Tea Serpent's video: Huang Family Liancheng Quan Fujian Hakka Kungfu

This video features Huang Lin 34th generation inheritor of the Getian village Huang family lineage of Liancheng Quan. Liancheng Quan / Getian Huang Jia Quan is practiced by the Hakka people in Longyan prefecture, Southern Fujian. The art originates from the Huang family of Getian Village in Longyan prefecture's Liancheng county. According to the oral traditions of Liancheng Quan, there was a man of the Huang clan of Getian village in Liancheng county who became very close friends with a minor prefectural level official from the Patrol and Inspection office* from the Zhang family of Kaifeng. Eventually he ended up marrying Zhang's fourth daughter. Here the story splits into two versions, in both versions Zhang's term of office ends and he decides to return to his hometown in Henan. According to one version of the story this took place in the Song dynasty with his term ending around 988-989, in this versions the man asks his friend / son in law to escort him back to his home near Shaoshi mountain. The other version of the story places this event in the year 1385, and in this version he asks his teenage grandson (the son of his friend from the Huang clan and his fourth daughter) to accompany him back. At this point the stories again converge with him using his influence and family connections to get the young member of the Huang clan accepted as a layman disciple to learn martial arts at the Shaolin monastery located nearby on mt.Shaoshi. There he becomes the student of three monks named Cai, Dong and Sun, each of which specializes in a certain area of skills (upper, middle, and lower basin fighting methods). After 3 years of study at Shaolin he decides to return to his hometown in Fujian. There he teaches the methods he had learned from his three teachers at the Shaolin temple, the Huang Family Shaolin Boxing methods are passed on in the Huang clan of Getian village for several centuries. In the year 1660 Huang Sihuan of Getian village travels to the Ningbo area of Zhejiang to conduct trade as a merchant. There he becomes friends with Huang Baijia who is a local master of both local "Shaolin" methods as well as the the Wudang Neijia Quan system. Huang Baijia introduces him to his teacher Wang Zhengnan.The three men become close friends and for the next several years spent much of their free time together practicing and comparing martial arts methods late into the night. Eventually Huang Sihuan created his own system by combining the Huang Family Shaolin Boxing passed down in his family with the Ningbo Neijia Quan system of Wang Zhengnan. Another more likely version just has Huang Sihuan befriending two local martial artists and combining the two styles practiced by the two men with his own family's martial skills. Around this period Huang Sihuan also had his own Guandao forged which he would practice with every day. The Guandao weighs around 200lbs and was passed down within the Huang family of Getian village. Of his descendants only one was able to freely practice forms with the blade. This was his 8th generation descendant Huang Zhaoyi. Huang Zhaoyi worked as a salt trader / smuggler and would walk down into the lowlands and would climb the trails back into the mountains carrying 300lbs of salt bales on his back. Liancheng Quan is still practiced among the Hakka people in Liancheng county and neighboring counties of Longyan, as well as some areas of Guangdong near the Longyan border. *This office was created in the Song dynasty and lasted till the end of the Qing dynasty. They were sent to observe and oversee "Border" areas. That is the remote areas of the empire with generally low population densities usually populated by ethnic minorities. These areas were not necessarily on the physical borders of the Chinese empire and could include places like Liancheng county which was a remote mountain area of southern Fujian primarily populated with small villages of Hakka and She people. 遗云课堂——连城拳