An interesting article written by my Snake Crane Wing Chun brother Lee Ming Fung from Costa Rica
Author : Lee Ming Fung
Last year when I began
my new Snake Crane Wing Chun training group
in Costa Rica I remember my first students were a young couple and after that we became good friends and they even invite to their wedding and helped
me to some cultural activities.
Once the girl asked
me: may I call you Sifu? I didn’t want to break her illusion but the relationship of Sifu and
disciples is much deeper than a frienship. I just could call myself as their
“teacher”
There is a Chinese
saying:
“The parents give us the life; but the master
gives us the education and form as a productive person.”
So the discipleship is
such a serious cultural and social category in Chinese culture
Relationship.
We could analyze there
are different levels of the student/ disciples at one traditional Kung Fu
school.
1. Regular student學生
2. Close door disciple入門弟子
3. inside room disciple入室弟子
1. Regular students: xué shēng 學生
The group of student
who are interested in martial art and they are in their “prove period”, to see if they like the art, the teacher and school or not. They usually not learn from Sifu
directly but rather receive instruction from
advance students or disciples at the school. And their relationship with
their masters is very simple , they pay monthly tuition fee for instruction
like in any other sports club.
The students just address the teacher as Lao Shi 老師 in this case.
2. Indoor
disciples rùmén dì zǐ入門弟子
After a the teacher would
evaluate his students and those who show high level of certain aspects such as:
1.
High ethic and moral standards
2.
Strict following the rules of
conduit
3.
Dedication
4.
Strong desire to support the
style
Will be invited by a
teacher to become indoor students. To
become an indoor student it is a custom in traditional school to perform the Baisee ceremony. Sometimes need few years
or depend the destiny of the Sifu and students
Each school has the
rules and the Sifu would ask their students /disciples to follow.
Obviously, the
disciples get the responsibility to promote the style. They get the possible
training and special attention is payed to their martial education. As the old
Confucius said: “if not keeping advance, the degeneration would arrive soon.”
3. Inside room student
rù shí dì zǐ 入室弟子
Those are the close
disciple of a Sifu. And they would be the future successors of one style. So
normally the teacher would pay more
attention to their training .
Being a disciple of a
traditional style is an honor, however it require time, sacrifice, some resource
and of course loyalty.
The indoor students not
only learn all the secrets of the style they also develop
family like relationship with the
master and others disciples as family. This is called “Mun” in Chinese a martial art family.“Mun” is
as place of sharing knowledge, sincerity
and tolerance” beside the real family, disciples get the martial family. And
sometimes the martial family even better than the real one!
We all learn martial
arts, but the disciples, they are who could real enjoy their favorite martial
art.
In 2018 we are planning
the worldwide class for the regular
students and the disciple worldwide ,and the establishment of the Snake Crane Wing Chun
Headquarter in Hong Kong.
Also on 25-28 of May
we are planning the history investigation martial trip to Foshan. The group
will be led by Sifu Wayne Yung and the Foshan Oral history investigator Mr.
Tam. We will visit different schools of Wing Chun such as Yuen Kay San lineage
and Chueng Bo lineage. Now we get a group of 15 people. If you are interesting
please write me inbox
mingming1224@gmail.com
Thank you !
Author : Lee Ming Fung
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