The Hung Fut system reached the twentieth century when Hung Chiu Shing received the lineage title from Bak Mou Tung, thus becoming the sixth generation grandmaster.
Moving to Fang Yu Province as a boy, Hung Chiu Shing was the son of a metal-business owner where he also worked. He had been in Sha-Wan for more than ten years when Bak Mou Tung opened the Ho family training-hall about ten stores down from the metal shop.
One day, this young boy was roaming about in front of the kung fu school watching Bak Mou Tung teach. Hung loved to go to the gymnasium to watch the fun, gaining an interest in kung fu. He had become well acquainted to the Ho students. Tung liked the boy as he had some white hair like himself. Everybody called him Bak Mou Chiu (White-haired Devil). He knew that the boy was very interested in martial arts.
While working as a labourer he would watch from the rooftop and later after work at the gym. When Tung was teaching kung fu, Hung Chiu Shing would peek and steal the teaching then without telling anyone, remembered everything. After the others finished practice, he would practice in secret. He slowly learned the movements. One day he was called down and commanded to show the kung fu he had taught himself. Although impressed by his skills, White-haired Tung only taught the Ho family. In a truly Chinese way, this was waved and arrangements made due to Hung Chiu Shing father's generous long-term credit and status in the area.
Hung Chiu Shing was Tung's only exception and remained training for eight years as his last disciple. He was a loyal and generous student, assisting his master secretly financially whenever there was a need and always bringing him his favourite foods during festivals. He taught him the Five Animals Form, Iron Wire Form, the Buddha Palm fighting techniques, the Cross Fist, the Drunken Eight Immortals Fist, Fourteen Elbows (all of the Hung Fut Kung Fu of the 4th generation). He created and taught him his own form 'Sei Fong Kyun' (Imitate the Four Grandmasters Fist), which was the combined essence of the first four generations of Hung Fut. Afterwards Bak Mou Tung got old and very sick, and had to retire.
He recommended that Hung Chiu Shing be promoted to head coach. Over a long period-of-time, the master and his disciples had many meetings. They strived for perfection and together worked on and created a form called 'Insane Magic Wand' or 'Crazy Devil Staff' until his teacher�s death approaching the age of 70 from illness. As his master's sole successor, he learned all the Hung Fut secrets arts, including the�
� Eight Upper and Eight Lower Forms of the Crazy Rod
� Penetrating the Sun from the Left and Right forms, and the
� Crazy Devil One-hundred and Eight Point Stick technique--never taught too more than one successor.
After his master's death, Hung Chiu Shing followed his teacher's earlier instructions and travelled a great distance from Sha-Wan Canton to Fujian Province. He was looking for the Monk Lo Yin, his teacher�s younger classmate, to continue his training.
Out of money, he would demonstrate his kung fu for crowds. Using the end of the staff to pick up stones and shatter them in the air: delighting the gathering, which in-turn provided travel money.
However, an old man spoke up. He told him that his skill was not good enough and that he should continue to learn more. The old man pulled out a handkerchief and said, "Can you poke a hole in this like you did the stone?" Hung Chiu Shing tried but wasn't successful. He continued his travels in search for the Monk.
Keeping the old master in mind, he practised his staff by standing in front of a waterfall and poking it with his staff. Legend has it that one day the water parted before he reached it with the tip of the weapon. He had achieved the mystical energy of the Mad Devil Staff. Hung showed his new teacher by poking holes in the temple curtains.
There have been only two people known to have developed this skill to use a staff to poke a hole into a down feather jacket, causing feathers to spray out, without hurting the person wearing the jacket. One was the Hung Chiu Shing; the other was a Bagua Zhang master Lam Hui Jao Ti.
When in his forties, he returned to his home village. There were many who knew of his skill in kung fu, so they invited him to teach martial arts. One student that had the most will to study was Hung Lienkuei. He was naturally intelligent and modest. Moreover had the perseverance to study and had a good body for martial arts except for a lame foot. Hung Chiu Shing invented a special form named 'Four Great Afflictions'. It has a similar nature with the northern Drunken Eight Immortals style.
Now as an elderly man in his sixties, White-haired Devil moved across to nearby British run Hong Kong with two of his three sons--Hung Sin Po and Hung Sin Shu. There in the lowland, traditional market town of Yuen Long, northwest of the New Territories he began teaching Hung Fut. With the help of his sons and his five favourite students, in order of seniority--Lai Wen, Hung Yu Shan, Hung Wui Ting, Hung Lai Ting and Hung Lin Kwai--the Hung Fut system gained fame.
Though he contested with many top masters, it was said that he always would emerge as the winner, making him well known throughout the Hong Kong kung fu community as an extraordinary master. He added new forms to the style, as is the responsibility of all grandmasters. Though he lived a life of danger and adventure, Hung Chiu Shing lived to be very old, passing away at the age of 96, at Pingsan Temple, Yuen Long.
This was the start of a period of immigration from China--with the hope of a better life overseas with possible riches; plus trouble, such as the Boxer Rebellions, brewing on the mainland. Some senior students boarded ships to new countries, a trend that continued with later generations, spreading Hung Fut around the world. One of the senior students, Hung Lin Gwai was one of the first to immigrate, sailing the short distance to Taiwan.
Hung Chiu Shing's eldest and second son each had completely mastered the Hung Fut system and together learned the secret skills of their father, but they both died at an early age.
Hung Sin Po was as brave as his father was. He often contested with other kung fu groups, earning him both a reputation and jealousy. He came to an untimely end during a demonstration, where he let a car drive across his belly protected only by a towel and his qi gong. Tragically the car stopped prior to slowly rolling over Sin Po. He called out to the driver to hurry up, loosing his concentration. Now unprotected, the car drove over him, and then reversed back again! Terminally injured he rose and bowed to the audience only to die soon after privately at home.
The second son, Hung Sin Shu, was a close quarter combat instructor for the Chinese Army, during the War of Resistance against the invading Japanese. During a battle he was so angry with the enemy that he made a dash, machinegun in hand, at a position only to be sacrificed for his country.
