A clever lad, the younger Huang traveled about with his father, performing kungfu and selling Chinese medicines. When he was 16, he and his father--two of the "ten Cantonese tigers" --opened a martial arts school.
黃飛鴻從小聰明伶俐，跟著父親行走江湖耍武藝賣膏丹丸散，十六歲就跟著父親開館授拳，黃飛鴻與黃麒英都名列「廣東十虎」之列。