All this talk of Hung Ga and CLF and Jow Ga, etc, got me thinking - what is the history of kung fu in the southern regions before the Qing (or late Ming) period? Most of the southern styles we think of nowadays (Wing Chun, Hung Ga, Choy Li Fut, Bak Mei, etc) seems to have all originiated at the earliest in the 16th century. And a lot of it have their histories interwoven with the anti-Qing movements in some way. A lot got started by masters of various styles and from various locations escaping to the south to be ****her away from the Manchus. But there must've been indigenous kung fu systems in the South before that, no? So what are some of them? We hear so little about them. Heck, most kung fu styles nowadays (either north or south) only trace back about 500 years at most. Only a very few seem to have verifyable (read: documented) histories to Ming or pre-Ming. And most of them are classified as Northern. So anyone know about the story for the south?