Trick wrote:D_Glenn wrote:Trick wrote:Those old gong fu challenge stories are the weirdest and basically just show the master using foul play
What part of it do you think is foul play
The Dong should have gotten up and formally squared off and not taking advantage of the situation where challenger still focused paying respect to the royals - foul play I say.
But the weirdest part out of the many weird(such as using special fali to knock out someone’s teeth. and the knocked out teeth deliberately swallowed..as some examples) is that Dong, challenger and prince …….and probably many readers of the story think it was really a display of high mastery.
There’s no telling what actually went down, but what is certain is that they didn’t live in a Shaw Brothers movie. Times were harsh. Shortly after that the two of them were sent north to serve as bodyguards for tax collectors. So testing a student is more to see if you trust someone to have your back.
The Fanlang Jin is how he popped up out of his seat. There’s Xin-Yi people who still practice this method to develop their power.