zàng; older spelling Thibet) is a region in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644. ... Events Timur ascends throne of Samarkand. ... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ...

Even though Lion's Roar traces its origins to Tibet and its descendant styles are nowadays practiced mainly in the Southern Chinese province of Guangdong, these styles are consistent with the martial arts of Northern China. White Crane style is very well known in Chinese martial arts circles, emphasizing high steps, sweeping diversions of attacks with the arms for defense and high kicks and strikes with the elbows, fingers (in the form of 'the crane's beak') and wrists for offense. Lama Pai oral history maintains that, in the late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), Lion's Roar spread to Northern China and incorporated the techniques of the martial arts there, explaining its Northern Chinese characteristics. In some ways, Lama Pai, Tibetan White Crane, and Hop Gar take the distinguishing characteristics of Northern Chinese martial arts (fully extended arms, mobility, high kicks) even further than those arts themselves do and may be a source of the Northern characteristics found in the Southern Chinese martial arts of Guangdong. Genera Grus Anthropoides Balearica Bugeranus Cranes are large, long-legged and long-necked birds of the order Gruiformes, and family Gruidae. ... Jump to: navigation, search Chinese martial arts, often abbreviated as CMA, refers to the enormous variety of martial art styles native to China. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644. ... Events Timur ascends throne of Samarkand. ... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ...

Wang Yan-Lam was the eldest of the Ten Tigers of Canton, a group of ten of the top martial arts masters in Guangdong towards the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). One of his fellow Tigers was Wong Kei-Ying, father of the famous Wong Fei-Hung. Father and son, both masters of Hung Kuen, exchanged knowledge with other martial artists, including Wong Yan-Lam, which would explain why the crane techniques of their Hung Kuen lineage—which emphasize one-legged stances, kicks, and the crane's beak hand formation—are closer to Tibetan White Crane than to Hung Kuen Crane's supposed roots in Fujian White Crane, whose isometric exercises and firmly rooted, pigeon-toed stances show greater affinity with the Kiu Sau exercises and Iron Wire Fist of Hung Kuen than with its crane techniques. According to Lama Pai oral history, Wong Fei-Hung learned from Wong Yan-Lam the long arm techniques found in the Tiger Crane Paired Form Fist and the Five Element techniques found in the Five Animal Five Element Fist in return for the Five Animal techniques found in the Small Five Animal Fist of Yan-Lam and his descendants. By contrast, "village" styles of Hung Kuen do not show signs of influence from Lama Pai/Hop Gar/Tibetan White Crane and are more characteristic of Southern Chinese martial arts. Ten Tigers of Canton (廣東十虎) were the top ten kung fu masters in Guangdong (Canton) around the end of the Qing dynasty. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Qing Dynasty (Manchu: daicing gurun; Chinese: 清朝; pinyin: qÄ«ng cháo; Wade-Giles: ching chao), sometimes known as the Manchu Dynasty, was founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China expanded into China proper and the surrounding territories... // Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ... 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Wong Kei-Ying (黃麒英) is best known as the father of the Chinese folk hero and martial arts master Wong Fei-Hung. ... Wong Fei Hung (黃飛鴻 huang2 fei1 hong2) (1847 - 1924) was a healer, martial artist and revolutionary who became a Chinese folk hero. ... Hung Gar (洪家 or in Mandarin/hanyu pinyin, hong jia, lit. ... Fujian White Crane (Chinese: 白鶴拳; pinyin: báihèquán; Hokkien: pe ho kun; literally white crane fist) is a martial art created, according to its oral history, by a woman named Fang Qiniang c. ... Isometric exercise is a form of physical exercise in which the muscles flex and hold a stationary position. ... Jump to: navigation, search In traditional Chinese philosophy, natural phenomena can be classified into the Five Elements (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: ): wood, fire, earth, metal, and water (木, 火, 土, 金, æ°´; mù, huÇ’, tÇ”, jÄ«n, shÇ”i). ...

External links

• Tibetan White Crane Lineage Chart
• Tibetan White Crane/Hop Gar/Lama Pai Lineage Chart
• White Crane Kung Fu International - NY