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In
the early twentieth century, Grand Master Fu Zheng Song brought Fu
Style Pa Kua from Beijing to Southern China. Later, in 1966, his
disciple, General Sun Paul Kung accepted the Hong Kong Chin Woo
Association's invitation to start a Pa Kua class. There, it became the
main source of Pa Kua in Hong Kong.
General Sun was a very important dignitary in his time. In Canton he
was the Military Governor after World War II. Hearing of Fu Zheng
Song's prowess, he took private lessons from Fu Zheng Song, and gave
him a private car with a chauffeur. Fu accepted General Sun as his
disciple, and once told him that when he passed away, that General
Sun's Pa Kua would becoming the living model of the Fu Style to the
rest of the world.
Fu knew many styles aside from Pa Kua. His first internal training came
from Chen Style Tai Chi, which he learned directly from Chen Ye Sze.
The foundation of Fu's Ox Tongue Palm of Pa Kua is quite similar to
that of Chen Tai Chi's Roof Tile Palm. Later he learned Pa Kua from
Chia Ching Ta, who was the disciple of the founder of Pa Kua, Master
Tung Ha Chuan. Fu also furthered his study in Pa Kua in Beijing, with
Master Ma Qui. In 1929, Fu, with four other famous masters, went to
Canton to pass on the knowledge of his rare internal art. He and his
contemporaries were soon called the Five Northern Tigers.
Grand Master Fu created lightning palm by combining Pa Kua with Tai Chi
choreography. Grand Master Fu incorporated General Lee Ching Lam's Wu
Dong sword form with Pa Kua sword form to evolve into Fu's Flying
Dragon Sword. He is also the founder of Fu's Tai Chi. The Pa Kua forms
he taught General Sun were the originals he learned from his teachers,
Jia Ching Ta and Ma Qui. Because of General Sun's status as a disciple,
he directly learned Pre-Natal Palm, Original Orthodox Palm, Dragon
Palm, Pa Kua Push hand Set, and the weapons forms. He did not have to
learn the preliminary Pa Kua forms the students are usually put
through, such as Tiger Form, Panther Form, Yin Pa Kua, Yang Pa Kua, and
so on.
 Grand
Master Johnny Kwong Ming Lee learned from General Sun in his first
class in 1966, and in 1974 brought his style of Pa Kua to the United
States. Before Grand Master Lee arrived, nobody had known of this
style. Pa Kua Journal
listed Grand Master Lee as one of the two best known Fu's Pa Kua
Grand Masters in the USA.
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