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梁相詠春往事：師父九面玲瓏
Leung Sheung Old Times: THE NINE FACES OF A SIFU
香江舊日，電車叮噹，渡海小輪拖着白煙；何文田勝利道一角，幾十級石梯之上，天井窄，鐵皮熱，牆邊一副木人樁，樓下鑊氣翻騰，樓上拳聲篤篤。來的有書院仔、打工仔，也有血氣方剛江湖中人，學得兩手便心雄之輩。梁相不掛金漆招牌，不賣神功秘笈，只憑一雙手、一條中線，把各色人等逐個磨。武林常問高手有幾多絕招；教書育人，卻要問有幾多種手法。梁相有九面，並非九副面具，而是一人應九局：該硬如鐵尺，該柔若春水；能領、能扶、能放、能收。水無常形，拳無定勢；教無定招，惟在人心。這本書描述門人回憶所見，正好九人九面，合起來才是一個梁相。
Listen to old Hong Kong. Trams rang. Star Ferries crossed the harbour trailing white smoke. On Victory Avenue in Ho Man Tin, several dozen stone steps led to a humble school: narrow courtyard, burning tin roof, wooden dummy against the wall. Woks roared downstairs; fists knocked upstairs. Schoolboys, workers, and hot-blooded young men came through the door—some learning two techniques and already thinking they owned the street. Sifu Leung Sheung displayed no gilded sign and sold no secret Kungfu manual. He had two hands, one centreline, and a way of tempering every kind of man. Martial artists ask: “How many techniques does a master know?” Education asks the harder question: “How many ways can a master teach?” Leung Sheung had nine faces—not nine masks, but nine answers to nine situations: hard as an iron ruler when principle demanded firmness; soft as spring water when a student needed room. He could lead, support, restrain, or release. Water has no fixed shape. Fighting has no fixed posture. Teaching has no fixed technique. Nine disciples remembered nine faces. Together, they reveal one Leung Sheung in recent book about this great Wing Chun master.
(Note: This book is available online for purchase and shipping to North America and Europe, except the United States due to export restrictions. In-person purchases are also available at California Leung Sheung Tong and the Hong Kong Leung Sheung Tong Cultural Center, cash only, no shipping is provided.)
(Book) https://www.mybookone.com.hk/page/detail_w/2010971179628945409/9789620734878.html
【第一面：權威有界】吳乙安照得最清楚。少年人最怕半桶水響叮噹，學得幾手，拳頭便似成了街市通行證。1963、64年間，吳乙安惹事打鬥，甚至打崩人牙，引來江湖人物尋仇；梁相先替弟子平事，再以黐手、規矩與拳理收其心猿。所謂「一膽、二力、三功夫」，有膽不是亂撞；「留力不留手」，有手更不能欺人。嚴師未必終日黑口黑面，惟底線不可成豆腐。拳快一寸，德須高一尺；只識出手，不識收手，功夫愈深，禍闖得愈大。
#1 Jonathan Ng Yuet On — AUTHORITY WITH BOUNDARIES
Youth often suffers from the half-full bucket: the less inside, the louder it rattles. In 1963 and 1964, young Ng fought in the streets, even knocking out another man's teeth and drawing men seeking revenge. Leung Sheung first settled the trouble. Then he settled the student. Through Chi Sau, discipline, and Wing Chun principles, he tamed the monkey in the young man's heart. “First courage, second strength, third kung fu.” But courage is not recklessness. “Hold back power, not technique.” Skill is no licence to bully. A stern teacher need not wear a stern face all day, but his boundaries cannot be made of tofu. If the fist gains one inch, character must gain one foot. The deeper the skill, the greater the danger—unless a man learns not only how to strike, but when to stop.
