Last time that someone came on to this forum claiming lineage to Hung Hei Gun, it turned out that he also played a version of the
Tit Sin Kyun which, quite distinctly, had its origins in Sunnyvale, California.
Rest assured that no one on this clip is claiming such, it's just that, in China, for somebody to state that he practices "
Hung Kyun", seems to me about as definitive as an antique gun collector telling you that he has "a replica of a U.S. Civil War muzzle-loader", or even, "a muzzle-loader,
inspired by those used in the U.S. Civil War". The first is non-specific, the second, does not even have to be authentic.
Such "Cultural appreciation", or "artistic license", are all well and good, and most likely honest, on the face of it. However, problems occur when such fabricated information gets mixed in with legitimate historic fact, and then a mess potentially ensues for the martial arts researcher, simply because proper distinction had not been made.
Not to suggest implicit fraud, by mere use of the name.
