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Bak Mei | |
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Native name | 白眉 |
Other names | Bai Mei Pai Mei Pak Mei |
Style | Chinese martial arts Bak Mei Kung Fu |
Also known as | Hakka Bak-Mei Bai Mei Pai Mei Pak Mei |
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Focus | Striking |
Country of origin | China |
Creator | Bak Mei (Pei Mei) of the Five Elders |
Famous practitioners | Gwong Wai / Kwong Wai Juk Faat Wan Lin Sang Jeung Lai Chuen Chuk Yun Fung Fo Dao Yan Lau Siu-Leung |
Parenthood | Heihuquan, Touch of Death, Shaolin Kung Fu, Wudang chuan, Chin Na, Dragon Style Kung Fu (for Jeung Lai Chuen lineage) |
Olympic sport | No |
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Chinese martial arts (Wushu) |
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Bak Mei (Chinese: 白眉; pinyin: Bái Méi; Wade–Giles: Pai Mei; Cantonese Yale: Baahk Mèih; lit. 'White Eyebrow') is said to have been one of the legendary Five Elders—survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Monastery by the Qing dynasty (1644–1912)—who, according to some accounts, betrayed Shaolin to the imperial government. He shares his name with the South Chinese martial art attributed to him.
Bak Mei has been fictionalized in Hong Kong martial arts films such as Executioners from Shaolin (1977), Abbot of Shaolin (1979), and Clan of the White Lotus (1980). Bak Mei as a fictional character is better known in the West as Pai Mei, played by Gordon Liu in the Hollywood action film Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004).