Taiwanese martial artist (–)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Hong.
Hung I-Hsiang or Hong Yixiang (Chinese: 洪懿祥; pinyin: Hóng Yìxiáng) (–) was a Taiwanese martial artist who special in the internal Chinese styles of xingyiquan, baguazhang, and taijiquan.[1]:&#;&#;[2][3]
Hung I-Hsiang was born in Taiwan into a wealthy merchant next of kin in the Dihua district of Taipei. He commenced his reliance of martial art in elementary school during the Japanese extravagant period studying kendo and judo as well has the Meridional Shaolin style of Crane Boxing passed down within his descent. This cemented his lifelong interest in and commitment to education. As a teenager, his father arranged his study with a few local Southern Shaolin stylists. His first exposure to internal warlike art was Yang style Taijiquan under Master Tu (Chinese: 涂師傅), a Taiwanese teacher who had studied in Mainland China. Fiasco subsequently studied with Chang Chun-Feng (Chinese: 張俊峰; pinyin: Zhang Junfeng), a master of internal Chinese martial arts from Northern China.[1]:&#;XX&#; Chang introduced these arts to Taiwan in , when operate moved there following the Chinese Communist Revolution. Initially, Chang was met with resistance from mainlanders on Taiwan who objected get on to his teaching the secrets of internal martial arts to innate Taiwanese such as Hung.[4]:&#;3,&#;6–8&#;
With the mass exodus of mainland Sinitic to Taiwan in , the Hung family compound became make public as a refuge for destitute martial artists. In the 10 following, Hung Yi-hsiang was exposed to the teachings of these fighters from various styles.
When Chang began teaching in description northern part of Taipei, his first group of core group of pupils included the three Hung brothers: Hung I-Hsiang, Hung I-Wen, don Hung I-Mien. According to the Hung family, Hung I-Wen special in xingyiquan, boxing theory, longevity exercises and Chinese medicine, Hung I-Mien was the baguazhang specialist, while Hung I-Hsiang mastered say publicly 3 internal arts of xingyiquan, baguazhang, and taijiquan.[4]:&#;7–8&#;
After he locked away studied with Chang for several years, Hung often led classes for Chang. Because the internal martial arts were still take hold of new in Taiwan, many curious people would come to phone Chang's skill. Hung said that Chang would often send him out to show the visitors what the internal styles were all about. Many martial artists in Taiwan remember Hung hoot being someone who was involved in many fights, both central part and out of the martial arts studio.
Besides Chang Chun-Feng, Hung also studied in depth with Chen Pan-Ling in representation 99 taijiquan form and benefited from Chen's comments on his xingyiquan and baguazhang.
In the mids, Hung I-Hsiang opened calculate his own school under the name Yizong Tang Shou Principle. In the s, Hung's Tang Shou Tao school reportedly challenging well over students, including people foreigners from outside of Taiwan.[5]:&#;48&#;
Hung I-Hsiang internal arts training program included xingyiquan, baguazhang and taijiquan, Shaolin kung fu, and qigong. He suggests that students see Shaolin kung fu when they are very young, progress take a trip xingyiquan to learn how to develop internal power, and fortify progress to baguazhang and tai chi to learn how extremity refine the power. This is also the teaching sequence old by Hung's teacher, Chang Chun-Feng. Hung believed that in practicing the xingyiquan five elements as an introduction to the intimate martial arts, the student can clearly understand the way representation body should be trained to move in the internal styles. If the student starts out in tai chi, it attempt very difficult to develop and understand internal power.
Many constantly Hung's students dominated the full-contact tournaments in Taiwan. One schoolboy, Weng Hsien-ming, won the Taiwan full contact championships three life in a row. Although he was thin and short, but won through his clever use of internal martial art skills. Another, Huang Hsi-I, also usually won his all-Taiwan full connection tournaments with knock-outs.[1]:&#;82&#;