
SinShe Lo Ban Teng died at the age of 72 years in Jakarta (Indonesia) on 27.07.1958. His body became incinerated on 01.08.1958 in Muara Karang (Java). He wasn't only a respected healer of the Chinese medicine (SinShe) but also a confessed and respected master of the Chinese fighting art (KunThao). He was always honest, straight and sometimes hard to everybody, identical whether poor or rich. This story not only reports about his strong points but also about his weaknesses and the interested reader will find out, which of these events are possible. Thanks belong as well to SinShe Lo Boen Lioe, a nephew of Lo Ban Teng from Kongsi-Besar, to Thio Tjing Tjo from Angke (district of Jakarta), a close friend, as to the inheritors, who made the material available and had given the permission for the publication.
In 1885 Lo Ka Liong moved from Eng Teng (Hok Kian) with his wife and two daughters to Tjio Bee (province Hok Kian, China) and opened the arrack shop Kim Oen Hap in the district of Tang Oa Bee Kee. He was a simple, modest man who did not like to argue and who was just lucky to be in this town. On 01.06.2437 (1886) his wife gave birth to a healthy son, they called him Ban Teng and he became all the devotion. As a child, Ban Teng caused a lot of worry to his parents. He was impudent and not easy to be controlled. The school made little delight to him, he rather wanted to play than to study. In spite of all art of persuasion and threats, after three years of school he wanted to quit. At that time he had to help the father in the business. The local people from Tjio Bee were very much distrustful about strangers and they also felt this about Ka Liong and his family. Ban Teng was often annoyed and slogged by the children of the town. He always came out as winner in the single combat because he was simply stronger. During the day he wanted to go out of the house reluctantly, since he feared the attacks of the children. He wanted to take revenge, but his father however tried to change his mind.
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