A FEW HISTORY NOTICES
WING CHUN IS A SOUTH CHINESE KUNG FU STYLE CREATED BY A FEMALE MONK NAMED NG MUI WING CHUN WAS CREATED DURING THE 17TH CENTURY FROM A REVISION OF THE ORIGINAL SHAOLING KUNG FU IT IS SAID THAT THE NAME WING CHUN,(WHICH TRANSLATED MEANS"BEAUTIFUL SPRING") IS CONNECTED TO THE NAME OF HER FEMALE STUDENT,YIM WING CHUN. PASSING FROM MASTER TO STUDENT, THE OLD KUNG FU STYLE CONTINUED ON TROUGH THE YEARS. IN 1903 IP MAN BEGAN IS STUDY OF WING CHUN UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF MASTER CHAN WAH SHUN ("WHICH TRANSLATED MEANS THE MONEY CHANGER").AFTER TWO SHORT YEARS OF STUDY MASTER CHAN DIED LEAVING IP MAN WITHOUT A TEACHER. IN 1908 YP MAN MOVED TO HONG KONG TO FURTHER HIS ACADEMIC TRAINING. ONE DAY HEMET LEUNG BIK , "THE KING OF THE POLE,WHO WAS LEUNG JAY'S YOUNGEST SON."YP MAN FINISHED HIS STUDY OF WING CHUN UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF MASTER LEUNG BIK AND LIVED WITH IS MASTER UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1913 AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS BELOVED, MASTER YP MAN RETURNED TO MAINLAND CHINA WHERE HE WAS MARRIED AND HAD CHILDREN. HIS TWO SONS IP CHUN + IP CHING BEGAN TRAINING UNDER THEIR FATHER WHILE THEIR FATHER LIVED IN FOTSHAN. HE MOVED BACK TO HONG KONG AFTER THE COMUNIST TAKE OVER OF CHINA IN 1949. WHILE IN HONG KONG IP MAN OPENED THE FIRST WING CHUN SCHOOL LOCATED ON DAI LAM STREET; THE REST IS HISTORY.
SOME OF YP MAN'S FIRST STUDENTS WERC LEUNG SHEUNG, LOK YIU, TSUI SHEUN TIN , WONG SHEUN LONG. HIS LIST OF STUDENTS ALSO INCLUDED BRUCE LEE
YP MAN
BORN: 1893 DIED: 1ST OF DECEMBER 1972.
Grand Master Ip Man.
ORIGINAL MASTERS OF WING CHUN KUNG FU
Ng Mui
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Yim Wing Chun
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Leung Boc To
(Wing Chun's husband)
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Leung Yee Tai ---------------Wong Wah Po
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Leung Jan
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Chan Wah Sheun ----- Leung Bik
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Ip Man
(first learnt from Chan Wah Shun, later from Leung Bik)
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Leung Seung - Tsui Seung Tin - Ip Ching - Lok Yiu - Wong Shun Leung
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Ron Heimberger
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Nello Neri