Talk:Wong Fei-hung

message: There were some (unfortunately) very common mistakes in the original draft of this entry.  Wong Fei Hungs' history, like many real life heroes of martial arts in China, has become a synthesis of both fact and fiction.  In such cases it is sometimes difficult to discern what was reality and what is legend or folk tale.
The internet is full of such misinformation, passing along popular myths as if they were concrete facts.  I have corrected the glaring errors and as a Hung Gar (Wong fei Hungs style of martial arts) Sifu and avid researcher on Si Tai Tai Gung (Great Grandmaster) Wong for the past 18 years My corrections are true to the best of my knowledge.
:Well, it is not about internet.  Those common mistakes are indeed very common, they exists much earlier than the internet itself.  I am quite surprising to know that Wong is NOT one of the ten tigers --- I was told that more than ten years ago, long before internet becomes common.
I would suggest that the legends of Wong Fei Hung, as opposed to the small factual knowledge, are worthy of documentation in this article, perhaps under a subheading?
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I read once in an Indonesian forum that cited that Wong Fei Hung is a Moslem. I find this very hard to believe and quite impossible. Does anybody have a source regarding his religion or if he is indeed a Moslem. If he were a Moslem, it would be worthwhile to include that in the article.
Regarding possible Moslem origins, I could not say, except to point out that there is a centuries old mosque in Canton, the Great Mosque of Guangzhou, built in the Tang Dynasty. Baritsumaster 18:37, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Huang is the Chinese hanyu pinyin translation. Wong is the same as Huang. --mh 14:55, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Yup, Huang Fei Hong (Mandarin) = Wong Fei Hung (Cantonese) Darnold01 08:10, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Common mistakes

message: NOTE: Wong Fei-Hung is NOT the chinese version of robin hood. He was NEVER a thief. whoops i'm stupid
-Jim
:I think 'Jim' (please, sign your comments) makes a very good point. I don't recall the real Wong Fei-hung ever stealing anything from anyone. In fiction, Iron Monkey is the closest 'popular' character/person I can think of who could possibly be compared to a "Chinese Robin Hood". But not Wong Fei-hung. Maybe this comparison to Robin Hood and mention in the article should be considered for removal. Darnold01 19:26, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed that Wong is "often described as the 'Chinese Robin Hood'". No where, except related sites that get their information from Wikipedia, is he "often described" as a thief. Darnold01 18:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Chinese Robin Hood?

message: In 'Early Years', Wong presented a wushu demonstration program in "Douzhixiang, Foshan". What's Douzhixiang? Is that a district or some specific location (square, restaurant, etc) within the city of Foshan? Darnold01 19:43, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What is Douzhixiang?

message: Actually, the whole article needs a serious cleanup. For now, I just worked on the introductory paragraphs and Early Years. Along with grammar and spelling changes to make the sentences flow better, I added, removed and changed Wikipedia links. If I'm not mistaken a Wiki editing convention is to link the first mention of a word instead of later or all of them. That's why the link to 'Fosham' for example is made in just the first mention and removed in the later ones that I edited.
Portrayal In Modern Media looks fine, but As A Martial Artist and especially Later Years need work. One problem, though, that proper personal names in this article are in Cantonese romanization (Jyutping) instead of Mandarin (Hanyu Pinyin), as it should be -- 'Wong Fei Hung' instead of 'Huang Fei Hong', for example. This while proper place names like Chinese cities and provinces are and should be in pinyin. The problem with Later Years is that Mandarin names Wu Quanmei and Liu Yongfu break this convention and I don't know how to write them in Cantonese. And what the hell is "Jiming" anyway?
Wong Fei Hung deserves more respect and his Wiki article deserves more attention than it's been given. A lot of this info -- incorrect and/or 'sloppy' -- about him is being copied and perpetuated by other websites. Please, help clean it up.
For my own use, if someone can post a link to a good online Hanyu Pinyin/Wade-Giles/Jyutping conversion table, I'd be so grateful. Darnold01 20:57, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleaned Up Intro Paragraphs And 'Early Years'

message: I wish to know what primary sources are being used for this article. Facts about Wong Fei Hung are notiously hard to pin down, and that it's impossible to get the OUATIC2 ending theme.Baritsumaster 18:28, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary sources 

message: A Creative Commons version of the "On the General's Orders" would be appropriate for this page. Disclosure: I put this version together, so it is not appropriate for me to add this to the article.
http://aprigliano.blogspot.com/2007/06/on-generals-orders-wong-fei-hung-theme.html
I think it is under,not on Toh Yu Heng (talk) 10:23, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the General's Orders 

message: The listed birth and death dates are 9th July 1847 - 25th March 1924, however the text states that the death date is specifically the 25th day of the 3rd month of the lunar year.
Since the Chinese Lunar year started on 5th February in 1924, shouldn't his date of death be 24th May 1924 in the Gregorian Calendar?
While there's some ambiguity about the birth date exact timing, I don't think there is about his death. I propose removing the listed dates at the top of the text, but leaving the dates in the text. Oni no Akuma (talk) 10:46, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates of Birth and Death

message: Are there any contemporary sources on Wong Feihung, or writings about him by historians?  Everything that I've read about him seems to be based on movies about him, or things that someone's Hung Gar Sifu told them.  If he was as significant figure as he is made out to be you would expect him to show up somewhere in the historical record.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.136.14 (talk) 01:00, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Authoritative Sources of Information?

message: At the start of this article he is called a revolutionary, yet no further mention is made of this. I know what the movies say about it but could someone please add some facts about this aspect of his life. - 130.194.76.210 (talk) 01:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revolutionary 

message: There's a recognized condition call "excessive sweating" but I'm no doctor or historian.  Somebody oughta edit it, but I'd just be guessing if I did it.  Does anybody really know what the guy actually died of???  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.164.216.194 (talk) 09:07, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a hypothetical view on what exactly happened. A certain IP user 115.135.236.175 made this edit on 9 February, which I suspected to be an act of vandalism. Two days later, another IP user 97.92.93.5 attempted to correct the mistake done by the previous editor as shown here, but missed out the part about "excessive seating". And then on 12 February I reverted the page back to its original state.   Lonelydarksky (暗無天日)  contact me (聯絡) 13:38, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  died of "excessive seating" can't be right 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article gives his death date as March 25, 1924. However the given reason is depression and resulting illness, following the destruction of his clinic in late 1924 - by which he was, according to death date, already dead for months. I know there can be calendar issues but the uprising in which the clinic was said to be destroyed has a more or less known timeframe. So either his death date is wrong or the given reason has some error, or is totally wrong. ...GELongstreet (talk) 20:31, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing out the error. The mistake has been corrected based on information from a website of a museum about WFH in Foshan. LDS  contact me 15:49, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong death date or wrong reason? 

message: Is the name Wong Fei Hong?I think it is Toh Yu Heng (talk) 10:22, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong name 

message: I think it is wong fei hong. Toh Yu Heng (talk) 11:28, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question regarding the name.