Hong Fu is what you might call a Martial Craft. It has proved extremely popular over the millennia, although it has to be admitted most exponents of Hong Fu haven't realised that it was what they'd been doing until pointed out to them. The latest and most extensive definition, as agreed during a brief conflab in Englefield Green, Surrey, England in 1995, is that Hong Fu is the ancient and noble art of hiding under the covers and staying in bed until the danger or problem that is currently troubling you has gone away.

The sign of an experienced and effective practitioner of Hong Fu is one who knows the most effective time to cease practising Hong Fu and when to go out and face the peril in question. Hong Fu is potentially a disastrous practice in the wrong hands - inexperienced practitioners may find themselves killed in battle, or worse, fired from their job without references.

One of the more interesting things about Hong Fu is that - like, possibly, Catholicism or Homosexuality - you can only ever *practise* it... no-one reaches the stage of actually being able to *do* it. But it can be practised solo (singles), with a partner (doubles) or even as a team sport (but only by those in possession of extremely large blankets or duvets).

Proposals exist from some practitioners of Hong Fu that - like, say, the ranking system of Dans in Martial Arts - different levels of Hong Fu should be graded by Togs, much in the same way that duvets are. This issue is currently being avoided by a whole bunch of people hiding under an assortment of bedlinen.