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After Jyu and some of his brothers left the temple to avenge the murder of his peers� father, the Qings found an excuse to raid the temple. Led by an unlikely ally, Bai Mei, one of the 5 original survivors of Shaolin. Bai Mei had died shortly after moving from the destroyed temple and returned as Kuei jin. He fought and killed his former brother and allowed his followers to sack the Fujian temple. Jyu and a few others fled, becoming rogues and living for the day when they could avenge their teachers. It was during this time that Jyu changed his name to Hung Hsi Kuan, to hide his identity, until the time was right.
During this time Jyu met and married Fang Yongchun, a crane stylist and sister of one of his classmates.
They lived together for several years as His Kuan perfected his skills, adding his wife�s knowledge to his own after a failed attempt at revenge upon Bai Mei failed and resulted in the death of Yongchun�s brother. The techniques they would develop combined tiger, crane and Mo Kung into a new form. It was this new form, Hung Gar as it would be called later defeated Bai Mei and sent him on to Hell.

Martial arts, Kung Fu were Hsi�s first love. They occupied his every waking moment and thought. He would practice to exhaustion to hone a single strike. Lao could do nothing but be proud of His as his skill improved daily. The youth�s love of Kung Fu and its history nearly obsessive. His would literally gobble up any bit of knowledge of the art he could find. Often spending the night in the family�s vast library reading. As his skill grew, he soon out-matched most normal opponents. Never showing arrogance or anger, just grim determination and a childish charm that often flustered his foes. It was then that Lao changed his nephew�s choices of opposition, Soon Lao made sure that His Kuan faced shen�at almost every turn.
In time Hung Lao, had Hsi Kuan face only opponents of Shen stock, only for Hsi Kuan to defeat them quickly, not quite believing his uncle�s tales of demon�s and vampires until he at last faced a tentacled fiend on Hong Kong�s ocean-port one night. The battle was great, but bloodied and tired Hsi Kuan won, barehanded as was his family way, at last proving himself ready.

From that day on, the Hung line has fought Shen, in memory of Zhi Shan and The Fujian Shaolin Temple. Each generation has passed the knowledge of their kung Fu down to the next. This version of Hung Gar split from the version popularized by Wong Fei Hung in the early 20th century due to its Mo Kung elements.
   The �Hung family fist� of �Hidden Tiger/ Heavenly Crane� style has all of modern Hung Gar�s moves, plus some modified ones from Mo Kung allowing the Hungs to earn a reputation for barehanded efficiency as Shih and warriors.
   The most recent addition to the long history of Hung Shih is Hung Hsi Kuan. Named for his famous ancestor, the young man showed signs of martial genius in childhood, mastering the base Shaolin styles early on. He moved on at the urging of his family to learn Hung Gar, which he moved through quickly.
   Fate dealt him one bad hand at age 10 when both of his parents and elder sister were killed in a plane crash, leaving him in the care of his uncle Lao and Aunt, Meng Fa.
   Hung Lao and Meng Fa, (Shih & Wu Lung respectively) were Hong Kong�s most renowned demon hunters. This in keeping with the Hung family�s reputation put enormous pressure on Hsi Kuan. In response, Hung Hsi Kuan made every effort to live up to that burden. Never complaining, never faltering, never disobeying a single command or request�always the polite son. He would go on to master every task that was set before him. He would excel in school surpassing his peers. He would study relentlessly in Shaolin style, learning various forms of kung Fu, including Wing Chun, Tiger, Dragon, and Drunken and develop a love for the gentle strength of Tai Chi.
   Growing up with His were his two closest friends, Tieh Mei Ling and Zhou Tsou Wu. Mei Ling, the daughter of a family of Demon hunting sorcerers came to be Hsi�s first love. Always at his side as they grew. Beautiful, loving and intelligent, but headstrong, Mei Ling was every bit Hsi Kuan�s equal her in her own way. Tsou Wu, the son of poor working class Chinese dockworkers, was the practical joking, wild card in Hsi�s life. Giving him a little brother to watch out for and a friend to get into trouble with. The only thing separating them, Tsou�s deep-seated hatred of the Japanese, whose immigrant companies that ruined his father. In time His hoped to calm his friend�s anger. Together these three would carry each other through good times and bad. Best friends, always.

Directed by dreams, Hung Lao sent Hsi Kuan, along with his niece Hung Yu to the states two years ago. Lao feels though Hsi Kuan�s future lies there. Yu, nicknamed Jade is a handful, who loves at worships her uncle Hsi to death. She serves to remind him what really matters in life�to live. Arriving in the Necropolis, The pair have made some friends such as Wah Sing Ku and Li An, Hsien of the local court. LiAn was familiar with the Hung Family having herself come from Hong Kong. They also met fellow Shih, like Takashi, Ting An and Mai Nakamura. Mai especially has come to mean a great deal to Hsi Kuan. Her quiet nature winning his heart. he has also had to deal with the flirtations or Rose Canton and student and friend from the kwoon. In either case, dealing with romantic emotions in not a situation the mighty shih was not trained for. Each day his feelings for Mai (now his student) grow stronger. Unfortunately, he has NO experience with women other than Mei Ling, and is embarrassed easily by advances by the opposite sex. This issue is aggravated by his uncle�s zeal to marry the young fella off.
Always friendly and kind Hsi Kuan has only one true weakness. His big heart. He is very slow to true anger and forgives most transgressions. Which serves to make him a good teacher in the kwoon he has opened in Little Asia.
As of this past December, Hsi Kuan and Mai were engaged. They admitted their feelings to each other some time back and during a trip to Asia, Hsi was able to ask Mai's grandfather for her hand in marriage. With his blessing Hsi asked mai to be his wife at his family home in Hong kong. Much to the happy suprise of all. In August they two were wed in a beautiful cerimony at the Hung home in Hong Kong, with all their friends and family present. Currently the newlyweds are home in Little Asia getting used to married life.

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