【第二面：遠見有路】韋季南看見的是「慧眼識英雄」。韋回憶把葉問來港記作1949年，江覺峯另一篇則記作1950年；歲月相差一載，事情的筋骨卻相同：葉問初到香江，人生路不熟，梁相經李民牽線相識，既識其藝，更借飯店工會之地使詠春落腳授拳。梁相本習白眉、龍形、蔡李佛，自己有貨，才看得懂別人的貨。後來武林有事，人稱一聲「相哥」；韋季南當時只得16歲，已看見別派高手登門亦敬他三分。千里馬常有，伯樂不常有；眾人只見眼前一碗飯，他已看見十年後一片林。前人種樹，後人乘涼，真正遠見從來不是企高處吹大話，而是在種子未破土時，先肯替它擋風。
#2 Petrus Wai Kwai Nam — VISION WITH A ROAD
Petrus Wai saw Leung Sheung's rare gift: recognizing greatness before the crowd could see it. Wai dates Yip Man's arrival in Hong Kong to 1949; fellow student Kong Kwok Fung gives 1950. One year differs. The heart of the story does not. Through Lee Man, Leung Sheung met Grandmaster Yip Man, recognized his art, and helped provide the Restaurant Workers' Union as the soil in which Wing Chun could take root. Leung Sheung himself had studied Bak Mei, Lung Ying, and Choy Li Fut. A man must possess real goods before he can recognize real goods. Later, other martial artists respectfully called him “Sheung Gor”—Big Brother Sheung. Wai was only 16 when he saw masters of other systems enter and give Leung their respect. A thousand-mile horse may be common; a true horseman, who recognizes it, is rare. While others saw today's bowl of rice, Leung saw tomorrow's forest. One generation plants the tree; another enjoys the shade. Vision is not standing on a hill making grand speeches. It is shielding the seed before it breaks the soil.
(Video #1) https://www.facebook.com/reel/1362706274642458
【第三面：共議有人】林志遠最有切膚之感。他1972年拜門，前後約五年多，曾因心急求進，只挑功夫好的師兄黐手，甚至練習不知收力傷及同門。梁相所惱，不是徒弟求進，而是只顧自己。館中高手反而肯讓後學先進三招、五招、七招，再從罅隙化解，使人懂得攻中有守、守中藏攻。門內重「聽講解、學講解、多思考」，最忌「盲做」；高矮肥瘦不同，快慢剛柔各異，所以「山不轉路轉，路不轉人轉」。獨木不成林，單絲不成線；一個拳館若只有師父一把聲，徒弟終成應聲蟲。能教人，方知己不足；肯互餵一手，才叫教學相長、生生不息。
#3 Lam Chi Yuen — MANY VOICES, ONE SCHOOL
Lam Chi Yuen entered in 1972 and trained for more than five years. Hungry for progress, he sought Chi Sau only with the strongest seniors and sometimes failed to control his force, injuring fellow students. Leung Sheung objected not to ambition— but to ambition that saw only itself. The best seniors did the opposite. They allowed juniors three, five, even seven attacks, then dissolved them through the openings. Attack contains defence. Defence conceals attack. Students were taught: Listen to explanations. Learn to explain. Think. And above all: Never practise blindly. Tall or short, heavy or thin, fast or slow, hard or soft—no two people are alike. When the mountain will not turn, turn the road. When the road will not turn, turn yourself. One tree makes no forest; one thread makes no rope. A school with only one voice produces echoes, not thinkers. Teach another, and you discover your own gaps. Share one technique, receive another insight, and knowledge becomes a river that does not run dry.
【第四面：服務有心】郭志強一家最見人情。郭志強19歲由譚權介紹拜門，是梁相第二位弟子；王柱第一、鄭北「雙番北」第三、譚權第四，四人並稱「梁相四虎將」，昔日夜練至清晨，既練三套拳，也磨木人樁、刀棍。可真正把人留下的，未必是拳。郭少波1964年在澳洲病逝，遺體返港，梁相親赴機場迎回；郭志強最小女兒滿月，這位師父竟提着大鑊上門，親手煮三四枱飯菜。高手肯落場黐手不奇，肯落廚房洗鑊才見真章。拳能服人一時，情義服人一世；門牆若只有功夫，不過一副冷木樁，有了人情煙火，才成一個「門」。
#4 Kwok Chi Keung — SERVICE FROM THE HEART
At 19, Kwok Chi Keung entered through Tam Kuen and became Leung Sheung's second disciple. Wong Chu was first. Kwok Chi Keung second. Cheng Bak, nicknamed “Sheung Fan Bak”, third. Tam Kuen fourth. Together, they were the Four Tigers of Leung Sheung. They trained from night until dawn: the three empty-hand forms, Muk Yan Jong, Baat Jaam Do, and pole. Yet what binds men for life is not always technique. When Kwok Siu Bo died in Australia in 1964, Leung Sheung personally went to the airport to receive his body home. When Kwok Chi Keung's youngest daughter reached her one-month celebration, Leung arrived carrying a great wok and personally cooked three or four tables of food. A master willing to Chi Sau is nothing unusual. A master willing to enter your kitchen and wash the wok reveals his true kung fu. Skill wins a moment. Loyalty wins a lifetime. Without warmth, a kung fu school is merely a room containing a wooden dummy. With human feeling, it becomes a family.
