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Ng Ga Kuen, also known as Five Families/Five Animals Kung Fu or Five Family Fist (五家拳) is a major traditional Southern Chinese Martial Art that traces its origins to the Shaolin Temples of China.
Ng Ga Kuen roughly translates to “Five Family Boxing/Fist”. As the name implies, it is distinctive in that it brings together techniques of five different family styles: Choy Gar, Li Gar, Mok Gar, FutGar and Hung Gar, taking the best of each style to create a very complete system. It also incorporates techniques and forms from the 5 legendary Shaolin animals, the Tiger, the Dragon, the Leopard, the Snake and the Crane.

Contents  [hide]  1 History 2 Modern History 3 Five Families 4 Five Animals 5 Ng Gar King 6 Training 7 Ng Ga Kuen Forms 8 Ng Gar King Forms9 Grading 10 External links |
[edit]HistoryAfter Shaolin Kung Fu had been allegedly created by Da Mo (Bodhidharma), and during the Yuan dynasty, a general by the name of Gwok Yuen (later Abbot Zhao Yuan) became a Shaolin monk and decided to modify the techniques of the Shaolin, as he saw much room for improvement. Though creating a much more comprehensive fighting style, he wasn't satisfied andsoon sought out other men, schooled in the martial arts, to contribute to the system. The men he eventually found were Bai Yu Feng and Li Sau, and together with them, he created the Ng Ying, or the system of the Five Animals Kung Fu, which along with the Shaolin style and the Five elements fist was passed down to the Five Elder of Shaolin, who survived the burning of the Shaolin temples and migratedSouth. One such survivor of the destruction was Gee Sin Sim See, who taught all Five Elders who are the root for Ng Ga Kuen: Hung Hei Koon, Lee Ba San, Sam Dak, Mok Ching Qui and Choy Pa Da, who then taught at a Southern Shaolin temple, keeping the styles alive. These were the descendants and representatives of Hung, Li, Fut, Mok and Choy (styles whose individual history can be read about throughtheir own articles) that decided to create Ng Ga Kuen by merging the five styles of the five families. After its creation, Ng Ga Kuen continued to be taught at this monastery.
Perhaps the most important event in Ng Ga Kuen in the modern era was when Ark Yuey Wong, a 7 year old boy from a well-to-do family, was sent to the Southern Sil Lum (meaning “Shaolin” in Cantonese) Temple, to learn Kung Fuby an arrangement of his grandfather with the monks at the temple. Under Masters Lam Ark Fun and Ho Ark Yeng, he learned various styles of Kung Fu, particularly the Five Family style, and the Five Animals of Shaolin, rising to the level of Master in time. Eventually, Wong would leave China and migrate to the United States, where he taught Kung Fu to his family members and people of Chinesedescent in a variety of locations, finally settling down in Los Angeles in 1929, where he opened his Kung Fu school of War Que, and earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 31. In 1965, he made history in becoming the first known Sifu to teach traditional Kung Fu to anyone, regardless of race. This makes Ng Ga Kuen quite possibly the first style of traditional Chinese Kung Fu taught in the UnitedStates of America to non-Chinese students, and was notable enough to warrant several articles on respected martial arts magazines, such as The Black Belt Magazine. The system is featured as one of the 27 fighting styles or systems from which Bruce Lee, notable martial artist and legendary movie star, formed Jeet Kune Do.
Grandmaster Ark Yuey Wong continued his teaching of Ng Ga Kuen and the FiveAnimals up until his death in 1987, with his grandson Seming Ma continuing his direct lineage, and having taught many others, like Ralph Shun, who was instrumental in spreading Ng Ga Kuen and Ng Gar King (Ng Ga Kuen as modified by Shun) throughout the United States and Mexico. Due to the destruction of the Southern Shaolin Temple in the 1927 along with most of its martial artists, Ng Ga Kuen...