Zhōuzihé's 周子和 (Shushiwa's) teacher ZhèngXiānJì 郑仙纪 (1854-1929) had his school in the Sānbǎo 三保 port of Fúzhōu 福州 and likely used his skills in tiger boxong to guard warehouses of trade good. His teacher, hèngxiānguì 郑仙桂 was hired by a family that made their wealth in the tea trade and had him teach...

Fúzhōu 福州 translates as "wealthy province". It was combined with Jiànzhōu 建州 province anciently and the new administrative division was named Fújiàn 福建 province combining the two historic names. Fúzhōu 福州 city is a prefectural level city in Fújiàn 福建 province.

I have read a lot of theories on Kanbun's teacher. On Okinawa before he went to China he is said by some to have not learned karate, others say he learned Shuri-te, Naha-te and Tomari-te but doesn't name his teachers Alan Dollar says he learned karate from Yoroko Setaru 喜瀕樽, and Yutari Kamako 豊里？？(u...

Mínghèquán 鸣鶴拳 translated as crying, shouting or whooping crane boxing is a very popular variation of White Crane Boxing. Ruǎndōng 阮东 demonstrated mínghèquán 鸣鶴拳 (crying crane boxing) in 1984 at the Uechi camp in Aug on Thompson Island while Zhāngtiāncì 张天赐 demonstrated his hǔxíngquán 虎形拳 (tiger sha...

Zhōuzihé 周子和 Shushiwa was famous for doing the Lǎohǔ diào 老虎吊 (tiger hang) where he was hung from a noose and savagely beat with a stick with no harm done to him. I image this is the stunt he and Kanbun performed to draw crowds to sell medicine and support the school. I also think an overeager stude...

Timeline of events relevant to the search for Shushiwa (Zhōuzihé 周子和). Oral tradition says Uechi Kanbun上地完文 said his teacher was something like Shushabu シュサブ, Shusabu　シュサブ, Shushabun　シュシャブン but they were written down phonetically in Katakana and not in Kanji (Chinese characters) so it was unknown wh...

Wúxiánguì 吴贤贵 (May 28 1886 - 1940) also known as Gokenki on Okinawan. He was born 1886 in what at the time was called Mǐn xiàn 闽县 (Min county) Fújiàn shěng 福建省 (Fujian province) China. Currently this area is now called Táijiāng qū 台江区 (Taijiang district), Fúzhōu shì 福州市 (Fuzhou city), Fújiàn shěng 福...

Zhōuzihé 周子和 Shushiwa's (1874-1926) name has also been Romanized as Chow Tsu prostitute, Chu Chi Wo depending the dialect and organization system. Here is Zhouzihe 周子和 Shushiwa in several Chinese languages with their modern and romanization Mandarin (Pinyin) The standard language of China and the ne...

Gokenki and Kanbun There is a theory by some the Gokenki introduced Kanbun to Shushiwa but looking at the dates closely this is not very likely. Kanbun 上地完文 was born in 1877 and Wúxiánguì 吴贤贵 Gokenki was born on May 28, 1886. In 1897 when Kanbun was 19 he left for China and Gokenki would be about 11...

My understanding is that this is mostly due to the difference in naming between the Okinawan system and the Japanese. Each Kanji (Chinese character) has several readings in Japanese and while the Okinawans tended to stick with one syllable for each character in names the Japanese tend to use two syl...

There are some pictures of Bruce Lee and Jim Maloney on this site:

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