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【第五面：授權有信】梁錦棠所得最深。1966年3月，梁相把鑄造八斬刀之事交給懂車房、機器廠門路的梁錦棠；刀成之後，又帶他每星期兩天上門授課，黐刀、鍛鍊，並預備有需要時代課。八斬刀不是街市菜刀，兵器「用於善則福，用於惡則害人害己」，故梁相講究「擇善而教」，有人跟十年八載，品性未明，也未必傳。可是看準了，便真肯交棒。用人不疑之前，先要識人；識人以後，莫再事事捉住人隻手。1968年9月，梁相詠春更登上無綫電視《歡樂今宵》。一雙手攬盡天下事，只能累死高手；信任化一雙手為十雙手，傳承才有後來。
#5 Leung Kam Tong — TRUST THROUGH DELEGATION
In March 1966, Leung Sheung entrusted Leung Kam Tong, with his garage and machine-shop connections, to arrange the manufacture of Baat Jaam Do—the Eight-Cutting Knives. When the knives were finished, Leung took him on private teaching visits two days each week, training Chi Do—sticking blades—conditioning, and preparing him to substitute as instructor. Baat Jaam Do are not kitchen knives. Used for good, a weapon protects. Used for evil, it harms others and finally oneself. So Leung practised “choose the worthy before teaching.” A student might follow him eight or ten years and still not receive the knives if his character remained uncertain. But once Leung trusted a man, he truly handed over responsibility. Before trusting a man, know him. After knowing him, stop holding his hand. In September 1968, Leung Sheung Wing Chun appeared on TVB's Enjoy Yourself Tonight evening show. Two hands can carry only so much. Trust turns two hands into twenty. That is how inheritance becomes lineage.
【第六面：教練有法】郭少棠的一身根基便是明證。1959年，他還是九龍華仁小學六年級學生，身形細小；梁相沒有揠苗助長，反把1959、1960兩年的重心鎖在三套拳，單是小念頭便磨上數月，馬步、鉗膝、落馬、挺腰、登頭、埋肘，一寸不苟，後來才由尋橋、標指入黐手，甚至以單腳小念頭鍛馬。念頭雖小，最要緊是正；根歪一分，枝葉千里皆偏。其後梁相兩度派他在葉問壽宴示範尋橋、標指，可謂瓜熟蒂落。好教練不是今日塞十招給你，而是知道何時按住你、何時推你一把。欲速則不達，磨刀不誤砍柴工；急火炒得熟一碟菜，炒不成十年功夫。
#6 Edmund Kwok Siu Tong — COACHING WITH METHOD
In 1959, Kwok Siu Tong was a slight Grade Six student at Wah Yan Primary School, Kowloon. Leung Sheung refused to pull the seedling upward to make it grow faster. Through 1959 and 1960, he grounded Kwok in the three forms. Siu Nim Tao alone took months: Ma Bo, Kim Sut, Lok Ma, Ting Yiu, Dang Tau, Mai Jang—stance, knees clamped, body sunk, waist upright, head raised, elbows tucked. Only then came Chum Kiu, Biu Jee, and Chi Sau. Leung even used one-legged Siu Nim Tao to build the stance. The “little idea” may be small, but it must first be correct. A crooked root sends every branch astray. Later, Leung twice chose Kwok Siu Tong to demonstrate Chum Kiu and Biu Jee at Yip Man's birthday celebrations. The fruit fell only when ripe. A good coach does not pour ten techniques into you today. He knows when to hold you back—and when to push. Haste makes waste. Sharpening the axe never delays the cutting of wood. A hot wok can cook dinner quickly. It cannot cook ten years of kung fu.
