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“Hundred Forbearances, Thousand Temperings:“ Decoding Wong Fei Hung’s Altar Couplets

In many classic Wong Fei Hung films, you’ll spot an “Ancestral Tablet of the White Crane Patriarch” (白鶴先師神位) in Bou Ji Lam (寶芝林醫館). This may not be a mere movie invention. Jyu Yu Jaai (朱愚齋)—disciple of Lam Sai Wing (林世榮) and a noted writer—records in his Biography of Mr. Lau Jaam (劉湛) that Lam’s school kept an altar bearing that inscription.

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