Brief Background ????
This article was written by Pan Xiao De – the father of Pan Cheng Miouw – the current system head.
In Ming Dynasty during the years of Jia Zheng (??), there were twenty-four people from my town -Yong Chun (??)- setting off to the exterior of North Gate of the Fu Zhu Family in Fu Jian Sheng (?????????). Their mission was to learn the martial arts of Bai He(????) from Fang Qi Liang (???), the daughter of Mr. Fang Cheng (??). They had learnt from her for two years. My ancestor, Pan Dui Jin (???) was one of the twenty-four members. He subsequently returned to Yung Chun to pass on this martial arts to Pan Sai Yu (???)?Pan Da Ren (???)?Pan You Cheng (???) and Pan Yue Zhao (???). These five persons were proficient in Bai He, expert at the surgeries of broken tendons and blood clotting, and were renowned throughout the province. They had attracted quite a lot of pupils and later on had passed on their martial arts to Pan Dun Chi (???)?Pan Shen En (???)? Pan Li Qiu (???) and Pan Zhen Tuan(???)?Pan Zhen Tuan is my elder uncle. When I was eleven years old, I followed him to learn Bai He and at the same time had practised duo-fighting for three years with my schoolmate, Huang Yi Bian (???). When I was fifteen, I studied arteries and veins in Chinese medicine with Ruan Guo Xing (???). When I was eighteen, I opened a dispensary for bone-fractures in Chi Shui Street (???). When I was thirty-three, Yao Ming Qiao (???), the fifth son of the millionaire Yao Zhang(??) who lived in the riverhead of Da Pu Fu(???) in Yong Chun, had donated money to the Ping Lu Province (???) in Guang Dong (??). As the province magistrate was very fond of martial arts, he invited me to teach martial arts in his two halls. In eighty days I was granted two hundred dollars. In 1928, when I was forty-seven, I set off for Nan Jing (??) to participate in the examination for the First National Martial Arts, which had lasted for one month. Then Mr. Zhang Zhi Jiang (???), the Head of the halls, personally urged me to travel to the areas around Malaya(??) to spread Chinese martial arts. Thanks to Mr. Zhang, I first arrived at Malaysia, and with the decision of Mr. Chen Jia Geng (???) I had led performances and taught in many states and provinces. Later on, a national martial arts school was found within the Singapore Commercial Remedial School, and I was appointed as the Acting Head for the national martial arts school and had coached eighteen (18) disciples. At that time there were totally three hundred and twenty (320) pupils. When I returned to my motherland, I had established a Chinese martial arts school for three years in the shrine of Weng Gong(???) in Wu Li Street (???) in Yong Chun. People of all walks of life in Yong Chun knew about it. Eventually, Pan Dun Chi (???)?Pan Shen En (???)? Pan Li Qiu(???) and Pan Zhen Tuan(???), etc. went to teach in the major province Jiang Xi(???), and passed on the martial arts to quite a number of pupils.
- Narrated by Pan Xiao De(???) -