(Video #3) https://www.facebook.com/reel/868642965836080
【第七面：自由有度】余經衡的故事最有市井味。1960年，他與Michael、凡仔、阿榮由港島過海學拳，主要逢星期三、星期六去九龍，星期日亦常追着師父；梁相有時在旁打麻雀，幾個少年就在麻雀枱邊練小念頭、黐手。表面好似冇王管，其實功課半點不少：魚缸換成江河，責任回到自己。余經衡赴美前，梁相更把100下木人樁全數授予，安排郭少棠逐式示範拍照，余用家中攝影生意之便，以Pentax與36張菲林逐張編號保存，五十多年後照片仍在；師父又教雙刀、贈一對雙刀。自由不是放羊，是先給羅盤，再讓你過海。管得太死，養不出高手；完全不管，只養出野馬。放而不棄，方為有度。
#7 Raymond Yu Ging Hang — FREEDOM WITH MEASURE
In 1960, Raymond Yu Ging Hang, Michael, Fan Jai, and Ah Wing crossed from Hong Kong Island to Kowloon, mainly on Wednesdays and Saturdays, often following Leung again on Sundays. Sometimes Leung played mahjong while the young men practised Siu Nim Tao and Chi Sau beside the mahjong table. It looked almost lawless. It was not. The fish tank had simply become a river. Responsibility had passed from teacher to student. Before Yu left for America, Leung taught him all 100 Muk Yan Jong movements and arranged for Kwok Siu Tong to demonstrate every movement for photographs. Using his family's photography business, Yu recorded them with a Pentax camera and 36-exposure film, numbering every image. More than 50 years later, the photographs still survived. Leung also taught him the double Baat Jaam Do and gave him a pair. Freedom is not abandonment. First give a man a compass. Then let him cross the sea. Control him too tightly and you never produce a master. Control him not at all and you produce a wild horse. Release—but never abandon. That is freedom with measure.
【第八面：感召有情】林樹成悟到的不是江湖排場，而是一個「守」字。他1951年生，1969年18歲拜梁相，初學小念頭，足足三個月、每天兩小時，每次練罷從山坡武館下樓，兩腿酸軟。梁相日日到館，學生走到哪一步，心裡有數；舊徒學費多年仍是每月港幣三十元，物價升，價不隨風起。這等人沒有大招牌，也不靠鑼鼓招客，偏有人一跟幾十年。桃李不言，下自成蹊；魅力若靠聲大，只熱鬧一晚，若靠日日如一，便入骨三分。世間最難練的功夫，原來不是標指，而是數十年做人前後一樣。
#8 Lam Shu Shing — INSPIRATION THROUGH CHARACTER
Lam Shu Shing learned one word: Consistency. Born in 1951, he entered Leung Sheung's school in 1969, aged 18. For his first three months, he practised Siu Nim Tao two hours every day. After training, he descended the hillside school with legs trembling beneath him. Leung came to the school every day. He knew where every student stood. Long-time students continued paying only HK$30 per month for years even as prices rose. No giant signboard. No drums. No shouting for customers. Yet students followed him for decades. The peach tree does not advertise; footsteps make a path beneath it. Noise can charm for an evening. Character repeated daily sinks into the bones. Perhaps Leung Sheung's hardest kung fu was never Biu Jee. Perhaps it was remaining the same man, day after day, decade after decade.
(Video #4) https://www.facebook.com/reel/3475294172737761
【第九面：蛻變有道】鍾萬年的一跌，最有武俠意味。1964年，他17歲入門，三年後移民美國，23歲回流香港再跟隨師父時，已有實戰經驗；後來真正與梁相試手，方知剛猛之外別有天地。梁相由白眉、龍形、蔡李佛的剛烈，經葉問點化，煉成「柔、準、巧」，正是「PrecisionBeatsPower，TimingBeatsSpeed」：精準可破蠻力，時機可越速度。鍾萬年一交手，整個人被梁相放出丈遠，跌在長板凳上；跌下去的是身體，碎掉的卻是舊眼光。痛定思痛，他留下重新學習，追隨梁相至1978年師父仙遊才再赴美國，日後梁相詠春會亦走過50年。教育最高處，不是再添一招，而是擊碎一個舊我，使人換一雙眼睛。授人一拳，只改一時；改其心法，足以改一生。
#9 Kenneth Chung Maan Nin — TRANSFORMATION THROUGH PRINCIPLE
Kenneth Chung Maan Nin entered in 1964 at age 17. Three years later, he emigrated to the United States. At 23, he returned to Hong Kong already carrying real fighting experience. Then he truly crossed hands with Leung Sheung— and discovered a world beyond brute force. Leung had come from the hardness of Bak Mei, Lung Ying, and Choy Li Fut. Under Yip Man, that hardness was refined into softness, precision, and craft. In modern words: Precision beats power. Timing beats speed. Chung recalled Leung sending him a full ten feet onto a long wooden bench. His body fell. His old understanding fell with it. Pain became reflection. Reflection became rebirth. He stayed and relearned everything, following Leung until his master's death in 1978, then returned to America. In time, the Leung Sheung Wing Chun Association itself passed the 50-year mark. The highest education does not merely add another technique. It breaks the old self and gives the student new eyes. Teach a punch and you change a fight. Change a mind and you change a life.
九面歸一，便是梁相那條教育中線：權威有界，遠見有路，共議有人，服務有心，授權有信，教練有法，自由有度，感召有情，轉化有道。小念頭教守根，尋橋教尋路，標指教知變；黐手練感覺，木人樁練結構，六點半棍與八斬刀練的是分寸。至於做人，仍不離幾句老話：「來留去送，甩手直衝；不貪打，不畏打。」內方外圓，尺寸有法而應用不死；正所謂「活人學活死功夫」。說到底，這本書並非什麼秘笈，來來去去只得一個「人」字。學生急，師父要慢；學生怯，師父要扶；學生狂，師父要收；學生羽翼已成，師父便退半步。能管而不壓，能放而不棄；高手能勝人，名師卻能成人。木人樁終會舊，鐵皮武館終會拆，招牌有一日會褪色，人也終歸黃土。可是有人受過一場好教育，從此懂得守中而不守死，知進亦知退，能打而不恃打，能勝而不盡勝；一燈分作百燈，百燈照向四海——那才叫春意未老，拳脈不絕。
NINE FACES, ONE CENTRELINE And so the nine faces return to one centreline: Authority with boundaries. Vision with a road. Many voices in learning. Service from the heart. Delegation through trust. Coaching with method. Freedom with measure. Inspiration through character. Transformation through principle. Siu Nim Tao teaches the root. Chum Kiu teaches us to find the bridge. Biu Jee teaches us to change when the ordinary road disappears. Chi Sau develops sensitivity. Muk Yan Jong develops structure. Luk Dim Boon Kwan pole and Baat Jaam Do knives teach distance, timing, measure, and restraint. And life still returns to the old Wing Chun wisdom: Receive what comes. Es**rt what leaves. When the hand is free, thrust straight. Do not hunger for the fight. Do not fear the fight. Be square within, round without. Principle must be exact. Application must remain alive. As the old saying reminds us: Living people must learn dead kung fu until dead forms come alive. And in the end, this is no secret manual. Its deepest subject is one word: Humanity. When the student rushes, slow him. When he fears, support him. When he grows arrogant, draw the line. When his wings are strong, step half a pace aside. Lead without crushing. Release without abandoning. A fighter may defeat another man. A great teacher helps make one. Wooden dummies grow old. Tin-roof schools are demolished. Signboards fade. Masters return to earth. But give one person a true education, and he may spend his life knowing how to hold the centre without becoming rigid; advance without forgetting retreat; fight without worshipping violence; win without taking everything. One lamp lights a hundred. A hundred lamps illuminate the four seas. Then spring has not grown old. The fist may stop. The lineage does not.
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